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“All the world’s a joke and man is born clown.”
– from Falstaff, by Arrigo Boito.
It takes two to make a good joke: someone to tell it ...
Cassandra White is not a virtuous widow with her grizzled hair coiled into a bun. She does not wear a series of shapeless outfits in black, and she does not, ...
I am in Cairo. I’m meeting a friend of a friend whom I’ve never seen before. I’m supposed to be her professional sound recordist for a radio documentary ...
It had been one of those whirlwind conference romances. Now the very distinguished and very pretty professor from Irvine and I were deciding whether to attend one more afternoon session, ...
So this is what happened on my school trip.
First off, I have to say, what really did my head in was mom coming along for the ride. They wanted volunteers ...
How Country Club Plaza was able to stay open, nobody really knew. It ranked as one of the central mysteries of the city, along with the hauntings at the California ...
Clive Montague never liked me particularly. I certainly never liked him. Loud, boorish, with floppy fair hair, there was—there is—nothing to like. This gives rise to two questions:
First. Why, some ...
The Worst Ever Broadway Play
An immediate and sensational flop, Moose Murders by Arthur Bicknell is now widely considered to bethe worst play ever performed on ...
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Tom Toro is a New Yorker cartoonist and fiction writer living in Berkeley, California. ...
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