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fromThe Village Voice
16 hours ago

A Monument to a Corrupt POTUS - 1977 Version - The Village Voice

The Voice satirically proposed a Nixon Monument contest in 1977, imagining President Ford planned to honor the disgraced president after pardoning him, inviting public input on how Nixon should be remembered.
fromPortland Mercury
5 months ago

Movie Review: East Coast Heist Flick The Mastermind Still Feels Like Classic Kelly Reichardt

In her 1970 essay "On the Morning After the Sixties," Joan Didion described her disillusionment with the idea that political protest could "affect man's fate in the slightest." It's an opinion James Blaine "J.B." Mooney might share, if he were paying attention. He's the lead character and hapless art thief in director Kelly Reichardt's new film The Mastermind, set in 1970.
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