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It’s funny the way cute little locutions like that win a place in our dialogue and then fade. I distinctly remember a particular person using that coinage to me ca. 1988. Ah, yes, the halcyon ’80s, when Daddy Ronny told … Continue reading →

  What’s so great about walking in to an already lit room anyway?  

It’s not Bernie who’s stepping on her coronation robes–it’s the endless betises committed by her, by the dilapidated, corrupt Democratic establishment. It’s now clear that there is a very good chance–even a probability, I hate to say–that Trump will defeat … Continue reading →

  About 50,000 graduates and invitees gathered in Morningside Heights on Wednesday to hear UN General Secretary sum it up in one phrase:  “Turn off the lights.”  Fighting global warming is as simple as that!  Dance Theatre of Harlem founder … Continue reading →

The behavior of the Democratic leadership toward Sanders and his supporters now virtually guarantees that millions of potential Democratic voters will sit out the election in November–as so many liberal Democrats did in the midterms of 2010 and 2014. Unless … Continue reading →

Back in the ’80s, I used to watch or listen to Ronald Reagan’s addresses when I could stomach them and think, Why would anyone take seriously this cornball shtick? Bad enough what he was usually saying–the overdone, cloying manner and … Continue reading →

A friend in Paris tells me that the Osipenko book is nicely visible at Galignani’s, the great old bookstore on the Rue de Rivoli. Give or take a century, the store’s almost as venerable  as the Academie Royale de Danse. … Continue reading →

And stunning– the newly restored 1930 musical film revue King of Jazz. The early two strip Technicolor process has never looked more vibrant and almost tactile. There’s lots of fun dance, including a Highlander number with the girls in pointe … Continue reading →

But I don’t think I am, although this is basically anecdotal observation — Yet doesn’t it seem to you that early in Michelle Obama’s reign as First Lady, she was seen MUCH more frequently at ballet and high-art events like … Continue reading →