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The James Brown we saw tended to be the James Brown we chose to see: as the caped crusader of funk and soul, adored by millions, or as the face in a seemingly endless series of mug shots. The ways in which he appealed to and appalled different audiences made Brown a kind of national Rorschach test.
Jonathan Miles
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The greatest meal of my life involved a Triscuit.
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An early remedy for malaria called for tossing the sufferer, Br'er Rabbit-style, into a prickly bush; in his hasty retreat, went the thinking, he might leave the fever behind. Orally-administered cobwebs were also deemed effective.
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Anyone with a fondness for intricately flavored, carefully measured cocktails and entertaining at home knows how poorly the two mix.
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More often than not, punches underwhelm - too fizzy, too fruity, too sherbet-y, and/or too baroque, the flavors all muddled into the boozy equivalent of the water left over from cleaning watercolor brushes.
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Aside from the martini, the mint julep may be the most iconic cocktail in America.
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The mint julep may be sacred in the South, but so is college football, and that doesn't stop us from enjoying it.
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I'm either proud or embarrassed to say that I never took a journalism class in my life.
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So much magazine writing is playing to an empty room. You work like a plow horse, your words get printed on a half-million or more copies, and then it often just disappears into this national vacuum.
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Without strenuous preplanning, road food is almost always bad food, sad food, chain food, clown food.
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Novelists lie for a living - what is a novel, after all, but an assembly of fibs paradoxically meant to illustrate something true? - but generally see a distinction between lying on the page and lying off it.
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The angle we give the bathroom mirror is always meant to flatter.
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