Norm's Norms

  I t is normal to lose things. Pauline Kael lost it at the movies. I wonder if Arthur Sullivan ever found his Lost Chord. At this age all o...

The breaking news was that there was breaking news for the first time. Sometimes the news is so epochal it cannot be seen. So it was about 3...

For my birthday last month, my friend Larry presented me with a stack of prescriptions scribbled by doctors one hundred years ago. All of th...

Watching ball games, as is my vice, I have come to accept men running around in their colored underwear, or rather their uniforms. It doth p...

It’s only money. If the object of life is to die broke, I’m well on my way. For $545 I could have bought a magnificent dinner on some roofto...

The silver apples of the moon / The golden apples of the sun.                                                      W.B. Yeats The moon has a...

Millions marching costumed as wildflowers emerge on city streets in exodus from the king’s bondage, his masked storm troopers, Middle East /...