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Teddy...and My Tribe
I was traveling, once again, as I watched Teddy Kennedy’s funeral on a cross-country flight. I was hooked, just as I had been hooked on watching C-SPAN coverage of the Senator’s prolonged wake at the JFK Library in Dorchester, Massachusetts. I couldn’t stop watching my tribe—not the....
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Credo Quia Impossibile
My second favorite movie (my first is Gone with the Wind, which is embarrassing, but my tastes run to the lowbrow/popular) is The Third Miracle, a 1999 film starring Ed Harris. Its opening scene occurs during World War II, in an Eastern European country whose geography has been....
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Culture Making in Santa Fe
I was in Montana at the beginning of June. In the tiny Helena airport, I saw a man reading Tony Horwitz's A Voyage Long and Strange. I later picked it up. It's an engaging account of America’s history between Columbus’s landing and the Pilgrims’ debarkation at Plymouth Rock—which is, if you’ve ever seen it....
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Discovering Dignity
I came home recently to find a plastic bag hanging from the front door. It contained a paper, which I assumed was a business announcement of some kind. The usual hard luck story these scary days, I thought—an unemployed contractor looking for odd jobs. The bag turned out to contain a gift of....
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Nurse Jackie: Good, But Not Yet
“Showtime’s comedies…have the whole God-Is-Dead thing down to a science,” posits a June 7 Newsday review of the new series, Nurse Jackie, starring Edie Falco of Sopranos fame, as well as the playwright/actor Anna Deavere Smith and Tony nominee Eve Best. Huh?...
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Memoir by Lauren Winner, Poetry by James Harpur, Art by Guy Chase and Adrian Wiszniewski
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