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...pushed back the opening date to this fall, and just last week the owner of the property, Robert Banker ’58, said that he was aiming to have the store open by New Year’s Day. The store will open at 7 a.m. on the 20th, but store officials are planning a special “dry run” on the day before the grand opening. Invitations to sample the pancakes will be distributed to community members, business owners, and students. Salaverria said if uninvited guests drop in that day, he might feel compelled...
...delinquent—personality was the special appeal, especially for girls but for a number of boys as well,” Buell wrote. “The cartoon was basically designed (though I doubt my mother thought very self-consciously about this) to appeal to a mid-20th-century middle class smallish-town, traditional-values audience.”Despite her small-town origins, Little Lulu has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Turkish, and other languages, Lawrence Buell said.The gutsy little girl has also been featured in Kleenex advertisements, starred in TV shows and animated shorts, and appeared...
According to the credits Fur is "inspired" by Patricia Bosworth's sober, well-researched and touching 1984 biography of Diane Arbus, the photographer who specialized in making indelible images of the freakish-giants, dwarfs, Siamese twins and the like-in mid-20th century America. The filmmakers, in an on-screen foreword, say that what we are about to see is "a film that invents characters and situations that reach beyond reality to express what might have been Arbus' inner experience on her extraordinary path...
...about traditional distinctions between high culture and low culture seems to warn me against bringing up a television show—whose most substantial legacy thus far has been coining the word “truthiness”—at my first meeting with a scholar of 20th century literature and art as prominent as Suleiman...
...trees and Santas, while Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley helped define the Christmas feeling with movies and music. "White Christmas," "A Christmas Song," "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" - who wrote these songs? The same people responsible for most of the great pop music of the early and mid-20th century: Jews. In 1964, when Phil Spector produced a great album of seasonal tunes sung by his house performers (the Crystals, the Ronettes, etc.), he didn't call it the Holiday Album. It was A Christmas Gift for You, and it ended with Spector himself dewily intoning a Christmas wish...