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• Post #3076006

  How is it that I have been living in #France for 8 months, and I only just learned the word "tromper"? Now I feel like we've been misspelling that name all along. #francais

• Post #3036452

  I was in the mood for an #antifascist #movie tonight, so I tried watching "The Man I Married." (1940) I wasn't disappointed. The film takes direct aim at Nazi culture at a time when the US hadn't yet picked a side. I was honestly surprised how well the film holds up from a post war perspective, with the benefit of distant hindsight. The film makers seemed to have a pretty good read on the situation. It was also illuminating to see a film from that era with...

• Post #358276

  Thank you Gisèle! ...twenty years younger, “I might not have dared to refuse a closed-door hearing.” “I would have feared the stares,” she writes. “Those damned stares a woman of my generation has always had to contend with, those damned stares that make you hesitate in the morning between trousers and a dress, that follow you or ignore you, flatter you and embarrass you. Those damned stares that are supposed to tell you who you are, what you’re worth, and then abandon you as you grow older.”...