In Which There Was An Element Of The Obscene
Postenumerated by LEAH BUCKLEY Lying in bed next to me, you begin to tell me about another woman you are seeing. I wonder if, to an outsider, this enumeration of your conquests would feel misplaced...
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Nothing At All Certain The letters of Elizabeth Bishop to Marianne Moore at first reflected a close kinship. The two were always placed in the same sentence despite the vast differences between their...
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Charm with a Negative Sign by ANDREI TARKOVSKY Let us look at Leonardo's portrait of "A Young Lady With A Juniper," which we used in Mirror for the scene of the father's brief meeting with his...
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Anger by LINDA EDDINGS I make the dark sea out of my hands. It is a restless, needy dough that presents itself as salve and illness both. Are you expecting someone (me) to get so upset she can barely...
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Our Home in Aspen by ETHAN PETERSON Fifty Shades Freed dir. James Foley 105 minutes Sex during the honeymoon. At the beginning of Fifty Shades Freed, Christian (Jamie Dornan) and Ana (Dakota Johnson)...
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I Wrote This By Hand by LISA GETTY-FRANCIS Monday He is riding the 2 train and getting off four stops before mine. He has that glazed over look. Something has gone terribly wrong. Tuesday I think of...
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Important Men by ETHAN PETERSON Altered Carbon creator Laeta Kalogridis Netflix In this future story from novelist Richard K. Morgan, we are thrust into a world where anyone can look however they...
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This Is Up Front by MARK ARTURO NEW YORK - Three men walked all the way back from the front of the line, coming up to us. Their arms filled with packages, they said they wrote the future of the world....
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Painting of a Thousand Faces by MARK ARTURO We are angry. We are angry with you for what you did. You further reproach me with having promised you that I would paint your picture with the greatest...
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Eric Rohmer Says In French there is a word moraliste that I don't think has any equivalent in English. It doesn't really have much connection with the world "moral," a moraliste is someone who is...
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