Lane Brown, “Mad Men Ruined” (New York Magazine Vulture blog, Aug. 26, 2009)
Has Matthew Weiner just given up altogether? Lexicographer Ben Zimmer noticed yesterday that on Sunday’s episode of Mad Men, sitting on a shelf behind Sterling Cooper’s CFO Lane Pryce was the three-volume edition of The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, which, as everyone knows, was first published in 1987 — 24 years after the show’s current season supposedly takes place.
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