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    Teenage Cronkite Wrote About Stein's Sparkling Conversation, "Mannish Blouse"

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    Image of hfree hfree
    07/24/09

    In reply to Teenage Cronkite Wrote About Stein's Sparkling Conversation, "Mannish Blouse"
    What's kind of fun about this is that you can totally read this in Cronkite's voice and see where his later style came from. And I love the Alice B. Toklas lines, with Stein being seemingly forthright, yet a little coy. I think ole' Walt knew exactly what was the deal between them and was trying to be tactful.
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    Image of Pizza!Pizza!Pizza! Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
    07/24/09

    In reply to Teenage Cronkite Wrote About Stein's Sparkling Conversation, "Mannish Blouse"
    'She enters wholeheartedly into any conversation. She is extremely modern. She enjoys to talk, and her enthusiasm is no private thing.'

    This is so telling. A woman who commands a conversation, who doesn't hide a smile behind her hand? How novel!
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    Image of gaudette gaudette
    07/24/09

    In reply to Teenage Cronkite Wrote About Stein's Sparkling Conversation, "Mannish Blouse"
    I know two separate people and a dog named after Alice B. Toklas.

    Also, she invented pot brownies. To which I say: WELL DONE MADAM.
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    Image of J.D.Regent J.D.Regent
    07/24/09

    @gaudette: oh is THAT why they were always serving pot brownies at alice b. toklas parties in college? damn i'm slow. must be the pot brownies.
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    Image of boxspelunker boxspelunker
    07/24/09

    In reply to Teenage Cronkite Wrote About Stein's Sparkling Conversation, "Mannish Blouse"
    Gertrude Stein wrote such strange poetry. My sister and I used to read Tender Buttons and just get so confused. Then I found out she may have been gay, and she became really interesting to me (as a person who was finding out some stuff about their own sexuality at the time). Her writing will never make sense, but it will always be awesome.
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    Image of philistereo philistereo
    07/24/09

    @boxspelunker: "Tender Button" has to be one of the best euphemisms ever invented, and the book is about one of the trippiest ever written. I couldn't help but think she must have been reading a lot of Heidegger when she was working on that. It's like modern art; it doesn't NEED to make sense!
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    Image of boxspelunker boxspelunker
    07/25/09

    @philistereo: Is THAT what it means? And to think! All these years I have totally missed the memo. Holy crap.

    Thank you, philistereo.
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    Image of andBegorrah andBegorrah
    07/24/09

    In reply to Teenage Cronkite Wrote About Stein's Sparkling Conversation, "Mannish Blouse"
    "And this is the manner of how things are."
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    Image of BearDownCBears BearDownCBears
    07/24/09

    In reply to Teenage Cronkite Wrote About Stein's Sparkling Conversation, "Mannish Blouse"
    I can't believe she didn't know what the Bush Doctrine was.
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    Image of PilgrimSoul PilgrimSoul
    07/24/09

    In reply to Teenage Cronkite Wrote About Stein's Sparkling Conversation, "Mannish Blouse"
    I have always wished I had been alive for the heyday of the Left Bank. I would have crashed one of this woman's parties, had an affair with Hemingway, and drunk myself to an early death, but it would have been funner than living in an office block.

    Today the closest thing one can get to such artistic communion is to get into an MFA program, and you have to pay for the privilege. I hate modern artistic culture, in many ways, but this I hate the most.
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    Image of J.D.Regent J.D.Regent
    07/24/09

    @PilgrimSoul: HEMINGWAY, really? I'm shocked, P.S.
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    Image of PilgrimSoul PilgrimSoul
    07/24/09

    @J.D.Regent: When you're sort of convinced that all men kind of secretly hate women it does open up a whole new range for fun affairs.
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    Image of J.D.Regent J.D.Regent
    07/24/09

    @PilgrimSoul: You don't have to explain a good hate fuck (ahem... affair) to me lady, I just didn't know you had it in ya. In fact, perhaps we can use the term "vest affair" in place of "hate fuck" when one doesn't want to be so crude. I always thought Hemingway was very attractive in the face. And liked cats!
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    Image of PilgrimSoul PilgrimSoul
    07/24/09

    @J.D.Regent: Yeah, I have to say, I'm a sucker for a dude who likes cats.

    I love "vest affair." I do kind of detest vulgarity. Sad for me.
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    Image of whynotshesaid whynotshesaid
    07/25/09

    @PilgrimSoul: Hmm, I'm with you, although I was always a bit more of a Fitzgerald fangirl. Dude was a hottie. I would have done him.
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    Image of so5minutesago so5minutesago
    07/24/09

    In reply to Teenage Cronkite Wrote About Stein's Sparkling Conversation, "Mannish Blouse"
    So THAT's where "women in comfortable shoes" originated!

    That's one way to beat around the, erm, bush.
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    Image of BellaTricks BellaTricks
    07/24/09

    In reply to Teenage Cronkite Wrote About Stein's Sparkling Conversation, "Mannish Blouse"
    A story involving Texas, journalism, AND feminism?! My head is about to explode.

    That being said, the use of the word "mannish"? Questionable.
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    Image of Grim Reaper of the Forest Grim Reaper of the Forest
    07/24/09

    @BellaTricks: I wonder if she was just wearing something similar to a man's button down shirt.
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    Image of GoodBadNotEvil GoodBadNotEvil
    07/24/09

    @BellaTricks: It was 1935. I think it's rather tame, actually, compared to what some other journalists of the time could have said.
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    Image of BellaTricks BellaTricks
    07/24/09

    @GoodBadNotEvil: Yeah, that's a really good point. I'm not sure exactly what standard journalism was like in the 30's, but I know that not too much earlier, journalists often used quite conversational tones, and would sometimes examine current events through moral or religious lenses.

    I still can't hear the word "mannish" without triggering Austin Powers associations, though-- which is probably what threw me off in the first place.
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    Image of SkokieGuy SkokieGuy
    07/24/09

    In reply to Teenage Cronkite Wrote About Stein's Sparkling Conversation, "Mannish Blouse"
    I want to have a vest affair, or maybe a menage a' trois with a vest and cummberbund.
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    Image of Hana Maru, used up old slutbag on the pole Hana Maru, used up old slutbag on the pole
    03/23/09

    In reply to Lipstick And Pocketbooks: When Things Are More Than Just Things
    I used to buy top shelf booze for my house because it was cheaper than going to bars and having standard quality drinks. Now, I don't ever go to bars, though, and restaurants hardly ever. I've discovered a couple of cheap but smooth and clean vodkas(Frost, Monopolowa) and I infuse them with tea leaves and spices and stuff to make my own liqueurs.
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    Image of lisas lisas
    03/23/09

    In reply to Lipstick And Pocketbooks: When Things Are More Than Just Things
    Internet access.
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    Image of rah29 rah29
    03/23/09

    In reply to Lipstick And Pocketbooks: When Things Are More Than Just Things
    Dior and Clinique makeup, quality/pretty lingerie and excellent gin (Tanqueray no. 10 preferrably--cheap as hell tonic is fine). In this I follow my mother, who in her student days would get down to exactly 52cents in her bank account (she put herself through college, her parents were 6000 miles away). That way, my face looks alright, I feel pretty under my clothes, and I'm too happily pissed to care very much about anything else.
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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    03/23/09

    In reply to Lipstick And Pocketbooks: When Things Are More Than Just Things
    Gigs. And maybe mascara.
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    Image of jigglyball jigglyball
    03/23/09

    In reply to Lipstick And Pocketbooks: When Things Are More Than Just Things
    Good beer, my iPhone, my computer, salad (you wouldn't think salad's that expensive, but considering that I buy weekly stores of fresh veggies, meats, cheeses, etc. to go with the salad, it's an expensive habit, but I love it).


    I already wear cheap clothes, I could move to a cheaper apartment, and I could happily give up most of my driving.


    Earlier this week, my dad hung his head and sighed to me, "Well, we've let go of the cleaning service" as he looked forlornly around his enormous, beautiful home. I love my dad, but I almost scoffed audibly.

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