...it's not as if the zeigeisty observer in this critter isn't sorely tempted, and more than mildly curious. On the one hand, I'm a SATC hater from way back, despite…
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To T.C.Because Halloween weekend is very nearly upon us, National Review Online contributor John J. Miller recommends a few of his preferred ghost stories, one of them being Nabokov's "The…
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Got alienation? From Antonioni's 1964 Red Desert, of course; grabbed off of the standard-def version of the new Criterion edition, which will also be on Blu-ray. Screen capture courtesy of the…
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Bad sex, bad drugs, and not-so-hot music (despite the aural presence of Comus, actually a pretty distinctive art-folk combo of the era); that's what 1970's Permissive is made of. Also…
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I should of course begin by admitting that I approached the very existence of this book with an irritation that some might intuit, or even insist, was born of resentment.…
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Applying bumper stickers, wearing "Factor gear," attending "rallies," and dropping conversational non sequiturs about listening to Glenn Beck do not demonstrate that one is a conservative. They demonstrate that one…
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