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A LOT OF GOOD-LOOKING WOMEN
are to be seen in Red Star, White Nights: The Life and Death of Yuri Soloviev. Evteyeva, Fedicheva, Kolpakova, Komleva, Kurgapkina, Makarova, Minchonok, Moiseyeva, Sizova, Osipenko, Zubkovskaya: all ballerina partners of Soloviev’s, all featured beauteously in our pages. P.S. Someone … Continue reading
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TELL THAT TO CONGRESS
National Geographic headlines its January 2015 article on the incunabula of fine art this way: “The greatest innovation in the history of humankind was neither the stone tool nor the steel sword, but the invention of symbolic expression by the … Continue reading
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IT TAKES A REPUBLICAN
Why are the anti-Trump ads put together by GOP groups like the Lincoln Project so much more hard-hitting than what the Democrats come up with? That’s a rhetorical question.
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TRUMP ENDORSES SOVIET-STYLE SOCIALIST REALISM
There will be only “realistic” images in Trump’s announced waxworks pantheon, honoring right-wing extremists like Antonin Scalia in a Jurassic Hero Park.
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WHY CAN’T TRUMP LOOK AMERICA IN THE FACE?
Addressing the country, the Liar-in-Chief’s head is almost always tilted at a dodgy, evasive angle.
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RAND PAUL ISN’T COMPLAINING ABOUT THE EXPERTS WHO MANAGE HIS PORTFOLIO OR GET HIM TAX DEDUCTIONS
No, it’s only when experts are trying to protect the public heath and welfare that he ridicules them, as he did again today. Knowledge is power, and that’s why Sen. Paul and his Republican colleagues want Americans as ignorant as … Continue reading
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DR. BIRX MUST BE THROWN OFF THE TASK FORCE
The publicity-loving doctor is so ready for her close up that she’s violating the Hippocratic oath and shilling for Trump’s genocide, assuring us that the catastrophic Texas re-opening is really “very steady and safe.”
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TRUMP CALLED OUT FOR HIS GENOCIDE
Watch the new ad from MeidasTouch.
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THIS IS SO LE CLERCQ–AND I SAY THAT W/ADMIRATION
Going through things, found a note from Bob Gottlieb dated November 19, 1981. He had just received a note from Tanaquil: “I really think, as long as I don’t want to have anything to do with a book about me, … Continue reading
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DID WE PAY FOR KELLYANNE’S PLASTIC SURGERY?
Would be interesting to find out if/how she manipulated her government-supplied health insurance to manifest The New Look.
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