Elliot Wilner | The Smart Set https://www.thesmartset.com A magazine of arts & culture from Drexel University Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:11:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Days of Long Ago https://www.thesmartset.com/days-of-long-ago/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=days-of-long-ago https://www.thesmartset.com/days-of-long-ago/#respond Thu, 21 Mar 2024 11:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=64277 Dozens of young adults, most of them Scandinavian tourists, were happily chattering in the lobby of Eilat’s Hotel Snapir soon after sunset, after having spent another toasty day on the beach. The lobby was uncomfortably warm, maybe due to the heat that radiated from the tourists’ sunburned skins. Passing through the lobby, I opened the […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/days-of-long-ago/feed/ 0 Thanks for the Memories https://www.thesmartset.com/thanks-for-the-memories/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thanks-for-the-memories https://www.thesmartset.com/thanks-for-the-memories/#respond Mon, 10 Apr 2023 11:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=59964 Who was the United States’ preeminent “exotic dancer” in the middle decades of the 20th century? A controversial question, to be sure, about which people of discriminating taste have been known to express drastically opposed opinions. A recent edition of The Washington Post prominently displayed an obituary for Tempest Storm, an exotic dancer (read “stripper”) […]

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