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Warning To A Future Tenant

August 30, 2022
by Caroline Miller
5G upgrades, fantasies about retirement, Harold Pinter, Holden Caufield, J. D. Salinger, life in a retirement center, My Salinger Year, retirement, rural life, The Catcher in the Rye, The Dumb Waiter, urban life
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My Salinger Year is an entertaining film. In this coming-of-age story, a young poet is hired at a literary agency that represents J. D. Salinger.  Her job is to shred unread letters from the author’s fans, but after scanning a heartfelt few, she decides to answer them. The plot unr
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The Dumb Waiter

June 08, 2021
by Caroline Miller
changing membership on High Court, diversity and justice, Harold Pinter, shift in politics of the High Court, Supreme Court, The Dumb Waiter
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In a democracy, the tension between order and freedom is always at work.  To keep the current playing field even, Congressional Democrats have submitted a bill to expand the U. S. Supreme Court from 9 to 13 members.  They feel today’s jurists are too conservative for a society tha
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Harold Pinter, Humor and Donald Trump’s Immigration Policy

October 29, 2018
by Caroline Miller
China's one child policy, Donald Trump, Harold Pinter, Made In America, Moira Wwigel, surrogate mothers, Trump's southern wall, U. S. immigration policy
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Recently, someone posted a remark by playwright Harold Pinter on Facebook.  It read, “How can you write a happy play? Drama is about conflict and general degrees of perturbation, disarray. I’ve never been able to write a happy play…”  I did a thesis on Pinter when I was
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Why Phantom Thread Fails

June 12, 2018
by Caroline Miller
cinema the wrong vehicle for Phantom Thread, Daniel Day Lewis, Harold Pinter, Jason De Rosso, Night Porter, Phantom Thread, Phantom Thread belongs on the stage, Vicky Krieps, Waiting for Gadot
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Film critic Jason De Rosso makes a telling observation when he writes about the film, Phantom Thread, presumably the swan song of acclaimed actor, Daniel Day Lewis. “Maybe it’s because Phantom Thread comes close to landing flat on its face that it ends up such a breathtaking e
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Buffalo Bill Is Defunct, Not Dead…Cumming’s Defiance

August 31, 2017
by Caroline Miller
"E.E. Cummings: A Life", "The Prince of Patchin Place", Harold Pinter, Susan Cheever
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e.e. cummings
“You mustn’t be so open-mined that your brains fall out.” That’s the advice avant garde poet, Marianne Moore once gave to her fellow poet, E. E. Cummings. Whether she had any influence over him or not is unknown but a new biography of the man reveals he was clear about his opi
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Huh?

October 06, 2014
by Caroline Miller
Harold Pinter, language is natrual to humans, Let's Talk, Mark Dingemanse, N. J. Enfield
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girls talking in class
After spending an August afternoon shopping with her granddaughter for back to school clothes, a friend sent me an email saying that all the child talked about was her determination not to be a chatterbox in the coming year.  A month has passed since that conversation and I’m wonde
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In Praise Of Beetles

June 07, 2013
by Caroline Miller
"The Decline of Pleasure", beetles, Harold Pinter, Theater of the Absurd, Walter Kerr
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beetle
“Any species that is wholly contented, perfectly adapted to its environment, runs a real risk of its extinction.” So begins Walter Kerr, theater critic, lyricist and Broadway director of several successful productions, in his 1962 publication, The Decline of Pleasure. (Paperback e
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