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“When Miss Rheingold ruled New York City” (Tippi Hedrin was a finalist))
Did Hitchcock vote? from https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/new-york-citys-favorite-beauty-contest/ <<< Miss Harlem. Miss subways. Miss Brooklyn. The list of long-gone local beauty contests is filled with small-time titles and pageants. But one mattered so much to residents, it…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Thirty-Eight): Sharon Mesmer [by Angela Ball]
I Have Thirteen Penises — for Drew Gardner My first penis is a reclusive pet alligatorMy second penis is so not a girl figure skaterMy third penis was never declared unconstitutionalMy fourth penis is…
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Five Colorful Election Day haiku [by Lewis Saul]
the sick red tide bloomspreads across the blighted landlike oozing cold pus look! A sinisterblack cloud enshrouds the desertpink chollas shed tears rippling sky blue creekso happy so free so purewhy are you choking?…
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“The Triumph of Bullshit” [by T. S. Eliot]
Did you know that T. S. Eliot wrote a poem entitled "The Triumph of Bullshit"? Neither did I until I started reading The Poems of T. S. Eliot, volume one (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), the massive…
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Ballet de Lorraine Season 2022-23 #2: a tale of sentiment and feeling [by Tracy Danison]
Loîc Touzé’s "No Oco". Photo © Laurent Philippe There’s a lot of contrast – in chronology, in genre, in philosophy – in Ballet de Lorraine’s 2022-23 season. I expect that’s why it has opened with…
