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Susan Sontag Contains Multitudes (excerpt from “Dance in America” by Mindy Aloff) [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
I'm still spending most of my reading time with Mindy Aloff's magisterial anthology "Dance in America." The volume spans three centuries and includes work by our most important dance critics along side poets (yes!),…
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Next Line, Please: Doubling Down [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Two weeks ago, we began a journey in which each step lead us to yet another line to another stanza, beginning with the opening line: "I spend my days in an expanse of spirits." This…
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WE MUST BE ANIMALS Manifesto [by Andrei Codrescu]
We are becoming machines. Exquisite Corpse has resolved to throw its sabots in the cog wheels. It is incumbent to our poetic sensibilities and fleshly complexity that we become animals. Not MORE like the…
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Ida Lupino and “The Bigamist” [by David Lehman]
Here's to Ida Lupino on her birthday (February 4). The Bigamist I saw The Bigamist, maybe the best of the brilliant noir movies Ida Lupino directed, thoughThe Hitchhiker gives it a run for the money.…
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The Great Chins of Hollywood: A test with prize [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman
Have you ever noticed that some of our most beautiful and talented actors have a certain physical trait in common? See if you can match the chin to the actor, list below (put your…
