One of the things that struck me about the 1870s, which we STILL haven't nearly addressed, is what to do about the male-female DIVIDE. One of the forbidden topics is when men own up to the omnivorousness of their SEXUAL interest and how to square that with being in LOVE with an individual woman.
Read MoreSen. Sessions' commitment to public service is nearly unparalleled in ALABAMA HISTORY, and his departure from the Senate leaves TREMENDOUS shoes to FILL.
Read MoreInto this pour the purified juice: and put it into a pan of water come almost to a BOIL and continue nearly in the state of boiling until the juice is found to be the CONSISTENCY of a THICK syrup when COLD. It is then when cold, to be corked up in a bottle for use.
Read MoreMy RELATIONSHIP to comics isn't NEARLY as strong as some people's. Ha! I mean, I grew up with a comic book fanatic. My OLDER BROTHER was, and still is, obsessed. And I was obsessed with the fact that he was obsessed, because I was obsessed with him. But not NECESSARILY with comics themselves.
Read MoreIt TOOK the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 YEARS to WAKE up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the MET, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.
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