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March 11, 2008
The Simile Stumbled Over the Cliche Like a Drunken G.I. Trying to Make Curfew After Waking to Find the Laces of His Shoes Are Tied to Each Other
No date given on this clip from a BBC documentary about the architect Philip Johnson. But Susan Sontag looks here like she did in photos from the mid-1960s through the early 1970s at latest. Her voice-over is pretty funny, and I'd like to think that is deliberate.
Posted by smclemee at March 11, 2008 12:15 PM
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Coltrane (from the "Plays the Blues" LP, I think) on the soundtrack and a Raymond Chandler pastiche in the narration--what is going ON here?
Posted by: rootlesscosmo at March 11, 2008 1:25 PM
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