"One of the secrets of a successful campaign is to know where the hell you’re going,” says the candidate, fumbling with a folded piece of paper on which one of his workers has written cryptic …
Thursday, August 30
"The View from Glacier Point" is not the title of a painting by Bierstadt or a novel by John O’Hara. I am referring to the real thing, that grand prospect over Yosemite Valley and the …
Thursday, August 23
Wolfgang has taken a small white pill. In about an hour he’ll begin to lose consciousness. Gradually, his brain waves will warp into a succession of strange patterns. As the hours pass, periodic paralysis will …
Thursday, August 16
“Hurry up and get your work done, so I can clean up this mess,” said Anne, a nineteen-year-old journalist in East San Diego. “Well excuse me!” replied the policeman who had just walked into her …
Today, the disco record industry is a mammoth $4 billion enterprise — bigger than television, movies, or professional sports in America. “Disco accounts for about forty per cent of all the ‘chart activity.’ "
I last met Marcuse privately as he walked along the beach at Torrey Pines. He still expected something, if not graduate school: “It’s been such a long time. I’ve been waiting. Where is your manuscript?”
Thursday, August 9
Everyone in the room was divorced or separated, except for one woman who explained how and why she and her husband didn't communicate. The man on the floor said he liked her and felt good about her.
Thursday, August 2
When Derek was in college, he and his friends talked a lot about guns and karma. They were very sure of themselves when they postulated that violence attracts violence; that the people who like guns …