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Writing in The New York Times in 1973, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt worried Thompson might someday "lapse into good taste."

"That would be a shame, for while he doesn't see America as Grandma Moses depicted it, or the way they painted it for us in civics class, he does in his own mad way betray a profound democratic concern for the polity," he wrote. "And in its own mad way, it's damned refreshing."

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from Chris' AP link. As good an epitaph as any.

He will be missed.

[ February 21, 2005, 11:28 AM: Message edited by: Morbo ]

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