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 I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I’d look like without plastic surgery.”
- Joan Rivers, comedienne
Buenos Aires – So there we were, two days later, looking at a narrowed, elongated version of Sucre, with lower height ceilings. You could tell the same thought process went into the design of the space. [...]

 Believe me, General, nobody loves your glory as much as I do. Never has a Chief paid more glorious tribute to a lieutenant. At the moment it is being printed, a telling of your life done by myself; being faithful to my conscience I give you all that you deserve. I say this so that [...]

 You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”
- Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Buenos Aires – What to do when there are competing themes for an evening, and [...]

 Oh Fatherland, Fatherland,
Show us the sign
Your children have waited to see.
The morning will come
When the world is mine.
Tomorrow belongs to me!
- Chorus from Tomorrow Belongs to Me, Cabaret
Buenos Aires – Recently I’ve decided it’s time to get back into theater mode – I mean going to as opposed to being in. My Spanish has improved [...]

 Animal jelly; glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically, a nitrogeneous colloid, not existing as such in the animal body, but formed by the hydrating action of boiling water on the collagen of various kinds of connective tissue (as tendons, bones, ligaments, etc.). Its distinguishing character is that of dissolving in hot [...]

 Sound bites and quick appraisals are not conducive to thorough analysis. People’s reputations often rest on how we talk about important matters.”
- Janet Reno, former Attorney General of the United States
Buenos Aires – It’s simply not in the cards to review in full every spot that I get to eat at. Sometimes it’s because I’ve [...]

 And you can pretend that it would be different
If it happened to you
But up on the rooftop, it’s a whole other world
And who could see heaven
And not want to stay?”
- from Nobody Knows, by Paul Brady

Buenos Aires – You know how you can walk by something time and time again and simply not notice it’s [...]

 Ultimately however, marriage is a moral issue that requires cultural consensus, and the use of social sanctions. Bearing babies irresponsibly is, simply, wrong. Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesn’t help matters when prime time TV has Murphy Brown – a character who supposedly epitomizes [...]