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“Blue-Collar Millionaire Athletes” [a word note by David Lehman]
When the literal meaning of a word disappears entirely into its figurative sense, it may become a dead metaphor or a journalistic cliché but may nevertheless be celebrated because it so aptly illustrates the…
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Saul Bellow and Günter Grass Duke It Out at the PEN Congress [by Edwin McDowell, New York Times, January 15, 1986]
After reading this account of an acrimonioius session of the PEN Writers' Congress n New York City in January 1986, sip a Manhattan and guess which famous participant turned out to be a forgetful…
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On memory and remembrance in contemporary dance: Restart the present, wonder about it, and – Why not? – revive it [By Tracy Danison]
“iLaUNA” by Bilaka. Photo © Charlotte Costa There’s a fin de siècle schadenfreude in our air du temps. YouTube spiritualists see souls fleeing the coming travails of those still earthbound. But the frisson that comes…
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Love Sonnet by John Updike [by Moira Egan]
Love Sonnet In Love's rubber armor I come to you; …
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Al Basile: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_____________________________________________________ Killers Before Breakfast New York City, 1974 It was the morning after. On the night before, we'd played at Max's Kansas City, with Stevie Wonder sitting in the house, and…
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Today’s Playlist: The Toreador Song, Amapola, Frenesi, Volare, Granada
with Girogione's "Three Philosophers"
