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American Culture

Is it real, or Desenex?

^q¬dt face=”Courier New, Courier, mono”>Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Monday, March 15, 2004. Reality TV shows are not reality. Even close. Just think about them with a little deliberation, and it’s obvious. Yet people watch them, and talk about them, as if they are. -30-

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The Course of Words

China cups

Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock   Saturday, March 13, 2004. Green tea from red China. Nice, but no one says "red China" anymore. -30-

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The Course of Words

Thanks for the memoirs

Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock   Thursday, March 11, 2004. What does it say about a person when, first, they continue to carry on about years’ old problems as if they were fresh and, second, they evidently feel a need to tell people about them? It’s evidence perhaps of this being the memoir-and-Oprah age of […]

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American Culture

The Passion of the Gimmick

Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Tuesday, March 9, 2004. "The Passion of the Christ." I have not seen the movie, though it’s been out a couple of weeks. I am not curious about it, the way I have been about other movies about Christianity, and so may not see it anytime soon. It’s not the […]