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Inverted World
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Oh, Inverted World
Carries a strong pull into television through power and after-hours.
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Low
Carries a strong pull into television through after-hours and South Asia.
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Illness as Metaphor
Carries a strong pull into television through power and South Asia.
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The Sopranos
Carries a strong pull into music through power and after-hours.
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The Sopranos
1990s
A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
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Illness as Metaphor
1970s
In 1978, while recovering from cancer, Susan Sontag wrote Illness as metaphor, the celebrated essay on the invented and often punitive uses of illness in our culture. It was not surprising that a decade later, after the advent of AIDS, Sontag felt compelled to write a sequel that would counter the almost universal l...
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Music · Strong bridge
Low
1970s
The Berlin trilogy begins. Side two's instrumentals invented ambient rock.
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Inverted World
2020s
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