Gertrude Stein

This is Your Brain on Poetry

Travis Nichols | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books

Read More: Contemporary Poetry, Poets, Experimental Poetry, Memories, Poems, Poetry, Gertrude Stein, Books, Memory, Brains, Coleridge, Books News
Travis Nichols

Memory has generated great poems from Simonides, famous for eulogizing ancient Greek nobility, to Coleridge, to the contemporary poets writing an "experiment in collective autobiography," The Grand Piano.

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Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 11.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Mina Loy, L'origine Du Monde, Marcel Duchamp, Armory Show 1913, Lotte Jacobi, Henri Matisse, The Dada Almanac, Andy Warhol, Maria Martins, Marcel Proust, Jules and Jim, Man Ray, Gustave Courbet, Beatrice Wood, Pablo Picasso, Katherine Dreier, The Jewish Museum, Gertrude Stein, Alfred Stieglitz, Francis Naumann Gallery, Etant Donnes, Erich Reiss, Larry Rivers, Gallery 291, Dada Movement, Picabia, Entertainment News
Barbara Probst Solomon

The Jewish Museum is the perfect setting for this stunning major retrospective of Many Ray in all his multiple phases and innovations.

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Letter From Paris: Let the Saints Come Marching In

Beth Arnold | Posted 10.31.2009 | Style

Read More: Day of the Dead, France, Paris, Buchenwald, Dachau, Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Oscar Wilde, Halloween, Alice B. Toklas, Nazi Concentration Camps, All Saints Day, Gertrude Stein, Edith Piaf, Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg, Style News
Beth Arnold

We headed over to the beautiful cemetery to say hey to Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and others. If the 20th Arrondissement is good enough for them, then it certainly should work for us.

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Martha Washington Redux: America's First MILF

Warren Holstein | Posted 03.10.2009 | Comedy

Read More: New Orleans, George Bush, Jimmy Choos, Gulf War, Janet Reno, Eleanor Roosevelt, George W. Bush, Historical Revision, Sex and the City, Ugly Betty, Madeline Albright, History, Betty Friedan, Margaret Thatcher, George Washington, George H.W. Bush, Manolo Blahnik, Revisionist History, Martha Washington, Gertrude Stein, Milf, Barbara Bush, Comedy News
Warren Holstein

Hold on to your hats folks or at least your iPod earbuds, Martha Washington was actually a babe! Also, she avidly consumed Gothic romance novels. Me-ow!

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Happiness Tip: Do Something Every Day

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 03.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Andy Warhol, Gertrude Stein, Routine, Mindfulness, Happiness, The Balanced Life, Living News
Gretchen Rubin

I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you could have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit. ...

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The McCain/Palin Debate Spin: We Won Because She Wasn't a Dithering Idiot

Michael Russnow | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Oakland, Alaska, Cnn, John McCain, Vice Presidential Debate, Gwen Ifill, Russnow, Washington, Michael Russnow, Gertrude Stein, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Michael Russnow

What Gertrude Stein said about her hometown Oakland could also be said of Sarah Palin. "There is no there, there." Sarah Palin is simply without substance.

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Why Don't Poems Rhyme Anymore?

John Lundberg | Posted 04.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Free Verse Poetry, Poems, Williams Carlos Williams, Queen's English Society, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Poetry, Qes, Living News
John Lundberg

The Queen's English Society may sound like the name of a Monty Python sketch, but I assure you it's very real. The group aims to protect "the beauty ...

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