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What Would Phoebe Do: Here we go again
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What Would Phoebe Do. The best Francophilic Zionism in the blogosphere. Saturday, April 17, 2010. Here we go again. This round brought to us by Patricia Cohen, in the NYT's Education Life section: "Law students get a diploma in three years. Medical students receive an M.D. in four. But for graduate students in the humanities, it takes, on average, more than nine years to complete a degree. What some of those Ph.D. recipients may not realize. As in, we, the humanities doctoral students, we know. Know is a...
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What Would Phoebe Do: Susan Sontag's "Top Shelf"
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What Would Phoebe Do. The best Francophilic Zionism in the blogosphere. Tuesday, October 28, 2014. Susan Sontag's "Top Shelf". Sometimes a preexisting tag. Demands a blog post. Sometimes that's hardly the half of it. She was on their mailing list. The verdict in at least two articles noting this fact is that Sontag was "just like us." As a haver-of- loyalty-points. Myself, I can't disagree. I suppose one way to look at this is that it's a let-down, that the Beauty Myth. To too-brilliant-to-bathe men ( via.
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What Would Phoebe Do: The great northern resurfacing
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What Would Phoebe Do. The best Francophilic Zionism in the blogosphere. Sunday, June 28, 2015. The great northern resurfacing. Hello again my many Weblog-readers. It's been a bit of a haze, but I'm now settled-ish in Toronto. There were just. Pair of jeans. The height of luxe! Also very luxurious: the Canadian Tire air mattress (thank you, commenter Alison for the suggestion! So many, so far all excellent. And there are Portuguese (? Posted by Phoebe Maltz Bovy. Sunday, June 28, 2015. Glad I could help.
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What Would Phoebe Do: On eating all of Toronto
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What Would Phoebe Do. The best Francophilic Zionism in the blogosphere. Monday, July 06, 2015. On eating all of Toronto. It's a very good thing that the Dollarama (a store that sells absolutely everything, for usually just over a dollar; extra useful if you've just moved) is next to the expensive but excellent coffee place. Or, perhaps, that the expensive but excellent coffee place is next to the Dollarama. Posted by Phoebe Maltz Bovy. Monday, July 06, 2015. Wednesday, July 15, 2015 12:39:00 AM. The Kei ...
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What Would Phoebe Do: Lucy and the hats
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What Would Phoebe Do. The best Francophilic Zionism in the blogosphere. Sunday, November 11, 2007. Lucy and the hats. What it does not mean, I hope, is that I am part of the "New Girl Order," as described. I think the main check on excessive girly consumption is men. It's not because women dress to please men that single women go nuts at Zara. It's because boyfriends and husbands do not see the subtle differences between one pair of black shoes and another, and, on some level, they have a point. Once, wh...
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What Would Phoebe Do: Thoughts on femininity from news cycles past
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What Would Phoebe Do. The best Francophilic Zionism in the blogosphere. Friday, June 05, 2015. Thoughts on femininity from news cycles past. Except. all of this does kind of connect to something I'd wanted to write about earlier, regarding Sarah Maslin Nir's two. On the horrible conditions behind the scenes at NY nail salons. Atrocious, illegal wages, combined with dangerous working conditions, with some racism in the mix. Amazing reporting (and the translations - brilliant! More dangerous than it would ...
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What Would Phoebe Do: A de-gendered reading of unearned confidence
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What Would Phoebe Do. The best Francophilic Zionism in the blogosphere. Tuesday, June 09, 2015. A de-gendered reading of unearned confidence. Sometimes I've thought that I should, as a writer, do more with the fact that I have a PhD. Like, in a 'look what I've. Like something that would be (and has been) held against me by certain readers who assume a humanities is some kind of extravagant finishing school that you (or your parents) pay for, and not a full-time job? Her PhD (which she discreetly fails to...
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What Would Phoebe Do: GAF
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What Would Phoebe Do. The best Francophilic Zionism in the blogosphere. Monday, August 10, 2015. There was a time when I enjoyed buying clothes, and was good at it, and did it regularly enough that I was always well-dressed. Or maybe there wasn't. Like all golden ages, this is some mix of a conflation of several eras that really did exist, and a rose-colored revisionist history of that which really took place. Heels purchased at a chic (French? Store on 7th Avenue in Chelsea. Small but significant steps.
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What Would Phoebe Do: "Thrifty pampering tactics"
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What Would Phoebe Do. The best Francophilic Zionism in the blogosphere. Tuesday, August 20, 2013. Many nail salons in the UK are evidently. Staffed by slave labor. While it's commonly understood that nail-salon work is potentially dangerous (the fumes! Holly Baxter's piece about this controversy leaves a bit to be desired. Must there be such. A long introduction referring back to SATC? Must that always be viewed with suspicion? Or not English speakers. As I've said so very many times before on WWPD re: c...
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What Would Phoebe Do: Chic Canadian minimalism
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What Would Phoebe Do. The best Francophilic Zionism in the blogosphere. Sunday, June 21, 2015. Greetings from Day # who even knows at this point of moving to Canada. A variety of steps are involved, considering that a) it's another country, and b) the move involves flying with a dog. There's also the slight possibility we'll arrive two weeks before our mattress does, and the question of where to buy an air mattress in Toronto is surprisingly un-Googleable. Unwieldy bit of stuff. The car - that I'd though...
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