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Good Morning, Dean Martin, on an Evening in Roma
Penso che un sogno così non ritorni mai piùMi dipingevo le mani e la faccia di bluPoi d'improvviso venivo dal vento rapitoE incominciavo a volare nel cielo infinito Volare. . .oh ohCantare, ohohoho…Nel blu…
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“Moscow Personals Ads— A Found Poem” [by Bruce Isaacson]
Selections from Moscow’s Argument & Fact which, with a circulation of 15 million, is the world's most widely read newspaper. -1- I am 85 years old. I'm in love with the TV serial"Los…
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George Balanchine, Patriot
George Balanchine loved America. This Russian émigré choreographer, who founded the New York City Ballet with Lincoln Kirstein, delighted in everything from the songs of George Gershwin to the city's ''Don't Walk'' signs. When…
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From Beirut, “the Freedom Haven of the Arab Middle East,” Joumana Haddad on “Crime in Ramallah”
A Palestinian Novel Unearths Dirty Secrets in the Arab World / by JOUMANA HADDAD / July 3, 2017 We are a people of dirty secrets hiding beneath a veil of fake morality. That’s the first…
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“To Independence” (Steve McQueen) and some prose “In Favor of Peace” [by David Lehman]
It is July 4th in The Great Escape and in the POW camp dominated by Brits, Steve McQueen lifts his glass of homemade rotgut and says "Independence." In one word he characterize an entire…
