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After the fall
Read more: After the fallNo way to hang on: the end of a man who took a famous photo. Destiny can take the shape of a snapshot or a fall from a seven-story building. It makes a sudden imprint only to vanish as swiftly as it came, no one the wiser. So picture this:…
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Heavy water
Read more: Heavy waterRome water is rich in calcium and can clog pipes. Nasone, or “fat nose,” fountains are manna for the thirsty. Instead of focusing on unrest in Ukraine, protests in Thailand, Nelson Mandela’s death show and the ascent of an ambitious Florence mayor, I’m contemplating the density of Rome tap water.…
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Beasts and their burden
Read more: Beasts and their burdenThe muckraking era was relentlessly emotional, and partisan. Ionce wanted to be erudite for the sake of the word, which sounded lofty. So did the word awry, even though I couldn’t pronounce either. Vowels tangling with consonants shut me up. I also wanted to be a writer. Or a journalist…
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Unfettered
Read more: UnfetteredThe Monkees: Not your average critics of “unfettered capitalism.” Pope Francis wasn’t listening to AM radio in the mid-1960s, when the first blast of anti-consumerism snuck into mainstream American pop music. Not into folk, which had been carrying the burden of unions and the downtrodden for decades, or into the…
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Pope John-Francis 1/2
Read more: Pope John-Francis 1/2Pope John Paul II and Andy Warhol in St. Peter’s Square in 1980. Pope Francis I recently issued his first apostolic exhortation, a kind of rambling reflection that tends to sum up recent views and offer an array of advice. It is not an encyclical, tantamount to a papal novel,…
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Ash Friday
Read more: Ash FridayThe first static bulletin, and CBS’ Walter Cronkite. AFriday in November 50 years ago my world went haywire. Everyone’s in fact, though I was by far the most aggrieved — or so I thought. On a post-Thanksgiving Friday in 1963 I was darting around the basement TV section of a…
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