Tom Robbins’s “Skinny Legs and All” has a wonderful reflection on the importance of the Super Bowl in American life.
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Keeping the Super Bowl in Perspective
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Downton’s Servants Put to the Test
A scene from the recent “Downton Abbey” echoes a highly comic scene in “She Stoops to Conquer.” Luckily for all involved, it goes in a different direction.
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Downton Abbey vs. the Super Bowl
The conflict between the Super Bowl and “Downton Abbey” is anticipated in Tom Robbins’s comic novel “Skinny Legs and All,” only with a dancer rather than a television series.
