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...Hammer story The Long Wait. (The six Hammers are collected in two volumes of The Mike Hammer Collection.) By the mid-50s, those seven titles were among the ten all-time best-sellers. When his critics deplored this stat, Spillane riposted, "Aaah, you're lucky I didn't write three more...
...severest take on Spillane is that he was a period wonder, of slightly more than the nine days it took to write a book, with no current relevance. A half-century later, people may be puzzled by his impact, and the society that devoured or derided his work. (Trust me: 50 years from now some aged critic will be asked to explain the long-ago popularity of Adam Sandler. Good luck.) That may explain why Spillane's death didn't make the front page of the New York Times...
...just bonk when he surrendered his maillot jaune, the Tour de France's yellow leader's jersey, during a steep Alpine climb last Wednesday. He tumbled from 1st to 11th place, a stunning 8 minutes, 8 seconds behind the leader. He giga-gagged. Choked. Race pundits didn't just write Landis off as a contender; they hurled him off the Col du Galibier. Even Landis seemed to accept his fate. "I don't expect to win the Tour at this point," he said after the 112-mile disaster from Bourg d' Osians into the Alpine ski town of La Toussuire...
...During Bateman’s dissertations on Huey Lewis and the News, Phil Collins, or Whitney Houston while having sex or killing yuppies. Crimson editors don’t usually write their reviews while watching themselves in violent coitus with hookers, but I’ve heard the Yale Daily News does things their...
...tried, a lesson in moral reasoning more profound than anything else I have learned in my two years at Harvard. “I’m a journalist,” I told Marty as an idea shot through my head, “I’ll write about it.” “Yeah...” he said slowly, a huge smile spreading across his face. Adam M. Guren ’08, a Crimson associate editorial chair, is an economics concentrator in Eliot House. When he’s not checking pockets...