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Standing Ovations and the Convergence of the Twain
Monday June 9, 2008
Several years ago while standing in a grocery store cheese section, my mother (who is a staggeringly empathetic, beautiful person—a much better person than I am, in fact) asked me, with all the heavily accented French of your average NPR Host, if I would consider it “effete” if she served a wheel of Brie and some Water Crackers before a dinner party....
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The Greatest of These
Friday June 6, 2008
Any project done in collaboration with twenty-one people is almost certain to be abysmal. Joint efforts are hard to manage, unless they’re in name only: a de facto leader and a troop of “partners” who can be told to shut up and get to it....
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Who Would Jesus Deport?
Thursday June 5, 2008
Synchronicity is not a word I often associate with the random glut of prime-time television. But when a glancing look at the Tuesday night schedule last week revealed a Frontline special on immigration at the same hour as a History Channel segment on Noah’s Flood, I could sense a coincidence too good to pass up....
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Performing Art
Wednesday June 4, 2008
I’m told music, dance and theater are performing arts, distinguished from “plastic arts” in that the medium of expression is the (frequently augmented) human body moving in time, the realization inseparable from interpretation....
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Cheaper, Greener...More Chic
Tuesday June 3, 2008
Growing up, thriftiness was next to godliness. My sisters and I were never in want, but our eternal case of low-grade covetousness was stoked by an odd egotism: we were too good to eat out, shop anywhere but secondhand, or upgrade from a muffler-less Aerostar to something that didn’t belch smoke....
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