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Purdue Pharma Opioid Ads Keep Trying to Dull Sackler Pain
As the hardworking staff has resolutely noted, OxyContin pusher Purdue Pharma has been spending millions of dollars in an attempt to 1) adwash the Sackler family’s responsibility for hooking millions of Americans on opioids and 2) minimize the current blowback … Continue reading
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Purdue Pharma’s Opioid Ads Keep Trying To Dull America’s Pain
As the hardtsking staff has previously noted, the fabulously wealthy Sackler family, which unleashed OxyContin on an unsuspecting American public, played a key role in the country’s current opioid crisis. Adding insult to devastating injury, the family’s corporate arm, Purdue … Continue reading
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Tagged American Museum of Natural History, Berlin Jewish Museum, Chris Christie, Christopher Glazek, Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, Esquire, Guggenheim Museum, Harvard University, Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford's Ashmolean, Oxycontin, Patrick Radden Keefe, Peking University, Purdue Pharma, Royal Academy, Sackler, Sackler Courtyard, Sackler family, September 11th every three weeks, Smithsonian, Tate Modern, Temple of Dendur, The New Yorker, Victoria and Albert Museum
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The Arts Seen in NYC (Backwards Museum Mile Edition)
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town the other weekend to see what we could see and say, it was . . . cold. But the artwork was swell. We hit the city around three o’clock … Continue reading
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Tagged Access + Ability, Before the Fall: German and Austrian Art of the 1930s, Birds of a Feather: Joseph Cornell's Homage to Juan Gris, Claude Monet, Cooper Hewitt, Edward Gorey, George Balanchine, Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas, Gorey's Worlds, Grant Wood, Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables, Lilies of the Alley, Louise Nevelson, Mel Bochner, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mod New York: Fashion Takes a Trip, Museum Mile, Museum of the City of New York, Neue Galerie, New York City Ballet, New York on Ice: Skating in the City, New York Silver Then and Now, Norell: Dean of American Fashion, Parc Monceau, Peter Schjeldahl, Pockets to Purses: Fashion + Function, Public Parks Private Gardens: Paris to Provence, Quicksilver Brilliance: Adolf de Meyer Photographs, Rod Keenan, Scenes from the Collection, the Big Town, The Body: Fashion and Physique, The Joys of Yiddish, The Met, The Museum at FIT, The New Yorker, The Red Flame, Wadsworth Atheneum, Whitney Museum
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Opioid-Pushing Sacklers Administer Advertising Methadone
Let us now speak of the Sackler brothers – Arthur, Mortimer, and Raymond – patriarchs of the pharmaceutical-fueled family that has made billions of dollars from the sale of OxyContin, the marketing of which has undeniably triggered America’s current opioid … Continue reading
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Tagged American Museum of Natural History, Berlin Jewish Museum, Chris Christie, Christopher Glazek, Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, Esquire, Guggenheim Museum, Harvard University, Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford's Ashmolean, Oxycontin, Patrick Radden Keefe, Peking University, Purdue Pharma, Royal Academy, Sackler, Sackler Courtyard, Sackler family, September 11th every three weeks, Smithsonian, Tate Modern, Temple of Dendur, The New Yorker, Victoria and Albert Museum
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There’ll Always Be a New York Times (Sex Shop Edition)
(With apologies to The New Yorker) Yesterday’s New York Times Thursday Styles section had the Grey Lady showing lots of leg. Raiding the Sex Shop, Eyes Wide Open Fetish wear has woven itself into the fabric of fashion “Hmm … Continue reading
Nadal’s Last Stand: Fail Better
The hardrooting staff has long been a fan of Rafael Nadal, the Half-Volley Hamlet of the men’s professional tennis tour. Rafa has been one of the most likable, ferocious, and – openly, sometimes painfully – introspective tennis players the game has ever seen. … Continue reading
Things Go Better with . . . Koch?
For the past few years, the liberati have been on the Koch brothers like Brown on Williamson. And, apparently, that’s hurt the billionaire industrialists’ feelings. So they’ve launched a $15 million feel-good campaign designed to burnish their image. As part … Continue reading
The Tale of the the Girlfriend, the Jewish Boyfriend, and the Dog
Maybe it’s just us, but the hardworking staff is starting to see a pattern emerging here. Start with the ubiquitous Lena Dunham’s current piece in The New Yorker. Dog or Jewish Boyfriend? A Quiz Do the following statements refer to … Continue reading
Hack Attack! Salon’s Brutal Takedown of Bigfoot Journalists
Salon’s Alex Pareene has assembled a Top Ten Hackorama of Political Journalists and it’s a corker (tip o’ the pixel to AlterNet). Pareene blowtorches some of the most notable members of the chinstrokerati, “[channeling] each media figure’s ‘unique’ voice — … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Pareene, AlterNet, Benny Johnson, Bob Woodward, Business Insider, Buzzfeed, chinstrokerati, David Brooks, Erick Erickson, Game Change, George Will, Henry Blodget, John Heilemann, Malcolm Gladwell, Mark Halperin, Maureen Dowd, Mike Allen, New York Times, Paul Krugman, Politico, RedState, Richard Cohen, Salon, The New Yorker, Thomas Friedman, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post
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