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01/11
Ex Libris
Bookplates! I’ve been doing some research on the personalized bookplates of centuries past, putting together a certain ahem-hem birthday gift lately. Since the first days when anyone lent anyone a book— or at least since the mid-15th century— nobles and monks…
01/09
“Completely Wanton”
Encyclopedia of the Exquisite‘s entry on Heels focuses on how Marilyn Monroe wore them with such va-va-voom back in the mid-20th century. In Niagara, a film noir shot in 1952, she played a vixen with a walk so provocative that…
01/02
Endings and Beginnings
Just a quick thought on the month of January, named for the two-faced Roman god Janus, who could peer into the future and see into the past at the same time. Who better to represent the New Year? Appropriately enough,…
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