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Charles Harlan's "Battle of Historical Inaccuracy," his record of a Civil War-battle reenactment near his hometown in Georgia, appears at a glance almost risibly clueless regarding Goldin's images but proves to be a quite trenchant analysis of subculture: "Goldin's friends and these Civil War reenactors, though separated by the Mason-Dixon line, and a liberal education, have more in common than either group would be willing to admit," Harlan relates.
Like Archie," she continued, "Nino is the last one to realize that his intolerance is risibly out of date.
Some of these reflections are risibly a la mode, but I very much sympathize with Mazzoni's basic intention.
 
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