1960s
What's that candy?
"The candy is mentioned in two episodes of the AMC series Mad Men and displayed in others. In 'Three Sundays,' we learn it was Archibald…
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1960s
The plus-size "bikini."
The "fatkini." You can wear whatever you want, but what's being sold is not a bikini. I remember bathing suits like that from the days…
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1960s
"The tattoo community sees them as posers. It’s like going out in the 1960s to buy a Beatles wig."
Said Bob Baxter , the editor of the tattoo journal Skin & Ink, of people who get hand or neck tattoos before they've inked up the rest of the…
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1960s
50 years ago today: The TV show "Turn-On!" premiered and was taken off the air in the middle of episode 1.
According to Wikipedia : The show was created by Ed Friendly and George Schlatter, the producers of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In . Bristol-Myer…
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1960s
"Three West Lafayette youngsters engage in a bit of outdoor sport called skateboarding..."
"... balancing themselves on boards to which skate are attached." The news — just handed to me — from 1964, when Indiana newspaper readers …
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1960s
"There's nothing to explain. It's perfectly obvious. She's stoned."
Just a clip from the early 1960s TV show "Pete and Gladys": I was thinking about this show — not because of the Gladys on the Ellen show —…
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1960s
"What do you believe happens after death?"/"I haven't a clue. I'm always struck by the people who think they do have a clue."
"It's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and the sp…
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1960s
Alito: "The Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion."
The Washington Times reports on a 1985 document the nominee wrote in an application for a job as deputy assistant under Attorney General Edwin I. Me…
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1960s
"Parents could be forced to go to special classes to learn to sing their children nursery rhymes."
That's the idea of UK Children's Minister Beverley Hughes -- who looks remarkably like Ross Perot in a wig: Those who fail to read stories o…
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1960s
"In 1961, Vogue magazine said that 'almost every famous female head in the world has gone or will go' to Kenneth..."
"... the hairdresser who created Jacqueline Kennedy’s legendary bouffant and softened the golden locks of Marilyn Monroe. In 1954, Mrs. Kennedy,…
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1960s
"And, man, I was gratified when the fab chicks screamed."
Janet Maslin writes about -- sorry, he's an old Althouse favorite -- Donovan: In his prime, the astral singer-songwriter Donovan appeared to tak…
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1960s
Oddly American: lawyer jokes.
Marc Galanter (my colleague) has a new book analyzing the phenomenon of lawyer jokes: Galanter says lawyer jokes seem to be oddly American and he tr…
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1960s
"Hey! Don't just sit there! Come on and sing!"
Mitch Miller, who had us all singing at the television, back in the 1960s, has died . He was 99. The show was considered ridiculously square at the t…
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1960s
Friday night and the new "Real Time with Bill Maher."
Did you watch Episode 1 of the new season of "Real Time with Bill Maher" last night? I hope you didn't, because it was Friday night, an…
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1960s
Things I read/watched but don't quite feel like blogging about this morning.
1. People kind of hate real estate agents. 2. Maybe you really don't have to save that much for your retirement. 3. A developmentally disabled gu…
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1960s
What about all that blogging?
What about all that blogging I seemed as though I was about to launch into when I got that writing project done at 2:54 p.m.? Why, I was even threat…
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1960s
"100 Most Unexpected TV Moments."
Have you been watching the "100 Most Unexpected TV Moments" on TV Land? Here 's the list of all 100 moments. If you're not up-to-da…
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1960s
A master’s degree in Beatles studies.
You can get one. If you listen, for example, to the complete session for the group’s third single, “From Me to You,” you’ll discover that the song wa…
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1960s
Ancient doll.
Yesterday, I started to show you things from that old box of dollish things I dragged out of the cabinet. I can't quite identify this little dol…
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1960s
Oddly American: lawyer jokes.
Marc Galanter (my colleague) has a new book analyzing the phenomenon of lawyer jokes: Galanter says lawyer jokes seem to be oddly American and he tr…
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