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… of tweaking those contemporaries whom he found cautious and complacent. Lamenting that Americans “have become prisoners … president. Johnson the veteran admired Eisenhower the soldier, but Johnson the writer thought Eisenhower the … wrote to Adlai Stevenson, “and McCarthy has two men on the FCC, which has power of life and death over the networks.” …
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… who takes her shirt off and a picturesque decapitation. He also had Ferris Bueller. I watched the film in a state of … Ferris himself (Matthew Broderick, unbearably young) comes across as a charming manipulator utterly devoted to … by his own conflicted impulses, torn between outrage and obedience. In a very real sense, he needs someone to take …
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… for the liturgy as my friend, whose idea it was to come to Mass. It was my idea to observe it here. Strands of … and should go, neither of these people belonging to us. We also may have been thinking that, in the end, God was no … First World War, which put God in a grave with the men who died for it, were the apex of Art. And the Protestant …
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… The Actress and The Comedienne (Or “Free Lunch”) Renée S / Flickr The … You know what? The other day, I called her up,” she points to the Actress, “and I asked her if she ever touches … The Actress and The Comedienne (Or “Free Lunch”) …
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… Little Nemo in Comicsland At the beginning of the last century, a little … Take as an example the famous Sunday page that ran on July 26, 1908. The early panels show Nemo snuggled in bed and … any educational institution. Amid dog-faced boys, bearded ladies, and carnival barkers, all plying their trade, McCay …
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… for a projected special issue of Salmagundi magazine. My companions on this visit were the novelist Bharati Mukherjee … wearing American sports clothes, khakis or jeans. She had also, on this occasion, painted in the middle of her … justifying the deep, often unconscious prejudices of his audience. This was obvious, he felt, and no recitation of the …