Located next to the convention center, the stadium would have doubled the mass and length of the huge bunker against the river already established by that "lump of black coal" -- as essayist Phillip Lopate described its dark bulk in his literary trip around the edges of Manhattan -- cutting off views and access with nearly a mile of hulking wall.

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But that may be changing, as WEEKEND EDITION'S food essayist, Bonny Wolf, explains.

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As the brilliant prosecutor-turned- essayist Andrew McCarthy put it in Human Events, the matter before the Supremes in Medellin v.

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The French essayist Michel de Montaigne was brought up speaking Latin as his first language and as a boy read Ovid's Metamorphoses for fun.

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In the late 1920s, Tarsila do Amaral, a painter, and her husband, Osvaldo de Andrade, a writer, essayist and art critic, coined the term, anthropophagy, which they saw as a way of constructing a cultural identity by cannibalising other cultures without losing your individuality.

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It is as though an artist such as Picasso, whose father was a failed painter, or William James, whose father was a failed essayist, or V.

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This book was the result of a stint the essayist and philosopher spent at Heathrow in the summer, after its owner, BAA, installed him as a temporary writer-in-residence.

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