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DIED. IRV KUPCINET, 91, longtime Chicago Sun-Times gossip columnist; in Chicago. From its debut in January 1943 to its final appearance just four days before his death, "Kup's Column"--often reported from his de facto office, a booth in the Pump Room at Chicago's Omni Ambassador East Hotel--chronicled, with a gentle, often adoring touch, the lives of Hollywood starlets, local politicos, tycoons and princes...
...intent of this column is not missionary but analytical. Using two main texts - Richard Klein's wonderfully suggestive book-length essay "Cigarettes Are Sublime," and Ross McElwee's documentary film "Bright Leaves" - I want to take a calm look at smoking, and its place in the culture, from the inside - from the smoker's hot mouth, wheezing heart, sooty lung and vivid, endlessly rationalizing brain...
...could say I smoke for the same reason I do many things I write about in this column: out of nostalgia for times, and cultures, and pleasures, and bad habits of a more glamorous day. I could say I smoke because my father did, and his mother, though both were dead (cancer) before I started, at 23. The immediate cause was unusual. A friend from California, a magical child named Albert Beach, was coming to New York to visit. He said he was bringing some marijuana, which I'd never tried, and that if I was to appreciate its full...
...Librarians Take Offense I've enjoyed reading your column in the past and looked forward to reading your take on the 25th anniversary of the graphic novel. Unfortunately, I froze up at your opening sentence. You may be referring to one incident in the course of your research but you have done a disservice to librarians. For the past several years, librarians have been strong promoters of graphic novels. School and public librarians across the country have added graphic novels to their collections; Comics and graphic novels have been the subject of many programs at state, regional and national library...
...Larson ’05 is an economics concentrator in Adams House. Her column appears on alternate Fridays...