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Sunovrat
Read more: SunovratI should find her a full-length mirror, she said. In a dream, I fell in love with a woman from an exotic country. Or maybe it wasn’t exotic but just seemed so to me. She was beautiful except for the nose of a boxer, which she lamented. She told me…
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Bowie
Read more: BowieOnly a few insiders knew that Bowie, 69, was gravely ill with cancer. Ifirst heard the name Allan Jacks in the early days of my Rome journalistic experiment. And an experiment it was, since I’d studied literature and poetry in college and knew more about Ezra Pound than Clark Kent.…
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Bombardiers
Read more: BombardiersDonald Trump and Ted Cruz: insult central. By year’s end, one of a cluster of Republican Party politicians will stand a chance of ascending to the American presidency. Why is, then, that most of these men and women still sound less like fully formed adults than churlishly immature preteens trying…
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Ormi ci siamo
Read more: Ormi ci siamoThe era of the conductor, replaced by ticket machines. Ibought my first pair of Italian shoes from a family-owned store on Rome’s Via della Vite, a narrow street behind the bustling main post office. Buses were green then. So were taxis, soon to turn yellow. Bus fare was 50 lire,…
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Director’s cut
Read more: Director’s cutIn a decade of war, the U.S. lost 4,500 men in Iraq, about the number of casualties the recent fight for Ramadi has claimed in a fraction of the time. As many in the West busied themselves watching the reams of galactic combat offered up by the latest episode of…
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Between the lines
Read more: Between the linesBetween-the-lines? Unlikely. Audio books are booming, ostensibly a shot in the arm for both books and the publishing industry. The written word is still in demand but better still if the written is spoken and recorded, book become at once lecture and private theater. It makes circle-squaring sense if you…
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