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January 2012 - Posts
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In 2002, Streep embarked on a stretch of remarkable creativity and productivity with a pair of innovative projects The following post is part of a series on Meryl Streep's vision of American history, part of a larger set of case studies. @font-face { Read More...
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In the last decade, Streep has played some marvelously unpleasant women The following post is part of a series on Meryl Streep's vision of American history, part of a larger set of case studies. With Eleanor Prentiss Shaw in The Manchurian Candidate (2004), Read More...
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Streep's comic approach to middle-aged womanhood The following post is part of a series on Meryl Streep's vision of American history, part of a larger set of case studies. @font-face { font-family: "Cambria";}@font-face { font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";}p.MsoNormal, Read More...
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Streep, adrift in the nineties The following post is part of a series on Meryl Streep's vision of American history, part of a larger set of case studies. @font-face { font-family: "Cambria";}@font-face { font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, Read More...
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Jim is observing the MLK holiday weekend. He's spent it at a pair of movies: The Iron Lady and Carnage . The former is a wonderful starring vehicle for Meryl Streep, one that should get her a long overdue third Oscar (the others were for Kramer vs. Kramer Read More...
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In Taft , first-time novelist Jason Heller tells an old-fashioned time traveling tale The following review was posted today the Books page of the History News Network site. The wacky premise of this novel merits a look. On March 4, 1913, on the final Read More...
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The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years is vintage Greil Marcus -- for better and worse The following review was posted last week on the Books page of the History News Network site. Greil Marcus is the Ernest Hemingway of cultural criticism. Read More...
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In Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics, Steven J. Ross traces the political arc of figures from Chaplin to Schwartzenegger The following review was posted recently on the Books page of the History News Network site. I didn't Read More...
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In The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt takes his reader on a thrilling journey of time travel The following review was yesterday on the Books page of the History News Network site. It's always a surprising pleasure Read More...
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