Tag Archives: Joseph Losey

klein: cats running with the pack

Like a cat running after any mouse that happens to stray within view. That first reflex, the first nature in the human being, is unavoidable and inalterable. It can be mastered, it can be conquered, but it remains. But mind … Continue reading

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kent: idyllic ideals

William Kent was architect of both houses and landscapes. He was consulted, according to Horace Walpole, not only for furniture but “for plates, for a barge, for a cradle.” Of his gardens Walpole said: “Mahomet imagined an Elysium, Kent created … Continue reading

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invading and devouring everything

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) No fake, hipster memoirist (James Frey) or Holocaust experience fabricator (Herman Rosenblatt), but a true writer of substance who penned novelistic memoirs (or memoirish novels) under no uncertain terms—notably … Continue reading

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LORENZO Da PONTE: The Wandering Libretto

Lorenzo Da Ponte? Venice, 1763. In a church crowded with worshippers and onlookers, a baptism is about to take place. A bishop presides at the ceremony. Giacomo Casanova, sitting in the crowd, observes the baptism of four Jews with a … Continue reading

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