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In Which Michael Fassbender Brought The Whole Band
Fassbending by ELEANOR MORROW Frank dir. Lenny Abrahamson 95 minutes In Frank Michael Fassbender has a line serrating his upper hair from his lower hair. It is the impression of the cartoon head he...
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In Which We Discuss This As Carefully As We Can
Hard to Say is This Recording’s weekly advice column. It will appear every Wednesday until the Earth perishes in a fiery blaze, or until North West turns 40. Get no-nonsense answers to all of your...
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In Which We Are Judged On So Many Things
painting by Kate Shaw The Right/Wrong Time by HAFSA ARAIN 1 I certainly did not know two years ago that leaving school would be just as harrowing an experience as entering it in the first place. When I...
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In Which Red Oaks Takes Us Back To A Certain Time And Place
Something Better by DICK CHENEY Red Oaks creators Gregory Jacobs and Joe Gangemi It was truly disturbing listening to BBC coverage of the referendum on Scottish independence. Pundits trying to pretend...
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In Which We All Seem To Need The Help Of Someone Else
Man and Woman by ALEX CARNEVALE Camille Claudel was only 18 when she met the greatest sculptor who ever lived. Auguste Rodin was 24 years her elder, and it was the first time she had ever been to...
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In Which Every Morning When We Wake Up Robert Rodriguez
Mexican Goddess by DICK CHENEY From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series creator Robert Rodriguez I still think the casting in Pulp Fiction was all wrong. Bruce Willis was too old to play a prize-fighter. Uma...
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In Which We Consider These Troubling Problems And Times
Hard to Say is This Recording’s weekly advice column. It will appear every Wednesday until the Earth perishes in a fiery blaze, or until North West turns 40. Get no-nonsense answers to all of your...
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In Which We Wake Up Hungover For This
The Blanket Term by ALLISON NEAL 1 The day after graduation, I woke up hungover to attend the baptism of the man I had been sleeping with and thought myself to love during those final months of...
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In Which We Rummage Through The Center Console
Too Shy by TAYLOR HINE Mercifully, the blizzard had subsided. The sun shined for the first time in nearly a week, from a cloudless, clear sky. My father’s black Nissan Sentra was completely buried...
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In Which Her Mistake Was Waiting Six Episodes
Resemblances by KARA VANDERBIJL Just like that, it’s time to bid adieu to Outlander -- at least until April, when the Starz adaptation of Diana Gabaldon’s beloved novel will return to screens with its...
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In Which We Believe That God Has Spoken Directly To Ron Perlman
His Left Hand by DICK CHENEY Ron Perlman's goatee looks like a hand covering his mouth. He is left handed, so it is his left hand that he raises in a public fountain where the police find him,...
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In Which We Give You The Consultation Of Your Lifetime
Hard to Say is This Recording’s weekly advice column. It will appear every Wednesday until the Earth perishes in a fiery blaze, or until North West turns 40. Get no-nonsense answers to all of your...
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In Which We Translate John Ashbery From The Original
Positively the Last by ALEX CARNEVALE Collected French Translations by John Ashbery editors Rosanne Wasserman & Eugene Richie Once or twice a year I get an e-mail asking me what I admire about...
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In Which We Know Exactly What We Want To Put Down
Blown Up In 1962 the cadets at West Point were visited by a strange impresario who turned out to be a well-known writer. He visited several West Point courses in literature and held a press conference...
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In Which You Better Start Thinking Of Ways To Make It Up To Him
A Lively Marriage by DICK CHENEY The Mindy Projectcreator Mindy KalingI miss Cliff. Ever since Mindy finally consummated the mediocre sexual attraction between her fellow gynecologist Daniel (Chris...
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In Which We Avoid Going To Rome At All Costs
Terrace Woman by MARK ARTURO Alfonso, the Duke of Ferrera, had chosen Raphael to paint a canvas for him. It would be a spirited depiction of the intervention of the god Bacchus to defend a woman,...
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In Which We Administer Opinions And Temper Expectations
Hard to Say is This Recording’s weekly advice column. It will appear every Wednesday until the Earth perishes in a fiery blaze, or until North West turns 40. Get no-nonsense answers to all of your...
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In Which It Is Only Convenient To Leave London
Tube Air by ELISA ARMSTRONG "Let me know if you want me to bring you anything,” whatsapped my best friend from London, in anticipation of her Australian visit. “No, I don’t miss anything actually....
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In Which We Wonder Who We Were Upset With
A Date by ALEXANDRA KIMBALL In the spring, I moved out of the house I was sharing with my boyfriend and reunited with a longed-for ex. But that, too, was falling apart for all the reasons it had the...
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In Which They Write To Us From Someplace
This is the second in a series. You can find the first part here. photo by jun hongh The Other Inbox by MIA NGUYEN The act of writing a letter, or even receiving one in the mail, has become almost...
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