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MARISSABIDILLA: Artists Are Members of a Privileged Class @ SF Theater Pub Blog
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Marisabidilla: n., Span. A know-it-all girl with an answer for everything. Marissabidilla: n., Amer-Span. The blog of a girl with an answer for some things and a question for most things. Saturday, March 21, 2015. Artists Are Members of a Privileged Class @ SF Theater Pub Blog. I'm rereading Tom Stoppard's Travesties. My Theater Pub piece. Some choice quotes from Travesties. To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war." (Carr). Revolution. Artists are members of a privileg...
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MARISSABIDILLA: Three Brief Reviews of Three Brief Books
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Marisabidilla: n., Span. A know-it-all girl with an answer for everything. Marissabidilla: n., Amer-Span. The blog of a girl with an answer for some things and a question for most things. Friday, March 6, 2015. Three Brief Reviews of Three Brief Books. Apologies for my long absence. In mid-February, I was off the grid on a week-long vacation; and for the past two weeks, I've been trying to recover from a lingering head cold. On my vacation, I stayed at the literary-themed Sylvia Beach Hotel. At all, and ...
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MARISSABIDILLA: Will the Burqa Be Banned in Berlin? Some Limericks
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Marisabidilla: n., Span. A know-it-all girl with an answer for everything. Marissabidilla: n., Amer-Span. The blog of a girl with an answer for some things and a question for most things. Tuesday, July 7, 2015. Will the Burqa Be Banned in Berlin? The New York Times. Published an op-ed piece by Anna Sauerbrey titled " Will the Burqa be Banned in Berlin. This is a bad headline for two reasons:. So, naturally, I had to write some limericks "On German Anti-Headscarf Laws.". Will the burqa be banned in Berlin?
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MARISSABIDILLA: July 2014
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Marisabidilla: n., Span. A know-it-all girl with an answer for everything. Marissabidilla: n., Amer-Span. The blog of a girl with an answer for some things and a question for most things. Sunday, July 27, 2014. If the "Pleiades" Characters were Jane Austen Heroines. Inspired by Lily Janiak's blurb calling Pleiades. The love child of Jane Austen and Wendy Wasserstein," and a conversation I just had with my boyfriend about Mansfield Park*. Sarah = Catherine Morland. She still believes in fairy tales. I rea...
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MARISSABIDILLA: Jessica Mitford, Red Sheep
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Marisabidilla: n., Span. A know-it-all girl with an answer for everything. Marissabidilla: n., Amer-Span. The blog of a girl with an answer for some things and a question for most things. Monday, May 19, 2008. Jessica Mitford, Red Sheep. Like many people who are intrigued by the 1930s, by British aristocrats, by women who defied expectations, I have a healthy interest in the six Mitford sisters. A few years ago I read eldest sister Nancy's comic novels The Pursuit of Love. And Love in a Cold Climate.
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MARISSABIDILLA: November 2014
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Marisabidilla: n., Span. A know-it-all girl with an answer for everything. Marissabidilla: n., Amer-Span. The blog of a girl with an answer for some things and a question for most things. Sunday, November 30, 2014. November Spawned a Monster. I didn't write a Theater Pub column this Thursday, because of Thanksgiving. And also because the editor needed to run the VERY VERY SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. In the history of the Theater Pub blog. I took blogger George Heymont. Monday, November 24, 2014. Autumn is for ...
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MARISSABIDILLA: "The Wilder Shores of Love": Romance and exoticism, what did you expect?
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Marisabidilla: n., Span. A know-it-all girl with an answer for everything. Marissabidilla: n., Amer-Span. The blog of a girl with an answer for some things and a question for most things. Sunday, April 26, 2015. The Wilder Shores of Love": Romance and exoticism, what did you expect? The Wilder Shores of Love. My rating: 3 of 5 stars. Believe it or not, I decided to read The Wilder Shores of Love. Next we learn about Jane Digby, a beautiful aristocrat who had a string of scandalous romances that took her ...
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MARISSABIDILLA: September 2014
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Marisabidilla: n., Span. A know-it-all girl with an answer for everything. Marissabidilla: n., Amer-Span. The blog of a girl with an answer for some things and a question for most things. Sunday, September 21, 2014. Kitchen Confidential" - Tasty but Not Quite Fresh. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. My rating: 3 of 5 stars. View all my reviews. Wednesday, September 3, 2014. To Say Nothing of the Dog" - Catnip in Book Form. And Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog. What was...
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MARISSABIDILLA: May 2015
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Marisabidilla: n., Span. A know-it-all girl with an answer for everything. Marissabidilla: n., Amer-Span. The blog of a girl with an answer for some things and a question for most things. Monday, May 11, 2015. Eros the Bittersweet" by Anne Carson: The Invention of Eros. A couple of weeks ago, I was in my local curry joint rereading Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll. On her to-read list. What a collision of serendipity! I took it as a sign that I should read that book too. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. The way the ...
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MARISSABIDILLA: April 2015
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Marisabidilla: n., Span. A know-it-all girl with an answer for everything. Marissabidilla: n., Amer-Span. The blog of a girl with an answer for some things and a question for most things. Sunday, April 26, 2015. The Wilder Shores of Love": Romance and exoticism, what did you expect? The Wilder Shores of Love. My rating: 3 of 5 stars. Believe it or not, I decided to read The Wilder Shores of Love. Next we learn about Jane Digby, a beautiful aristocrat who had a string of scandalous romances that took her ...