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NYC CULTURAL LANDMARKS GOING DOWN LIKE NINEPINS
Now it’s the Sunshine movie theater on Houston Street. There is no excuse for a New York City run like this.
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NOUVEAU RICHE SNOB JEFF SESSIONS
He wants his DOJ draped in floor-to-ceiling Anglo-American tweed.
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THE PESTILENCE THAT IS MICK MULVANEY
In Trump’s kakistocracy there are few more royally-invested, toxic, self-dealing contortions of humanity than Mulvaney. –Takes over Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and uses it to shield his campaign contributors from justice. Thus he shows his complete contempt for the American … Continue reading
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DEMS THEW AWAY THEIR LEVERAGE ON DACA
Go ahead, Chuck baby, keep it up–you’ll see what a Blue Wave chimera means– just the way your prediction about suburban voters replacing the blue collar voters the Dems abandoned worked out so well in 2016. Alice Ollstein writes at … Continue reading
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ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL REHEARSALS
I ever saw was Tchernichova rehearsing Susan Jaffe in 1983 for thirty minutes exclusively in Giselle’s run across the back of the stage early in act two. Posting this before I get sidetracked by political outrage. Will supply more details … Continue reading
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THE REIGN OF THE CORPORATE DEMS HAS TO END
I just got off the phone w/Sen. Schumer’s office, after telling them that if Chuck keeps capitulating to Trump and trying to cut deals with him, I along with millions of other Democrats are going to walk out of the … Continue reading
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15:17 TO PARIS
Eastwood’s new movie is so simple it could be Quaker. Boy stops terrorist on train. That’s about it. No background on the terrorist or his motivations; that would be moral equivalence not pure evil. No connection to boy’s prior life … Continue reading
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IS KELLYANNE THE GOP’S TOKYO ROSE?
A student of totalitarian societies I know doesn’t think so. Yes, both of them disseminate vile defamation and propaganda. But Tokyo did what she had to do to survive in a police state. Kellyanne does what she does by her … Continue reading
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PIQUANT & PICTURESQUE & INCOMPLETE
I was browsing in a wonderful mid-size independent bookstore upstate. Great selection, except — virtually no books on the arts, let alone the performing arts. It’s not SAD!, but it’s sad.
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