In 1939, the ads for “Ninotchka” proclaimed “Garbo Laughs!” After a string of movies in which she played prostitutes, adulteresses, women who threw themselves under trains or died of tuberculosis, an appearance in a comedy was big news. Now, eighty … Continue reading
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Useful President If you were an adversary of the United States (Vladimir Putin, say), what would you do to bring confusion to the enemy — short of an actual war? You could set out to outcompete us economically, of course, … Continue reading