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Behind the Big Eyes
Behind the Big Eyes : Vice The Big Eye painting craze of the 1950s and 1960s, started by Margaret Keane, with many imitators. An excerpt from Citizen Keane: The Big Lies Behind the Big Eyes by Adam Parfrey: "[Walter] Keane's...
Bulkes: The "Greek Republic" that "Never Existed"
Bulkes: The "Greek Republic" that "Never Existed" This is a fascinating case of a place that existed briefly and within living memory (just barely) being deliberately forgotten. A Twitter reference to "wells" (πηγάδες) as a threat made by Greek Leftists...
Inside Jeff Overturf's Head: "Gopo Gossum!" - Wally Wood - Mad Monday!
Inside Jeff Overturf's Head: "Gopo Gossum!" - Wally Wood - Mad Monday! Color scans of the Mad Magazine parody of Walt Kelly's Pogo comic strip....
About - Educational Guidance Institute
About - Educational Guidance Institute Educational Guidance Institute, headed by Dr. Onalee McGraw, uses classic movies to teach character and values. On Dr. McGraw's blog, you can read essays on the lessons taught by great films like Twelve Angry Men,...
Controlling Nature with Virus Research - Tablet Magazine
Controlling Nature with Virus Research - Tablet Magazine Norman Doidge: "Perhaps the biggest problem with the military metaphor, is how it causes us to narrow our focus almost exclusively on 'eradicating the virus,' and 'cases of the infected.' This causes...
The War on Reality - Tablet Magazine
The War on Reality - Tablet Magazine An essay by California public school teacher Alex Gutentag: "Clearly, quarantining the healthy did exactly the opposite of what was sold to the public: It increased non-COVID-19 excess deaths while leaving elderly and...
American Murder Mystery - The Atlantic
American Murder Mystery - The Atlantic Hannah Rosin, writing in 2008, about the impact of Section 8 housing subsidies on crime patterns. "According to FBI data, America's most dangerous spots are now places where Martin Scorsese would never think of...
Greek to Me, by Mary Norris | The New Yorker
Greek to Me, by Mary Norris | The New Yorker "On returning to New York, I registered for an elementary class in ancient Greek at Columbia University and blithely submitted the bill to the [New Yorker] magazine's new executive editor,...
How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/07/how-mark-burnett-resurrected-donald-trump-as-an-icon-of-american-success?fbclid=IwAR33Q3fSZFN4An2ji4FszsN-b5CgspjXF9nfG3mXao8WzpSuUC3FalH45GA Fascinating glimpse into reality television and the re-creation of Donald Trump '"The Apprentice" was built around a weekly series of business challenges. At the end of each episode, Trump determined which competitor should be "fired." But, as ["The Apprentice...
If Sheldon Adelson Really Wants to Control the Press, He's 100 Years Too Late - POLITICO Magazine
If Sheldon Adelson Really Wants to Control the Press, He's 100 Years Too Late - POLITICO Magazine Some valid points about the declining ability of newspapers to shape the local political debate: "But in recent decades, the plutocrat's ability to...
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