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Pack it up! It's time for a Fourth of July picnic
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersSOUTHERN fried chicken, coleslaw, biscuits and ham, brownies -- it's the iconic July 4th picnic, so popular (once upon a time) that it became a cliché of the culture, pictured in classic cartoons, nostalgic children's books -- and, of course, in ads for...Tags: Salads, Biscuits, Lifestyle and Leisure, Foods and Beverages, Chicken
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Tom Braden dies at 92; former CIA operative became columnist and talk show co-host
Tom Braden, a former CIA operative who became a syndicated newspaper columnist, liberal co-host of the CNN talk show "Crossfire" and author of "Eight Is Enough," a 1975 memoir that spawned the popular television series, died of natural causes Friday at...Tags: Television, Newspaper and Magazine, Entertainment, ABC (tv network), Family
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John Fante's great gift to Los Angeles
Cruelty, racism, poverty, lies, perversity and oversexed self-delusion: Could this be the stuff of the most lyrical love letter ever addressed to the City of Angels?
Yes, and it is "Ask the Dust," the 1939 novel by the late John Fante, who was born 100...Tags: Charles Bukowski, Denver, Literature, Crimes, Colleges and Universities
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Past presidents -- an inaugural quiz
Today, Barack Obama will be sworn in as the nation's 44th president in a ceremony filled with tradition. Test your knowledge of ceremonies past. 1. Of whose inaugural speech did wordsmith H.L. Mencken say: "It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it...Tags: Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Johnson, Barack Obama
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'America America' by Ethan Canin
America America
A Novel
Ethan Canin
Random House: 466 pp., $27
It's refreshing -- and almost quaint -- to see someone try to write a Great American Novel in the 21st century. These days, writers are more apt to pursue the Great American Screenplay...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Political Candidates, Disasters and Accidents, Theodore Dreiser, Mary Jo Kopechne
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American Values, L.A. readers
As the Los Angeles Times editorial board wraps up its series on American Values in the 2008 presidential campaign, we've asked readers for their own endorsements and ideas on the campaign. The readers' response, ranging from calls for experience and...Tags: Primaries, Heads of State, Newspapers, Republican Party, Philosophy
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The self-confidence man
Schickel reviews movies for Time and is a contributing writer to Book Review. He is the author of many books, including the forthcoming "Elia Kazan: A Biography."Arnold Schwarzenegger never wanted to be an actor. He says so on Page 128 of "Fantastic," Laurence Leamer's dully dutiful biography. He wanted to be rich. He wanted to be famous. He wanted to be powerful. He thought he could grope women with impunity,...Tags: Elia Kazan, Documentary (genre), Sports, Literature, Entertainment
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Esotouric tours explores L.A.'s dark side
Times Staff WriterIt was on a bus tour of 100-year-old ghost stories that two L.A. history freaks hit a speed bump on their journey into the city's most obscure corners. "The problem with that tour," says Richard Schave, one of the movers behind a new tour series called...Tags: Charles Bukowski, Tourism and Leisure, History, Crimes, Monuments and Heritage Sites
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Gun fictions
Today, the Independence Institute's Kopel and The Economist's Lockwood address the myths, mantras and fibs of the other side. Previously, they debated the international view on guns, the fading politics of gun control and the lessons of Virginia Tech....Tags: Interior Policy, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Criminals, Firearms, Murder
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'Two Marriages: Novellas' by Phillip Lopate
Two Marriages
Novellas
Phillip Lopate
Other Press: 272 pp., $24.95
THE publication of new fictions -- the first in more than 20 years -- by one of our most reliable men of letters is an occasion worth marking and measuring. Phillip Lopate is best...Tags: Fiction, Cobble Hill, Joan Didion, Marriage, Dyker Heights
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'The Lincoln Anthology' edited by Harold Holzer, 'The Best American History Essays on Lincoln' edited by Sean Wilentz, Ronald C. White's biography 'A. Lincoln' and others
It was Tuesday, May 30, 1922, the day of the dedication of the solemn and splendid memorial to Abraham Lincoln in Washington, and the ceremony on the Mall featured speeches by President Warren Harding and Chief Justice William Howard Taft.
The most...Tags: Langston Hughes, History, Jacques Barzun, Karl Marx, Justice and Rights
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Ring Lardner Jr., last of the Hollywood 10, dies
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersRing Lardner Jr., the Academy Award-winning screenwriter who was imprisoned for refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee, has died of cancer. He was 85. The last survivor of the so-called Hollywood 10, a group of...Tags: Punishment, Newspaper and Magazine, Movies, Germany, William Randolph Hearst
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