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When a Nation Forgets Its Own Clichés (‘Run Havoc’ Edition)
From our That’s Just So Sad desk Here at the Global Worldwide Headquarters, the hardtsking staff has long lamented the slow-motion decline of what used to be called “clear idiomatic English.” Unclear idiotmatic English is more like it nowadays. For … Continue reading
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Guess Who (Both?) Won the 2024 NYT ‘Year in Pictures’ Bakeoff
Among the many holiday traditions here at the Global Worldwide Headquarters of Campaign Outsider (duck the malls; do not bring me some figgy pudding), one of our favorites is the annual Running of the Photographers – that is, tallying the … Continue reading
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‘Images From a Weary World’ Dominate NYT’s Year in Pictures
As you splendid readers no doubt recall, an annual tradition at the Global Worldwide Headquarters is the Counting of the Photogs in the New York Times “Year in Pictures” special section published at the end of every December (previous photo … Continue reading
NYT Gets Burned by Sports Betting’s ‘Axis of Wheedle’
Ever since sports gambling became legal in 2018 (SCOTUS: You bet!), the hardworking staff has laid plenty of 8 to 5 that the sports book-industrial complex would go sideways in no time flat. Cue Jared Diamond’s piece in today’s Wall … Continue reading
My Soirée With Napoleon, Madame Curie & Other Luminaries
So I was leafing through the New York Times Book Review the other day when I came across this piece about The Dinner Party Writers Dream Of. This year, our By the Book series of author interviews turned 10 — … Continue reading
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Tagged Amelia Earhart, Austen, Baldwin, Book Review, Harry Houdini, Jonah, Lewis & Clark, Madame Curie, Marie Antoinette, Methuselah, Morrison, Napoleon Bonaparte, New York Times, Octavia Butler, Proust, Sappho, Shakespeare, The Dinner Party Writers Dream of, Tolstoy, Twain
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R.I.P. Angela Lansbury: The Missus & I Loved You on Broadway
As the Missus said last week, thank God Angela Lansbury didn’t pass away during – and I’m paraphrasing here – England’s Long Goodbye to QE II. Then again, Angela Lansbury’s timing was always impeccable. It allowed, for example, Daniel Lewis’s lovely … Continue reading
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NYT’s ‘M*A*S*H’ Retrospective Lacks 20/20 Heinz Sight
Page One of yesterday’s Arts section in the New York Times featured James Poniewozik’s big takeout on the 5oth anniversary of the seminal television dramedy, “M*A*S*H.” ‘M*A*S*H’ at 50: War Is Hell(arious) Five decades ago, “M*A*S*H” anticipated today’s TV dramedies, … Continue reading
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