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The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying…
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The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for…
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Society needs both parents and nonparents, both the work party and the home party. While raising children is the most important work…
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The history of the Internet is not, as some people have tried to make it, a libertarian just-so story. It is a…
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Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.
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Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear…
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Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take…
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Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.
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