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Keeping the Super Bowl in Perspective

By Robin Bates | Published: February 7, 2021

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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Downton’s Servants Put to the Test

By Robin Bates | Published: September 22, 2019

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

By Robin Bates | Published: February 24, 2012

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.

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