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The revolution will not be televised, emailed unfiltered, or allowed to trend on Twitter, but it’s starting without you
OCCUPYWALLSTREET- Eighty nonviolent #OWS protesters arrested Saturday by NYPD, some penned in and maced, others manhandled, as they marched in NYC against America’s bankster oligarchs. Wall Street proper remains fortified by anti-invasion barriers preventing pedestrians and demonstrators from getting anywhere … Continue reading
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Mondovino: globalization and terroir, Robert Parker versus your good taste
For those with a curiosity for how wine terroir is holding up against the onslaught of wine factory farming, the 10-hour miniseries version of MONDOVINO is finally available on DVD. For viewers curious about viniculture globalization under Californian colonial domination, … Continue reading
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The new age will be gilded with Bling
While the American middle class eventually embraced repudiation of West Egg bad taste in favor of affecting a supposed blue-blood sensibility, the ostentatious nouveau riche carried on. The chasm between rich and poor kept expanding and the economic crisis … Continue reading
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Tagged Affluence, America, American, Americans, ARN, Art, Bentley, Bling, BSE, Capital, Cars, character, Crisis, DIA, economic crisis, Euro, Europe, Family, Ford, Forward, Fun, Gilded Age, Gulf, ISIS, Middle Class, Race, Rap, Rome, spin, Sport, Taste, The Great Gatsby, War, wife
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The gilded age and the police nightstick
A legacy institution of the Gilded Age is the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel. Most of us only know it from the nutty salad, the mysterious Red Velvet Cake recipe, Thousand Island Dressing and Veal Oscar named for the famous maitre d’ hotel. … Continue reading
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Bill Gates and a better class of friends
“There is nothing that indicates more clearly the magnificence of great princes than their superb palaces and their precious furniture.” -Louis XIV (1638-1715) I saw the Artisans and Kings exhibit at the DAM. A veritable cornucopia of gilded age, literally. … Continue reading
