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‘The Twist’ ‘Mad Men’ and Its Love Affair With ’60s Pop Culture - NYTimes.com

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Ee-yah, twist, baby, baby, twist
Ooh-ooh-ooh-yeah just like this
Come on, little miss, and do the twist Chubby Checker – The Twist

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This song played a significant role in a first season episode of Mad Men, in which Peggy Olsen tries to convince Pete Campbell to twist with her. Creator Matthew Weiner explains how he weaved the song into the episode:

Most of the office leaves work early and heads over to P.J. Clarke’s, a long-running Manhattan bar, to drink and dance. Everyone goes wild when Chubby Checker’s new hit song, which was released in the summer of 1960, pops up on the jukebox. Everyone but Pete. Glum and pouty, he rejects Peggy’s awkward Twist come-on with a withering, “I don’t like you this way.” Peggy, who moments before had been celebrating the fact that her copy was successfully used in a client pitch, is brought back down to earth.

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“I hate that Harry,” Sweetrobin said when she was gone. “He calls me cousin, but he’s just waiting for me to die so he can take the Eyrie. He thinks I don’t know, but I do.” Excerpt from the Winds of Winter | George R.R. Martin

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Oh Lord Robin’s paranoia! He comes by it honestly, given both his parents were murdered by people close to them, but he doesn’t even know that. As is often the case, ignorance can make us even more afraid of the world than the most terrible kinds of knowledge (see all Stark children – quite brave).

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...raining center that follows the work of Melanie Klein. Kleinian psychoanalysis with adults is characterized by the traditional method of using an analytic couch and meeting four to five times a week. Unlike Freudian psychoanalysis which focuses on the patient's ego, Kleinian analysis focuses on interpreting very "deep" and primitive emotions and fantasies from the very beginning of treatment. Melanie Klein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Successful people who still have deep rumblings of inner turmoil, stop wasting time with Freudians! Get Kleinian and get weird.

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3. Scarface vs. 1. Pulp Fiction Screen Genius – Movie Madness 2015: Elite 8

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Pulp Fiction 1000 times over.

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Scarface cuz

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1. 2001: A Space Odyssey vs. 1. The Godfather Screen Genius – Movie Madness 2015: Elite 8

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Have to go with Godfather. How much does acting play a part here? I think a lot. It says something that so many great actors of the late 20th century are in The Godfather while 2001 is all about the direction.

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1. Citizen Kane vs. 7. 12 Angry Men Screen Genius – Movie Madness 2015: Elite 8

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Of course Kane! Shocked 12 Angry Men made it this far tbh

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I just watched “12 Angry Men” not too long ago. It’s a great play but movies that are filmed entirely in one or two adjoining rooms bug the hell out of me. Still a classic, but it’s no “Citizen Kane.”

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I wouldn’t be shocked, I’d be pleased tbh.

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The claustrophobia tho

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“Arguably, the two most craveable items on the McDonald’s menu are its French fries and breakfast items such as the various McMuffin permutations and the utterly delicious McGriddles,” Mark Kalinowski, an analyst at Janney Capital Markets, wrote in a Monday note to clients that announced the news of McDonald’s planned breakfast test. “Having those breakfast items available to sell ... McDonald’s all-day breakfast: The Egg McMuffin’s moment has come.

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Just occurred to me that this means you could in theory order an Egg McMuffin with a side of fries. (head explodes)

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...sales of most other items on the menu. It’s hard to know exactly why this is. Perhaps it’s because McDonald’s has been more successful at marketing its breakfast as fresh—as Thompson said last April, “we actually crack eggs.” Or maybe it’s because with breakfast, it’s easier to believe that marketing. As anyone who’s ever had an Egg McMuffin knows, it looks and tastes authentic in a way that the standard McDonald’s burger... McDonald’s all-day breakfast: The Egg McMuffin’s moment has come.

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And then what happens?

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On Monday, McDonald’s said it will begin testing daylong breakfast—that means the Egg McMuffin, hash browns, and various other items—at certain restaurants near San Diego. Should the initial tests go well, the menu switch could end up being what McDonald’s desperately needs to get its business back on track. That’s because, by and large, people love McDonald’s breakfas... McDonald’s all-day breakfast: The Egg McMuffin’s moment has come.

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LOL at the designated testing location – San Diego is perfect! Would have loved to sit in on the meetings in which they compared the demographics of various cities and selected San Diego.

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