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It started with a tweet. And in the end, that’s what won the war.
But in the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone’s existence in this world.
Wislawa Szymborska
via Culture Desk: Wislawa Szymborska: The Happiness of Wisdom Felt : The New Yorker
Never use a verb other than “said” to carry dialogue. The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in. But “said” is far less intrusive than “grumbled”, “gasped”, “cautioned”, “lied”. I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with “she asseverated” and had to stop reading and go to the dictionary.
Politics have no place in health care,” he said in a statement. “Breast cancer screening saves lives and hundreds of thousands of women rely on Planned Parenthood for access to care. We should be helping women access that care, not placing barriers in their way.
I would say that the four key drivers that I identified were, first, the rise of women. Women’s massive entry into the labor force during the last half century has meant that more and more women can delay marriage, support themselves, leave a marriage that’s not working for them, and even buy their own home, which is a big trend in the real estate market. Marriage is just not economically necessary for women anymore, and that wasn’t true 50 or 60 years ago.
Cook: Is there any relationship between introversion and creativity?
Cain: Yes. An interesting line of research by the psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Gregory Feist suggests that the most creative people in many fields are usually introverts. This is probably because introverts are comfortable spending time alone, and solitude is a crucial (and underrated) ingredient for creativity.
In a phone call from the Capitol immediately after the State of the Union address last night, President Obama informs John Buchanan that his daughter Jessica, a kidnapped aid worker, was rescued by U.S. Special Operations Forces in Somalia earlier that evening.
Official White House photo by Pete Souza
Sorry to wax trivial, but this is a total Jed and Abbey moment.
Let’s just say Loops makes the Top 2:
Now, in a second act worthy of any great show, LuPone has reclaimed her Broadway spotlight with a vengeance—in revivals of Sweeney Todd and especially Gypsy, for which she won her second Tony—and taken her rightful place as the reigning diva of her generation. Detractors may sling mud at her Long Island–Sicilian earthiness, but LuPone’s voice, and the evident joy she takes in using it, make such objections moot. Her style is stamped with an implicit credo: all guts, all glory.
I have a Facebook account, but I mostly post pictures of dachshunds I enjoy. I love dachshunds, so it was a logical thing. What are you going to put up on this Facebook thing? For me, I thought, “Dachshunds!
There are days we would rather know
than these, as there is always, later,
a wife we would rather have married
than whom we did, in that severe nowness
time pushed, imperfectly, to then. Whether,
standing in the museum before Rembrandt’s “Juno,”
we stand before beauty, or only before a consensus
about beauty, is a question that makes all beauty
suspect … and all marriages. Last night,
leaves circled the base of the ginkgo as if
the sun had shattered during the night
into a million gold coins no one had the sense
to claim. And now, there are days we would
rather know than these, days when to stand
before beauty and before “Juno” are, convincingly,
the same, days when the shattered sunlight
seeps through the trees and the women we marry
stay interesting and beautiful both at once,
and their men. And though there are days
we would rather know than now, I am,
at heart, a scared and simple man. So I tighten
my arms around the woman I love, now
and imperfectly, stand before “Juno” whispering
beautiful beautiful until I believe it, and—
when I come home at night—I run out
into the day’s pale dusk with my broom
and my dustpan, sweeping the coins from the base
of the ginkgo, something to keep for a better tomorrow:
days we would rather know that never come.
— Michael Blumenthal
Roger’s a Downton man.
I could understand why the Earl he had devoted his life to its maintenance. I could even understand why he was so determined to give up the title and his fortune on the sake of principle; if you live under laws by which you can lose everything when a ship goes down, then perhaps it’s not quite so unfair that you have it in the first place.
Modern art museums typically lead us into galleries set out under headings such as “the 19th century” and “the Northern Italian School”, which reflect the academic traditions in which their curators have been educated. A more fertile indexing system might group together artworks from across genres and eras according to our inner needs. A walk through a museum of art should amount to a structured encounter with a few of the things that are easiest for us to forget and most essential and life-enhancing to remember.
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Enter the age of defriending: http://t.co/lXj1A65k11 hours ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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"What distinguishes a Broadway voice, in truth, is stamina." Go, @bettybuckley! http://t.co/YQORWWK817 hours ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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@AdventureSarahB @roxiezeek @chelseawithasea That's why I came back with a thousand packs of "balsam fresh" German Kleenex.
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Why I listen to @WQXRClassical in the morning: "We'll have the news for you after this Hungarian dance."
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Very nice: online brochure for the Met's 2012/13 season: http://t.co/uk4vMQIS34 hours ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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The art of the Meryl Streep acceptance speech http://t.co/szmRJhzd
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@scottgelt Great trip! Good beers.
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@scottgelt Not the best episode. It's always silly, though.
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I'm back, America. Lock up your burgers.
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DIRTY DANCING dubbed in German does not disappoint.
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How it goes in Baden Baden http://t.co/zcZCWdqz
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One last request before I flee the country: watch COUGAR TOWN! Don't disappoint me, America.
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@kevinddaly Our movie's playing, Jerry: "Well I'm not gonna do it the way I did it at the club, if that's what you're afraid of."
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Jonathan Schwartz is playing a Nirvana cover, and he rhymed "Nirvana" with "savannah." I didn't know any of those things were possible.
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I'd be more inclined to tip buskers if they didn't all operate from the same playlist. "You Are My Sunshine" has limits.
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