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The New York School Diaspora (Part Sixty-Six): Jerome Sala [by Angela Ball]
A Man and a Woman The woman in greenhates the man in the mistbut the woman insidethe man from hell's edgeloves a woman in flames. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.is like a woman who is…
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Deconstruction as a political strategy
Deconstruction relies on the flipping of binaries. "Losing is winning. Crime is justice. Rape is love. Death is life." No wonder the new Jacobins hate Orwell. from Lee Smith, "The Global Empire of Palestine,"…
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Happy new year with Doris Day & Maxine Sullivan and “Loch Lomond”
"A Hundred Years from Today" "Loch Lomond"
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O Today We’ll Merry, Merrry Be
O today we'll be merry merry beO today we'll be merry merry beO today we'll be merry merry beTomorrow we'll be sober
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A Brief Digression on Critics and Cops [by David Lehman]
Why do award committees pin the tail on the horse’s ass? Because award committees combine a universal truth (“everyone’s a critic”) with an old punch line (“the committee in charge of designing a horse…
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Happy birthday, Sandy Koufax (born December 30, 1935)
No self-respecting Dodger fan will want to overlook Michael Leahy's The Last Innocents: The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgers (HarperCollins).Independent of the Dodger fan base, students of baseball history will…
