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LAZINESS PREVENTS TWR FROM a full post this week (deadlines, pregnant wife, deadlines), so we offer instead a link to Monday's San Francisco Chronicle in which the TWR founder has an op-ed piece on Barack Obama and popular culture. You can read i...
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Dean Rader discusses Barack Obama's iconic status.
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TWO TELEVISION EVENTS LAST night had quite different but equally memorable effects on the staff here at TWR , and it reminded all of us here at the headquarters why everything seems that much lamer post basketball season and post The Wire . The f...
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LOYAL TWR READER AND former journalist Mike Spencer, now of Spencer Investigations (TWR was cleared of all charges), wrote in with one of the better questions of late: We no longer have a summer soundtrack. The movie Summer of Sam brought me back...
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LIKE MANY PEOPLE, I have been struck by the photos of towns and farms in Iowa and Missouri submerged under the rising waters of the recent floods. I was also disturbed by how oddly compelling many of the photographs are--silos protruding from bea...
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The Professor of Pop poses this question as a comment to last week's post on poetry and popular culture. It's a good question; one that probably should be asked more often, but instead, poets, professors and publishers of poetry merely ask: why d...
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IS POETRY TOO COMPLICATED for the average reader? This question begins a recent post from the engaging West End Journal on the relationship between poetry and popular culture. For years now, I have been puzzled by poetry's poor readership in the ...
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EVEN THOUGH THE BOROWITZ REPORT had me scared to death to see Sex and the City , I decided to brave the sexual orientation waters and wade into that space where, apparently, no straight man treadeth. In truth, Sex and the City isn't right out of ...
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ON THIS NIGHT WHEN political culture meets mediated visual culture, it is interesting to keep in mind what the image of change actually looks like. Myrtle Strong Enemy, the oldest living woman on the Crow Reservation in Montana, might be asking f...
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One of America's best poets of the 20th Century, Marianne Moore, throws out the first pitch at Opening Day, Yankee Stadium, 1968. Who says poets don't got game . . .
