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Posts published by “Stuart Bowen”

Pacification

The pacifiers were sold one to a package. I asked for a dozen—maybe $20 worth back then. “That's a lot,” the clerk said. “You don't…

The Siqueiros and the Gringo

A recent edition of Jeopardy featured Los Tres Grandes, the three famous muralists who challenged the social order in Mexico in the mid-20th Century. The…

Flirting with History

What follows is unclassified. At least as far as I know. It comes from my fading memory and the so-called "open literature." The connections, if…

AMTRAK — Again!

AMTRAK has handled the black-porter/white-porter issue very deftly. Their logo — or at least the one that appears on the tissue covering the head rest…

Beam Rider

I should have been an experimental physicist or per­haps even an astrophysicist. One disadvantage to the latter profession is that you can't really get close…

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