'Mad Men' shares a lesson on beauty (Season Premiere Sunday)

LA Times ^ | 07/22/2010 | Meghan Daum

[Kid Shelleen]

The women of the 1960s and their 'period bodies' with normal proportions are rare today, and something to be envied.

The fourth season of "Mad Men" starts Sunday, and with it another round of opportunities to both marvel and gasp at how much things have changed since the early 1960s. Much of the genius of the show, of course, lies in its ferocious attention to period details. From the entrenched womanizing and nonstop drinking and smoking (even while pregnant!) to children who play with plastic dry-cleaning bags

[Frantzie]

It is just very stylish or stylized. The sets, clothing etc are good but big deal. Some films people rave about because they get the deco sets and furniture even though the show/movie was poor.

[Candor7]

You can see hundreds of them here and print them as you need them:

http://www.stolly.org.uk/ETO/

Great minds think alike. Dinner? Some wine and we can solve all the worlds problems! LOL.

[csvset]

It’s Kafkaesque yo!

[numberonepal]

Hottie Ping.
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Thanks to GenXteacher for the heads up.

[wally_bert]

Good one!

[wally_bert]

I vaguely remember and trying to recruit any in my part of the world for paying gigs has been tough.

[llevrok]

Betty Draper, (January Jones) , is hot in her own way.

Sort of has a Grace Kelley "cool as a cucumber" thing going, IMHO

[Ted Grant]

I agree - Mad Men gets much of its attention in delivering a very stylish and stylized view of the past. Add to that the novelty of people casually acting in very unusual ways (from our 21st century perspective), and that’s enough to get the attention of the usual suspects.

Mad Men isn’t a great show.

[Palladin]

“My mother had a beef roast with potatoes and vegetables, etc, cooking when I came home from school. We always had a healthy sit down dinner. Always. We also had a nutritious breakfast—oatmeal, cream of wheat or eggs and toast and fruit and healthy lunches and we always had plenty of exercise. Overweight children with emotional and psychological problems were very rare.”

My mom was like this, too. A wonderful stay-at-home mom.
Until my dad died when we were teenagers. Then she went down to Delahanty Institute and took courses to prepare for the Civil Service exam. The next 15 years she worked as a G-13 at the Navy Yard.

They don’t make moms like that anymore.

[Palladin]

True. I have noticed many anachronisms that slip by the producers.

Also, the clothes are not authentic vintage. They are made from vintage patterns with modern fabrics. Not the same thing.

[6SJ7]

If you want " something both more dramatic, and perhaps more violent", check out Breaking Bad.

I've been watching Breaking Bad on Netflix. Great acting. Definitely different and violent yet funny at times. There really are some very good dramas out there.

[grey_whiskers]

Excellent post.

Consider yourself highly commended.

Cheers!

[savagesusie]

You are right... There are a few left who think like that but the culture is trying to destroy them as I speak........through media, taxes and agitprop instilling in women the “real” important things of life which go against natural law.

[savagesusie]

Thank you very much. I do get shot down a lot for my ideas so I appreciate it.

[savagesusie]

That site has great historical photos! Thanks!

The following books (and my experience working closely with children and in schools) have led me to think very clearly (at least I believe so....:^):

The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom

The Underground History of American Education by Gato

Witness by Whittaker Chambers

Blacklisted by History, The untold story of Senator Joe McCarthy and his fight against America's Enemies by Stanton Evans

The Long March by Roger Kimball

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

I could list many more, but the above were the ones which really affected my thinking.

[Candor7]

This is a great booklist. They should be required reading for every High school civics class. It is my belief that in every school, every school board should be required to allow members of its community retired military to oversee the curriculum of every schools civics class. We have surrendered that to the left.

Books like these show the view, path and action to prtecting and observing the Constitution, and keeping America great.

In particular young people should understand the natire of how ourConstitution can be theratened and subverted, how to recognize the characteristic of such social, political abd economic movements like the one the nation is fettered with now.

NEVER should it be allowed to happen again.

[Candor7]

Wait until all those implantees are about 65, walking around looking likeuiwith balls of fire on their chests, hardened into a substance akin to concrete. OOOOooch!

But of course Obama Care will pay for their extraction of rejuvination, RIGHT?

Take a pill, baby, take a pill!

[gracie1]

Hey I’ve seen some elderly implantees, it’s not pretty!

[gracie1]

I propose a BB drinking game. Any time Jesse says bitch or yo you take a drink.

[Candor7]

Well, I have too, but the interesting thing is that they certainly don't want to talk to me about it!

I still have to wonder if there is much , " What was I thinking back then?" going on.

And removal will become a burgeonong business when the boomer generation apexes in about another 10 years, when 70 to 80 year olds will HAVE to have them removed.

Interesting question as to whether Obama care would cover.

Natural is best for the long haul IMHO.