And then there's the styling: The first-gen 300 a brooding, noirish, smoking gat of a car, something out of a Frank Miller graphic novel was a huge hit for Chrysler, and insofar as the styling embraced a bad-ass Americanism while not taking itself too seriously, it really represented meta-styling, which is to say, it was intended to be ironic.

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Frank Miller, a noted developer, worked on the property until his death in 1935.

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Then, the telegraph office breaks the news that a man he sent to prison years earlier, Frank Miller, has just been released and is arriving on the noon train.

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Indeed, the very same queen who Frank Miller portrayed as so-earthy, so-kind, was said to be quite brutal with a whip, in real life.

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Like George Miller, Barney Frank and the other liberals produced by Vietnam and Watergate, Mr. Waxman belongs to a cohort whose power has been checked -- one way or the other -- by Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton's New Democrat tendencies, the Republican sweep of 1994 and George W. Bush.

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