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...best example of this journalistic onamism is appropriately enough, the opening feature article, a paean to the glories of Rolling Stone bearing the byline of--to use Wenner's own words--"critic emeritus" Chet Flippo. The title of the piece sets the tone for the rest of the article, (not to mention the issue), "A Style is Born: The Rock & Roll Way of Knowledge." Flippo's article begins by tracing the author's infatuation with his employer back to his days on a U.S. Navy destroyer when he read the first issue of the magazine, which featured an interview...
Wizard or Oz. Contrary to popular belief, this wonderful film is much more than a fantasy for children. Based on the Oz books written around the turn of the century by Populist publicist L. Frank Baum, "The Wizard of Oz" is actually a paean to Rooseveltian progressivism. The Land of Oz, where "we get up at noon, go to work at two we're done, jolly good fun," is actually the world's most advanced welfare state. The lushness of the make-believe countryside, filmed in a beautiful early attempt at color, contrasts starkly with the monochromatic depression reality...
...conclusion, Schneider is genuinely widowed and turns to her attorney for solace, the lawyer throws himself with a certain relish into an affirmation of the male's primacy, declaring that this is a man's world governed by laws written by men and for men. Such an outdated paean to the macho ethic confirms your suspicion that the dirty hands of the movie belong neither to Schneider's murderess nor to her accomplice in crime and sin, but rather to their creator, Monsieur Chabrol...
...first year--with his excuse, suggesting he decided to write about Harvard because it's the oldest and biggest law school (which he says makes the experience of students here exemplary of all law students in America), and, of course, because he goes here. Nonsense. One L is a paean to status symbols, a description of Turow's willing indoctrination into the country's corporate elite...
Hooray for Hollywood/ That phony super Coney Hollywood," lyricized Johnny Mercer 40 years ago in a sardonic paean to the legend: instant fame, endless sex and the money to pay for it all. Since then the illusion of celluloid glamour has turned into the tawdry reality of a Los Angeles neighborhood of 250,000 people harassed by crime and vice, mired in the flesh and drug trades and fast fading into the sunset of American cultural history. Now Hollywood is trying to stage a comeback-a drive to revive a decayed area that still attracts 3 million tourists a year...