Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Hawks's Red River - Epic Grandeur in the Western Genre

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Red River [United Artists, 1948, filmed in 1946], directed by Howard Hawks, adapted to the screen by Borden Chase from his Saturday Evening...
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Monday, December 7, 2009

Announcing The Collected Poems of Larry Eigner - Stanford University Press - Jan 2010

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Well, it's official!   Stanford University Press has formally announced the January 2010 publication of The Collected Poems of Larry Ei...
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Minor White & The Emptiness of Transcendence

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I never saw or met Minor White, though there are hundreds--certainly thousands--alive today who did, either as friends, or students, or just...
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Saturday, December 5, 2009

Alien - Bizarre Nightmare of Abhorrent Metaphors

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Ridley Scott's masterful sci-fi horror flick [ Alien , 1979] succeeds quite nicely as a shock & awe narrative, but it's so much ...
Tuesday, December 1, 2009

From the Gallery of Heroes: H.L. Mencken

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                                                                 H.L. Mencken in his prime H.L. [Henry Louis] Mencken [1880-1956], was perh...
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Monday, November 30, 2009

Nada to Islamic Minarets in Switzerland

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The Swiss populace has spoken: No new Islamic minarets in Switzerland.   Let me be as clear as I can be about my reaction to this developmen...
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Sunday, November 29, 2009

Swiss Vote on Banning Islamic Minarets

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The Swiss go to the polls today to vote on a referendum designed to halt the construction of Islamic minarets--the architectural towers, fam...
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