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The Real Hero (Xanadu versus Khartoum)
(1) Who is the real hero of "Citizen Kane"? a) Barry Kaneb) Marshall Will Kanec) Charles Foster Kaned) Xanadue) Captain Queeg Name the three other relevant movie titles implied by the choices. 2) St.…
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“This is just the beginning,” from today’s Wall Street Journal
from "Universities Sprint From ‘We Will Not Cower’ to Appeasing Trump" By Maggie Severns Wall Street Journal, March 24, 2025 University leaders, pinned between liberal faculty and the Trump administration, are quietly trying to…
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“The Nakedness of Woman”: The new “Next Line, Please” post — new prompts and the best of last month’s poems
“The Nakedness of Woman” By David Lehman | March 21, 2025 Detail of The Soul Hovering Over the Body from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake, 1796 (Wikimedia Commons) By March 5, a day after our deadline, the…
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Eneida P. Alcalde: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________________________ Poetic Justice The poem that needs to be written is not white. The poem that needs to be written does not speak English. …
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Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette. . .
The Last Cigarette — Cinema’s most seductive prop — By David Lehman Every cigarette is the last cigarette. In the black-and-white world of noir, cigarettes are everywhere. But then, they are ubiquitous in all movies, as…
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Mystery in familiarity: Marion Zurbach’s “Les Héritiers-x” happens [By Tracy Danison]
A couple of months ago, a neighbor over the street with whom Karine, my partner, has only ever had a nodding acquaintance, decided to move to Berlin, to be with her younger son. The…
