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… A Certain Measure. By Ellen Glasgow. Harcourt, Brace and Company. $3.50. “Nevertheless, there are arts, and the novel … Mare. Is the list to be extended with George Moore, John Galsworthy, and, shall we say, Edith Wharton? They have in … of James Branch Cabell. Irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision, she warns us, but she would …
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… infamous Scala Cinema in Kings Cross, London, would be a falsehood. My first viewing of Dawn of the Dead was on a bog … doesn’t appear for a good 25 minutes is also amazing, coming after a memorably chaotic opening in a TV studio on … to know them so well that you don’t want any of them to die (not even Roger). That’s a remarkable feat for a …
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… dreary the rest of the world was—was roughly analagous to comparing Xanadu with a federally subsidized … had seen her. Christine wondered about anorexia. She would also like to know, from Maury, whether Maury took drugs, if … laughing and kidding around and acted as if a cop had come to the door of a party. They had been buying scallops. …
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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 …
… solemn procedure were the near relatives of those about to die; presumably, as a rule their children or grand-children. … group, those who can no longer keep the pace are made as comfortable as possible with a little fire, a few scraps of … some deep-seated general characteristics of human individuals or human societies, or perhaps that they trace back of …