If you are not driving, 186 mph isn’t a spectacular land speed. The horizon creeps along, subjectively, no quicker than it does at 65 mph. Absent the jerky, erratic motion often associated with rail travel, the train seems almost not to be moving at all. Source: California’s Rail Pokes Along as Others Race Ahead – […]
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5 Leonard Bernstein videos you need to watch
“I first saw Lennie Bernstein in 1954,” he writes, “on a somber Sunday TV show called Omnibus. Though he was in his 30s and I was 12, I instantly identified with him. He was another kid like me who loved Classical Music. He brought the musical skies down to Earth with what you might call […]
Joe Goode: The Milk Bottle and the Infinite (Review)
One of Joe Goode’s fond memories of the New York art scene of the ’60s was when the great Andy Warhol invited him to dinner at “my favorite restaurant.” Goode, who was then so poor he had hitchhiked to Manhattan, was dazzled. Would it be Grenouille or maybe the Cote Basque, where Truman Capote nestled […]
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