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...what it was to be modern. The U.S. was big shouldered and handsome, the U.S. wore nylons and lipstick, the U.S. enjoyed a level of prosperity of which others could only dream. In Manhattan '45, her love letter to New York, Jan Morris writes "The old brag biggest and finest in the nation more and more evolved into biggest and finest in the world. Battered and impoverished London, humiliated Paris, shattered Berlin, discredited Rome - the old capitals towards which, before the war, Americans had so often looked with sensations of diffident inferiority now seemed flaccid beside this prodigy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America: The Lost Leader | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...Republican Party had nominated its first baby boomer for the presidency, and the man they had chosen was no more culturally 'with it' than Bob Dole, the septuagenarian previous nominee, had been," New York Times correspondent Frank Bruni writes. Bush viewed the musical Cats as modern theater at its finest ... and openly admitted that martial artist Chuck Norris was his favorite film actor. (Source: Bruni's Ambling into History...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: W.: The Official Film Guide | 10/21/2008 | See Source »

...says that the solution is “a million Noahs in a million arks,” and yet, throughout the book, he’s asking his readership to acknowledge that we are all in the same boat.Friedman’s argument is empty because his finest points become obscured by abstract digressions that don’t project a clear message of how to find solutions. He has an impressively broad perspective on the state of global development and makes a compelling argument that America’s economic well-being and global standing depend...

Author: By Erin F. Riley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Book Not Hot or Original | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

...Final Night of audition week, groups dress in their finest cocktail wear and make one last attempt to convince the auditioning singers of their organization’s superiority. “Long black dresses, gourmet cheese, everyone bragging about their tours, champagne…” Amanda B. Wyatt ’12 trails off. “So much champagne.” This is also the night when auditioners fill out the preference forms that will determine which group they join should they receive multiple invitations, a common occurrence in years like this...

Author: By Jessica R. Henderson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: La Famiglia A Capella | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...that the Brattle Theatre was showing a series called “Return to the Grindhouse,” I was intrigued, not only because of my own desire for cultural education, but also because one of the films was irresistibly advertised.“Nunsploitation’s finest hour and a half,” began the description of the 1972 film “Les Demons” on the theatre’s website; I was immediately sold. As far as I’m concerned, anyone not moved by a portmanteau that inventive clearly...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nunsploitation in the Brattle Grindhouse | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

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