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Famosity: April 2007
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Notes on whatever seems important at the moment—politics, culture, sports, health, the whole gamut. Wednesday, April 18, 2007. The Dream Engine Remembered. The musical, Eric told me, was called. The sold-out performance had already started, but he thought we might manage to get standing room in the back of the theater and at least see the second act. I would find the show pretty shocking, he warned me, along the lines of. Theatrical impresario Joseph Papp thought so, too. He optioned. But the music for.
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Famosity: A Kindred Spirit Remembered
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Notes on whatever seems important at the moment—politics, culture, sports, health, the whole gamut. Saturday, April 25, 2009. A Kindred Spirit Remembered. The Laird Bell law quadrangle. One of those I met was Eugene Vaughan. Gene and I soon found we had something in common—prior to law school, we'd both worked as editors. Gene had edited textbooks, while I had worked as a magazine and book editor. We both expected that our writing skills would come in handy in the practice of law. I like to hear about pe...
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Famosity: Famosity? Is that a word?
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Notes on whatever seems important at the moment—politics, culture, sports, health, the whole gamut. Thursday, December 15, 2005. Is that a word? Was once considered a bonafide word, defined in Webster's 1913 edition as "the state or quality of being famous." In my current revival of the term, famosity refers not to the state of being famous but to the exalted sense of self-importance people feel when they achieve any degree of fame or even know someone who's famous. In my. Enter your email address:.
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Famosity: Close Encounter of a Vulturish Kind
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Notes on whatever seems important at the moment—politics, culture, sports, health, the whole gamut. Monday, March 09, 2009. Close Encounter of a Vulturish Kind. When you walk along Biscayne Bay. In Miami, you never know what you might see. Maybe a manatee will raise its gentle face above the surface and take a deep snorting breath. Or a bevy of blue-bubbled Portuguese Men o' War. On my second pass, the two birds were at work on the carcass and didn't even pause to stare me down. They must have conclu...
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Famosity: Stop, In the Name of Love
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Notes on whatever seems important at the moment—politics, culture, sports, health, the whole gamut. Monday, March 30, 2009. Stop, In the Name of Love. I'm not much of a singer. My children will attest to this. When they were in grade school, if I began to sing they would shout in unison, "Call 911, arrest your singing mother! At the time, my ego was only slightly bruised—after all, they were kids, what did they know? Why he reacted so vehemently when I launched into that particular song. So much for Moto...
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Famosity: Annie Leibovitz, What Have You Done?
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Notes on whatever seems important at the moment—politics, culture, sports, health, the whole gamut. Friday, February 27, 2009. Annie Leibovitz, What Have You Done? What is the world coming to? It can't be coming to anything good when photographer Annie Leibovitz. Pawns all her photographs to pay the mortgages on homes she inherited from her longtime partner, Susan Sontag. According to the Daily Mail. Leibovitz has put her photographs. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Enter your email address:.
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Famosity: The Travel Bug(aboo)
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Notes on whatever seems important at the moment—politics, culture, sports, health, the whole gamut. Sunday, March 15, 2009. I love traveling—in my imagination. I have a voracious appetite for stories, photographs, and films that illuminate other cultures. My niece recently sent me photos from her trip to Thailand. To satisfy my thirst for exploring foreign lands from the comfort of my own home, I seek out books that help me enter different worlds. My all-time favorite is Peter Hessler's. My in-laws at th...
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Famosity: April 2008
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Notes on whatever seems important at the moment—politics, culture, sports, health, the whole gamut. Tuesday, April 29, 2008. A Saab Story, Part One: Into the Wild Blue Yonder. When I first dated Eric, in the winter of 1969, the Sonett had just been shipped to him from Sweden. On our first date, we drove to a movie theater on Route 9 in Amherst, Massachusetts, where we saw 2001: A Space Odyssey. I thought, this isn't starting well. Whereupon I persuaded him to abandon metaphysics for the purely physical&#...
