A Sampling of Reader’s Top Ten Lists
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Eric Grandall San Diego, CA
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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 Westby 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 Wakeby 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 Breakdowndirected 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 Entertainmentby 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. 2by 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) | Randirected by Akira Kurosawa (1985 film) |
Kiss Me Kateby Cole Porter (1948 musical score)Kate Hepburn wears trousers | The Searchersdirected by John Ford (1956 film)Swing Timedirected 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) | Mausby 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 Windby 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 Bananafishby 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 Windby Margaret Mitchell (1936 novel)
| Sherlock Jr. directed by Buster Keaton (1924 silent film)
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