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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"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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1 day ago by late adopter

The Los Angeles Times publishes obits for animation advocate Roy E. Disney and Harold Bell, the creator of Woodsy Owl.

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2 days ago by SelfHelpBooks

Product Description In her late forties, after a noisy upbringing as one of six children and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland found herself living alone in the country, and, to her surprise, falling in love with silence. In this fascinating, intelligent, beautifully written bo ...

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4 days ago by puesoccurrences

Contributed by Niamh Cullen As Christmas approaches and Grafton Street gets more and more crowded each Saturday and Sunday, it seems like a good time to examine the history of one of our most popular modern pastimes: shopping. It is only in more recent decades that most people have enough disposable ...

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4 days ago by scheong

These days, people worry about swine flu, avian flu, flu-flu, AIDS and HIV. 90 years ago, there was a disease which put all these worries to shame. They called it The Spanish Flu. It made its mysterious and deadly premier on the world stage in 1918, lasted for four seasons until the curtain closed o ...

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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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"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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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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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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