December 2010
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“To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don’t...”
– Don Delillo, The Names (44)
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You're on television, dummy.
I. I saw Network for the first time. I need to think.
II. This is a big, messy movie with big, messy veins that writhe out of its head in apoplexy. A movie with spittle and tears and sweat. It’s a movie that delivers its rousing, Old Testament jeremiads with a cross-country amplifier that, naturally, blows its flaws up to a Godzilla-size and makes it a thudding, hefty target for snideness...
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Soon enough, Assange must confront the paradox of... →
And there we have all the unease about Assange nerd-strafin’ the gov’t summed up.
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“I love Lake Como, and I love Miami - I need both. I always say, Proust and...”
– Gianni Versace
Stephen Schiff “Lunch with Mr. Armani, Tea with Mr. Versace, Dinner with Mr.Valentino,” The New Yorker, 7 November 1994.
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“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes...”
– Mario Savio. Underneath that wild-eyed, clutching, sputtering, half-incoherent mania, there’s something white-hot and pure and pulsating that’s been jettisoned or, even worse, calcified. Now? Now we’ve got irony. So we’ve got that going for us.
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