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Charlie Hebdo’s blood
Read more: Charlie Hebdo’s bloodTwo armed terrorists, above and below, attacked the Paris office of “Charlie Hebdo.” There’s an inadvertent dollop of old school Marxist-Leninist militancy in the brutal attack on the Paris office of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. Between 1970 and 1980, extreme left wing terrorists staged countless attacks in France, Germany…
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Moons past HAL
Read more: Moons past HALIn Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey, ” the intelligent computer had sinister motives. Half-a-century ago the American Yellow Pages aired a television commercial with the tagline, “Let your fingers do the walking.” Animated fingers shimmied like dancers and happily turned the pages. If only those dated smiley-face fingers hadn’t…
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My flood
Read more: My floodHow to explain? Iwas not weaned on literalism. My parents did their best. They decorated Christmas trees and introduced the terrible mysteries of multiplication tables and insisted I get along with my school peers because the world required compromise. I heard and saw and nodded dutifully. But I knew differently.…
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P-/retty p-/lease
Read more: P-/retty p-/leaseBefore computerized pagination, word surgery was by X-Acto knife. Hyphenation once ruled my life. That “cat” read “cat” and not “c-/at” on a printed page mattered more than wines, fountains or girls. And seeing “cat” as “c-/at” was as common as “a-/djust” or “u-/ntouchable.” I once ran English-language papers in…
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La Vita Ingrata
Read more: La Vita IngrataFellini’s “La Dolce Vita” and his character Marcello Rubin were bitterness incarnate. It was on the outskirts of Rome in the back-room confines of an overheated studio hut that director Federico Fellini once told me he had no idea what to call a movie focused on a handsome gossip reporter…
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‘Breaking shit’
Read more: ‘Breaking shit’Whitman meets Weimar, minus poetry. We live in an era in which both written and spoken language gets most attention when formulated in the shape of a wrecking ball. Hormonal issuances, not critical argument, give speech its clout. Militant if not militaristic intercourse shapes the tone of news and how…
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