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All the Oxygen in the Room

, 21 February 2025

“... On 8 January I received an email from my boss at the health department where I work on social epidemiology. It was a message relayed from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). ‘Data is the oxygen of public health,’ it said, ‘essential for improving health and saving lives.’ On 31 January, most, if not all, public health data were purged from the CDC’s website ...”

Sir Jim

Reyner Banham, 22 May 1980

Memoirs of an Unjust Fella: An Autobiography 
by J.M. Richards.
Weidenfeld, 279 pp., £10, March 1980, 9780297777670Show More
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“... of the campaign for modern architecture’, and sure enough, among the illustrations to Unjust Fella, there is a group photograph of the entire Modern Movement in architecture (the lot, bar Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe), and there’s Jim, modestly in the back row but practically in the middle. The progress (or retreat) of the Modern Movement ...”

Investigate the Sock

David Trotter: Garbo’s Equivocation, 24 February 2022

Garbo 
by Robert Gottlieb.
Farrar, Straus, 438 pp., £32, December 2021, 978 0 374 29835 7Show More
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“... lifted the brim of her hat to peer underneath: ‘Oh, I’m terribly sorry, I thought you were a fella I knew from Kansas City.’Garbo made the transition to sound with ease, introducing herself in Anna Christie (1930) with a throaty laugh. When her initial contract with MGM came to an end in 1932, she drove a very hard bargain. She got the money she wanted ...”

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