A Sampling of Reader's Top Ten Lists
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Eric Grandall
San Diego, CA
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Summerville, SC |
Understanding Media by Marshall Mcluhan
(1964 mass media treatise) | The preservation of Church Street, Charleston, South Carolina
(America's first historic district, 1931)
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La Fanciulla Del West by Giacomo Puccini
(1910 opera) | State Parks built by the Works Progress Administration
(1930s and 1940s)
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Rabbit by Jeff Koons
(1986 sculpture) | "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" by Hank Williams
(1949 country song)
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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
(1939 novel)
Fellini Satyricon directed by Federico Fellini
(1969 film) | On the Waterfront directed by Elia Kazan
(1954 film)
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
(1975 rock album) |
Women on the Verge of
a Nervous Breakdown directed by Pedro Almodóvar
(1988 film) | The Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, by Maya Lin
(1988 monument) |
Diary: How to Improve the World (you will only make matters worse) by John Cage
(1999 recording) | The Horn Island Logs of Walter Inglis Anderson
(journals and watercolors published posthumously in 1973) |
The Mythic Being: I/You (HER) by Adrian Piper
(1974 photographs) | The Red Sox's performance in the 1975 World Series and the 1978 American League Eastern Division Playoff |
Façade: An Entertainment by William Walton
(poems by Edith Sitwell set to music in 1921) | The World According to Garp by John Irving
(1978 novel) |
Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2 by Marcel Duchamp
(1912 painting) | Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
(1991 educational exposé)
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Carol Poor
College Park, Maryland | | Carol Shookoff
New York, New York |
Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie Houses
(circa 1900 to 1925) | Lied von der Erde by Gustav Mahler
(1909 song cycle)
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Broadway Boogie Woogie by Piet Mondrian
(1942-43 painting) | The music of Astor Piazzolla
(1945-1990 recordings)
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Nestle's Semisweet Chocolate Chips
(first manufactured in 1939) | Ran directed by Akira Kurosawa
(1985 film) |
Kiss Me Kate by Cole Porter
(1948 musical score)
Kate Hepburn wears trousers | The Searchers directed by John Ford
(1956 film)
Swing Time directed by George Stevens
(1936 film)
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GI Bill
(1944) | Labyrinths and Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
(1962 and 1944 short story collections) |
| Bach's Goldberg Variations by Glenn Gould (1955 recording) | Maus by Art Spiegelman
(1986 graphic novel) |
Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, and Simone Beck
(1961 cookbook) | "Dancing in the Street" by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
(1964 song)
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The plays of Tom Stoppard
(1962-present) | Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Maya Lin
(1982 monument) |
Gardens by Oehme, van Sweden & Associates, Inc.
(1977 to present) | Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
(1936 novel)
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Catherine Slye
Washington, D.C. | | Joshua Yearout
Wichita, KS |
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
(1984 Novel) | The Harlem Renaissance
(cultural & artistic movement 1920s and 1930s) |
Audrey Hepburn in Blake Edward's film Breakfast at Tiffany's
(1961 acting performance) | Anthology of American Folk Music edited by Harry Smith
(1952 recordings)
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
(1974 novel) | Peter Sellers in Stanley Kubrick's film Dr. Strangelove
(1963 acting performance) |
Fatboy Slim
(musician recording 1997 - present)
Rushmore directed by Wes Anderson
(1998 movie and soundtrack) | Hot Fives and Hot Sevens by Louis Armstrong
(1925-1929 jazz recordings)
A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J.D. Salinger
(1948 short story)
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Rockin in Rhythm by Duke Ellington
(1992 posthumous compilation) | Pittsburgh Crawfords
(1931-1938 Negro National League baseball team) |
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
(1980 history book) | Crumb
(1995 movie soundtrack)
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My sis, Jen-Jen
(because this is MY top ten) | Dust Bowl Ballads by Woody Guthrie
(1940 folk music recordings) |
The Harvard Business Review
(magazine 1922 to present)
| Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts
(1996 exhibition at the Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas) |
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
(1936 novel)
| Sherlock Jr. directed by Buster Keaton
(1924 silent film)
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