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Johnny Mercer’s “How Little We Know” sung by Lauren Bacall
At the piano is the song's composer, Hoagy Carmichael. The lyric is by Johnny Mercer born yesterday 101 years ago. Oh, the gent in the naval cap is Humphrey Bogart. The movie is…
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Female Nudity as Protest in Egypt
A twenty-year old woman in Cairo posted nude photographs of herself on line to protest the sexual repressiveness of Islamism. She set off an immediate controversy. Read the NY Times article.and you will encounter…
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Vic Fleming Judges BAP 2011
Vic Fleming's review of The Best American Poetry 2011 appeared in yesterday's Memphis Daily News. Click here for the whole column. <<< I love these collections, which have been coming out since 1988. The…
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Letter from London [by David Lehman]
It was spring in November, raining but once in the course of five days and that a mild midnight sprinkle, and one day the temperature climbed almost to…
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“Dark Looks” [by Denise Riley]
Who anyone is or I am is nothing to the work. The writerproperly should be the last person that the reader or the listener need think …
