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Updike Reads The Lines in American Art (Fired WP reporter hides message to readers in last article)
Washington Post ^ | 5/28/08 | Linton Weeks

Posted on 05/28/2008 4:22:24 PM PDT by LibWhacker

Give novelist and sometime art critic John Updike credit. The 2008 National Endowment for the Humanities Jefferson Lecturer tried to answer the thorny question: "What is American about American art?"

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cryptography; hidden; message; washingtonpost
Read the first letter of every paragraph.
1 posted on 05/28/2008 4:22:25 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

A little bit of class at the WaPo.


2 posted on 05/28/2008 4:24:30 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: LibWhacker
“Adieu, adieu, parting is such sweet sorrow.”

Willy Wonka

3 posted on 05/28/2008 4:28:33 PM PDT by mojito
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To: LibWhacker

How clever ..and poignant.


4 posted on 05/28/2008 4:29:22 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: LibWhacker

Whatever, another simpleton has inflicted gratuity towards our nation. Perhaps one should think. Sometimes upstarts cannot kiss someone.


5 posted on 05/28/2008 4:29:59 PM PDT by So Cal Rocket
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To: So Cal Rocket

Sorry... that should have read:

Whatever, another simpleton has inflicted gratuitous nonsense towards our nation. Perhaps one should think. Sometimes upstarts cannot kiss someone.


6 posted on 05/28/2008 4:31:40 PM PDT by So Cal Rocket
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To: LibWhacker

The column did not start with an ‘F’?


7 posted on 05/28/2008 5:00:47 PM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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