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In Which We Return To Berlin From The Camps
Back in the High Life by ALEX CARNEVALE Phoenix dir. Christian Petzold 98 minutes Nelly Lenz (Nina Hoss) survives a concentration camp, but not without substantial disfigurement in the face region....
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In Which We Ascribe A Lot Of Importance To Things
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 Diminish Our Fickle Appetites
The Physics of Summer by CHARLOTTE CLARKSON The sciences are founded upon formulaic explanations for consciousness, emotions, and the seasons. Emerging from the motions of minds that think and hearts...
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In Which All We Miss Is The State Of Being
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 The Complexion Of Jesse Eisenberg Renders All Else Dark
Missing Out by ALEX CARNEVALE American Ultra dir. Nima Nourizadeh 96 minutes Mike Howell (Jesse Eisenberg) has a more pallid complexion than usual. He only goes outside at night, when the rays of the...
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In Which We Are Exactly Like Ed Burns In All The Important Ways
To Be E.B. by DICK CHENEY Public Morals creator Ed Burns Ed Burns, 47, casts himself as a police officer with a wife who looks like a model. His young cousin (Austin Stowell) also works for the...
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In Which We Turn On This Nancy
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 Have Executed Ourselves In The Wake Of This Tragedy
Gandalf the Feminine by ALEX CARNEVALE The Bastard Executioner creator Kurt Sutter Gandalf (Katey Sagal) detects a prophecy that a white guy will free Wales of the English. She says the word shire...
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In Which We Do Not Bake Cookies
Grandma and the Charisma of Old Age by SARI EDELSTEIN Grandma dir. Paul Weitz 78 minutes Old ladies are having a moment. From the box-office to the bestseller list, women of a certain age are coming...
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In Which We Have A Woman To Thank
Tramp Stamped by DICK CHENEY Blindspot creators Martin Gero & Greg Berlanti A crazed Asian man with only cursory weapons training has completely subdued FBI agent Kurt Weller (Sullivan Stapleton)....
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In Which The British Came To America
Comfort in the Role by ALEX CARNEVALE Doll & Em creators Emily Mortimer, Azazel Jacobs and Dolly Wells "American women are much more direct," Emily Mortimer, 43, explains to her writing partner...
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In Which We Chat For Hours On The Phone
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 Margaret Atwood Deserves Equal Recognition
Known For Being A Person by ALEX CARNEVALE The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood Nan A. Talese, 320 pp. "Sometimes you miss the newspaper," mumbles one character in The Heart Goes Last, the new novel...
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In Which Her Face Is Disarmingly Alert
Hours Alone by HOLLI CARRELL I moved to New York City because there was nothing to do but move to New York City. A girl like me from Utah romanticizes about this sort of thing when she’s fifteen —...
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In Which We Have Expanded Our View Of This Crime
In the Academy by DICK CHENEY Quantico creator Joshua Safran "The majority of threats don't come from nations or extremist groups explains a Viola Davis-lookalike FBI agent (Aunjanue Ellis), "they...
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In Which We Did Press The Issue With Her Once
painting by Ellen Priest Quetzalcoatl by WILL MENLEN Lia showed up in a long dress. Underneath were colored tights and her legs grew stalks, shuffled and grated against the crispness of the sheets. I...
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In Which We Plan Our Lies Accordingly
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 Walked Into An Erratic Storm
19 to Present by LAURA HOOBERMAN 1. During my college years, I cultivated a brand of sadness that was lithe, trivial and mixed with boredom, which I found shameful. Most of my internal life centered...
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In Which We Say All That Could Reasonably Be Said
A Taste For Gin and Tonic by ELLEN COPPERFIELD She admired Joan of Arc most of all. The French heroine was, in her imagination, the tall, slightly awkward, slightly shy version of herself. "She became...
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In Which We Are Done With Being Left Behind
Waking Up by DICK CHENEY The Leftovers creators Tom Perrotta & Damon Lindelof Damon Lindelof could not well make another season of The Leftovers like the last one. As he sobbed and cried in the...
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