Word: davises
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Unlike Sofen, I find nothing alarming about the fact that the museum contained a "special room" for Jefferson Davis or "still-polished Confederate weapons." Sofen complains that these artifacts made the New South he'd read so much about in magazines "seem worlds away."
I tie certain songs and albums to certain points in my life. I mentally prepared myself to play lacrosse to the driving rhythms of the Nixons; Van Halen played before my wrestling matches and Miles Davis has been known to make appearances in my room before midterms, soothing my mind...
What Ehren Kruger's script doesn't do so well is suspensefully build Faraday's suspicions about his new neighbors, Oliver and Cheryl Lang (Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack), and their creepy kids. There's always something eerie about Robbins' geniality--in his screen persona he's never been a...
At the Old Court House Museum in Vicksburg, Miss., a visitor is hard pressed to find evidence that the Civil War is over--or the War Between the States, as it's called in Vicksburg. Exhibit cases contain Confederate uniforms and still-polished Confederate weapons. Photographs of "loyal slaves" who...
So when my family planned a trip to the Mississippi Delta--"the cradle of the Civil War," in Paul Simon's words--I was skeptical of what I might find. After all, Mississippi seemed like the epicenter of the South: the Magnolia State, the second state to secede, the home...