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LGM Film Club, Part 148: The Skin

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I recently watched Liliana Cavani's 1981 film The Skin. Adapted from Curzio Malaparte's memoir about Italy during World War II, it's a fascinating if not totally successful film. Cavani was notorious at the time she made this becuase she had directed The Night Porter, which was...
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Was happy to see Derek Thompson give Alex Berenson the comprehensive beatdown he has earned so many times over: In this crowded field of wrongness, one voice stands out. The voice of Alex Berenson: the former New York Times reporter, Yale-educated novelist, avid tweeter, online essayist,...
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Nothing to See Here!

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Everything's fine! We've got this climate thing under control! Amid an exceptionally warm March in Japan, the cherry blossoms in Kyoto peaked Friday, the earliest in more than 1,200 years of records. The record bloom fits into a long-term pattern toward earlier spring flowering, a compelling...

I hate when that happens

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New York legalized "recreational" marijuana yesterday, joining a national trend that is a prominent example of how badly cultural conservatives are losing various long-running culture wars. This has brought forth.

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