All posts tagged "1950s"
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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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Books
Book Review: Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussman
April 2, 2022A potential reader sizing up Liza Klausmann’s new novel, Tigers in Red Weather, would do well...
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Biography
Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg
March 17, 2022The time between New Year’s 1956 and April 1958 was a period of general uncertainty and...
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Television
Mad (wo)Men: The Complexity of Womanhood in “Mad Men”
August 12, 2020The cast of AMC’s “Mad Men:” Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, January Jones,...
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Art
Art Review: Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers at the Hirshhorn, Washington, DC
July 21, 2020In 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)
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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