Word: naturedness
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I remember riding on George Herbert Walker Bush's campaign bus through the countryside of downstate Illinois in the early fall of 1988. The candidate was in his pork rinds mode: An exuberant populist condescension used to overwhelm Bush's WASPiness around election time and dispatch him on missions of...
American trains, at least this one, lack the romance and luxury of Europe's fabled railroads or of our Pullmans of yore. The cars, comfortable and ingenious as they are, are too much plastic and Formica. But there is a sense of shared adventure among those onboard, a leisurely and...
The main requirement for the beautiful loser is that society must value him, must impute virtue for no reason other than that he fails in a sincerely believed-in, preferably noble cause. When was the last time one saw that? Before the 1980s, there was a public shame attached to...
Some of fmis best friends have come up to fm in recent weeks to broach the topic of the magis sincerity: is fm trying to be a real magazine, or are we just fucking kidding? Believe it or not, this is a matter to which fm has itself devoted a...
The Pudding honors two performers a year for "their lasting and impressive contribution to the world of entertainment" with a good natured roast, a "Pudding Pot" trophy, and a well publicized visit to the Hasty Pudding Theater on Holyoke Street.