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Waiting for Exile
… tossed the city into a “national time of mourning” after Comandante Juan Almeida Bosque’s fatal heart attack a few … her group on a bench. “You know, Almeida and all, generals dying, time of mourning. Vaya , vaya , vaya .” “Dropping … Maykel, and his father, Nicolás—​spoke with their bodies: eyebrows rising, mouths gaping with laughter, hands …
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The Haunted Hotels of Los Angeles
… the hotel, finding the Biltmore Bowl by accident, unlocked, completely dark but for the red exit sign. We walked through … Then there’s the Alexandria Hotel, now also apartments, where supposedly Rudolf Valentino still … became sad and washed out, and then at some point, died unglamorous deaths, and yet stubbornly live on. Once …
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The Olfactory Lives of Primates
… guys from Caitland’s office got into this pissing contest, completely soaked a table-cloth doing it. I don’t know why … that can change emotions in the recipient, and in most mammals, more readily than can information from other sensory … (High-tech science: get some women volunteers at known points in their cycles to rub their undeodranted armpits …
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Leaving Los Angeles
… if Los Angeles disappeared into the ocean, New York would also grudgingly cease to exist. They are each other’s … Across dozens of films, NYC versus L.A. has swung comfortably between high-brow and low. The Coen Brothers’ … is almost as pissed off as Ben Stiller in Greenberg , an indie film about yet another displaced, neurotic Jew—this time …
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“Where the Women Carry Fish on Their Heads”
… current world correspondent based in sunny Portugal, I feel compelled to comment on the New York Times’ recent story about Lisbon’s … haunt the racks. In an interview featured on the atelier’s website , the designers say their clothes enable clients to …
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Reflections on Whitman in Age
… quite get it. You try but you fail.” In a “Women’s Studies” class in Warsaw, of all places, I asked the students, … setting, clear and broad: So much i’ the atmosphere, the points of view, the situations whence we scan, Bro’t out by … 1539. Sense of ‘day-dream based on desires’ is from 1926, as is fantasize … .” (The year I was born!) “Reality” is …
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