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What is it with all this 'Heartland' talk?
I'm as big a fan of our American system of politics as anyone, considering its rich comedic value, but there's one thing about our politics that really gets my goat. Or would get it, if I had a goat. It's this "Heartland" business you hear every election...Tags: Barack Obama, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Virginia, Ohio, South Dakota
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Lobbying for a stay at New York's Algonquin
Tribune reporterAs I write this mash note to the Algonquin, the clubby enclave with the most storied literary history of any Manhattan hotel, the resident cat, Matilda, is lounging on one of the bell carts near the front desk. I'm sitting a few yards away, with my laptop...Tags: William Faulkner, Manhattan (New York City), Marc Connelly, Lobbying, Hotels and Accommodations
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Dry wit and even drier martinis
STAFF WRITERThe New Yorker's "The Talk of the Town" section is a far-flung proposition these days, but in the magazine's fledgling years in the 1920s, much of the town's talk worth printing originated around a dining table in the nearby Algonquin Hotel. Witticisms...Tags: Theater, Broadway, Music Theater, Edna Ferber, Coney Island
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'Gatsby' Revisits a Stormy Life
Considerable local interest may well greet "Gatsby in Hollywood," receiving its world premiere at the MET Theatre. Author Joshua Rebell traces the turbulent love affair of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sheilah Graham against the studio politics and media...Tags: Theater, Ogden Nash, Myrna Loy, Deborah Kerr, Kate Mulgrew
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