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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I think anyone who's been disappointed by Steve Martins latest movies should check out his collection of plays, Picasso at the Lapin Agile and other plays. The others in the collection are up and down, mostly minor stuff, but the title play is really amazing. I remember being warmly surprised by how good it was. He strikes just the right tone-- funny, not taking himself too seriously, but at the same time letting the plot take him into meditations of pretty serious stuff. The books about the 20th century, and its about genius and its different forms. And I think one of the best things about it is the recognition that the ridiculous and the sublime are tied up in one another, and that you can achieve the former without losing the latter.
Seriously, check it out.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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