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Is authenticity enough? : on celebrity and failure
February 15th, 2009 by Dale Fincher
Deep down, don’t we all believe that a bit of wild behavior–drinking, smoking, padding the expense account, skimming your taxes–has a salutary effect on human personality development? Isn’t sowing one’s wild oats a revered rite of passage for American youth? Um…. Who says these attitudes should be normalized? In this instance it is Joe Queenan [...]
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