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Creativity, imagination, light, elegance and new prospects in old ones at the renewed Grand Palais [By Tracy Danison]
Grand Palais, rotunda, Palais de la découverte. Photo © Patrick Tourneboeuf When I was in the Army, I once came to Paris and stood under the dome of the old Sorbonne. When I look…
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The Noise of the Week in Review [by Francois-Marie Arouet]
for Alexander Pope This week we learned that Art Carney, played by Norton, committed Canadian honeymooners on the north side of the falls to make common cause with England and France in recognizing an ontologically…
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BAP 2025 gets its first review — and it’s a knockout
The Best American Poetry 2025 Series Editor: David Lehman; Guest Editor: Terence Winch Our review: No need to include a publisher’s description this time — the title says it all. As you might guess, this…
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“The Span of Life” [by Robert Frost]
The Span of Life The old dog barks backwards without getting up.I can remember when he was a pup. — Robert Frost
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The Bi-Lingual Mitch Sisskind: The Old Grumpus Wumpus
The Old Grumpus Wumpus They called him the old grumpus wumpusBut why? Why? Can you please explain thatTo me? Would you be so kind? Did I missSomething? I must have missed somethingBecause…
