Brought up by two reference librarians, Phil was bullied as a foal.
Phil O’Lologous
By Phil O’Lologous
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Culture What’s a Nice Gerund Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
[ ![][2]][2] When people ask me who put the “sin in cinema,” I respond, “Kenneth Marcus of Englewood Heights, N.J.” Into their dropped jaws I explain that during the early days of American movies — when Englewood and environs were Hollywood and Broadway rolled into one — Mr. Marcus wanted to lend a sheen of…
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Culture Who Put the Coal in Coalition?
[ ![][2]][2] When people ask me, “Who put the fun in fundamentalism?” I always answer that it was a little-known 14th-century Sufi Pir named Sayyid Jalal al-din Husayn Bukhari. More to the point this month is who put the fundamentalists in power, and, in the wake of the fractious Israeli elections, a Mr. Will Tiberias…
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