2005
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Disobeying Funerals
The triumph of unbridled narcissism. From time to time I revisit “Triumph of the Will,” Leni Riefenstahl’s remarkable propagandistic peon…
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Giacomino
You ask Angelica and she says… Let us now suppose…. It is 1965. You are 12. You have been sent…
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Abort
No choice… My wife-to-be is annoyed. She objects to a newspaper item about Spain permitting gay marriage. It’s unnatural. It’s…
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Telefonia
My parents’ marriage lasted 13 years. Photographs of the two of them at peace are few. When I can’t sleep…
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The Dart Side
Il mondo, tutto intorno a te” — and closing in. Bill Gates is a picture of Globalization. Microsoft’s latest ad…
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Never to Thrill
No physical liberal is Benedict. “Papa vecchio,” says the message from a friend. “Avevi ragione.” She’s right, but only relatively speaking. I…
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Getting it Wrong
During the recent papal death and election, a reporter for a major American daily newspaper was asked to file a…
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Advocatus diaboli
Do it now… Saints are the official celebrities of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope John Paul II sensed their significance…
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The hand that takes
Edward von Kloberg, 1942-2005, pictured in his Washington office in 1990. Photo courtesy of the Washington Post. Never ignore a…
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Iwo Jima
Remember what I told you, he said, giving me the photo. The generosity of the air matters. So does the…
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Yo, Bacon
Get Lauren Bacall within a slow-burn Camel of Humphrey Bogart and she morphs into pure pheromone. Language is in flux.…
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Outland
Peace with honor: The U.S. Embassy under siege in Saigon, 1975. I’ve nailed the problem in Iraq. There is none.…
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Vive La France
No is way to say, “Here we are!” On a sunny Sunday when a German pope sounded much like his…
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Drink that sweater!
Maybe, whispers my inner Neville Chamberlain, she was merely being clever. Dating over age 40 reminds me of a 1960s…
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Touch Me
And here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson… Retro indeed. Paul Anka has a new album. He’s 63. Anne Bancroft has a…
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