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Author: Nikolaas Verhulst

CIPC #260: Stouffer’s ad

Posted on February 15, 2022February 15, 2022

I don’t know where this ad comes from, neither in space nor in time. The text and the company strongly suggest it must originate from…

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CIPC #259: Alfred Hitchcock presents S2 E33, A man greatly beloved

Posted on February 8, 2022February 8, 2022

What happens if you cross Winnie the Pooh with Psycho? This burning question that was on no one’s lips is answered in today’s subject. As…

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CIPC #258: My cousin Vinny

Posted on February 1, 2022December 28, 2022

After last week’s crime drama, there’s a courtroom comedy on the menu today. It is a film from 1992. At least, that’s the mainstream theory.…

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CIPC #257: The silent partner

Posted on January 26, 2022February 3, 2022

The silent partner was recommended to me by one of my readers – a silent partner, if you like. It is a 1978 movie about…

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CIPC #256: Dance of the vampires

Posted on January 18, 2022February 3, 2022

Dance of the vampires is a film by Roman Polanski which is supposed to fuse comedy and horror but falls a good distance short of…

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CIPC #255: Alcoa aluminium ad

Posted on January 11, 2022January 13, 2022

We finished last year talking about a strange advertisement from an American aluminium company. We will start this year by talking about a strange advertisement…

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CIPC extra: The best and worst of 2021

Posted on January 4, 2022January 13, 2022

I almost forgot about it, but in exactly one week this blog will celebrate its fifth birthday! Well, it will be its fifth birthday, at…

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CIPC #254: Bohn ad

Posted on December 28, 2021

Our subject for today is one of the stranger ads I have seen. It appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1952 and was apparently…

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CIPC #253: The lone wolf spy hunt

Posted on December 21, 2021

During the course of the years, this blog has put the spotlight on a number of forgotten merchandises: The crime doctor, the Philo Vance series,…

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CIPC #252: Chess in literature, the sequel

Posted on December 14, 2021January 3, 2022

Long, long time ago — the world was still innocent then1 — I wrote a blog post about chess in literature. In it, I discussed…

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With this blog, I will critique chess as it appears in all sorts of popular media. I will honour the good and, probably much more frequently, castigate the bad.

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