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Intervallo
Read more: IntervalloFor years, RAI filled downtime with static images. Films in Italy are messily chopped in two, a primo tempo and a secondo. A mid-scene fracture is more likely than a graceful fade-out. Then comes the intervallo, intermission. The tradition annoys North Americans and Britons who like their meals in a single sitting. Interruptions are…
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Air
Read more: AirShe was afraid of planes so he booked her on liners. My depressive, imperfect father was a little-things man. He moved mountains without boasts. Seeing me enjoy a trip (to London, say), he’d stray silently from our hotel room to extend it. When I began packing he’d stop me, he’d…
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Agonistes
Read more: AgonistesEluana Englaro died Feb. 9 after being in a coma since a 1992 auto accident. In the United States, a Supreme Court justice is briefly vivisected to get at pancreatic cancer. She is 76. Why? For the better years that lie ahead? For its own sake? To “express” medicine? In…
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Untouchable
Read more: UntouchableNokia 5110: Do not display in public. The Dalits are the lowest of all Indian castes, indentured servants known as untouchables. I belong to my own caste — the unreachables. This isn’t the best of positions in a society whose neo-Cartesian dimension puts chatting and being on equal footing. Call him; send…
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Epic
Read more: EpicCzestochowa, Poland, June 4, 1979. Epic is a tricky word. So is historical. And groundbreaking. Invited to make history, Americans gladly help the monumental feel at home. The Obama inaugural offered a perfect vessel for the kinds of larger-than-life yearnings the United States usually struggles to fully contain, let alone…
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Frog
Read more: FrogWanda Scaravelli. The yoga teacher is angry. She’s a Scorpio after all. Loyal, secretive, protective, jealous — or so say astrologers. I knew nothing of signs, let alone Scorpios, until she summed it up harshly: “Psycho.” Yet she was anything but. We corresponded often. She planned an R&R trip to…
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