Best-selling author Tom Wolfe was presented a medal for distinguished contribution to American letters.
No wonder, to cite the writer Tom Wolfe, America was experiencing a revolution in happiness.
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He was the self-imagined "master of the universe" in Tom Wolfe's 1987 novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities.
And lively contemporary writers, too, such as Tom Wolfe, George Gilder and P.
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In The Bonfire of the Vanities, the composite characters that Tom Wolfe painted so vividly in his novel were oversimplified and uninspiring on screen.
Tom Wolfe, in a famous 1963 Esquire story about custom cars, later expanded into a book, called Roth the Salvador Dali of the movement.
What made Tom Wolfe's work special, however, was the care the author took never to let the personal get buried under the en passant.
Once you've got a hot rod, you are supposed to show it off, in the noble tradition of the car buffs that Tom Wolfe once wrote about.
As the last editor of the New York Herald Tribune, he had a strong influence on the early careers of Jimmy Breslin, Tom Wolfe and Gail Sheehy.
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Along with Tom Wolfe, who wrote The Bonfire of the Vanities, Lewis shot and mounted the whole of Wall Street--when it was big, swinging Wall Street--between book covers.
Bookended by Allen Ginsberg's "Howl, " that decade's anthem, and Tom Wolfe's "Masters of the Universe, " the exhibition is a fast ride from the dropout generation to the material age.
The Trib certainly collected the talented names to deliver: Jimmy Breslin, Tom Wolfe, Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, Art Buchwald, Gail Sheehy and Judith Crist, to name but a few.
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In the early 1980s, writer Tom Wolfe predicted that Silicon Valley would usually beat Boston's Route 128 in technology showdowns because Silicon Valley culture elevated the engineer and entrepreneur to higher social status.
With Gehry, we get to wave adieu to what Tom Wolfe memorably called the "Rue De Regret" of International Style German workers' cubes and replace our yawns with a little shock and awe.
Tom Wolfe, in his book "The Right Stuff, " about the original Mercury astronauts, wanted to describe for readers just what level of devotion the newly named astronauts had received from the American people.
Michael had sketched with perfect strokes a California phenomenon much as another Eastern skeptic, Tom Wolfe, had done 33 years earlier with California crazies of a different bent in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
If you like fast planes, cool technology, heroic entrepreneurs who joust with the old guard and tale-telling worthy of Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff, then Free Flight is the book for your summer reading.
In his Paris Review interview, Tom Wolfe refers to Zola at length, saying that regular deadlines can be good for fiction writers, because it forces them to create semi-believable plots and characters without being excessively fussy.
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In his 2004 novel I Am Charlotte Simmons, writer and social critic Tom Wolfe describes a sharp-witted female student who is, on paper, ideally suited for an Ivy League school, yet she finds herself brought down by a destructive social life at a fictional university.
Writing "The Bonfire of the Vanities" as a serialized novel for Rolling Stone in the 1980s, Tom Wolfe had to produce 6, 000 words every two weeks for more than two years, a grueling schedule that Mr. Wolfe later said he would never undertake again.
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In his 2004 novel I Am Charlotte Simmons, writer and social critic Tom Wolfe describes a sharp-witted female student who is, on paper, ideally suited for an Ivy League school, yet she finds herself brought down by a destructive social life at the fictional university she attends.
Nonetheless she is very kind to them, and leaves them on the floor overnight when necessary, and lets them off paying for their suppers until the book gets sold, and gradually she adds Tom Wolfe and Gay Talese and Kurt Vonnegut to the list of favoured ones.
Tom Wolfe argued in a New York Times op-ed a couple of days ago that the space program died at the moment Armstrong set foot on the moon that the poetic trajectory of space exploration flattened at that moment, and NASA was never able to recover.
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