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The Loud Sucking of Adulthood
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White Knuckle Express
Burt Freeman Bacharach, a towering figure of American song, has passed at the age of 94. What can be said of the man that hasn’t already been codified in legend …
Bacharach to Basics
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Ready for the ’80s
Americans now in their 50s grew up in a time of radical innovation at the intersection of public education and mass media. In the late 1960s, citizen groups such as …
Knowledge is Power!
Well, another year is just about in the can, and as usual, there is a long list of talented folks who have left us over the past twelve months. For …
In Memoriam 2022
In modern-day America, the hallmarks of middle age include, among many other signifiers, opening your mailbox to find that first mailer from AARP, noticing antique tags on cars that were …
Museum Pieces
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Summer of Scotty
Looking back on the 1980s today, the first thing I remember is the gleam of it all — the sterile, sleek sheen of a bold new pink-and-turquoise-hued future, molded in …
Perfect Sound Forever
Over the years I have owned somewhere between 40 and 50 vehicles, the vast majority of them built in the 1960s-70s. Most of these were acquired quite cheaply, and in …
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