Widower's Tango

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Over John Brown's Body

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Reading the final volume of the Journals of Henry David Thoreau, that begins in December 1859, he mentions - though not by name - the fate...
Friday, July 26, 2019

Who Killed Colm Tóibín?

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On July 22, The Irish Times published a short interview with the brilliant Irish novelist Colm Tóibín that conveyed a few specifics about ...
Saturday, July 13, 2019

The Boy from Ipanema

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João Gilberto , whose death was announced on July 6, was a guitar player and singer who came along at precisely the right moment, in exact...
Thursday, July 11, 2019

Mr. Hulot's Holiday

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    For some inexplicable reason, I decided yesterday to watch the 1953 debut of Jacques Tati's screen character Monsieur Hulot, Les...
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Saturday, July 6, 2019

Analogous Agonies

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Japanese Internment Camp Manzanar, California “ What therefore is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonymies, anthropomorphisms: in ...
Sunday, June 30, 2019

Detour

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I have somehow managed, until the age of sixty-one, to avoid the subject of the film noir . At the outset, I feel obliged to say that I am...
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Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Zandy's Bride

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From virtually the very beginning, in 1922 when, at the invitation of Mary Pickford, Ernst Lubitsch left his native Germany and moved to S...
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