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Because the night
Read more: Because the nightPatti Smith in 1974. In the distance the Rome zoo is trying to close. I say trying because it can’t hear itself. Instruments booming from the park stun the information. The loudspeaker begins, “The zoo is about to…” but is interrupted by guitars and a voice that sings “Because the…
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Fire-Eaters
Read more: Fire-EatersClowns in the afternoons… You’d need a wormhole to go back to Piazza Navona of the fire-eaters. Getting to today’s version requires crossing a park and latching onto fashionable streets whose sidewalks burst with assembly line tourists for whom proof of being and seeing is the fecund hatching of digital…
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Il Duce’s crackers
Read more: Il Duce’s crackersWhen America could talk: George C. Marshall beside Harry Truman in 1948. In July 1928, my father Percy Winner, then foreign editor of the New York Evening Post, published a lengthy profile of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in Current History, a magazine founded by The New York Times in 1914 that still exists today.…
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Maket
Read more: MaketIvan Ivanovich, or John Doe: Twice in 1961. Blackie and Starlet were stuck with a dummy. They did it twice in March, first Blackie and then Starlet, before the big event, which was all about the man called Yuri. That happened in April. At least Blackie and Starlet had good…
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Interpenetration
Read more: InterpenetrationPound: Language comes first. At the peak of Western worry about Soviet anti-Semitism, “Saturday Night Live” comedian Gilda Radner cooked up delicious subversion. What, she demanded to know, was all the fuss about Soviet jewelry? Dressing down the highfalutin is an occasional obligation and now’s the turn of the so-called…
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Creature featured
Read more: Creature featuredIndia’s Manmohan Singh, Dmitri Medvedev of Russia, China’s Hu Jintao, and former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the April 2010 BRIC summit. As the United Nations moves to ensure the righteous removal of Libyan tyrant Moammar Qaddafi — a “creature,” as Hillary Clinton calls him — noteworthy…
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