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WELL, THAT’S REASSURING
So what if the American population turns into depersonalized robots! Did you know that you can have an incredibly personal banking experience? So I was told by a placard as I walked up Broadway toward Lincoln Center last night.
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AND DON’T MISS
Sara Mearns in Dances of Isadora at Paul Taylor this week. I saw the opening last night. It was performed with Trisha Brown’s Set and Reset, performed by her company, and with Taylor’s Esplanade–quite an event. Talk about going to … Continue reading
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NILS FRAHM
A friend caught his set at the 9:30 club in Washington, D.C. Friday night–told me it was a gas. In The New York Times, Anna Cordea-Rado profiles Frahm, one of a current school of “musicians who combine elements of electronic … Continue reading
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ONCE AGAIN,
it is Bernie Sanders, attacked by Hillary Clinton for not being a “real” Democrat, who is showing Democrats a way out of their ruinous endorsement of endless war as our bipartisan foreign policy default. Read his speech at the Move … Continue reading
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THE MADNESS OF KING DONALD
Robert Reich describes the “new and more dangerous phase” that the aspiring monarch is moving into. “A narcissistic megalomaniac who’s unconstrained – and who’s also president of the United States – is about as dangerous as they come.”
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LIZ CHENEY’S PLASTIC SURGERY
leaves her morally, ethically, and ideologically exposed. I didn’t realize she’d submitted to Enhanced enhancement techniques, but I knew she didn’t look the same as she did when she was grifting on her father’s connections with a taxpayer-subsidized sinecure. Cheney, … Continue reading
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TRUMP CACKLES FROM THE WINGS
Where his back is pressed firmly against the wall. Seth Abramson tweets: “Trump is neither subtle nor intelligent. His dishonest tweets are now overtly laying the groundwork for Mueller’s firing. And this effort began the moment he found out the … Continue reading
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TREASON TIME
Howard Dean tweets: “Based on what Brennan has said and what the Mercer’s did, I am thinking there will be treason charges before we are done with all this.”
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NOW, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
Mark Sumner at Daily Kos reviews the official announcements–it’s here. “If you’re waiting for the the secret police to come knocking on your door, or the maybe a few tanks in the streets, or perhaps a few of the more … Continue reading
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YOU DON’T GET THIS IN ANY OTHER ART FORM
Go to youtube. Anna Spelman interacts, or moves in proximity to, or in dialogue with Thomas Titone, Johan Renvall and Peter Fonseca on stage at American Ballet Theatre in Paul Taylor’s Airs in 1985. She’s a lone figure working in … Continue reading
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