Posts Tagged ‘Hillary Clinton’
On Norma
Yesterday — what luck! — a final dress rehearsal for Norma at the Metropolitan Opera. The first thing we note, incredibly enough, is that the audience on average is even older than the one into which we immersed ourselves the other night at Aida. Can you imagine it? What a rare oasis from capitalism! How […]
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Tags: , Bellini, Bernard Kerik, Dolora Zajick, Hasmik Papian, Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, Norma, Rudy Giuliani, The Metropolitan Opera, The Odyssey
The oily black smoke of 100-year-old boilers disperses daily across the rooftops in Washington Heights, heedless of those who suffer from pneumonia, asthma and tuberculosis. Officials and politicians? Not even footnotes in this story, which is about the aggregation of capital and the relentless rise of the metropolis.
Filed under: Capitalism, Politicians, Sickness, The Gay Recluse, Washington Heights | Leave a Comment
Tags: Betsy Gotbaum, Charles B. Rangel, Charles Schumer, Eric T. Schneiderman, George W. Bush, Harlem, Herman “Denny” Farrell, Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, Miguel Martinez, Robert Jackson, Scott Stringer, Washington Heights
We begin by noting that — even more than “freedom” — the word “community” has entered a new and perhaps unprecedented level of (mis)use from which the gay recluse will wish to completely disassociate himself. Particularly noxious are those forms of community — e.g., the gay community, the Irish community, the international community — regularly […]
Filed under: Pessimism, Resignation, Subway, The Gay Recluse | Leave a Comment
Tags: 1984, Candy Darling, Geraldine Ferraro, Hillary Clinton, Jesse Jackson, MADD, MTA, The New York Times, Walter Mondale
The Gay Recluse 