Last week was the 70th anniversary of the Café de Paris bombing during the London Blitz of 1940-41. By March of 1941 most Londoners had learned to take shelter underground when ...
GSTAAD—I’ve got the end-of-season blues. I know I say this every year, but this has been a particularly fun winter, with friends throwing goodbye parties, dinners, and lunches ...
The latest movie adaptation of Jane Eyre is slowly rolling out nationally via art-house theaters, but the plot of Charlotte Brontë's three-volume novel remains wonderfully ...
Dear Delphi, I am 25 and my 56-year-old dad, who is still married to my mother, just came out and announced his intention to leave us for his lover"his male lover. He was ...
We can thank Providence that the earthquake was not 150 miles closer to Tokyo, else Japan’s dead might number in the millions. Prime Minister Naoto Kan calls it the worst ...
Over one cruelly protracted evening last November in the tiny Texas town of Cleveland"up in the ragged piney woods fifty miles northeast of the giant flying-cockroach ...
Online reviews for Disney Cruises read like effusive testimonials from someone who has been healed by the Lord's power. But after returning from the Disney Magic cruise with my ...
The audience laughed hyperactively throughout the trailers for upcoming animated blockbusters. "Do talking-animal movies always have extra-long previews?" my wife ...
The novelty of a model-turned-singer-turned-First Lady of France has long vanished. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy could almost be overlooked. There is little to criticize, given her poise ...
Churchgoing New Englanders in the early settlements normally heard two sermons every Sunday"one in the morning and another in the afternoon, each at least two hours long. ...
Dear Delphi, I am the other woman. I have been seeing this older married man for about three months. I really like him and he says he really likes me, but he never talks about ...
Over the past few days the Greatest Show on Earth has rolled into town. This carnival is complete with its very own troop of freaks, and its ringmaster is cad-about-town Charlie ...
One of Israel's finest journalists, Gideon Levy, wrote in the daily Haaretz, "Just as there is no such thing as a partial pregnancy, there is no such thing as a partial ...
Based on their entertainment value alone, I believe that the Phelps family of Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church deserves First Amendment protection. For entirely different reasons, ...
Like any art form, journalism has genres. There is the celebrity-fall-from-grace genre. There is the up-and-coming cable-television-pundit-zings-opposing-network-pundit genre. The ...
Tom Stoppard's remarkable career stands as a puzzling rebuke to cynicism about show biz. Sure, audience-pandering, trend-surfing, and propagandizing can explain the vast majority ...
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