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fiddlers on hot tin roofs
Under such circumstances the Jew, if he did not succumb to Christian pressure and seek conversion, felt both superior and inferior. He hugged his own traditions and pondered, elaborated, refined them in constant study and meditation. If to the outside … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahlam Tamimi, Avi Chai Foundation, Chief Rabbi Yoel Metzger, Cryobank Israel, Dr. Jacob Ronen, Gene Wilder, Germany Circumcision debate, Guttman-Avi Chai survey, Isaac Bashevis Singer, joe kubert, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Oslo Peace Process, Oslo Roadmap for Peace, Peter Lorre, rabbi ovadia yosef, Rabin assassination, Ramallah 2000 lynchings, Richard Pryor, Sholem Aleichem
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norman the negotiator
Naughty Norman. Not really. Unconscious of what he was doing, or in the grip of forces otside his control. Not likely. Ostensibly, it was a play on innocence, but it was effectively not much different than a J.D. Salinger, Isaac … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, Charles Baudelaire, David Bowie, Doris Day, Francis Bacon, Frank Capra, Hieronymous Bosch, Isaac Bashevis Singer, J.D. Salinger, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marcel Duchamp, Mickey Mantle, Norman Rockwell, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Richard Halpern, Sigmund Freud
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some things you just can’t improvise
In Alan Arkin’s role as Singer in Carson McCullers’s screen adaptation of The Heart is Lonely Hunter, he plaus a deaf-mute whose silence was an articulation and metaphor for all the lonely life impaired citizens in a southern town whether … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Arkin, Alan Arkin an improvised life, alan arkin little miss sunshine, Carson McCullers, douglas coupland, douglas coupland author, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Martin Buber, Peter Falk, Viktor Frankl, viktor frankl logotherapy, Zen Buddhism
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detritus dumpster: where the wild things are
Maurice Sendak and more American detritus… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): We’ve all come to be so familiar with the Maurice Sendak classic, “where the wild things are”, that we really have been blinded to the larger career of Sendak. His efforts … Continue reading
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Tagged arcade fire, i.b. singer, i.b. singer the first shlemiel, Isaac Bashevis Singer, matt pais, Maurice Sendak, maurice sendak costume design, maurice sendak early work, maurice sendak nutcracker, seattle ballet, sesyle joslin, spike jonze
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Jack in a box; fiddler on a casino roof
Jack Abramoff, at least superficially, appears like a contradiction.Its a fusion of political ideology and religion. He manages to brainwash himself. An ostensibly religious and devout man immersed in the world of political lobbying at the highest level or the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Gibney, Grover Norquist, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jack Abramoff, James Harding, James V. Grimaldi, Jessica Calefati, Kate taylor, Kevin Spacey, Newt Gingrich, Peter Stone, Sholom Aleichem, Tom Delay
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LOST BERLIN:BABYLON & BOOGIE AT THE BRANDENBURG GATE
A macabre gaiety pervaded Berlin like an intoxicating smog. There was no shortageof drink, drugs, or beautiful women. “There are two kinds of places,” wrote a contemporary of Bertolt Brecht, ” those one talks about, and those one doesn’t talk … Continue reading
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Tagged Anita Berber, Bertolt Brecht, Dave Riley, Dita Von Teese, Duke Ellington, Erich Maria Remarque, Fassbinder, George Grosz, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jason Lutes, Joel Dorn, John Fuegi, Josephine Baker, Katherine Farmar, Kurt Weill, Leni Riefenstahl, Liza Minelli, Luigi Bazini, Marlene Dietrich, Mel Gordon, Nina Hagen, Robert J. Sternberg, Rosa Luxemburg, Sander L. Gilman, Scott J. Thompson, Shinan Govani, Solomon Asch, Stephen Lemons, Thomas Mann, Vladimir Nabokov, Walter Benjamin, Werner Fassbinder, Wolf Von Eckardt
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EFFING THIS & EFFING THAT: ART & POLITICS OF FUDDLE DUDDLE
Puritanism: as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” ( H.L. Mencken ) Fornication Under Consent of the King. For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. Fuckedandfarfromhome. The F-Bomb ….”How do you people really feel about doing it? Isn’t that about … Continue reading
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Tagged Andres Serrano, Andrew Rohn, Buzz Bissinger, Catherine Cappellaro, Cathy Malchiodi, Country Joe MacDonald, David Dunlap, Dorothy Parker, Ed Sullivan, Geoffrey Nunberg, H.L. Mencken, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jesse Helms, Jonah Lehrer, Ken Burns, Kenneth Tynan, Lenny Bruce, Norman Mailer, Northrop Frye, Piero Manzoni, Robert Lane Green, Robert Mapplethorpe, Steve Anderson, Steve martin, Steven Pinker, Steven Saus, Tiny Tim, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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TRIVIAL PURSUITS & BOYS IN STRIPED SUITS
”However here we also get the first doubtful use of the Holocaust in Beatrice and Virgil. We are told that fewer than two per cent of Holocaust survivors ever tell of their ordeal. And so:’For his part, Henry now joined … Continue reading
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Tagged Aravind Adiga, Aravind Adiga The White Tiger, Brian Cuban, Casey Haskins, Charlie Chaplin, Eli Wiesel, George Orwell, George Orwell Animal Farm, Gerald Feldman, Holocaust, Holocaust denial, Holocaust Fiction, Holocaust Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, John Boyne, John Self, Joseph Brean, Joseph Brean National Post, Lina Wertmuller, Lina Wertmuller Seven Beauties, Mel Brooks, Mel Brooks The Producers, Roberto Benigni, Roberto Benigni Life is Beautiful, Salman Rushdie, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Simon Wiesenthal Institute, Yann Martel, Yann martel Beatrice and Virgil, Yasunari Kawabata
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