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The Sons of No One
1 day ago
by late adopter
"'They laughed in the face of stardom,' says their A and R guy at Sire, 'yet got really pissed off if you didn't treat them like a star.' As the divine nobody tasked with holding it all together, Westerberg appeared to be splitting at the seams. He was a fuck-up; he was a striver. He was the sensiti ...
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Meh
1 day ago
by late adopter
"I think that the show's drop in quality has been both a gradual one and a relative one. I think to be fair to the writers and to be fair to Matt Groening, there's only so much you can do with a set of characters in a situation. I mean, no one has written a show for 20 years. It's amazing that they' ...
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"Television's Only Moralist"
5 days ago
by late adopter
"In a sense, then, the title of one of his series, 'Now,' was a misnomer. Moyers has never been about now. He has always been about something beyond the moment. Or put another way, while everyone else in the media has been exploring topography, Moyers has been exploring geology." Neal Gabler offers ...
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To Our House
5 days ago
by late adopter
"Although it topples a good many cherished myths, and does so with patent glee, it cannot properly be called revisionist for there has never been a lucid and comprehensive presentation of the Bauhaus to revise. Every previous exhibition, including with MOMA’s own path-breaking 1938 show, has been ab ...
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4. “Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Book,” Deirdre Dolan
6 days ago
by Eli
I freaking love “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” This is summaries of each of the episodes of the first five seasons, interviews with Larry David and several people involved with “Curb.” My favorite parts were where they showed David’s original outline (there is no script for the show, just an outline of the ...
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"Unlike Birds, We Can Also Alphabetize"
6 days ago
by late adopter
"And so we hereby present, from A to Z, the most clever, important, silly and just plain weird innovations we carried back from all corners of the thinking world." The New York Times Magazine presents its annual ideas-of-the-year issue. And John Gray in The New Statesman surveys a decade of bad idea ...
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