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In this edition of Liberties ...
In this edition of Liberties ...
In this edition of Liberties ...
April 2, 2024
“Were you culture-shocked?” is the question people often ask upon discovering that, at the age of twenty, I moved from Iran to the West. “Of course I was,” I usually say. “I still am.” But I suspect they mis-imagine the tribulations of that transition. Exchanging the Tehran of the 2000s, where I spent much of...
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As a child in the Connecticut suburbs, John Margolies was fascinated by “the ugliest stuff in the world.” Coffee pots, pink flamingos, candlepin bowling, he liked a mess. Later, as an architecture critic and Warhol factory layabout — he briefly appeared in Warhol’s film Camp — that childhood fixation informed his professional eye: Margolies spurned...
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Cowards do not skip generations. Neither do sociopaths, geniuses, hecatombs, or heroes. The brave are allotted in finite, equal amounts in every century and only ever account for a slim minority. Brutal slavery is not biblical, drawing and quartering is not medieval, and concentration camps did not come in and out of existence in the...
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“What were you working on?” This is asked of every actor after any scene or monologue or acting exercise done at the Actors Studio sessions held twice a week in the old church on 432 West 44th Street, the Studio’s location since 1955. Two projects are presented each session. The members gather in the...
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