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Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Viruses don’t care if you’re lying or not

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The Angel of Death striking a door during the plague of Rome. (Wellcome Collection)      Reality intrudes.      You can crumple up the ...
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Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Famous American

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     Stamp collecting is considered a benign pastime, without the risks inherent in, say, whiskey connoisseurship or bungee jumping.     ...
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Monday, February 10, 2020

Some covering fire in defense of the Tribune

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News boy 1948, by Irving Penn (Metropolitan Museum of Art)       One does not often get beseeched, appealed to or entreated. I can’t re...
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Sunday, February 9, 2020

Vindictive, never vindicated.

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The Funeral of Chrystom and Marcella Vindicating Herself, by William Hogarth (Metropolitan Museum of Art)      "I was thinking a...
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Saturday, February 8, 2020

St. Jane decorates the thronged and common road

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     "Do you mind if I take a photograph of your monkey lamps?" I asked the woman behind the front desk at the St. Jane Hotel...
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Friday, February 7, 2020

Iowa caucus mess offers lessons to Dems

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     Monday’s Iowa Democratic caucus disaster already feels like ancient history, with Tuesday’s teary Queen-for-a-Day State of the Union...
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Thursday, February 6, 2020

Playing with your food

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Cathedral      I've played board games all my life. Starting as a young boy with Mousetrap and Candyland—how I admired that thick sl...
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