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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: southendmd on July 25, 2024, 11:19:57 am ---Do you mean the one entitled: "Tea and Beachside High Jinks in Provincetown" by Hannah Goldfield?
I found it wildly inaccurate and biased.
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That issue was waiting for me when I got home today. That article is pretty awful.
Should we cancel Hannah Goldfield? ;D
Front-Ranger:
I found the profile of Isabella Ducrot by Rebecca Mead fascinating. Would I have loved to have that assignment! What a life--and she's still living it! Then, there is "Old Money" by Lauren Collins, another great writer. It answers the question I had after reading the pirate article, "are there still pirates in the world." Turns out, there are! The French have their hands full trying to keep track of all their treasures.
I spied a new word for me in one of the recent articles. I think it was the one on the Bronx. Lulz. Urban Dictionary defines it as:
"Lulz is awesome. Lulz is way better than lol. Lulz is a synonym for Schadenfreude and means 'lol derived from other's suffering'."
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on July 28, 2024, 09:55:30 am ---I spied a new word for me in one of the recent articles. I think it was the one on the Bronx. Lulz. Urban Dictionary defines it as:
"Lulz is awesome. Lulz is way better than lol. Lulz is a synonym for Schadenfreude and means 'lol derived from other's suffering'."
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Thanks! I'd never heard that either. You've saved me the trouble of looking it up! :laugh:
I was thinking maybe it came from Yiddish. ::)
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on July 26, 2024, 09:31:17 pm ---Should we cancel Hannah Goldfield? ;D
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Well, she certainly is not a Mimi Sheraton. When I was researching places to go on my honeymoon to Italy in 1973, I went to the downtown library and made copies of Sheraton's articles on a schoolgirls' tour of Italy. I remember they were mimeographs with white type on a black background. In Florence, we went to a restaurant named alla Vecchia Bettola that was across the Ponte Vecchio in the older, less fashionable area. The food was delightful, so as we were finishing up, I showed the review to the waiter, who grabbed it and ran into the kitchen. He returned without it and said he had pinned it up on the wall. In 2004, we returned to Florence with our high-school-aged children. We took them there for dinner and I noticed that the review was still on the wall, this time, facing out toward the restaurant on the door to the kitchen. Here is a more recent review of it: https://www.elizabethminchilli.com/2016/06/la-vecchia-bettola-florence/
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on July 30, 2024, 09:55:15 am ---Well, she certainly is not a Mimi Sheraton. When I was researching places to go on my honeymoon to Italy in 1973, I went to the downtown library and made copies of Sheraton's articles on a schoolgirls' tour of Italy. I remember they were mimeographs with white type on a black background. In Florence, we went to a restaurant named alla Vecchia Bettola that was across the Ponte Vecchio in the older, less fashionable area. The food was delightful, so as we were finishing up, I showed the review to the waiter, who grabbed it and ran into the kitchen. He returned without it and said he had pinned it up on the wall. In 2004, we returned to Florence with our high-school-aged children. We took them there for dinner and I noticed that the review was still on the wall, this time, facing out toward the restaurant on the door to the kitchen. Here is a more recent review of it: https://www.elizabethminchilli.com/2016/06/la-vecchia-bettola-florence/
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That's pretty amazing. It's amazing that review was still legible after all those years.
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