Memorandums from Mary
Friday, November 3, 2023
You Can’t Tell the Players Without a Scorecard
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2009’s District 9 in which members of an extraterrestrial race line up for food in a militarized refugee camp. The book Round Trip to Ameri...
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie—A Story of Entitlement
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Alexander Hamilton (Derryl Yeager) and James Madison (Craig Wasson) in a scene from 1989’s A More Perfect Union: America becomes a Nation . ...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
A Mad Raging Womb
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I didn’t cover whether being a woman made you more likely to be considered “mad” in last week’s memorandum—“Fit to be Tied (in a Straitjacke...
Sunday, October 1, 2023
Fit to be Tied (in a Straitjacket)
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Korean War vet Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) thought he could control his situation (by transferring from prison to a mental hospital) in...
Saturday, September 23, 2023
A 40,000-book Personal Library
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I recently read Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions by Alberto Manguel. However, I was left with two burning questions after f...
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