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Selected Essays | Christian Lorentzen on George Trow

The Point Podcast

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The Importance of Agreements in the Age of Television

"There are very few simple magazines now," he writes. "This magazine will appear to report on events in the world of tennis, but it will in fact strive to make the reader envy and seek to emulate a certain group of people who will be made to appear to be at ease." The next time you see a fedora worn in the culture is probably 1983 with Indiana Jones,. But that it's not ironic per se, but it's definitely in quotes because it's a quote of Steven Spielberg's 50s youth. That Spielberg and trail being not exactly but roughly of the same generation.

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