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Article: TOM WOLFE, MATERIAL BOY.
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- Commonweal
- Article date:
- May 7, 1999
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Embellishing a doctrine
Tom Wolfe splashed into the national consciousness in the summer of 1970 with "Radical Chic," his New York magazine account of a fund-raising party for the Black Panthers thrown by Leonard Bernstein and wife in their Park Avenue duplex. The piece was a succes de scandale that impressed by the impudent cunning of its commando raid on limousine liberalism. Here indeed was a "new" journalism, freed to be sly, to slander by implication and the damning detail. When Wolfe described maids serving from "gadrooned silver platters," and a guest inwardly rhapsodizing over Roquefort hors d'oeuvres ("It's the way the dry sackiness of the nuts tiptoes ...
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Transcript: Tom Wolfe
Fresh Air (NPR);
November 9, 1998 ;
700+ words
... ... surveyed the New York City of the 1980s, Tom Wolfe's new novel A Man in Full surveys 1990s ... novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe wrote a much talked-about essay for ... glands equally white haired chronicler, Tom Wolfe, still has the right stuff too. TUCKER ...
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