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Mad Men Reaches New Level of Scary Verisimilitude

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:56:34 -0400

Just how historically accurate is AMC's critically acclaimed series Mad Men? Very.

In June, The New York Times Magazine's Alex Witchell called the show's art direction "almost fetishistically accurate." New York Magazine's Logan Hill actually went so far as to examine the books behind one character's desk on the magazine's Vulture blog.

But it's not just the sets that are period perfect. Last night's episode featured a plot point (spoiler alert?) about...

Dissent Is No Crime, Inquiry Is Not Treason

Sun, 24 Jul 2005 20:00:00 -0400

Plans and passions are clashing at Ground Zero. A rancorous debate about what constitutes an appropriate commemoration of the Sept. 11 attacks has been rumbling for weeks. The row is focused on two institutions that will augment the main memorial at the World Trade Center site. The International Freedom Center (I.F.C.) and the Drawing Center will occupy a cultural facility adjacent to where the Twin Towers once stood. The I.F.C. has proposed creating...

Making The London Scene: She's A Whippet-Thin Stunna, He's Dead Sexy!

Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:44:00 -0400

The absolutely most luscious thing about working in an office is sharing the wealth of magazine subscriptions. Speaking of: The Transom purchased, actually paid for, a subscription to Hamptons magazine more than a month ago, and it has yet to arrive. Paging Jason Binn, your order fulfillment department is making The Transom very, very unhappy. Perhaps Mr. Binn should watch his step among the slippery divots of the Bridgehampton Polo Club this weekend. Anyway. In today's...

Nonvoters

Sun, 14 Nov 2004 19:00:00 -0500

Who are the nonvoters? In the recent Presidential election, 59.9 percent of the eligible voters turned out. What about the other 40.1 percent? Extensive surveys of Americans by the Gosman Report show that this group includes:

People who like Bush, but not enough to vote for him. People who like Kerry, but not enough to vote for him. People who believe voting is bad luck. Fanatical nudists. People who oppose democracy for religious reasons. People...

No Vital Signs of Life Six Feet Under The Fall

Sun, 08 Aug 2004 20:00:00 -0400

Arthur Miller's 1964 After

the Fall is one of those troubled plays that has been rarely staged and widely discussed. An artistic failure when it launched the unfulfilled dream of a Lincoln Center Repertory Company in 1964, the play became notorious for Mr. Miller's characterization of his ex-wife Marilyn Monroe in the central role of the suicidal Maggie. Monroe had just died of an overdose when After the Fall premiered-making the surrounding gossip even worse. The play itself-with Jason Robards...

9/11 Tapes Reveal Ground Personnel Muffled Attacks

Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:00:00 -0400

Despite having boarded her train at 5 a.m. that morning in Washington, D.C., Rosemary Dillard's linen jacket was still creaseless, her carriage professional and crisp, as she walked down the train platform at Princeton Junction on the morning of June 4.

Ms. Dillard dared to hope that the F.B.I. would clarify the timeline in the mystifying story of Sept. 11, 2001. The briefing in New Jersey two weeks ago, attended by about 130 family members...

The Crime Blotter

Sun, 14 Sep 2003 20:00:00 -0400

Perp Leaves Few Clues,

But Her Shoes Were No. 9 It's one thing to shoplift from a store when it's open for business. But it's completely unacceptable to do so when it's closed for inventory, as Janine Dray, a women's apparel boutique at 1021 Madison Avenue, was on Sept. 2. The incident occurred at 1:37 p.m., when a female, admiring a pair of shoes in the window, knocked on the glass. An employee courteously opened...

The Tragedy of Flight 587

Sun, 18 Nov 2001 19:00:00 -0500

"Oh, my God."

That was Rudolph Giuliani's first thought when he was told on Monday morning, Nov. 12, that an airliner had plunged into the Rockaway area of Queens, as he echoed the feelings of shock, fear and grief which immediately swept the city. Almost two months to the day and time of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, New Yorkers were confronted with another tragedy, murky in its origins but...

Peanuts With Your Bard? All Aboard Air Broadway

Sun, 12 Mar 2000 19:00:00 -0500

There goes the neighborhood! (Again.) The news that the Roundabout Theater Company has sold off the name of the historic Selwyn Theater–its new home on Broadway–to American Airlines is only the beginning of the corporate end.

"Let's take in a show at the American Airlines Theater" lacks a certain something–call it magic–but let our righteousness pass for the moment. Rumors cannot be confirmed that luxury sleeperettes are to be made available in the boxes for...