All posts tagged "1950s"
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Art
Art Review: Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers at the Hirshhorn, Washington, DC
September 25, 2022In one of Klein’s, racier projects, the Anthropometry series, the artist dressed to the nines and...
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Movies
The Great Music Videos #2: “Thriller” (dir. John Landis)
September 7, 2022Jackson as a zombie in “Thriller” William Bibbiani noted in the Great Music Videos #1 post...
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France
Book Review: Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War by Ted Morgan
September 4, 2022Giap had lost several family members to the rigors of French colonial rule, including his wife...
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Fiction Reviews
The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
August 4, 2022She sees faces in the flaking walls of the kitchen, fears for the soul of a...
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Fiction Reviews
Knife Song Korea by Richard Selzer
August 2, 2022On arriving at his small and isolated army base in Korea, Sloane is met by Larry...
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History
Events Leading to America’s Involvement in Vietnam
July 13, 2022Given the political vacuum in the South, a Communist takeover of all of Vietnam within two...
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History
Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb
June 16, 2022Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground,...
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Blog-Music
Album Review: Nick Waterhouse’s Time’s All Gone
May 11, 2022There is the distinctly unnerving sensation of both familiarity and newness; the sound of another era...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Let Him Have It, #69
April 17, 2022As the days tick down, you’ll start to sweat. As the hanging occurs—graphically and efficiently—you may...
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Books
Book Review: In One Person by John Irving
April 15, 2022And therein shines the beauty of Irving’s tale, who we used to be as a society...
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