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Happy Birthday, Dorothy Parker & Your “quondam dreams”
Symptom Recital I do not like my state of mind;I'm bitter, querulous, unkind.I hate my legs, I hate my hands,I do not yearn for lovelier lands.I dread the dawn's recurrent light;I hate to go…
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“The Hucksters”
As part of its all-Deborah Kerr day, TCM showed "The Hucksters" at midnight last Sunday, the day of the ballyhooed opening of the new (third) season of "Mad Men." About the Madison Avenue geniuses…
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A Marriage of Love and Independence [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
ws tj, jmh conducting A Marriage of Love and Independence When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes When in the course of human events it becomes I alone beweep my outcast state…
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What’s the Difference?—Blame It on the Weather [by Jim Stubenrauch]
Something a bit different tonight: I’d like to offer some music by Vdisc (not V-Disc), an obscure band that released one record, entitled Vee Khan Nez Pha, in the late 90s. Little is…
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Perils of the Poetry Reading [by Katha Pollitt]
Am I the only person who finds it hard to follow an unfamiliar poem when I hear it read out loud and don’t have the text in front of me? Even when…
