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She coulda been a contender. . .
Jesse Taylor hypothesizes that "Hillary Clinton" would have won the Democratic nomination if she had run for (and been elected to) the U.S. Senate from Illinois rather than new York. Thank you, Gerry Canavan,…
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“Mad Men”: Some critical reactions
Jon Hamm and January Jones as Don and Betty Draper http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/19/arts/television/19stan.html http://gridskipper.com/62605/the-mad-men-guide-to-new-york http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/07/24/DDLM11UVD3.DTL http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/television/reviews/article_display.jsp?JSESSIONID=18rQLLhJQ4XKwQx2ygmTQmWjltXFxhmqZfg7XcCxhpnR4b73sL2J!1210197588&&rid=11454 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/magazine/22madmen-t.html http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-ca-madmen20-2008jul20,0,6399625.story
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“Buffalo” [by Tom Disch]
Buffalo He knew how he would die. We all know that.Some day the same as any other he’d be chewing his cudAnd ruminating about the larger weather patternsThe clouds spoke of when Whump! like…
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“Mad Men” Loves Francois Villon
In last night’s episode of Mad Men, the voiceover in the black-and-white French film that Don Draper is watching, smoking, when he is supposed to be in the office, smoking, is from Francois Villon’s…
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The Dylan Watch (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
There are other worthy candidates for the title of "Most Evasive Interviewee of All Time," but Bob Dylan has surely labored the hardest to secure the title. It is not just that Dylan becomes…
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Clash of the Titans (by Mitch Sisskind)
Okay, a little time has passed since the death of Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn so let’s start getting some perspective on this man and his work. For example, Solzhenitsyn has been compared to Fyodor Mikhaelvich…
