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Terence Clarke's Blog
August 24, 2009
- I dreamed I saw Joe DiMaggio last night, alive as you and me.It was in the old San Francisco Seals stadium at 16th and Potrero Streets, where I occasionally went to games when I was a child. This was before the New York Giants came to San Francisco and ruined the fortunes of the Pacific Coast League (although a part of the minors, it was often called the Third Major because of the excellence of ...
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August 5, 2009
- These days political torture is being much examined in the news: its use by the recently defeated Republican Party team of George Bush, its purposes, its physical effects on those tortured, its success (or lack of same) as an investigative device. Questioning and torture, we have learned, frequently go hand in hand, and Jacobo Timerman knew quite a bit about that.“Are you a Jew?” A ...
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June 4, 2009
- The beautiful runway models, so enhanced by the artfully-designed dress or gown, by the sensuous sway of the well-appointed evening wrap or the gathering of motion in color and surprising embroidery, are testament to what the poet Robert Herrick was describing when he wrote “Next, when I cast mine eyes and see/That brave vibration each way free. . .”. But there is one thing that clutters this ...
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May 22, 2009
- Among the many, many unusual kinds of poems that Pablo Neruda wrote, his Elemental Odes are justifiably celebrated. He produced an abundance of them, odes to just about everything including the most domestic of everyday articles. . . innumerable objects, pieces of homey flotsam, the stuff of every day life and his constantly wandering thoughts about how they could be shown in verse. One that I ...
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May 22, 2009
- The Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti died in Montevideo on May 17. A novelist, essayist, short story writer, poet and apologist for tango, Benedetti wrote more than sixty books and has long been considered a major figure in Latin American writing of the last half-century. He was also a political figure, having been pursued by the Uruguayan military junta in the 1970’s for his indiscreet ...
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April 20, 2009
- Very often in fiction, inanimate objects simply lie there. You'd think they'd be more...lively, that they'd get up and do something!It happens that the novels I love are all about human relationships and whether or not they are successful. Great novelists attempt to explain how relationships work and what life those relationships can give to the soul, or what damage they can cause it.A marriage ...
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February 23, 2009
- I recently co-wrote and appeared in a stage show entitled "Tango: A Romantic Ritual". It was video-taped and is available from Social Dance Cultures. I was interviewed for the show as well, and I hope you'll take a look at these few portions of the conversation.
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February 22, 2009
- I recently co-wrote and appeared in a stage show entitled "Tango: A Romantic Ritual". It was video-taped and is available from Social Dance Cultures. I was interviewed for the show as well, and I hope you'll take a look at these few portions of the conversation.
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February 21, 2009
- I recently co-wrote and appeared in a stage show entitled "Tango: A Romantic Ritual". It was video-taped and is available from Social Dance Cultures. I was interviewed for the show as well, and I hope you'll take a look at these few portions of the conversation.
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February 5, 2009
- As the tango says: Así se baila el tango,sintiendo en la cara,la sangre que subea cada compás,(Thus is tango danced,feeling in the facethe blood that riseswith each rhythm.)I’m involved in two major Argentine tango events in the San Francisco Bay Area on Valentine’s weekend. Please join us. . .¡Milonga de amor! At The Ferry Building (at The Embarcadero and Market Street in San Francisco), ...
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January 29, 2009
- And how is that novel coming along? I will be hosting a fiction-writing seminar, meeting once a week in the evening in San Francisco, California beginning Thursday night, March 5, 2009.There will be no more than ten participants, and each participant’s work will be discussed by the others twice, over a five-session period. Participants will be expected to have read thoughtfully and with a ...
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January 23, 2009
- Some of the greatest performances by actors are made great by their electrifying relationship – on stage or on screen – with others. The idea of the ensemble is an honored one in the history of theater and film, and an ensemble can be made up of just two actors. In the case of the 1997 film Donnie Brasco, those two are Johnny Depp and Al Pacino. This Mike Newell-directed film is a very ...
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January 4, 2009
- The great jazz pianist Thelonious Monk wasn't generally know as an arts scholar and adviser on the nature of creativity.Nonetheless, as the following notebook entries show (notes sent to me by the wonderful jazz singer Kitty Margolis), Monk was such a person. The notes were written down by the soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy (no slouch himself), who was a big fan of Monk and played with him many ...
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January 2, 2009
- The work of most artists is not much recognized. Those who are recognized usually have to wait a while, often a long while, to come into the notoriety they have always been seeking. But in November 1957, when Yves Saint Laurent was 21-years-old, he was named chief fashion designer for the House of Dior, at the time one of the premier couture firms in the world, after the death of its founder ...
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December 25, 2008
- One of the troubles with these twenty-one poems is that they so frequently lack a kind of internal logical consistency. Neruda jumps from thought to thought, observation to observation, image to image, very often without providing any sort of bridge from one to the other. Parts of them are senseless. Others sound dashed off, hurried, over-ardent, not quiet considered enough. They are ...
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