Drama, Movies

Broken Embraces

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Pedro Almadovar surprises you again with Broken Embraces. Unlike Woody Allen who now makes the same movie over and over again, Almadovar in all his recent films has broken new ground in his quest to lay bare before our eyes the variety in the human experience.  During the first hour I wondered where the film image [Read More]
Diary

Origins of the debt showdown

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Here is another good account of the drama behind the debt showdown by the Washington Post. In mid-January, newly installed as the GOP House majority leader, Virginia’s Eric Cantor rose to the podium inside a spacious hotel ballroom to deliver a message to his troops, including the 87 newcomers who had given the party control of image [Read More]
Diary

Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face

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Poem by Jack Prelutsky Be glad your nose is on your face, not pasted on some other place, for if it were where it is not, you might dislike your nose a lot. Imagine if your precious nose were sandwiched in between your toes, that clearly would not be a treat, for you’d be forced to smell your feet. Your nose would be a image [Read More]
Books, Fiction

The Great Gatsby

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What a great book! It is short enough that you can read it in one day. I recommend that you set aside a Sunday and get rapped at in this marvelous piece of American fiction.  F. Scott Fitzgerald is a masterful writer. His prose is a bit reminiscent of Joseph Roth. He sets up a image [Read More]
Diary

The Press is Cleaning Itself

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It was the Guardian and not the British Police that kept on investigating who knew about or had authorized the bugging of phones.  The scandal already has claimed for prominent players. And now the press is turning on Rupert Murdoch has being too old to run his empire. Will he be able to survive.  JEANNE image [Read More]