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Democracy in Action: THE PHENIX CITY STORY
By all accounts, Phenix City, Alabama was a pleasant little town sitting just across the river from Columbia, Georgia. People were nice, it was a fine place to raise a family, it exemplified small...
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The Mysterious Death of a Hollywood Director
This is the tale of a very famous Hollywood mogul and a not-so-famous movie director. In May of 1933 they embarked together on a hunting trip to Canada, but only one of them came back alive. It’s an...
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Black on Black - The Three Lives of Ulderico Sciarretta
Ulderico Sciarretta 1.There are many different shades of black. One is particularly hateful to Italian people and will never fade in the collective memory. During the Fascist regime, black was the...
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A Treacherously Invisible Reward
It was his habit to think only in metaphors and similes, and in this way he evaded the realities that would otherwise have crushed him. He walked down the street, practicing an emotion of stolid...
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Trauma-Toons
A shortish documentary called Cartoon College, directed by Josh Melrod and Tara Wray, celebrating the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont, left me thinking about a bunch related or semi-related...
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Putzi
In Hitler’s inner circle of thugs, lunatics, imbeciles and perverts, Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl stood out as an oddity among the oddballs. Where they tended to be snarlingly parochial bumpkins,...
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Above: Rene Magritte, Couture Norine, 1926Below: René Magritte....
Above: Rene Magritte, Couture Norine, 1926Below: René Magritte. Promotional poster for the fashion house Norine, 1925
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Babs
By the Sixties new waves were crashing everywhere. The frisson of La Nouvelle Vague should be understood in a tempest of plurality that shook Hollywood, whose producers, trained in the relative stasis...
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