Allow me to issue a Parallel–Mothers-inspired correction to last week’s plea for more offspring-rejection in the arts:
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Category: Remember All the Movies, Terry, We’d Go See
A Rallying Cry (A Crying Rally?)
As Knicks fans flooded out of Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night, their chants could be heard ringing through the rafters after a triumphant defeat of the Indiana Pacers.
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BCC
In this house, BCC isn’t an email acronym.
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‘Member the Aughts
Maybe there’s some credence to the theory that nostalgia kicks in roughly two decades later:
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Darwin Award
George Saunders and I share the belief that how people engage with art can serve as a template for how to engage with life.
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Something Wondrous This Way Comes
The easiest way for a celebrity to worm their way into my heart forever?
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Lost and Found in Translation
A topic I’ve been meaning to return to: when a non-English language movie decides not to subtitle what otherwise can’t be understood.
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FYCD2
The latest FYCD:
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All Work and No Frame Makes Steven a Dull Boy
Because I’m a fan of nuance, allow me to complicate my recent treatises on my preferred brand of art.
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Useless
Remember when I wrote about the uselessness of subjective declarations of artistic taste?
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