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...movie has no stars, few recognizable faces. And unlike so many American films, which cast gentiles in Jewish roles (Imelda Staunton, for example, as the stereotype mother in Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock, also about suburban Jews in the '60s), this one actually has ethnic-appropriate casting. The Jews here are sometimes broadly drawn - Larry's family slurps soup at a decibel level that even the Simpsons would find deafening - but they're fully assimilated. Nobody says, "Oy vey!" or talks shtick. If people answer a question with a question, the first would be Larry's plaintive "Why me?" when...
...Harvard label is just another way to do preppy merchandise," says menswear-fashion expert Robert E. Bryan, author of American Fashion Menswear, a new book on the history of male dressing. "Except that maybe Harvard gives it more authenticity because that's where the real prepsters go." Authenticity was also the holy grail for Bryan Griggs, who designed the line for the Field & Stream brand and says the clothes were inspired by his travels through Wyoming's Grand Tetons...
Supreme Court • more damage to the American electoral system is about to be done...
...Sometimes these things just go on. These are heroes of mine. I really hope these would be heroes to future generations of Americans. [The stories] are ... a way to diminish their contributions to our country's existence." - Complaining of negative media attention toward affairs conducted by Strom Thurmond and Thomas Jefferson, both of whom fathered children out of wedlock with African-American women (the State...
That meant Sauer would have to buy substandard vehicles, replace American employees with cheaper South Africans and pay what Sauer thought were slave wages to the Nepalese Gurkhas, who make up nearly two-thirds of the embassy's 450 guards. The situation would eventually get so bad, the POGO documents said, that it would prompt two threats of mass walkouts by the Gurkhas. Guards would end up suffering chronic sleep deprivation because the staff was 20% shorthanded...