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Why I Watch Sex and the City
Monday June 23, 2008
So I may as well confess it here. I am a ritual watcher of sitcoms. When I am lonely, when I am hurt, when I am confused, ambivalent, frightened, insecure, I watch sitcoms. After a particularly debilitating break-up last fall, I spent a solid month watching nothing but episodes of The Office....
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Of Kings and Kong
Friday June 20, 2008
Universal City was on fire. OK, to use more literal terms, a section of the 230-acre back lot at NBC Universal Studios was on fire, but I like the first version for its metaphoric as well as prophetic import. After all, the place is actually named Universal City....
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A Glass Darkly
Thursday June 19, 2008
We’re all astronauts, encapsulated voyagers peering out through windshields at the vast, perilous universe beyond. From these places inside our heads, we steer our ships, sending out probes as necessary. The command center seems far away from the engines and manifolds, a mind/body dissociation....
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Blood and Oil
Wednesday June 18, 2008
I didn’t see Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood until it came out on DVD, and now I can’t get the images out of my mind—a sure sign the movie’s gotten under my skin. Much has been written already about the film....
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Resurrection
Tuesday June 17, 2008
Working on human trafficking issues, I peruse several news articles each day pondering the age-old questions of prostitution: who, if anyone, suffers from a commercial sexual transaction? Is legalization of prostitution inherently pro-woman, or....
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