The New Yorker, 2005-8-22

[fiefoe]

"Gone Fishing: Snakehead, the Sequel" / Nick Paumgarten
    The picture in the paper, of two torpedo-shaped carcasses laid out next ot measuring tape, called to mind mug shots of criminals you've come to root for.

"Lone Star" / Dan Halpern
    {earlier on mefi}

"The Real Thing" / Adam Gopnik
__ The mysteriously shuttered department store remains... as an example of the thing itself: a beautiful and legendary success of modernity, trembling at the approach of the postmodern.
__ every Western society has some unique version or other of how it balances prosperity and responsibility.
__ ...the French tendency to prefer the poetry of politics to its working out in prose. From that first Bastille day, when storming a nearly empty prison became the symbol of revolution...

Alex Ross: 'the industrialist Friedrich Alfred Krupp, who built a gay pleasure den in a grotto on Capri'

Bolshoi Ballet: Maria Alexandrova in Don Quixote, Svetlana Zakharova

Barbarossa, donnée, orchidaceous

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