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The irrepress­ible embod­iment of America’s racial ambi­guities

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She’s the perfect package.

By: Joshua Glenn

A scene from THE LONG GOODBYE (1973)

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The electric charisma of the People’s Champion…

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His cartoons ring a very specific important curdled cultural alarm bell.

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Her dramatic potential was revealed in literary adaptations.

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She was the elusive study of vastly differing auteurs.

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Not as smarmy as Eddie Haskell, or as supercilious as Ferris Bueller

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Visions of him burn brightly in our minds.

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Brilliance can be mistaken for mere profession-
alism.

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He unsettled movie genres even as he helped define them.

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Besides, you even know what an algorithm is?

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