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Dan Conley

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Puzzles

General Essays

If I take P=70 and add it to P=75, do they create something interesting, or am I just imagining it? And if I’m getting warmer, what’s the path Veronique must take to find Alexandre? UPDATE: So, as a potential answer to my inquiry, I have seen

My Hot Take

General Essays

If I were ever in a position to be interviewed for a subway hot take, it would be this: it’s much harder to be right than to be wrong. If you’re wrong about something, once you recognize it, you apologize. It’s the easiest thing in the world.

Robert Redford

Movies

Movie star, Oscar winning director and godfather of American independent cinema Robert Redford died today. As a bit of coincidence/synchronicity, I finally got around to seeing Redford’s 1972 romantic comedy “The Way We Were,” co-starring Barbara Streisand, this weekend. It was a very strange film — basically a leftist

The Egg and the Wall

General Essays

In my day job, I seek out potential speakers for events and also material that could be used in speeches. Lately I have been especially interested in finding interesting material about peace. I came across a wonderful speech given by novelist Haruki Murakami when he accepted the Jerusalem Prize in

In The Mood for Love

Movies

I just finished watching the 2000 Wong Kar-Wai masterpiece “In the Mood for Love” this evening. And while I don’t see the need to write a full review of the film — I’ve seen it several times and have written about it before — I may want to revisit the

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