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A new one-hour drama on AMC, Mad Men is a cleanly lit, smartly tailored show about cigarette-smoking, hard-drinking, philandering New York advertising executives at the turn of the 1960s — the title is a real-life, self-coined moniker for the glamorized kings of Madison Avenue. Though it’s serious, richly detailed and intelligent, it also, frankly, gave me the creeps. Perched as it is at the point when the country was headed toward a shattered innocence about our economic (...)