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… building in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. I have come with the intention of talking about an entirely … ritualized nature (“Absolutely. I am very much about rituals; it’s probably the lapsed Catholic in me.”). Both are … And it’s all very specific to where you are—the flows and eddies and microclimates and everything else. So it’s an …
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… The following post by Courtney Watson is part of our online companion to our Winter 2013 issue on Classic Hollywood. … Luckily, the professor moved on to discussing the finer points of Coriolanus before I had a chance to make any more … had been to the other side of the looking glass. I almost died of envy. Though I’ve known for a long time that much of …
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… the unquestionable stature of the work and its distinct commitments, all too often misrepresented. This factor can … Angel (1975). It remains unclear why from certain vantage points of the poetic landscape a discerning … language but of the image, mechanically reproduced as a studied picture or snapshot—a metaphor not irrelevant to Rich’s …
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… Libya, is no friend of the Colonel. In three weeks, a 26-year-old unemployed man named Mohammed Bouazizi will set … live with Qaddafi. We have no choice. No, it is what will come after him that everyone wonders and worries about. It … despite the repression, M still remembers why, as a foot soldier of the revolution, he was an unquestioning supporter of …
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… night was just as well suited to a Browns playoff game, complete with hordes of enthusiasts nearly tailgating … Obama’s palms–she didn’t do enough. Just after making a compelling and detailed case for her own universal health … she and her supporters tout–distinguished her. But she also made herself look silly, fretting over other details, …
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… anticipated the air had a lettucey crispness. Nunavut is a composite word that, in Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit … a Great Shopping Experience”), where a two-liter of Diet Coke, I found, is C$4.50, a box of Capitaine Crounche … done some hiking, but never far from town and always at a Defcon Two state of polar bear vigilance. One of these hikes …