Commentary
These cheesy board games were repetitive and horrible and I loved every one of them.
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Are Boston’s stage critics disengaged from reality? Or is it that they are afraid to speak up?
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“If you really like something and want to make sure you have access to everything, you’ll never do better than having the disc.”
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The sum total of George Wein’s career was a successful wedding of art and commerce.
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The idea of America is elusive and sometimes, like right now, in danger of disappearing. That is why I have found myself turning for comfort to two books that can give us some perspective as to how to move forward.
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No writer, historian, or filmmaker ever took me nearly as close to Abraham Lincoln the man as did Stephen B. Oates. I have always been indebted to him for that.
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A household name in Black America, Lee Williams had little need for the kind of crossover project that can earn a gospel act attention from the secular music media.
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The essays in this excellent volume consistently show that nostalgia is about something, and it matters.
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The Everly Brothers’ close harmony work was so sinuous it sometimes seemed close to witchcraft.
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Book Review: “The Mirror and the Palette” — Women’s Self-Portraits in Courage
By skillfully balancing the historical and the imaginative, The Mirror and the Palette is not only a delight to read, but inspirational.
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