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Tag Archives: Gore Vidal
1000 years ago: deep in the archives
A thousand years ago our forebears lived in a “dark age.” They themselves did not think it was dark and they were only half wrong… …Our Western world was unquestionably Catholic, although the Church sanctified relics of pagan practice and … Continue reading
auctioned off: quickie sale
The night they auctioned off the Roman Empire. It was not merely an empire, it was the world. … In the second century A.D. Rome stretched across a million and a half square miles, from Scotland to the Sahara, from … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Guccione, Charleton Heston, Claudius Roman Emperor, Didius Julianis, Emperor Caligula, Emperor Nero, Emperor Tiberius, Frederico Fellini, Gore Vidal, Helen Mirren, Macro Praetorian Guard, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Peter Ustinov, Sejanus Praetorian Guard
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naipaul: at the mercy of the “bow and arrow men”
“If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead. …Writers should provoke disagreement.” – V.S. Naipaul. Naipaul is something of a master craftsman in putting down rivals, the art of invidious comparison, and the guile of over-the-top self adulation. It … Continue reading
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Tagged aminatta forna, dick cavett, Evelyn Waugh, Gore Vidal, Jane Austen, Jonathan McIntosh, Joseph Conrad, joseph heath, margaret gooding, Norman Mailer, patrick french, paul theroux, rob nixon, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen, v.s. naipaul, william langley
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when dicky was tricky: campaign swag and swagger
Back in the old days when elections were brass-knuckled affairs. Art looks back on the advertising ”swag” of the 1968 presidential election and Richard Nixon. Art Chantry:Back in 1968, during the election fiasco that produced the presidency of Richard Nixon, … Continue reading
Southern Discomfort
Throw Buster from the train.Faster than a speeding locomotive,the Superman of comedy knew the eccentric side of Southern living. Carson McCullers ”The Heart is A Lonely Hunter ” and Buster Keaton’s film , ”The General’ ( 1927 ),a newly released … Continue reading