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Where All the Women Are Strong
In the Coen brothers’ 1996 film Fargo, Jerry Lundegaard walks into a North Dakota bar in a cloud of discomfort and, we imagine, arctic air.
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American Idols
illustration by Brianna AshbyI am five years old. Crisp white paper crinkles underneath me as I shift on the table. It is very cold and bright in the room, but I am sweaty. My palms stick together. I...
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Entertaining Angels
illustration by Brianna AshbyThere’s an old biblical mandate—“Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it”—that’s had the faithful...
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Car Chase Ends in Bay Swim, Police Say Screwballs Involved
San Francisco Chronicle July 17, 1972 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — Frederick Larabee, founder of the Larabee Foundation, was among more than a dozen people involved in a high-speed car chase that ended...
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We’ll Always Have Paris
Casablanca hinges and cracks opens on a quiet montage of two lovers wooing one another in Paris before the story even began.
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The Soft Glow of Electric Sex
A Christmas Story, children who dream of growing up, and adults who dream of being young again.
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Even As I Am Fully Known
Secretary never exploits or stereotypes BDSM for sport; never uses it as a sideshow; never markets it as a pathology to overcome.
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