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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A. Caro

Five Easy Pieces

Kids today think the 70s were fun. They think the 70s were cool. They think that 70s stuff looks hip. Let me put this as delicately as possible: kids today are idiots.
James Lileks

Rubenesque adjective : of, relating to, or suggestive of the painter Rubens or his works; especially : plump or rounded usually in a pleasing or attractive way <a Rubenesque figure>

I was watching CNN earlier today while they were covering the story about the ballerina who's tipping the scales at 110 pounds. The anchors were reading email from viewers about weight issues and one woman wrote that she had no problem be considered Rubenesque. One of the anchors giggled, "I guess she's referring to Rueben Studdard" [of American Idol].

Dumbass.