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In Which The Facial Hair Of Will Forte Dominates The Mise-En-Scène
Control Freak by DICK CHENEY The Last Man On Earth creator Will Forte There is no lonelier man than Phil Miller (Will Forte). Since Forte, creator of the new Fox show The Loneliest Man On Earth could...
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In Which We Are Going To Love Living In Paris
Hard People The poet Charles Henri Ford was gay, he had a boyfriend, and he was open to other things. Say, for example, he saw a man passing by on the street. He might think of him later, assuming he...
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In Which The Possibility Remains In The Background
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 Sharon Horgan Seduces An American Man
Laying On Its Side by ALEX CARNEVALE Catastrophe creators Sharon Horgan & Rob Delaney Carrie Fisher is almost unrecognizable in the new BBC sitcom Catastrophe. She appears with her dog on the...
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In Which Berthe Morisot And Claude Monet Exchange Winter Letters
My Daughter Looks Like A Peasant Girl Seasonal depression affected the most talented artists. The more talent they had, the more likely they were to be felled to their knees by this phenomenon. Then...
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In Which The Train Stops Long After You Expect It To
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 Choose A Woman And A President
Arlington by DICK CHENEY Choosing someone can be so difficult. Can you really expect a man from Iowa to really know what exactly is good for him? President Obama has not been to Iowa since the...
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In Which We Want To Embrace Our Dates
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 They Deliver In The First Hot Week Of The Season
Besides Work 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...
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In Which We Suffer Through A Rare Constellation Of Events
Your Letter Which I Read With Greatest Concern The light cast by substantive references, illusions and details. Gershom Scholem had fled Germany when things started to get complicated. He begged his...
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In Which Manuel Puig Always Returned The Favor
This is the first in a two-part series. Want To Go To A Movie? by ELLEN COPPERFIELD Manuel Puig would go to a movie. Any movie with music or dancing was preferred; say, Swing Time with Fred Astaire and...
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In Which We Jenga For Days In The Dark Recesses Of Our House Of Cards
Spoilers for the third season of the Netflix series House of Cards appear in the following essai. Douglas Stamper's Romper Room by DICK CHENEY Doug Stamper (Michael Kelly) saw that movie where Jennifer...
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In Which This Is His Most Difficult Confession
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 There Are Times He Resembles A Penny Loafer
Color Me Grey by KARA VANDERBIJL The Fall creator Alan Cubitt When Jamie Dornan isn’t murdering brunettes in Belfast, he’s busy slinging Dakota Johnson over his knee to spank her. Now that BBC’s The...
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In Which We Came To Expect The Answers
Misplaced by AMANDA OLIVER Your life is not what you thought it would be. You thought by now you would have a best-selling book or a house or at least a baby. When did you first think these things?...
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In Which We Exercise Materialism To The Extreme
The Point of Tears by MIA NGUYEN Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt creators Tina Fey and Robert Carlock With a spirit of a whimsical middle schooler, Kimmy (Ellie Kemper) skips throughout New York City armed...
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In Which We Receive Perfect Kindness And Courage
Where The Sidewalk Ends by JULIA CLARKE Cinderella dir. Kenneth Branagh 105 minutes There was an episode of ABC's The Bachelor where, in a cross-promotional opportunity with Cinderella that was rather...
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In Which We Have Gabriel And Damascus
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 Do Not Wish We Were Djuna Barnes
This is the third in a series. The Vicious Age The diaries of Charles Henri Ford culminate in a tremendous amount of unhappiness. In his primary relationship with the painter Pavlik Tchelitchew and the...
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In Which We Recoil From Our Partner After Wintercourse
Sex Life by ALEX CARNEVALE It Follows dir. David Robert Mitchell 100 minutes The two beings at the center of David Robert Mitchell's horror movie could not be more alike. Each is slow-moving,...
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