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"Factoid" is a word Norman Mailer invented in his biography of Marilyn Monroe.
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He was, to use the phrase Norman Mailer applied to Jack Kerouac, sentimental as a lollipop but like Kerouac he had that great big sloppy American heart pounding away at all times.
Bob Randisi; Tom Snyder Ed Gorman 2007
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He was, to use the phrase Norman Mailer applied to Jack Kerouac, sentimental as a lollipop but like Kerouac he had that great big sloppy American heart pounding away at all times.
Archive 2007-07-01 Ed Gorman 2007
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To paraphrase Norman Mailer, nothing you do, nothing that you are will change the fact that in an instant you can be reduced to little more than a few teeth or other grizzly remain to be cataloged or counted in some post-mortem ledger.
Jairus Grove: Who Keeps Fighting if the Troops Leave Afghanistan? 2009
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One critic calls Norman Mailer the crazy uncle of American literature.
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Bai compared those who criticized Obama to liberals of the early 1960s, such as Norman Mailer, who expected John F. Kennedy, as America's first Catholic president, to act like a political "outsider."
Michael Hais and Morley Winograd: New Rules for a New Era 2009
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"Doc" is also notable for featuring interviews with many now-deceased cultural and literary lights such as Norman Mailer, William Styron, Timothy Leary and George Plimpton.
Tom Teicholz: "DOC" on PBS: The life and fictions of Harold Humes 2009
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Cohen brings back the days when the heavies, such as Norman Mailer and Truman Capote, wrote for magazines and the result was more than reporting, more than our current Slim-Fast diet of “celebrity profile.”
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Overall, writers such as Norman Mailer and Jack Kerouac, though on the surface they took opposite directions, especially stylistically, explored hipster existentialism.
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Overall, writers such as Norman Mailer and Jack Kerouac, though on the surface they took opposite directions, especially stylistically, explored hipster existentialism.
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