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...impose its version of history and truth. States should simply avoid this business. Thus, our opposition extends beyond the French bill to the laws like those in Germany, Poland, Austria, and Switzerland which criminalize Holocaust denial. France’s passage of this bill would be an ironic parallel to the circumstances in Turkey, which tried Orhan Pamuk, this year’s Nobel laureate for literature, for speaking about the Armenian genocide—which violates Article 301 of the Turkish penal code. In defending free speech, even the expatriate Pamuk spoke against the French bill. A free market...
Oscar Wilde’s plays take place in a parallel universe where everyone is witty and wit is everything. Mention Wilde’s name, and people are far more likely to respond with the recitation of a particularly pithy or clever line than with a summary of the plot of “The Importance of Being Earnest.” It is, accordingly, a world in which actors must carry much of the responsibility for the success or failure of a production, and the mostly superb acting in the current HRDC interpretation of “Lady...
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...they’re getting their money” someone says of the wait staff who have asked us to show restraint. And besides, I’m told, the creation of sake bombs, whereby shots of the rice wine are precariously situated between chopsticks running parallel atop a glass of beer, necessitates the raucous slamming of fists. There’s just no way around it.In the course of our couple hours there, the grimaces on the sushi chefs go from mild bemusement to annoyance. I drunkenly wonder aloud of the possibilities of a culture of decorous restraint that...
...left it ten months before - that was deja vu. Kind of unnerving. It was as if I had never left. Same work area, same busted desk, same chair, same computer, same room, same creaky rack, same... everything. Same everything for the next year. It was like entering a parallel universe. Home wasn't 10,000 miles away, it was a different lifetime...