Oklahoma is now #1 in the world for number of earthquakes. “Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz” is also about a midwesterner encountering earthquakes for the first time.
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Dorothy and the Oklahoma Earthquakes
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Trump & GOP Tax Plans: All Humbug
Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and Jeb Bush have all presented tax plans that claim to be populist even as they mainly benefit the wealthy. The Wizard of Oz would feel right at home in their company.
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The Wicked Witch, Disillusioned Dreamer
Gregory Maguire’s novel “Wicked,” like versions of the Oz story before it, wrestles with the death of the American Dream.
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Erdrich Charts a Third Way for Fantasy
L. Frank Baum and Edgar Allen Poe represent the light and the dark strains of American fantasy. But Louise Erdrich introduces a third strain, Native American, to the conversation.
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When American Fantasies Are Dangerous
The denial of reality that has taken over certain segments of the GOP is well described by Neil Gaiman in “American Gods.” America has a long tradition of such fantasizing.
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Sarah Palin as Dorothy
Sarah Palin’s attraction in part lay in the way that she seemed to be a reincarnation of MGM’s Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz.”
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Oklahoma Tornado Recalls Dorothy’s
The Oklahoma tornado recalls literature’s most famous tornado in “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.”
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