In 1972, writing in Rolling Stone about a looming confrontation between protesters and police in the streets in front of the Republican National Convention in Miami, Hunter S. Thompson described the moment he slipped off his watch. “The first thing to go in a street fight is always your watch, and once you’ve lost a few, you develop a certain instinct that lets you know it’s …
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