Wow! The moon tonight is really big and round, and I cant help but think of a poem written by Li Bai: "When I was young, I didnt know the moon. I called it a white jade plate. I also suspected the Yaotai mirror, flying in the blue clouds. What a beautiful moon! Eat a moonca...
You didn’t hear her move a step. She just floated on a cloud. It was really wonderful!” Close proximity to audiences in a tiny theater necessitated Markova’s mastering a silent, effortless dance technique. (At the Ballet Club, 1933) To prevent her headpieces from moving while on-stage...
Head in the Clouds Film critic John Mosher thought Bing Crosby was a fine singer, but he couldn’t quite fathom why the movie-makers at Paramount thought the singer would be even more attractive if he was sent aloft using various camera tricks. COME FLY WITH ME…Lobby card advertising 1934...
and usually too early – are covered in clouds of delicate white and palest pink blossom. Saucer Magnolias – one of my favorites – reduce my vocabulary to single syllable exclamations of “ohhhhh”, “ahhhhh”, and “mmmmm”.
Seeing I dropped my cell phone into the car door holder and jumped into the great unknown – untethered, unplugged. Suddenly face to face with the human crossword puzzle of an American Mall. And without my phone (and not being too dramatic), it had aradicallydifferent feel – a 1970s vi...
“BEYOND THE HIGHEST CLOUDS” Behind the highest clouds man and woman have ever seen there are mountains and hidden coves from which all true proclamations come. Their sentences are silent yet they contain a word that releases and fills secret contracts between the gods and man and woman, ut...
…and we move along to the Feb. 9 cartoons, with Thurber again… …the issue also featured two byGeorge Price… …andHoward Baersupplied some life to this little party… …now let’s return to the Feb. 15, 1935 issue… …whereJohn Mosherwas back at the cinema, this time enjoying the...
There were college kids singing songs either above or below us and my mother tried to entertain all of us with a crossword puzzle. This is the moment we discovered that I was claustrophobic. Eventually our little carton of hell started to move again and we finally made it to the top. ...
What makes it possible for cooperation to emerge is the fact that players might meet again. This possibility means that the choices made today not only determine the outcome of this move, but can also influence the later choices of the players. The future can therefore cast a shadow back upo...
“In a contested and alarming information environment, even cautious beliefs about escalation control would be rendered academic while mushroom clouds rise over a battlefield. Far better would be to drive up the threshold for nuclear use at any level and communicate that intention clearly through b...