Word: collectionitis
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This thought was not entirely revelatory. My friends had long been subjected to lengthy descriptions of the restaurants I would some day open. They had heard the amateur, now discarded plans of my initial dreaming: the sushi bar built over a tank of live fish (how postmodern!); the dumpling restaurant...
I once read a study of what different cultures found funny. The author claimed that Brits love puns and the French the bizarre. Americans, however, find it funniest to mock. Author Jack Handey, a veteran writer for “Saturday Night Live” and contributor to The New...
If we didn’t know any better, we’d probably think California is the most glamorous place on Earth. Since the time of the Mamas and the Papas—earlier, probably—we’ve been dreaming of California, and shows like ?...
When Philip III ascended to the Spanish throne in 1598, he was 19 years old and uninterested in the responsibilities of a monarch. His friend the Duke of Lerma–the court’s preeminent tastemaker as well as the most important non-royal art collector...
Beth Brainard, director of communications for the Harvard College Library, said the curators of the Library found the papers in Mallory’s collection significant not because of their sexual content but because Mailer was a graduate of Harvard and an influential American writer.