Life & Society: Lifestyle

The last picture show

The likes of Fassbinder, Godard, Pasolini, Tarkovsky, Wajda and Visconti were once seen as essential to our culture — it wasn’t unusual to be passionate about rep cinema. David Flusfeder, a projectionist in the 1980s heyday of art-house film, recalls the highs and lows of a distant time.

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What a tangled web we weave

From using euphemisms such as “collateral damage” to faking orgasms, we practise deception all the time. But in order to lie better to others, we must first fool ourselves.

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Handbags, gowns and girl armour

Can fashion be feminist?

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Let’s get those sluts walking

Sex is not the problem. Sexism is. Arbitrary moral divisions are being renewed between "innocent" women and "sluts".

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I need a new young, female housemate (not in a pervy way)

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These days, writers are lucky to be taken for a sandwich at Subway

Should we cheer a sobriety pill?

My liver is disintegrating but at least my freezer was alien-free

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The trick with the Ring Cycle is to get really stoned beforehand

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Casino capitalism