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thinking and taking the book out of the box

Mitt Romney and Israel still making waves or hay as he tries to throw Obama into the barn. Its all B.S. but gives the pundits what to wax on, or better yet to chew and spit out. Frankly, Sheldon Adelson … Continue reading

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free men

Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) A couple we didn’t get to for Black History Month. But we aren’t waiting another year. Shouldn’t every month be Black History Month? … In this case, a 78 RPM … Continue reading

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owens: exchanging hand waves

To separate politics from sport is a virtual ideal, not realizable, and similat in context to examining religion without a political context. The Jesse Owens performance in Berlin in 1936 showed how efforts to insulate sport from politics is futile. … Continue reading

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free men

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) MLK DAY Cover of the Day : In this case, a 78 RPM album cover—when they actually were albums—of the great baritone (and great at most everything else: athlete, … Continue reading

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stop all that jazz

… It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.A fantastical rigidity and outright antagonism to Jazz and its corresponding swing variant in the Nazi era. The critique tended to flatten out the contradictions of this musical form … Continue reading

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