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Libby Morse
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“Pragmatic and somewhat buzzy”— The New York Times
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Drove to Princeton to see the university’s newly opened art museum. An ingenious space for art— and what a collection!
December 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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As a big Tom McGuane fan, I’ve been meaning to watch the doc All That is Sacred since I saw it mentioned when Jimmy Buffett died. So glad I did—in
just 38 minutes, it says so much about youth, friendship, and knowing that it’s time to move on.
December 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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MeTV just showed Hanna
Barbera’s Cat Concerto (1947) and if that isn’t a work of genius, I don’t know what is.
December 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Christmas Movie Dress Advent Calendar Day 5: Katharine Hepburn's unfussy office Christmas party frock in DESK SET and why she couldn't stop fussing with it, inadvertently revealing her inner thoughts
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Christmas Movie Dress Advent Calendar Day 5: Katharine Hepburn in DESK SET - Tom + Lorenzo
Yesterday, an untamed holiday wild woman! Today, a model of yuletide efficiency. In 1957's Desk Set, directed by Walter Lang, Katharine Hepburn played
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December 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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“LAURA” (1944) dir. Otto Preminger

Gene Tierney #BOTD (1920)
Clifton Webb #BOTD (1889)
Dana Andrews, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson

🎬 20th Century-Fox
🎞 #Noirvember
November 19, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Otto Preminger as Mr. Freeze and Dee Hartford as Miss Iceland - Batman
December 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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penguin classics cover for the plot against america by philip roth, but the cover image is just the cover for Project 2025
December 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.

This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!

Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
ALL IMLS grants restored in every state & territory. In response to a ruling from a federal judge in Rhode Island, the Institute of Museum and Library Services reinstated all previously canceled grants in every state and territory. It's a huge win for libraries and our communities. "The reinstatement of all IMLS grants means that libraries across the country will be able to resume vital services for learning, imagination, and economic opportunity. We are breathing a sigh of relief, but the fight is not over." ALA President Sam Helmick. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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And Baum did cite Arcadia as inspiration for the new paradigm in a NEJM article ten years ago, so perhaps Stoppard knew of his impact.

www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...?
As a young clinical scientist and surgeon, I was taught that the natural history of breast cancer is unpredictable, like the weather. As I matured in my chosen field, I rebelled at what seemed to me a nihilistic attitude. Furthermore, the weather is not so unpredictable now that meteorologists use chaos theory to refine their weather-forecasting precision. Some 20 years ago, I saw one of the first performances of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia at the National Theatre in London. In the third scene, set in a Georgian country house in 1809, Thomasina, a very precocious 16-year-old, asks her tutor, “God’s truth, Septimus, if there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose? Do we believe nature is written in numbers?” Perhaps Thomasina would have gone on to discover chaos theory if only the computer had been invented. As the story unfolded, I experienced a eureka moment — it suddenly seemed clear to me that the natural history of breast cancer was unpredictable because we’d been using the wrong mathematics all this time. I soon recruited Mark Chaplain, an exponent of chaos theory, and together with three Ph.D. students we set to work to try to explain the extraordinary “unpredictable” pattern of recurrence of breast cancer after surgery.
December 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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These guys get it
a man is standing on the side of the road in front of a police car with a license plate that starts with the letter t.
ALT: a man is standing on the side of the road in front of a police car with a license plate that starts with the letter t.
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December 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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‘You boy! How do I unsubscribe from all these Black Friday emails?’
Scrooge leaning out of his window, yelling to a passing lad at the end of the film
December 1, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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We just watched High and Low on Criterion (it’s been years) so are we going to the 4K restored version at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute this Saturday? Why are you even asking?
December 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47993/...
Famous
The boot is famous to the earth, more famous than the dress shoe, which is famous only to floors.
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December 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Radio by Lester Beall for the Rural Electrification Administration (1937)
As part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program, the Rural Electric Administration (REA) was created in 1935 to bring electricity to impoverished areas where as few as 10 percent of homes had electric power.
November 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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#NoirvemberChallenge
Best #FilmNoir ending...

The Third Man (1949)
November 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Just watched Election 2.
November 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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The Spaceman was a fixture of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in the 1950s.
November 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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"Stairway to Paradise"
George Gershwin
Day 28: Step
#LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
I'll build a stairway to paradise, with a new step every day
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Georges Guétary - I'll build a stairway to paradise (V.Minnelli's An American In Paris)
YouTube video by Alexander Einar Verdoux
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November 29, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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where is the turkey going
richard scarry turkey illustration. they’re driving a lil but long red car
November 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Cover by Irving Tripp.
Marge’s Little Lulu #17 (1949). On the cover, Little Lulu is pointing a tommy gun at her dad, who is holding an axe, to protect a turkey from beheading. The turkey is smiling.
November 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Astoria the Wild Turkey uses her flexible neck to care for her beautiful plumage by the Carousel in The Battery. 🦃 ❤️
November 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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B. Wurtz,
Untitled (Pan Painting), 2025
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate.
November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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He is risen
The Pillsbury Dough Boy float at the Macy's Parade
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM