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Met Percent: Week Eighteen [by Alec Bernstein]
Met Absent(e) % Met floor plan: Yellow highlighted galleries have been viewed, 3/14/2020. Inset: Dans un café, L'absinthe, Edgar Degas, Musée d'Orsay, 1875; Van Gogh Absente Poster; Photo of Toulous-Lautrec drinking Absenthe, 1910. I have…
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Squibs 404-408 [by Alan Ziegler]
404: 1993, hundreds of Woolworth's are closing and thousands of generic parakeets will be released on noon of the final day. Scrawny blue and green twelve-dollar birds will scatter in downtown Las Vegas, uptown New…
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“Oxford (Summer 1968)” [by Peter Ferry]
Lehman and I hitchhiked from Oxford to Bournemouth one July Saturday that summer of 1968. He was a gawky redheaded teenager from New York City, and I was a shaggy headed Midwesterner who had…
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Some cinematic suggestions [by David Lehman]
For The American Scholar, I've posted short essays on the movies I've listed here. Here are links to, and brief excerpts from, the articles. To this post, which first appeared on March 27, 2020,…
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from “Julius Jaffe: The Analects” [by Mitch Sisskind]
OLD SONGJulius Jaffe sang an old song:'Boys, boys, too much noise!Abie! Louie! Kum in hoyz!' CONCUPISCENCEJulius Jaffe said, "In Torah, the Land of Egypt is a metaphor for concupiscence." THE GODFATHER PART IIIMorrie Brier…
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Squibs 397-403 [by Alan Ziegler]
397: When I was a kid, sometimes I’d look down as I walked and imagine I was flying. Everything on the ground became magnified in its smallness—rivulets of rain water in the gutter became mighty…
