Category: Cultural Trends
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Bam. Pow. Kablooie.
In the comics, nobody was sending us out of the room before the subject of nuclear armageddon was…
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The price of pretty
Until the Church removed her from the calendar in 1969, July 20 long had the distinction of being…
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Unintelligible at any speed
Forty-nine years ago today, on May 17, 1965, the FBI released their report: Although there may or may…
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Skiing the Slippery Slope
On a whim yesterday I wasted twenty minutes on a quiz on the Christian Science Monitor website: it…
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See what you made me do…
A Persian word that became widespread in the days of the Ottoman Turkish empire — baksheesh — could…
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Timeless
I’ve recently undertaken a couple of pieces of artwork that involved human faces. In both cases, the style…
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House of Mirrors
When I was in the fourth grade, we studied Alabama history from a textbook that would probably raise…
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The fine art of seeing.
As I do just about every week, I stopped off on the way home from work last Friday…
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Dream a Little Dream.
Last night I dreamt that my family was being studied by a world-famous psychiatrist and dozens of my…
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