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The Slice archive for Feb. 21, 2013

THURSDAY, FEB. 21, 2013

50 years ago on "The Twilight Zone"

An episode called "Miniature" first aired on Feb. 21, 1963. Robert Duvall plays a guy who falls for a resident of a dollhouse. They said it would never work! Never one of my favorites. But it's diverting to watch Duvall in his Boo Radley era.…

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"Mommy, why is Daddy drunk again?" 

One thing people in newsrooms enjoy discussing is the salaries of ex-journalists currently working in public relations. One school of thought holds that even a big bump in pay would be seriously eroded by the need to purchase a lot of self-medicating spirits. Of course,…

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Listening to the radio 

Had NPR's "Morning Edition" on while riding the bus and heard an interview subject be described as "a Kansas City rancher." Perhaps his spread is in the general vicinity of the Missouri metro. But I find it hard to believe that this guy's ranch is…

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