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In Which We Speak With The Voice Of Eric Rohmer
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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In Which We Bargain With A Frightened Man
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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In Which We Cry Inside A New Bedroom
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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In Which We Are Patronizing Of Everyone Including Ourselves
Ghostbusters Without Ghosts by ETHAN PETERSON Annihilation dir. Alex Garland 115 minutes The only remotely interesting aspects of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy were his ideas about faith....
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In Which We Mime The Motions Of The Jungle Cat
The Words That We Know by ETHAN PETERSON Black Panther dir. Ryan Coogler Forever If the aggressively mediocre Ryan Coogler had not at one point found Michael B. Jordan, is it too harsh to say all...
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In Which We Resleeve Ourselves Into Something More Familiar
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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In Which We Ask If He Moves His Mouth
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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In Which We Could Not Be This Married If We Tried
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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In Which We Know All Of Our Weaknesses
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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In Which We Experience Da Vinci Through The Eyes Of Another
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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In Which We Become A Quick Kid In A Caper
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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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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In Which We Speak With The Voice Of Eric Rohmer
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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In Which We Bargain With A Frightened Man
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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In Which We Make An Important Decision In Life
After College What? For Girls by HELEN EKIN STARRETT Four daughters had graduated in six years at Vassar College, two or more among the "honor girls," and all with a standing that ranked them among...
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In Which It Was What We Really Believed
Port Authority by ANNABELLA HOCHSCHILD She was my best friend. She became my best friend after her boyfriend, who she had loved, died. Mine who I had thought I loved had nearly died. Someone suggested...
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In Which We Pretended Not To Notice Her
I Think You Understand Why That Can Never Work by MARK ARTURO You were sitting on a stool in midtown, perfectly erect even without the backing of the chair. It was not unusual for you to look your...
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In Which We Have To Go Crazy For Someone
by edna andrade Your Forecast by LINDA EDDINGS Aries: God gave you the earth, the sun, and the stars? What did you do with it? I saw you walking among the plants. You smashed a tomato, a living thing...
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In Which We Assume The Worst When We See The Best
The Bonfire of the Bosom Buddy, Part II by ELLEN COPPERFIELD I was watching The Polar Express and trying to recover the spirit of Christmas for some muffins I was planning when it occurred to me:...
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In Which We Remain Smaller Than We Were Before
All You Have To Do Is Say Yes by ETHAN PETERSON Downsizing dir. Alexander Payne 135 minutes There is a scene late in Alexander Payne’s Downsizing where a bunch of Norwegians watch the sun go down for...
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