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Everything Currently Wrong in America Is Hillary Clinton’s Fault
Well the hardworking staff was wending its way through the New York Times yesterday when we come across this full-page MasterClass ad on A13. Say, that’s some 1992-2016 Murderers’ Row (not to be confused with the 1927 New York Yankees). But the … Continue reading
We Time’s-Upped Lena Dunham Way Before The Sisters Did
Lena (Bad News) Dunham opened the family-sized can of worms when she posted this on Instagram. That led to this rebuttal, as chronicled by Paper’s Beatrice Hazlehurst. TIME’S UP SAYS LENA DUNHAM WAS NOT PART OF THE MOVEMENT Reese Witherspoon, … Continue reading
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Tagged America Ferrera, Amy Poehler, Beatrice Hazlehurst, Brie Larson, Campaign Outsider, Emma Stone, Girls, James Wolcott, Lena Dunham, like Brown on Williamson, Meryl Streep, Michelle Williams, New York, Paper, Rashida Jones, Reese Witherspoon, Rosario Dawson, Tessa Thompson, The Cut, Thor: Ragnarok, Time's Up, Tracy Ellis Ross, Vanity Fair
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Hey! NYC’s MTA Sucks Just Like Boston’s T!
The hardworking staff has long held that the MBTA – Boston’s public (not to be confused with rapid) transit system – is like someone’s hobby. But it’s not just our system that’s the modern-day equivalent of a swayback mare. From Emma G. … Continue reading
Quote o’ the Day (Jimmy Tingle Edition)
The hardworking staff yields to no man in our admiration for local comedian Jimmy Tingle, but we really must take issue with his statement in yesterday’s Boston Globe piece by Eric Moskowitz about whether the Hub of the Universe has an … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston, Boston Globe, coffee shops, Eric Moskowitz, inferiority complex, Jimmy Tingle, Joe Cocker, New York, traffic lights
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Editorial Cartoonists Think Alike About Eric Garner Decision
In the wake of the New York grand jury’s decision not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the choking death of Eric Garner, the hardworking staff noted similar treatment by two editorial cartoonists. Dan Wasserman, Boston Globe: Bill Bramhall, New … Continue reading
Big Town v. Bean Town (Guggenheim Fellowship Edition)
Every year the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awards fellowships “to assist research and artistic creation.” And, as is its wont, the Foundation ran a full-page ad in the New York Times to announce its 2014 recipients. Massachusetts artists, scholars, … Continue reading
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Tagged Brooklyn, Christopher Castellani, Elena Ruehr, Five Boroughs, Grub Street, Guggenheim Fellowships, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Leading Men, MIT, New York, New York Times, no promo, Patty Chang, Roomful of Teeth, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Sven Hedin, the Big Town, The Wandering Lake, The Wandering Lake: Into the Heart of Asia
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Tanks For The Memories (Dukakis ’88 Part Two)
As we noted yesterday, the hardsearching staff has been trying to locate adman Ed McCabe’s legendary New York magazine takedown of the 1988 Michael Dukakis presidential ad campaign. And we finally did (via Google Books here. Click on Preview this magazine; piece … Continue reading
Hey, Politico: Tanks For The Dukakis ’88 Memories
From our Late to the Losing Party desk Politico took a trip down Memory Lane the other day in this Josh King confessional piece from the new Politico Magazine. Dukakis and the Tank The inside story of the worst campaign photo … Continue reading
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Tagged 17 point lead, 1988 presidential campaign, battle tank, Christian Science Monitor, Dan Quayle, Democratic National Convention, Ed McCabe, Josh King, Matt Bennett, Michael Dukakis, New York, Politico, Politico Magazine, Sam Donaldson, The Campaign You Never Saw
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WGBH Herald Hostage, Day 2
The Kochheads are here! Defenders of conservative billionaire David Koch are going after the liberal activists going after Koch for giving a reported $18.6 to local public broadcaster WGBH over the past three decades. From [Saturday’s] Boston Herald: Koch foes blasted … Continue reading
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