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I need to walk. I walk and walk and end up at Silver Lake Park and when I turn around to take in my favorite view of the skyline, up high on the hill looking straight down Victory Boulevard, I half expect the towers to be there. I swear I can still see a faint outline of where they used [...]
Outside a Fresh Fields market in Manhasset, there is a parking lot large enough to hold one hundred cars. Now, there are only to be found seven Mercedes Benz SUVs, four Range Rovers, two of the BMW convertibles that the new James Bond drives, one Hummer, three Audio A8s, a smattering of Inifitis, Acuras, and Lexuses, five different kinds of [...]
TWO MONTHS AGO I DECIDED TO VISIT NY WITH MY SON ROMAIN. NY HAS A SO BIG VITALITY AND A SO BEAUTIFUL COSMOPOLITAIN PEOPLE THAT I THINK IT IS A VERY GOOD EXAMPLE OF LIFE FOR MY SON. AND IT IS !!!! WE VISITED MANY PLACES OF NY AND OF COURSE THE TWINS. AT THE TOP A PHOTOGRAPHER IN A [...]
And again they are dancing on the roof. And again they hand out candies in the street. And the level of their joy rises in proportion to the number of casualties reported. And the grandpa who dreamed about peace, I mean dreamed until yesterday, kisses his grandaughter during her sleep, in the hope that her dreams will come true. Didi [...]
When I left the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1996, the stores on either side of my building included a bodega that sold heroin out the back and an empty, bombed-out hole. Today, a "funky" bridal shop and a tattoo parlor stand in their places. When a tattoo parlor is a sign of urban renewal, you know the neighborhood [...]
I'm at my folks house in Beverly Hills. It is a fresh, clean, much needed change of place from my usual East 6th Street digs. It's a lazy Thursday afternoon, the 21st of December, I am lounging about in a Champion sweatsuit, and hanging a few ornaments on our Jewish Christmas tree, which stands 11 feet tall in our vaulted-ceiling-and-skylights [...]
There were strong reasons for thinking this, because she not only met her future husband in Houston, Texas, the city that pioneered the breast transplant, but she did so as a stripper in Rick's Cabaret, the most famous topless bar in Houston. Everything I know about Rick's comes from an enormously long article, which I read five years ago in [...]
Bewitched by the Charm of Looks (II chorus) "Good morrow!" Leonardo DiCaprio calls out as he arrives on the set of Romeo and Juliet. "Good morrow!" reply a several burly crew members who are struggling with a large piece of equipment--their biceps strain to lift it, but their smiles are easy. Their glance in Leonardo's direction is, I think, somewhat [...]
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