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In Which We Are Repeatedly Defied
Madam by DICK CHENEY Defiance creators Rockne S. O'Bannon, Kevin Murphy, and Michael Taylor Thrones. Defiance. If you are an enterprising young actress and your agent asks you to consider a role of a...
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In Which We Pretend To Take James Agee Seriously
All Sides by ALEX CARNEVALE James Agee read Ulysses in the summer of 1933. He almost immediately abandoned a writing project that had consumed him for the previous three years. "Joyce I think sees all...
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In Which We Used To Dread Going Home
The Breakdown by STEPHANIE ECHEVESTE I can’t sleep. I don’t know if it is because of the cappuccino I had at Ritual around 5:30 p.m., because of the street noise outside my 24th street facing...
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In Which It Isn't Anything But A Number
The Dog Snarls by LEE MONTESCU Elaine is born in October, too small and baby-like to ever be an Elaine, a woman’s name. She is pretty in a perfunctory baby sort of way, her mother works during the...
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In Which A Bear Is Merely A Trifle To This One
What He Really Thinks Of Women by DICK CHENEY Thrones. "We're very complicated, you know. Pleasing us takes practice." Finally the truth, what GRRM really thinks about women. They can't be pleased or...
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In Which We Leave When We're Satisfied
Their Dorothea Lange Faces by KARA VANDERBIJL Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner Neither Sylvia nor I have worn actual clothes for at least three episodes, which is perhaps why I felt a deep kinship with...
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In Which It Is A Sunny Day For A Lonely Soul
Sky's Not Listening by LARA MILLS Three years ago Indonesia erupted in scandal when police arrested the country’s biggest rock star, the hunky singer Ariel of the band Peterpan. Someone in Ariel’s...
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In Which We Discover The Real Problem
Pictures of Success by ALICE BOLIN Let us now sing in praise of Jenny Lewis: she of the auburn bangs, she of the sweet hope vocal, she of the snow-globe collection I read about once, the child...
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In Which We Ignore Most Of The Sorrows
Living For Love Alone by LUCY MORRIS At that time he had been satisfying a sensual curiosity in discovering the pleasures of those who live for love alone. He had supposed that he could stop there,...
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In Which We Turn Our Face To The Light
Half Lowborn by DICK CHENEY Thrones. Watching an illiterate horse trader learn how to read, struggling over every word, reminds me of so many things, but mostly, it reminds me of Richard Nixon. He was...
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In Which The Timber Of Our Voice Is Important
666 Ideas by KARA VANDERBIJL Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner "Every time we get a car," said Don at the end of Sunday night's episode, "The Crash", "this place turns into a whorehouse." Powerful...
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In Which Chopin and George Sand Briefly Thrill Each Other
A Seduction by CATHALEEN CHEN Frédéric Chopin and George Sand met in a Parisian salon, where Chopin dueted with his musical contemporary and uncredited wingman, Franz Liszt, while Sand smoked a cigar....
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In Which She Set Her Own Price
Their Own Lives by ELLEN COPPERFIELD They called it the slipper club. All of the photographer Dorothea Lange's friends were Jews; exiled for a second time from the mostly gentile areas of Nob,...
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In Which We Explain Critical Theory To Others
Post Breakup by LINDSEY BOLDT According to the archive of my lately much neglected blog, I began writing titty poems in July of 2008. I was newly single and fresh off my first post-breakup...
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In Which Soon We Will Reach The Other Side
Conan the Barbarian Priest Poet by DAMIAN WEBER There is a hole in the earth shaped like a sword where a fire is eternal. In it there is a liquid that burns. Smoke pours out. The low god Crum creates...
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In Which Loving You Is The Worst Way To Get To You
Lousy Affair by KARA VANDERBIJL Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner We couldn't have asked for a more perfect episode this weekend: it was vintage Mad Men, rich with everything that drew us in the early...
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In Which We View Elena Sisto With Curiosity
Elena Sisto, Waiting for an Idea, 2011. Oil on linen, 38 x 36 inches. A Definition Growing Certain by ELEANOR RAY Between Silver Light and Orange Shadow: Paintings by Elena Sisto Lori Bookstein Fine...
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In Which We're Stuck In A Childlike Priority
Pattern Recognition by SHELBY SHAW Frances Ha dir. Noah Baumbach 86 min Noah Baumbach and leading lady Greta Gerwig just seem to revel best in the black and white of Frances Ha. It would seem too...
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In Which We Are Still Abandoned On Alphanor
Lurulu by ALEX CARNEVALE We think of Milton blindly dictating his version of familiar events. Or Helen Keller, feeling through the pages of an autobiography she could never truly experience except...
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In Which All Morning Larks Must Die
They Start Singing by LARA MILLS The problem with staying up late in Jakarta is that Java doesn't follow a night owl's schedule: the mosques start singing around 4 a.m. as people begin their days...
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