Virginia Slims, Philip Morris announced in its ads, were "tailored for your handsfor your lips." And they were, in all that, "slimmer than the fat cigarettes men smoke." But the cigarettes also had, the company suggested, a deeper appeal
Season two, the first episode of which is out today, tells another little-known story about the American ultraright, taking listeners back to the postwar 1950s, in which, as Maddow put it to me in an interview last week, a bunch of totally crazy shit happens. The story includes an American fascist who ends up becoming a mole inside the war-crimes trials, working for the Nazis and becoming essentially the godfather of American Holocaust denial, she explains
China's share of the world market increased from 17% in 1971 to 47% in 1997
all in all, it's kind of a mean plant