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At least two people recommended this movie in a discussion here a month or two back, and I watched it over this past weekend. It is excellent, and I add my recommendation to Janet and Rob's. Among other things, it's a tour de force of acting. Unless there was a glimpse of someone in the
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Except diehard loyalists of the incumbent party. Nor should they, it seems. I suppose most of us, or at least those of us who aspire to be Informed Citizens, think of it as something we should pay attention to, but really have no interest in, and will be entirely unaffected by, except for a certain
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That boy who, with his father, wrote a book describing his experience of heaven after a near-fatal accident has now says the story was false. These return-from-the-dead stories appear from time to time, and I usually find them both intriguing and puzzling. But they aren't all equally plausible, and this one struck me as less
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I've been watching the 35th Annual Blues Music Awards, recorded a while back from PBS, in segments of fifteen minutes or so every day while I eat my lunch. This is taken from that broadcast. I had never heard of Doug MacLeod before Tuesday. "Protest songs," as they used to be called in the '60s, generally
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Andrés Segovia I wanted to close out this series with a really important guitarist, and it would be hard to find a more suitable candidate than Segovia, who did so much to bring the guitar into the mainstream of classical music. In a career that spanned the greater part of the 20th century, he advanced the repertoire
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Mississippi Fred McDowell I wish I could say that when I was growing up in rural Alabama I heard this kind of music alive in its native culture. But I didn't; I heard it on records in the living room of an aunt and uncle who had a great interest, very unusual for white people
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Then came, at a predetermined moment, a moment in time and of time,A moment not out of time, but in time, in what we call history: transecting, bisecting the world of time, a moment in time but not like a moment of time,A moment in time but time was made through that moment: for without the meaning
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