Word: yorks
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...Hitler, but I was a good Hitler," Fagin says with a characteristic smile at the Brookline headquarters of the reincarnated press, an hour from Harvard. "I came back to New York in 1967 to live permanently, and right away was involved in a community of writers. My way of being involved was to cleave them to me and control them all by starting a little magazine. It became a kind of benign power, and at the same time a friendly way to involve myself. That was my original motivation...
...director of the New York Poetry Project, a landmark venture located in the basement of St. Mark's Church that sponsored hundreds of public readings, Fagin had "instant accessibility" to the best work then being produced. "If somebody read something that I heard and I liked I could run up and say "I want that!" People might as well have moved into the church and written poetry, and I would have printed...
...sorting to your left, and Ginsberg's stapling to your right. "Everyone was loose and free and easy," Fagin says of the pseudo-utopia he and his writer friends created. "I know it seems idyllic, but maybe it was." Like the School of Paris in painting, the New York School of Poets-closely linked to emerging abstract expressionist artists-was simply a group of writers defined by their common vocation and narrow geographical living space...
...recently had the pleasure of speaking with actress Carrie-Anne Moss about her role in the upcoming Chocolat, also featuring Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche, set to open in New York and Los Angeles on December 15, and nationwide in early January. Moss is probably best known for her role as Trinity, opposite Keanu Reeves as Neo, in the Wachowski brother's science-fiction blockbuster and cult hit The Matrix (1999). In preparation for playing Trinity, the Canadian-born Moss trained for months to master martial arts before the film began shooting in Australia. In Chocolat, directed by Lasse Hallstrom...
...These results, as Richard Riley, the outgoing secretary of education, told the New York Times, show that "American children continue to learn - but their peers in other countries are learning at a higher rate." Rita Colwell, director of the National Science Foundation, maintains the results simply indicate a need to look deeper for solutions to the international math and science gap. According to the Times, however, Colwell does admit she finds the recent study "a little depressing...