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Legacy
Legacy
We don’t use the word “illicit”, the host was told. The word is “legacy.”
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Legacy
Vertigo, up or down
Vertigo, up or down
From The Washington Post: “Vertigo is still the best movie ever. Or the worst movie ever. Discuss.” The writer, Ty Burr, leans toward “still the best.” I think so too — it’s been my favorite movie for many years. Dream, need, obsession, sheer weirdness: what’s not to like?
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Vertigo, up or down
Reading in NYC schools
Reading in NYC schools
“Over the next two years, the city’s 32 local school districts will adopt one of three curriculums selected by their superintendents. The curriculums use evidence-supported practices, including phonics — which teaches children how to decode letter sounds — and avoid strategies many reading experts say are flawed, like teaching children to use picture clues to guess words.” Right on.
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Reading in NYC schools
Benny would not be amused
Benny would not be amused
“Duke Ellington, known as the ‘King of Swing,’ was one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century.” A human intelligence failure? Or is that AI at work?
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Benny would not be amused
Heather Cox Richardson on the Second Amendment
Heather Cox Richardson on the Second Amendment
“The idea that massacres are “the price of freedom,” as right-wing personality Bill O’Reilly said in 2017 after the Mandalay Bay massacre in Las Vegas, in which a gunman killed 60 people and wounded 411 others, is new, and it is about politics, not our history.”
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Heather Cox Richardson on the Second Amendment
Money and gossip
Money and gossip
“You know, I thought these people would be very complicated, but it’s . . . they’re not. It’s basically just, like, money and gossip.” For me, that observation sums up Succession.
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Money and gossip
“Sushi”
“Sushi”
St. Louis sushi, so-called, is a plot point in this week’s episode of Somebody Somewhere. St. Louis sushi is, of course, not sushi: it’s pickle, cream cheese, and ham.
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“Sushi”
Space cases
Space cases
A quiz from The Chicago Manual of Style: Chicago Style Workout 75: Spaces and Spacing.
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Space cases
Are we in Bartlett’s yet?
Are we in Bartlett’s yet?
“Are we having fun yet?” is indeed, as today’s strip says, in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, credited to Bill Griffith, page 838 in the eighteenth edition (a page that also includes R. Crumb).
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Are we in Bartlett’s yet?