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Why didn’t any Republican presidential contender mention global warming? Because the GOP hasn’t yet found a way to blame it on the Welfare Queens!

An all-dance commercial flick? Hoping to get to see Powell and Pressburger’s 1951 Tales of Hoffmann at the Museum of Modern Art tonight at 7:00 p.m. Choreographed by Ashton, starring Moira Shearer–and I’ve never seen it in its entirety! I … Continue reading →

I almost hated to post those last links providing the latest looks at our degraded journalistic profession on the heels of Laura’s exquisite prose. I mean, great performing art, great writing–kind of nice, right?

Rick Pearlstein at the Washington Spectator excoriates the obfuscatory, trivia-obsessed coverage of the GOP presidential primaries. It seems to be worse than ever. WHILE Sarah Lazare at commondreams.org describes the way mum’s-the-word when it comes to “journalists” covering the Koch … Continue reading →

“This Serenade is amazing, caught up in coarse shadows on a claustrophobic stage and still it flies into infinity. Fascinating, how intimate is the Waltz Girl’s final fall. Except it’s not a fall.  It’s a death roll, Diana Adams turning … Continue reading →

shows her Tudor and de Mille training: that would be Diana Adams in the 1957 CBC Serenade. I was talking to Laura today about it; she may contribute a few words. . .

Was driving and remembered a line I hadn’t thought of in years. It’s in that novel I told you about which I want to sit down and finish. Seems the protagonist had gotten his chin tweaked by a plastic surgeon … Continue reading →

Not to mention a subject! “Wilde Times: Patricia Wilde, George Balanchine, and the Rise of New York City Ballet”

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I thought I was seeing things–I’m still not quite convinced it was real: there, on the side of the bus, was an advertisement from the Human Resources Administration about the food stamps program. Racial stereotyping was shrewdly averted: the poster … Continue reading →