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...Kennedy was killed by the CIA and that you can get AIDS off toilet seats. We've got people convinced that they were Cleopatra in another life, that Elvis lives and that the flat tax is a good idea. We've got self-improvers out the wazoo, just improvin' themselves up a storm. We've got people who live for bingo, people dedicated to ballroom dancing as a way of life, people passionate about Fiestaware and people whose world revolves around Civil War re-enactments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's A Jumble Out There | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...fact it threatens to become a real American art. Mr. Dooley will be forced to give up the magazines completely. "What I object to", he says, "is whin I pay tin or fifteen cents for a magazine, expectin' to spind me avenin' improvin' me mind with the latest thoughts in advertising, to find more thin a quatter of the book devoted to literachoor". He could already find some literature in the advertisements. There is poetry in the line "meaty marrowy oxtail joints" used to describe a well-known soup. A prose rhythm of unusual smoothness is discovered in an automobile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BILLBOARD LITERATURE | 5/15/1923 | See Source »

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