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Weekend Words: Value
This week, in light of the news about Cooper Union, Weekend Words considers value.
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Weekend Words: Gamble
In a case of metaphor becoming reality, on Tuesday Hyperallergic passed along the news that Helly Nahmad Gallery on the Upper East Side had been busted by the Feds for running “high-stakes poker games involving Wall Street financiers, Hollywood celebrities and professional athletes."
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Weekend Words: Garlic
Weekend Words was saddened this week by the news of the death of filmmaker Les Blank. While his best-known movie is probably Burden of Dreams (1982), a behind-the-scenes look at the epic struggles undertaken by visionary German director Werner Herzog in the making of Fitzcarraldo, for the most part
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Weekend Words: Blessings
The coverage of New York State Senator Malcolm A. Smith's pursuit of the New York City mayoralty revealed this detail, courtesy of Kenneth Lovett of the NY Daily News: In Queens, a sign at Smith's district office read, "Theme of the Week: Blessings Have No Restrictions." Following suit, Weekend Word
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Weekend Words: Damage
This week, more curiosities from the art world's stratosphere. Intrigued, Weekend Words looks at forms of damage.
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Weekend Words: Birds
In its previous installment, Weekend Words had bees on its mind; now the birds have asked for equal time.
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Weekend Words: Honey
A brief report in this week's Science Times tells us that "some plants, notably coffee and citrus, attract pollinators with caffeine-laced nectar, which gets the bees hooked as repeat customers." Weekend Words welcomes the news of a hitherto unknown species of caffeine addicts with a squirt of honey
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Weekend Words: Yesterday
This week, the Armory Show celebrates 100 years of modern art in the U.S.; for Weekend Words, it feels like yesterday.
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Weekend Words: Cuts
With the threat of sequestration looming over the country all week like the sword of Damocles, Weekend Words has compiled its own set of cuts...
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Weekend Words: Stardust
With a meteor streaking across the Siberian sky and the Oscars ceremony tonight, Weekend Words fixes its eye on the stars — shooting, falling or going nowhere in particular.
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Weekend Words: Quitting
Now that Pope Benedict XVI has decided to pack it in, Weekend Words considers quitting, but not quite yet.
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Weekend Words: Bones
With this week's discovery of the bones of King Richard III, Weekend Words takes a break from its usual format to present some favorite lines from one of Shakespeare's most demonic plays.