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Joh Queally at CommonDreams details the “scathing” response by people who know what they’re talking about to Obama’s perpetuation of 24/7 war.  I’m afraid tht it’s only a matter of  time before the neocons get the war with Iran that … Continue reading →

I thought I’d better give Violette Verdy’s full title at Indiana University, given that I knew how decorated she is: And so I contacted Robin and she supplied it: IT IS: Violette Verdy Distinguished Professor of Ballet Kathy Ziliak Anderson Chair … Continue reading →

* Except if you saw it in 1967. Violette Verdy’s uncannily efficient assistant Robin sent at my request a DVD of silent footage of Verdy’s performance in Emeralds. I’d heard about it and wanted to research the original cast. Verdy … Continue reading →

It might as well be a decade ago: virtually the same U.S. foreign policy nightmare is now unfolding. The White House today primes us for another open-ended-unto eternity military conflict in the Middle East. And they are priming us with … Continue reading →

Obama continues his campaign to throw the Senate to the GOP, ordering 350 more troops to Iraq and intensifying the bombing, while frothing-at-the-mouth Dems like Bill Nelson add to the apocalyptic fun. And  people who actually know what they’re talking … Continue reading →

It used to be a staple of Connecticut and New York county lanes: great big naturalized clumps of orange day lillies. In the 1980s they started disappearing. The culprit: deer, but really humans. Massive development eliminated deer habitat and their panicked reaction was to … Continue reading →

Late last month Jack Anderson and George Dorris hosted a get together for friends and colleagues of Ballet Review’s late copy editor.  She enjoyed a long and varied career as serious student of music, as dancer, as librarian, writer and editor. … Continue reading →

That’s apparently what we can expect from the foreign policy Hillary Clinton would pursue as president–an even more vid appetite for perpetual war than Obama has shown. She may even be on a par with George W. Bush. The Atlantic interview was disastrous, but … Continue reading →

We live in a country where, if you are a financial institution engaged in criminal misconduct that brings a national economy to its knees, not only do you suffer no punitive measures whatsoever BUT money collected from the coffers of taxpayer … Continue reading →

Volume 4 will be available early next month.