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Sep 04, 2009 -
I love this story! The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is currently exhibiting Robert Frank's photographs from his landmark 1959 work The Americans, widely viewed as the photographic analogue to Jack Kerouac's beat classic On the Road. Frank and Kerouac both had similar sensibilities, wanting to show the sprawling, diverse, and melancholy side of postwar America.
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Jun 22, 2009 -
I've had a love/hate relationship with Ayelet Waldman for some time, but the more I read her work and listen to her speak, the more I realize that my ambivalence is with the subjects she discusses more than it is with her: motherhood, work, feminism, and the idea of "having it all."
Waldman, whose husband is writer Michael Chabon, caused a bit of controversy a few years ago when she declared (in a rhetorically bold and questionable move) that she loved her husband more than her children. She said she wanted to contrast herself from the women in her circle she noticed were no longer sexually involved with their husbands because they'd subsumed their identities to being mothers.
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Jun 09, 2009 -
The hookup is spreading! First high school students were too cool to attach a relationship to sex. Then college students followed the trend.
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Oct 21, 2008 -
You'd think the self-described Queen of Nachos would just know in her gut about the following, but alas, this is how I was informed that it was International Nachos Day. A transcript of this morning's Blackberry text messages, verbatim:
CasaSugar: Do you know what today is? It is the day that nachos were supposedly invented!
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Sep 23, 2008 -
Anti-Ahmadinejad rallies outside the UN today turned into anti-Obama rallies critical of the senator's support of talks with Iran. Meanwhile, NPR opened a dialogue of its own with the Iranian president. Here are some highlights from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's interview with the station, during which he says Iran seeks no confrontation.
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Apr 04, 2008 -
The biographies of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are under siege. Whether we like it or not, tons of us turn to Wikipedia for digestible background information. Because any of us can edit an entry, we all hold the power of truth in our hands.
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Jan 22, 2008 -
Yum filled me in on an interactive way to keep up with the 2008 Election—Candidate Bingo. NPR.org has a bingo card with all the attributes you see in today's candidates. Squares include: "Kiss Babies," "Follow NASCAR," "Point with Thumb," and "Empathize with the Middle Class."
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Feb 13, 2007 -
DearSugar --
Hi. I am going through a difficult time in my life at the moment. I just graduated college a little while back and have no idea what I want to do with my life.
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Other Search Results
Aug 04, 2009 -
- Bill Clinton has arrived in North Korea to negotiate the release of American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee. He reportedly met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il today. — Huffington Post
- The number of Americans on antidepressants has doubled over the last decade to a total of 27 million.
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Jul 08, 2009 -
“They all scratched out ‘boy’ and put ‘girl’. That’s how we won.”
— Deoine Scott, left, on being chosen with her girlfriend Victoria (“Vikky”) Cruz as best couple at the South Bronx high school they attend and where they've been a couple since their sophomore year. It was Cruz who entered them into the contest and who scratched out "boy" and replaced it with "girl" first, after which other voters did the same.
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