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    James Wolcott

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    In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's plaything, the toy of impetuous romance, an erotomania only intensified by the lusting for an upstart savior. ↗


    — James Wolcott

    #conservative #era #impetuous #intensified #only

    It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene. ↗


    — James Wolcott

    #burning #came #embrace #first #fully

    It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in. ↗


    — James Wolcott

    #believe #fight #one thing #others #thing

    It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners. ↗


    — James Wolcott

    #bathe #both #bridal #comedies #comedy

    Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream. ↗


    — James Wolcott

    #before #collective #culture #enriches #iconography

    Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for a shameless, position-shifting phony he seemed a trifle insincere. ↗


    — James Wolcott

    #going #had #hair #hudson #insincere

    My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich. ↗


    — James Wolcott

    #high-school #like #mailer #norman #norman mailer

    People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement. ↗


    — James Wolcott

    #excitement #i #i think #package #people

    Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night. ↗


    — James Wolcott

    #culture #dawns #longer #new #night

    Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking. ↗


    — James Wolcott

    #shut #shut up #sure #sure way #talking






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    In addition he recently contributed the foreword to Geoffrey Beene's forthcoming book Identity. Career
    Since arriving in New York Wolcott has been a columnist on media and pop culture for such publications as Esquire Harper's Magazine The New Yorker The New York Review of Books and New York Magazine. From there he moved to New York City to work at The Village Voice.

    James Wolcott (born 10 December 1952 in Baltimore Maryland) is an American journalist known for his critique of contemporary media. Wolcott is the cultural critic for Vanity Fair and contributes to The New Yorker.

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