Reading and Roaming
ON SCREEN: BIG CONTENDER FOR MULTIPLE OSCARS Marty Supreme In past years, the Chief Penguin and I have made it a goal to see as many of the Best Picture Oscar nominations as possible. More recently, we’ve been slackers, but we might see a few of them between now and the March awards. We are fans …
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MOMENTOUS MOMENT This has been a dramatic week with the leak of the Supreme Court’s draft opinion upending Roe v. Wade. For many of us who were of age in 1973, contemplating a return to when abortion is no longer a legal right/option is positively medieval. It feels so very wrong. Pro-choice protests erupted in cities near …
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ON SCREEN Time and Mortality On Golden Pond (Amazon Prime $) Jennifer Finney Boylan is an occasional opinion writer for the New York Times and an English professor at Bard. Years ago, I read her groundbreaking memoir, She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders, about her transition from male to female. I find her columns thoughtful and insightful. In …
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HAPPY 4TH OF JULY! On this year’s Independence Day, there is much to celebrate. With the waning of the pandemic, we can be out and about and gather safely with friends and family. Particularly if we are fully vaccinated. We have been through a bruising few years. It is heartening to now have a president who is compassionate, committed, …
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