A Legend In His Own Minefield

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Emptying Mad Men's Ashstray

Emptying Mad Men's Ashstray

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John Mendelssohn
Oct 05, 2010
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Whatever impression my impressive vocabulary and wonderful way with words may give to the contrary, I’m a middlebrow. I believe that the optimal duration of a piece of music is three minutes, 20 seconds, and thus don’t appreciate anything much more classical than Rhapsody in Blue. I never read poetry for pleasure. I suppose there’s a chance that some da…

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