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… The following post by Alex Koplow is part of our online companion to our Winter 2013 issue on Classic Hollywood. … independent route allowed him to make a stranger and bloodier movie, and it also let him hire me. I’d been a makeup … Koplow is originally from Virginia and now tutors with the 826LA writing center. His writing has been published by JMWW, …
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… Trying to Keep Faith: Adrienne Rich’s “Usonian Journals 2000” In the “Artworks (II)” section of “Usonian … Rich’s work of the last two decades imagines and embodies a jazz-inflected process that bears witness to … a temple to greed. Staring into the political abyss, she comes to the realization that “I was no longer connected …
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… camp in the world. (Is it coincidental that this camp is also in Africa, the most historically neglected continent … whose dust-covered faces, hands, and feet turned their bodies into sand ghosts, my children were back home in … and dispensations so acutely, I truly believed my comfort did not authorize me to speak. And further, hadn’t I …
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… previous. The news was bad, but it was within the scope of comprehension – William Morva had committed a similar act … the bright red “Breaking News” banner at the top of CNN’s website reported the number as 20. This was a gaffe they’ll … of German, photographer, designer and husband, Bishop died while leading his Elementary German class. His father, …
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… into this fall when you leave for college, and with two buddies, Jimmy and Carl, you head west on the highway to that … the light until he saw among a network of smaller nail-points the larger nail, and then I saw it too, and I was … we began the task of clearing a space large enough to accommodate the furnace. I had no idea how large this space …
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… dreieckig ge-stellten Sternen nnd einer weisenden Hand, die griechischen Buchstaben &BK zeigt. Die andere tragt den … Werk eines Dichters, der es nicht anders wusste, als dass der Gedanke ein Dankesge-schenk des Geistes ist an … at the same time this feeling of sympathy has always been accompanied by a feeling of despair. It is as though every …