All posts tagged "1950s"
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Movies
The Great Music Videos #2: “Thriller” (dir. John Landis)
July 6, 2020Jackson 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
July 4, 2020Giap 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
June 7, 2020She 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
June 6, 2020On 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
May 21, 2020Given 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
May 3, 2020Between 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
April 20, 2020There 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 19, 2020As 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 19, 2020And therein shines the beauty of Irving’s tale, who we used to be as a society...
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Books
Book Review: Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussman
April 19, 2020A potential reader sizing up Liza Klausmann’s new novel, Tigers in Red Weather, would do well...
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