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Norman Mailer1923–2007

We think of Marilyn who was every man’s love affair with America. Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards.

Norman Mailer on beauty

Marilyn (1973), Ch. 1

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