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After the Hour of Our Death
I’ve always been on my own side. I don’t see the point of self-betrayal, or of supporting my own decline. There’s nothing Machiavellian about this. Conceding that self-sacrifice is the most noble of things, and that the honest way is the only permissible means of advancement, still and all, I want to....
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R.I.P. Nora O’Brien, In Memoriam Kings
If there’s news from Hollywood that isn’t bound to compete with tabs on Brangelina, certainly it’s the death of a mid-level TV executive, the kind of person who might be largely responsible for one of your favorite shows, and just as largely....
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The Battlestar Galactica Finale
The artistic achievement that is Battlestar Galactica, now consummated in the two part finale, “Daybreak,” is the fruit of two ideas, both born in the brain of its showrunner, Ronald D. Moore. The first is the show’s unifying aesthetic....
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The Common Viewer
To claim that television drama has obtained a slightly higher perch on Mt. Parnassus is no longer controversial. A slew of series in the last ten years have demonstrated the artistic potential of a medium that is (understandably) viewed with suspicion by many writers: The Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, et al....
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Generation Kill
There is deep respect for the military here in “the real Maine,” as everyplace outside of Portland (generally viewed as a northern outpost of reviled Massachusetts) likes to style itself. This reflects both love of country and the fact that the military has always....
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Issue 72
Memoir by Lauren Winner, Poetry by James Harpur, Art by Guy Chase and Adrian Wiszniewski
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