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...into the Faculty Club—naked.Nonetheless, the category they created—which I would define as the big-budget pseudo-indie posing as art—is a better version of Hollywood. Occasionally oppositional, consistently satisfying, and always well put-together, Miramax’s marquee Oscar-bait productions at the very least saved us from the ’80s, in which the only films that could classify as “good” mainstream movies were overblown, revisionist historical epics like “Out of Africa.” And though their films have...
...this—my Lincoln Logs may have been born of an earlier time but they had evolved all along, not suddenly reappearing after a 20 year hiatus. Maybe we were all being duped by the marketing geniuses who realized that our consumer generation would more easily take the bait on buying back our youth. But if this was the case, they probably should have thought twice before they bastardized the source of all our happiness.Forget models in magazines. If My Little Pony needed lipo and a nose job to be successful in the new millennium, we have got some...
...Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2. Jesus and Yahweh Harold Bloom 3. Maimonides Sherwin B. Naland 4. Beyond Reason Robert Fisher 5. 1491 Charles Mann 6. Freakonomics Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner 7. Little History of the World E.H. Gombrich 8. The World Is Flat Thomas Friedman 9. Bait and Switch Barbara Ehrenreich 10. Lincoln’s Melancholy Joshua Shenk
...bait-and-switch that, imperceptibly at first, draws the reader into the emotional realm of the soldier. Gingerly, he piques our interest with funny anecdotes and moments of suspense...
It’s the start of a new year, time for Oscar bait to start dangling at Kendall and remind us how awful the summer in movies really was. I for one have noticed a curious lack of film-going anecdotes in my friends’ brief appraisals of their summer vacations...