J. Hoberman explains the Clint Eastwood (oh, and Chrysler) Super Bowl commercial: “‘It’s Halftime in America’ was a most effective bit of political theater — maybe the best of its kind since Ronald Reagan’s 1984 ‘Morning in America.'”
Tag: 02.11.12
Remember When A TV Kiss Could Change The World?
“There was a time when a kiss, delivered by the right kind of person to the right kind of person, could set the whole country abuzz and speak profoundly to our national identity crisis.”
Yes, Happy Birthday Dickens And All That, But Trollope’s Our Real Model
“With our robber-baron bankers, our financial panics, our privileged political elite and our disenfranchised migrant workers, it can feel as if we are living through a new Victorian era; certainly the narrative mode that Trollope established in The Way We Live Now has seen a renaissance in recent years.”