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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
I checked out that article at lunchtime...wow that is a long article! Can't wait to read the rest about this "tough broad."
And I was so pleased to see an article about Federico Garcia Lorca, the very next day after viewing the movie Little Ashes about him, Salvador Dali, and Luis Bunuel!!
Gotta read the one about decreasing urban violence by "telling them to stop." Looks like another important issue!
Front-Ranger:
The cover of this week's New Yorker holds several double meanings and hidden meanings, a couple of which I got. One thing that delighted me about Barry Blitt's "Hanging Chador" was the fact that the Iranian woman has green eyes. This just one or two days after the announcement that Kodak's Kodachrome film, used to take an award-winning photo of a green-eyed Afghan woman, was published.
BTW, I was horrified when reading the story in The Wall Street Journal, to see that photographers are hording (sic) the film. For shame!! It's hoarding.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on June 24, 2009, 03:50:38 pm ---The cover of this week's New Yorker holds several double meanings and hidden meanings, a couple of which I got. One thing that delighted me about Barry Blitt's "Hanging Chador" was the fact that the Iranian woman has green eyes. This just one or two days after the announcement that Kodak's Kodachrome film, used to take an award-winning photo of a green-eyed Afghan woman, was published.
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I got that issue in yesterday's mail. All I've had time for so far was a quick look at the short book reviews. I was under the impression that Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and the first woman to hold a cabinet post, was a lesbian. Perhaps she was, but, if so, apparently she was a lesbian who also had a mentally ill husband. :-\
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on June 25, 2009, 09:04:24 am ---I got that issue in yesterday's mail. All I've had time for so far was a quick look at the short book reviews. I was under the impression that Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and the first woman to hold a cabinet post, was a lesbian. Perhaps she was, but, if so, apparently she was a lesbian who also had a mentally ill husband. :-\
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Jeff, your comment reminded me that I wanted to post about Willa Cather. I will do so in The Culture Tent. Come look for it later!
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on June 17, 2009, 01:26:01 pm ---Reading the June 22 issue at lunch today, I learned a good tip, courtesy of Simon Doonan: Once you pass age 50, start aging in French. It sounds better.
Je suis cinquante-et-un. ;D See? Doesn't that sound elegant? :laugh:
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Well, almost elegant. In French you don't be an age, you have an age. So it would be "J'ai cinquante-et-un ans."
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