Widower's Tango
Monday, May 31, 2010
Ode to a Conscientious Objector
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In that fascinatingly repellent film, Death Wish, a man asks the redoubtable Charles Bronson what he did in the war (presumably Vietnam). ...
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Sunday, May 23, 2010
The Value of Money
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Some time ago an informal poll was taken asking Americans, if they saw money lying on the ground, what denomination of cash would it have to...
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Interruptible
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I vividly remember a movie that my mother took me to see in the '60s called The Cardinal. (1) Tom Tryon played an Irish Catholic priest...
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Sunday Morning, May 16
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We all know the Wallace Stevens of his great poems, like "To an Old Philosopher in Rome" (he was writing about his old Harvard pro...
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Friday, May 14, 2010
Dead Man's Curve
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Here in the Philippines, hazardous stretches of road are designated by signs that bear a curious warning: ACCIDENT PRONE AREA. A preponderan...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Postpartum
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Vote-buying must be one of the oldest election tactics in history. As soon as one man, one vote became common practice, somebody decided tha...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
A Hill of Beans
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While watching the film Death Proof again the other night, I began to see certain consistencies in Quentin Tarantino's work: his encyclo...
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