"Sinatra With A Cold Is Picasso Without Paint"

This I found this feature article,http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ1003-OCT_SINATRA_rev_#ixzz0Vt9ZMLMl very well written. It amazed me how the author uses very simple events and makes them in a fascinating story. He used specific details and events of Frank Sinatra at the time. This article was written more than 30 years ago (1966), yet it still is read by many. I think this is because the structure the author uses telling what happened. You can hear the same story a million times, but what makes one different from the other is by how it is told. He uses one main tool: vividness.

This article not only gained worldwide recognition, but also created a new way to journalism, “New Journalism -- a work of rigorously faithful fact enlivened with the kind of vivid storytelling that had previously been reserved for fiction.” Instead of restating the big highlights of Frank Sinatra’s life, which most of us are familiar with and wouldn’t bother reading. He took something as simple as Frank Sinatra’s cold and developed it into, “one of the most celebrated magazine stories ever published.”

In the part where frank is having a conversation with Vincenzo , “Sinatra was silent for a moment, then said, "Yes, but it's very good for her to get her education first, Vicenzo." Shows he is a well rounded man, even though he lives for his music and lives of his music he believes that education comes first no matter what. Education is essential to life. It is pieces as simple as a conversation like this, which build Frank for us.

The author portrays Frank as more than just his songs. His songs have a meaning and were inspired by some outsource in his life. The author analyzes Frank’s life more than just a famous singer. My question is how can this journalist tell Frank Sinatra’s life through something as simple as a cold?