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Big lug
Read more: Big lugSnowtires and chains, anyone? Italy comes in many shapes and sizes. When outside attention isn’t focused on the lurid carnival of politics it falls instead on quaint small towns or chefs that concoct food from the simple. But the Italy of infinite Tuscan sun and its chipper folklore has an…
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Roses
Read more: RosesA love of small things… The memorial ceremony will be held in the family apartment in New York City that for years served as a beloved refuge from the small city to the south where she lived. She fit the apartment tastefully, as was her way. Her discretion included a…
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Telos, gone
Read more: Telos, goneA society marked by emptiness… So many fumbling plumbers nattering about a leak — not Wiki’s; a leak whose source no one really knows, and even if they did, not one, not in this group, would fix it, or pretend to try, since the hemorrhage suits their purposes, intrigues them,…
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Happy face
Read more: Happy faceCamorra boss Antonio Iovine. Anglo-Saxon detentions are a celebration of the punitive. Arrested men and women stand pokerfaced beside similarly pokerfaced agents. Grins are a firing offense. All the more reason to pause on images of captured on-the-lam Camorra boss Antonio Iovine. Premise: Iovine is a conscientiously hateful man who…
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Zounds
Read more: ZoundsThe orbital commanders always said hello. Well before social networks — which would have been far too limiting — Byrne and I staged communications contests. We had no Pods (reserved instead for horror movies) and the only available instant messages were coughs, homework and parental orders, all of which were…
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Pulang kampung, nih
Read more: Pulang kampung, nihIndonesia bagian dari diri saya… In Cold War 1963, a youthful John Kennedy brought out goose bumps in West Berlin with four well-chosen words in German: “Ich bin ein Berliner” (“I am a citizen of Berlin.”) All could borrow from his romantic defiance of the Soviet Union, which had just…
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