Shelley Duvall was many things besides her early Altman gigs, but she was the very Virgil to the infernal Astrodomes of the 1970s New West. RIP to a great guide www.youtube.com/watch?v=chqS...
First appearance of Shelley Duvall in her debut as tour-guide Suzanne in Robert Altman’s Brewster McCloud, 1970.
RIP Melville scholar whose late career work on menhaden catalyzed the return of whales to New York harbor. (Which parts define us, etc) www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/u...
Could not figure out why I kept this shabby copy of Frank Lloyd Wright’s The Living City then I realized it comes from Walter Netsch’s library. Wish I knew how I got it
This review reminded me of the times I have been laughed at for proposing that U.S. English depts should hire in Canadian Studies to promote better understanding of the democratic settler nation and major trading partner at the Northern border www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Throughout her long and prolific career, Carson has specialized in unexpected juxtapositions between modern life and ancient times, contemporary art and the literature of the past.
i just spent a couple days reading old stevedore leaflets in a U Mich archive, and now I'm at the dtw margarativille drinking with a great lakes freighter deck boss who is grousing in the ultimate gravel voice about having to take spirit airlines to pick something up at the USCG in jacksonville
This is really important. I see this in funding priorities, institutional reorganization, and curriculum responding to "student demand." Well, they can't demand what they've never seen.
To clarify, by “1990,” prof Cecire is most likely referring to what is known on the Gen-z-orian calendar as “anno Domini nostri Taylor Swiftie 1”