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gang that couldn’t shoot straight arrows
Historical revisionism that is clearly not even in the category of the plausible. The capture of Jerusalem by Saladin re-jigged to make it seem like hordes of spear chucking natives from the heart of the jungle, primitive and savage, required … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Balian of Ibelin, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman, Pope Gregory VII, Robert Onderdonk, Robert Redford, Saladin capture of Jerusalem, Sam Peckinpah, The Alamo Davy Crockett, The Wild Bunch Sam Peckinpah, Walon Green
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stamping out those millenarians
In times of stress, look for the prophets of an earthly paradise. America may be ready for its own millennial cult… The main American Indian movements, Pontiac, Code of Handsome Lake and the Ghost Dance, and the hundreds of others … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Amy Kaplan, Ben Allen, Chairman Mao Little Red Book, Code of Handsome Lake, Ghost Dancing Wovoka, Irenaeus church father, Jack Wilson Wovoka, Jewish Zealots masada, Leon Uris Exodus, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marshall McLuhan, Martin Luther King, Papias church fathet, Paul Newman, peter o'toole, Peter Strauss, Wovoka
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Lobal Societies
Until fairly recently, the mysteries of the left-handed seemed to be unsolvable, like the true value of the cubit, or the location of the Ark of the Covenant, or King Solomon’s cache of gold. But it was breakthroughs in neurosurgery … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Arthur Penn, Billy the Kid, Cesare Lombroso, Charlie Chaplin left handed, Charlotte Faurie, Daniel Casasanto, Dr. Amar J.S. Klar, Dr. Norman Geschwind, Dr. Stanley Coren, Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix left handed, Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Left Handed Gun movie 1958, Michel Raymond researchers, Paul Newman, Paul Newman Left Handed Gun, tennis players left handed
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fat chance: rooting for the longshot
Its the opposite of investment. Its the quick fix. The bottomless pit of desire that cannot be sated. The Janus face of capitalism, money and banking. Is the true aim of the gambler narcissistic and aggressive desires for attaining the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Damon Runyan, edmund bergler, Edmund Burke, fred herzog photography, gambling economics, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan, marx brothers at the races, Paul Newman, Paul Samuelson, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, rosel zech, Slavoj Zizek, thorsten brinkmann, Walter Benjamin
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built in obsolescence: vintage violence
In a first statement,somewhat off-guard, Gilad Shalit expressed support for the freeing of all Palestinian prisoners, if they do not turn around and engage against terror attacks against Israel, according to Al-Jazeera. While Palestinians are holding extensive celebration in Gaza, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged abu mazen, Chris Hedges, David Brooks, Edmund White, Frantz Fanon, gadaffi death, Georges Sorel, Gideon Levy Haaretz, gilad shalit, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Lawrence of Arabia, martin kramer, michelle goldberg, Norman Finkelstein, omar khadr, Paul Newman, peter o'toole, Steven Plaut, thomas friedman, william haver
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WHEELS OF FORTUNE & FAME
The bicycle. It doesn’t make smoke, it doesn’t make smog and it never makes a bad picture. In the 1880’s the bicycle was young then; it antedated the automobile by only a few decades. it is hard to believe now, … Continue reading
LAUGHING WITH THE SUB-LITERARIES IN DIXIE
Whether or not humor has been considered too elusive or trivial to warrant serious study on its own terms ,like the popular culture of which it is both part and a partaker, is unclear. Some scholars such as Jesse Bier, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alex Gross, Artemus Warde, Beverly Hillbillies, Bret Harte, Constance Rourke, Erskine Caldwell, Eudora Welty, George Washington Harris, Grouch Marx, Guy Owens, James Thurber, Jesse Bier, Joan Miro, Johnson J. Hooper, Mac Hyman, Mark Twain, Marx Brothers, Max Ernst, Nathaniel West, New Yorker, Otto Dix, Paul Newman, Ring Lardner, Thomas bangs Thorpe, Walker Percy, Walter Blair, William Faulkner, William Tappan Thompson
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CONFIDENCE MEN:Masquerade, Myth and Art
For the confidence man to find a comfortable home in the heart of American culture, he needed a mask. And humor has often become an intricate part of the disguise. From the Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor in blackface which … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Al Jolson, American Humor: A Study of the national Character, Bob Dylan, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Constance Rourke, Eddie Cantor, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Greil Marcus, Griel Marcus, Hannah Arendt, Henry James, Herman Melville, I'm Not there, Luc Sante, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, The Confidence man, The Invisible Republic, The Old Weird America
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