SHILLING FOR PROFESSOR EAGLETON
NOT THAT TERRY EAGLETON, English literary theorist and public intellectual, needs the like of me to encourage folks to his lectures. But his “Where Does Culture Come From?,” London Review … Continue reading
GREAT (AND NEAT-O) LAKES
THE INTERESTING FACTS website offered a tidbit that the Great Lakes hold more that 20 percent of the world’s fresh water, six quadrillion gallons of it: “That’s so much water,” … Continue reading
QUITE AN EVENTFUL YEAR—1994
“WHAT WITH FIRESTORMS, EARTHQUAKES, MUD SLIDES and, as I begin this report, torrential rains, flooding, even a tornado, Southern California had hardly been a boring place of late.” So wrote … Continue reading
HOW’S NORWAY DOING WITH EVS? PART 2
YESTERDAY, TWO FASCINATING ARTICLES yielded tidbits about Norway and its dramatic rise of electric vehicle sales from 1 percent in 2014 to 83 percent last year as consumers responded to … Continue reading
HOW’S NORWAY DOING WITH EVS? PART 1
DEMOGRAPHICS AS WELL AS GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES have a lot to do with Norway’s love affair with electric vehicles. Here, in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow, are tidbits gleaned … Continue reading
HOME RERUN TIME—CELEBRATING A SCRAWNY GUY “WANTING TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY” PART 2
YESTERDAY WE BEGAN GLEANING tidbits about Elisha Cook Jr., who is typically recalled as Kasper Gutman’s psychotic sidekick in The Maltese Falcon and as a doomed informer in The Big … Continue reading
HOME RERUN TIME—CELEBRATING A SCRAWNY GUY “WANTING TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY” PART 1
I’VE SAVED SEVERAL CLASSIC FILMS FOR HOME RERUNS, each re-viewed when the spirit moves me. These include Pandora’s Box, the 1929 silent flick (its operatic version Alban Berg’s Lulu); Bogart/Astor/Greenstreet/Lorre’s … Continue reading
PEDALIN’ IT ALL OVER TOWN
R&T CALLED IT “the lightest, most compact and most economical Maserati we have ever tested.” This and the following images from R&T, April 1974. It was fifty years ago, and … Continue reading
THERE’S A WORD FOR IT—THOUGH NOT IN ENGLISH
MARIKA PRICE SPITULSKI SHARES “16 Heartwarming Words and Phrases That Don’t Have an English Equivalent,” in Nice News, April 27, 2024. Here’s a selection of them, some new to me … Continue reading
THE GREENEST CARS OF 2024—OVERALL
EACH YEAR THE AMERICAN COUNCIL for an Energy-Efficient Economy ranks cars on an overall measure. Not just the energy used in their propulsion, but also that employed in their manufacture … Continue reading
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