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Be Loyal to the Royal in Yourself
... coverage of then-presidential candidate John Edwards’s cheating scandal; it was Mellon who secretly provided $750,000 to Edwards through checks made out to interior designer and pastel enthusiast Bryan...
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Artful Volumes
... ways that still feel cutting-edge. During Etude for Pianoforte in 1960, he sliced up an audience member’s suit and tie with a pair of scissors; the victim was John Cage, Paik’s greatest influence...
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Eyes Wide Shut
... be nice to people.” When John Edwards staffer Andrew Young came to town, his colleagues warned him it was “miserable” because “the people here suck.” DC has long been called a fetid swamp full of...
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Throne of Games
... sport and extoled Harry Edwards’s leadership of an all-black boycott of the 1968 Summer Olympics, a movement that led to the black-gloved-fist salute to the American flag that subsequently got medal...
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Welles Lettres
... One day in 1974, Orson Welles, John Huston, and the comedian Rich Little were sitting in a Denny’s near Carefree, Arizona, about to order a meal. Huston and Little were acting in Welles’s new...
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Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon
... of drugs and depression, why doesn’t she just off herself?” This hot blurb suggests a very ’90s attitude, one still in thrall to the credo of “4 real,” to quote the phrase that Richey Edwards of...
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Menifesto
... Straussian philosopher of manliness Harvey Mansfield. Appearances are made by quondam presidential candidate John Edwards, pugnacious author-critic Dale Peck, and a Marxist professor who, upon being...
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Myth America
... It’s been forty years since John Ford passed away, but filmmakers continue to wrestle with his legacy. The directors of three recent Oscar contenders--Django Unchained, Lincoln, and Zero Dark...
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Pieces of a Man
... tune the radio to WDIA in Memphis to listen to the music of John Lee Hooker, Rufus Thomas, and B. B. King. When his grandmother died unexpectedly in November 1960, Scott-Heron’s life changed...
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May 18, 2012 @ 12:44:00 am
... Robert Draper, a contributor to the New York Times Magazine and GQ, has has been added to John Edwards’s witness list
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West Toward Home
... little respect for its culture and people? Robinson is a representative of the grand tradition of liberal Protestantism, still carrying the flame for the likes of Jonathan Edwards and Paul...
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God, Living Is Enormous
... Word,” the opening lines of the Gospel of John instruct, “and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Ever since, the power to capitalize the w has been the prize that nearly every writer...
