2011
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Interpenetration
Pound: Language comes first. At the peak of Western worry about Soviet anti-Semitism, “Saturday Night Live” comedian Gilda Radner cooked…
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Maket
Ivan Ivanovich, or John Doe: Twice in 1961. Blackie and Starlet were stuck with a dummy. They did it twice…
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Il Duce’s crackers
When America could talk: George C. Marshall beside Harry Truman in 1948. In July 1928, my father Percy Winner, then…
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Fire-Eaters
Clowns in the afternoons… You’d need a wormhole to go back to Piazza Navona of the fire-eaters. Getting to today’s…
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Because the night
Patti Smith in 1974. In the distance the Rome zoo is trying to close. I say trying because it can’t…
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Proprium beati
Pope John Paul II visiting a mine in 1980. No patience for Liberation Theology. My Polish-born mother was skeptical of…
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