TY - JOUR
AU1 - Weirather, Larry
AB - mean there it was-happening right in front of us on the lip of the disputed canyon!!!!!!!!!! A new Journalistic Event! Sensationalized Non-Fiction! 11 x And there he was, the hero of the lumpenproles just trying to make a buck and survive (a living, breathing Robert Blake “Baretta”-“ya just gotta 1! keep strokin’ so ya don’t end up in the slammer”). He was there resplendent in his stars and stripes slick white leather suit, as pure as the pages of a New Journalism anthology, glossily reflecting Phoebus’s rays like the pages of Esquire. “Holy shit! ” muffled a fifty-year-old orange-haired woman on leave from her soldering job in an Illinois Coke dispenser assembly line. From her back pocket protruded the top half of the cover of The Gold of the Gods by von Daniken. And there her hero was being lowered by a crane into his Erich von Daniken seat in his Skycycle chariot of the god, assuming his Apollo or extra- terrestrial launch position. The godhead waved. The inch-long gold and blue E-Bar (for Efficiency, Effort, and Evel, in defense of democracy) awarded to her during the War at the munitions plant trembled on her sagging halter. She nodded 
TI - Tom Wolfe's Snake River Canyon Jump
JF - The Journal of Popular Culture
DO - 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1975.0901_211.x
DA - 1975-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/tom-wolfe-s-snake-river-canyon-jump-wNLlr2gP6n
SP - 211
EP - 218
VL - IX
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -