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New York Times Details the Double Toll Drone Killings Take
The history of warfare is a steady progression of distancing, as battles evolved from close combat to push-button carnage. On Page One of yesterday’s New York Times, Dave Philipps captured the current war footing. The Unseen Scars of the Remote-Controlled … Continue reading
Dead Blogging ‘Real Photo Postcards’ at Boston’s MFA
Well the Missus and I trundled over to The Fenway the other day to catch the big Turner’s Modern World exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts and say, it was meh. (Then again, you can judge for yourself with … Continue reading
Dead Blogging ‘Glass Lifeforms 2021’ at Fuller Craft Museum
Well the Missus and I trundled down to Brockton yesterday to catch the current exhibitions at the Fuller Craft Museum and say, they were swell. Let’s start with Glass Lifeforms 2021 (through April 24). Glass Lifeforms 2021 features contemporary artworks inspired … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Paley, Amy Genser: Shifting, Fuller Craft Museum, Glass Flowers, Glass Lifeforms 2021, Harvard University, John A. Goodman, Juanita Girardin, Kenji Nakayama, Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, Melissa Stern: The Talking Cure, MFN Integrated Solutions, Oliver Mak, Pat Falco, Sally Prasch, Under New Management: The Commodification of the Permanent Collection
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Boston City Hall: ‘A Building People Love to Hate But Shouldn’t’
The other day the hardworking staff stumbled upon this Architectural Digest post headlined “10 Buildings People Love to Hate but Shouldn’t: Reconsidering Brutalism, architecture’s most argued-over style.” Immediately we thought, Boston City Hall has got to be one of them. … Continue reading
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Tagged Ada Louise Huxtable, Architectural Digest, Boston City Hall, Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston Globe, Boston's Brutalist Boondoggle, Campbell Aldrich & Nulty, Government Center, Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles, LeMessurier, Robert Campbell, Sarah Schweitzer, Sasaki
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NYT ‘How I Learned to Drive’ Ad a Bit Like Proust’s Madeleine
So yesterday I was working my way through the Sunday New York Times (an activity that the extremely sage Dr. Ads says should trigger a federal subsidy) when I came across this full-page ad in the Arts & Leisure section. … Continue reading
NYT Photographer Tyler Hicks on Track to Win Another Pulitzer
Plug “Tyler Hicks Pulitzer Prize” into the Googletron and here’s what pops up. Hicks in in Ukraine right now doing what he does so amazingly well. Here’s part of what he captured for yesterday’s New York Times. Here at the … Continue reading
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Tagged C.J. Chivers, Esquire, Mark Warren, New York Times, Pulitzer Prize, Tyler Hicks, Ukraine
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Seriously, When Did ‘Call In Sick’ Turn Into ‘Call Out Sick’?
About ten years ago the hardwording staff proposed a federal government Syn Tax, “a fine for misuse of the English language. At a quarter a pop, that could wipe out the deficit in no time.” Some six years later, we … Continue reading
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Tagged based off of, based on, call in sick, call out sick, Donald Trump, even so, even still, Grammar Girl, Mignon Fogarty, NPR, pre-verbal president, Syn-tax
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Restaurant Employees Fleeing? Bring Back the Automat!
According to multiple news reports, the exodus of restaurant employees from their jobs has reached Biblical proportions, as Business Insider’s Juliana Kaplan and Madison Hoff reported last month. A record-high 1 million restaurant and hotel workers quit in November — and it … Continue reading
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Tagged askART, automat, Business Insider, Carl Reiner, Chock Full O' Nuts, Colin Powell, East 89th Street, Elliott Gould, Horn & Hardart, Howard Schultz, Joe Morgenstern, Juliana Kaplan, Lisa Hurwitz, Longchamps, Madison Hoff, Manuscripts and Archives Division, Marketplace, Mary Elizabeth, Mel Brooks, Nedick's, New York Public Library, New York Public Library Digital Collections, NYPL, Recollection Road, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Schrafft's, Sulamith Sokolsky, The Automat
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