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Film review: “Promising Young Woman”
Anyone can recognize someone showing great promise, even without the benefit of a resume. Consider people in Cassie’s (Mulligan) life. Her family sent her [...]
Tales from my cul-de-sheep
Let me start with the spoilers: No, this is not about Rebecca. Yes, the authorities were called. Yes, men in funny suits appeared and [...]
Return to Rome
Che bella cittá. We keep saying this over and over after having been isolated for almost two years in France without our Roman and [...]
Back to the cinema
If you look for it, you can see it. Just as the house lights dim, and right before the instant the once-insipid movie screen [...]
Fire in the hold
Imagine a forest fire of unknown origin in which winds and climate abet the flames and the earth is scorched for months, if not [...]
On a stalled planet
One friend, an influential member of European mass media, bemoans the disappearance of what he calls “fluidity.” Another, far younger but brilliantly dynamic, calls [...]
Killing the assassin
Fall is here. For some, autumn is associated with pumpkin spice and sweaters. For me, it’s the start of Japanese knotweed season. That doesn’t [...]
Cane and able
I have always prided myself on being a strong woman. Coming from the markets and local grocery stores before there were any supermarkets in [...]
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Fire in the hold
Imagine a forest fire of unknown origin in which winds and climate abet the flames and the earth is scorched [...]
On a stalled planet
One friend, an influential member of European mass media, bemoans the disappearance of what he calls “fluidity.” Another, far younger [...]
Killing the assassin
Fall is here. For some, autumn is associated with pumpkin spice and sweaters. For me, it’s the start of Japanese [...]
Giovanni’s head (or, the vaccine game)
It’s official. Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has announced his government will draft legislation making COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for every [...]
The Courier
Far from the usual take on the Cuban Missile Crisis, “The Courier” seems worlds away from the tense drama of [...]
Cane and able
I have always prided myself on being a strong woman. Coming from the markets and local grocery stores before there [...]
The gridlock called regret
I wish I could tell you just which Los Angeles freeway I was on when, gridlocked, I took to pondering [...]
Sogni d’oro
In a dream, I kissed a woman. Not once or twice or as part of a seduction but as a [...]
Brief excursions in time and space
When that short window of relief from the COVID-19 pandemic slammed shut, that hopeful possibility of moving about the cabin [...]