Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Wednesday, March 12, 2003
The low-voltage TV-blurbist Virginia Heffernan, winner of a Poseur Alert honor from Andy S., is reluctant to knock down Peter Biskind's notion that movies of the seventies were better than ever, a motivating factor in so much modern movie-ad-blurbing (and central to the status-quo I mentioned in the last post), in part because Slate has advanced the thesis so many times, most recently through USA Okay's fatuous Washington pundit Walter Shapiro. So she engages in the patented Slate kind of cutesy-pie-ironic Kinsleyesque devil's-advocate fence-straddling that gives me the willies practically every time I encounter it.
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