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“Welcome to the online home of The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal (SHAD). The site will be updated on a daily basis with news, publications, or resources of interest to members of our group.”
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“Colombian traffickers and Nicaraguan middlemen trawl villages offering finders US$4,000 a kilo, said Major Perez — seven times less than the US street value but a sum a fisherman might spend a lifetime earning.”
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“This short book delivers a sweeping philosophic, economic, and historical analysis of the trends converting the American public library into a free retail outlet, measured by the same bottom lines as the rest of our consumer society.”
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Brief commentary on BBC Documentary “The Century of the Self”; includes links to the documentary as a series of YouTube clips.
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First of a series of clips comprising the 1984 John Sayles documentary
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“I am not just avant-garde. I like to play all types of music as much as I can play, straight-ahead or whatever they call that. I like rhythm and blues. Sometimes they put me into a weird bag and want me to be weird,inaccessible. I think I am accessible.”
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Almost forty years later these innocent recordings sound like a road map for many generations of composers, most of them with an affinity for cinematic textures, such as film composer Danny Elfman and [John] Williams.
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“In terms of size, the entire town of Mason, Tennessee could comfortably fit in a mid-size Wal Mart. There are a few convenience stores, a regionally-famous barbecue joint, and the no-frills shack with a simple sign known to poultry pilgrims everywhere.”
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“But my favorite was when we had five nuns eating matzoh balls served by a Lebanese waiter — in a kosher deli. That’s New York.”
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The “appy” and the “deli” both are associated with New York. “Appetizing stores” sell fish and dairy products. “Delicatessen stores” sell meats.
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“A series of citations, quotations, and evidence on the true origins of a New York City nickname, with additional material on other words and terms associated with the city. A web site by Barry Popik.”
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“By holding the sheet open and stepping to the side of the road, she showed how a woman walking alone could elude pursuers — by disguising herself as a vending machine.”
links for 2007-10-22
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