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57. Read a Vanity Fair or Harpers article from the mid 90s

Reply to WinkyDink (Reply #19)

Mon Jan 14, 2013, 05:43 PM

Jan 2013

compared to today.

same thing with television - case in point, GMA segment from the 70s:

notice the lack of choppy editing, excessive graphics.

notice an actual conversation taking place.

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