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Point Counterpoint: David Lehman and Amy Gerstler Recap Mad Men Season 7 Episodes 1-7
Are you ready for the final episodes of Mad Men? In case you need a refresher, here are the "Point Counterpoint" posts from last season. Episode 1: "Time Zones" Episode 2 "A Day's Work" Episode…
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Tales of the Fifties (and Beyond): The Haircutting Firm of Danny and Son; 1955-1985 [by Alan Ziegler]
After we move from Brooklyn to Lynbrook, when I am eight, I get my haircuts at Danny’s Barber Shop, a stand-alone cottage. I see Danny giving haircuts as I walk past the…
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Introducing Scottish poets 9: Kathleen Jamie [by Robyn Marsack]
Moon Last night, when the moonslipped into my attic-roomas an oblong of light,I sensed she’d come to commiserate. It was August. She travelledwith a small valiseof darkness, and the first few starsreturning to the…
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Bent Stutzes, Willie Mays, Bambi, Balanchine, Frogs in Bottles, Fonzie, Kissing Hemingway’s Ass, and other Tid-bites on Critiquing [by Alan Ziegler]
A teenage gymnast was doing miraculous things in the Olympics. Her flexibility and strength were astonishing. The television commentator shrieked something like, “Oh no, she bent her knees on the stutz!” The knees had…
