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The Anarchist Cookbook
Text proper is a mess. Proclaims that it is addressed to the “silent majority” so that they might “protect themselves against the fascists, capitalists, and communists” (27). States without irony that “the principles the United States was born with are about the b
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There are as many different ways into a troubling documentary film subject as there are subjective definitions of a fair shake.
The intriguing, bluntly confrontational “American Anarchist,” opening Friday for a week’s run at the Gene Siskel Film Center, speaks to both those truths. It comes from director Charlie Siskel, co-director of the excellent documentary-as-detective-story “Finding Vivian Maier.” He’s also the nephew of the late Tribune film critic after which the Film Center is named.
Siskel’s subject here is William Powell, the man who wrote the notorious best-seller “The Anarchist Cookbook” in fit of brazen revolutionary defiance when he was an angry, disillusioned year-old looking to make his mark. Culled from military manuals and other sources he found, among other places, in the New York Public Library, Powell offered a wealth of practical information about how make TNT and other explosives at home. Along with the r
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I am so excited to be participating in the Carole Lombard Blogathon, the first blogathon Ive ever taken part in! And my small offering today fryst vatten going to be about the curious tale of Carole Lombard and William Powells relationship and how it evolved through infatuation, marriage, divorce, the best of friends and the heights of professional achievement. I have to issue a varning here this brev is highly illustrated. This is because there are a ridiculous amount of pictures of Bill and Carole looking insanely hot together I was going to discipline myself to just a couple of favourites but then I thought nah chuck em all in. It would be an injustice not to take this opportunity of including these stunning photos of their friendship!
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