Charlie Chan In Plattsburgh A Play By Matthew Paris Characters; Lane K. Snopes Charlie Chan Mozart Shakespeare Michelangelo Act One (In a room that has the haunted emptiness of a studio there are two or three gauzy draperies or wide columns behind which one can hide if they choose. One might even retire into deep
The twenty three or so and still coming films of Clint Eastwood as director have singular features that mark them as very different from any contemporary director who turns out Art, not crap. Eastwood films have an unobtrusive camera steel with few tracking shots, fades or any other virtuosics; they are often in a quiet
I’m really writing about the perception of Asia in America, subject I am an expert upon by merely having survived without missing too many meals in this country, just as I am an authority on the raise and fall of hair tonic made filched from sheep oil, the sanctification of Sinatra and Elvis if I
Irwin Shaw’s next to last novel, published by Delacorte Press, is a tome bearing all the virtues of the author’s other achievements elegance, masterful craft, language free of banality and chiseled into an unobtrusively beautiful filigree, the muted mournful music of the prose, and most of all, the intelligence and moral slant of a philosopher.
I am going to say anything in this essay that is totally politically incorrect to even odium for most people. I have the right and privilege to do this deed. I am a natural aristocrat living on a pension and social security in a loose and scrambling republic that never punished anyone for their opinions
When Does The American Educational System File For Bankruptcy? When I was a kid I always admired the myth of the federal drug administration. The FDA would not allow a single headache pill to hit the market until it was tested on mice, prisoners, and cats in controlled experiments lasting for years in their clear
Everybody’s An Alien But Me; I’m not So Sure About You It bodes ill for a tribe when those in it think those who are among us who sport both virtue and wit along with intelligence advertise their good qualities by having an accent; they are more times than not liable to be expensive morons
1. A Cure for Pleasure 2. A Young Eunuch’s Guide to Heaven, Hell and The Suburbs 3. Imaginary Take Out Joints, Almost Real Pizza 4. A Thousand And One Ways To Do Nothing 5. A Gaggle Of Neglected Cheap Hotels in Iraq 6. Remedies Without Diseases, Solutions Without Problems 7. Comfy Commuting In An Ultimate
1 Let us imagine for a moment that we have sneaked in invisibly to a conference of the few, the mighty ones of the Earth in one of our invisible enclaves that offers us a chance in very anonymous circumstances to invent a more efficient way of controlling and subjugating the many. We should imagine
Hi, I?m Tracy. It?s not my real name; what?s real about a name anyway? You don?t have to know who I am. If I don?t know, you can?t know. I don?t want you to think I?m not a nice person. I?m here at Billionaires Anonymous because I did all the right things in the land
