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“I call it Hitchcockian.” — Helen Mirren on her 2010 film “The Debt” An obituary from BBC News on Sept. 22, 2014: Israeli Mossad spy Mike Harari dies,…
“… just as God defeats the devil: this bridge exists….” — André Weil The bridge illustration is thanks to Magneto.
In memory of Nicholas Romanov, who reportedly died on Sept. 15, 2014 (British time). Frank Rich in a New York Times book review with online date July 31, 2014:…
“Pinker’s love for the nuts and bolts of language (he calls verbs his ‘little friends’) is equally matched by his appreciation for, and command of, the way it’s…
Ten'll getcha twenty.
Above: Frank Langella in “Starting Out in the Evening” Right: Johnny Depp in “The Ninth Gate“ “One must proceed cautiously, for this road— of truth and falsehood in…
Google celebrates its 16th birthday today. Here are some family values found with its help. The father-in-law of the late Thomas A. Tombrello (previous post) was sociologist Robert K. Merton….
Steve Chawkins in the Los Angeles Times Friday, September 26, 2014, 12:09 PM LA time — "Tom Tombrello, a Caltech physics professor for more than 50 years and an…
“You can play things stylishly on the wrong instruments or unstylishly on the right instruments; I hope we’ll get it stylish on the right instruments.” — The late…
For T. S. Eliot’s birthday: “Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is…