Anne Roiphe
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The Eight Day Week
by Anne Roiphe
Feb. 17th, 2002, 8:00 pm
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Feb. 17th, 2002, 8:00 pm
Wednesday 13thBut of Kors! read more »
At Heart, I'm A Provincial New Yorker
by Anne Roiphe
Jan. 20th, 2002, 8:00 pm
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Jan. 20th, 2002, 8:00 pm
My friend, myreader. Slippery streets. Gray skies, mufflers pulled tight, boots stained by
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Has Everything Really Changed?
by Anne Roiphe
Jan. 6th, 2002, 8:00 pm
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Jan. 6th, 2002, 8:00 pm
The world has changed since Sept. 11-or so thecommentators keep telling us. read more »
The Menorah Minority
by Anne Roiphe
Dec. 16th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Dec. 16th, 2001, 8:00 pm
Hanukkah was once a minor holiday, a playful reminder of miracles that cast a warming light against read more »
Bloomie, The Way I Want Him
by Anne Roiphe
Dec. 2nd, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Dec. 2nd, 2001, 8:00 pm
Tis the gift to be simple." As a lifetime New Yorker, that's one I have no use for. read more »
Rebuilding New York, Bush's Way
by Anne Roiphe
Nov. 18th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Nov. 18th, 2001, 8:00 pm
Faxed to me-perhaps by mistake-was a plan by the Bush administration to rebuild New York after the t read more »
A Nice, Normal Murder For a Change
by Anne Roiphe
Nov. 4th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Nov. 4th, 2001, 8:00 pm
I greedily read with a lump in my throat (not to mention a certain frisson of fascination) about the read more »
Let's Not Give Peace A Chance-Yet
by Anne Roiphe
Oct. 21st, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Oct. 21st, 2001, 8:00 pm
The right wing in this country would die for their guns, while some of the rest of us do just that. read more »
America's Bravest Seek Courage In the Mundane
by Anne Roiphe
Oct. 7th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Oct. 7th, 2001, 8:00 pm
The days of man are as grassHe flourishes as a flower in the field
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Cry for Vengeance Gets Us Unholy War
by Anne Roiphe
Sep. 23rd, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Sep. 23rd, 2001, 8:00 pm
Osama bin Laden (or some other Osama bin Laden) has piercedthe borders, entered our city and proved read more »
French Women Are Sexier? Quelle Merde !
by Anne Roiphe
Sep. 9th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Sep. 9th, 2001, 8:00 pm
I'm at a dinner party in Sag Harbor.The puckish, balding man with an electric grin-slightly wild, sl read more »
Waging War on Drugs-The Wrong Ones
by Anne Roiphe
Aug. 19th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Aug. 19th, 2001, 8:00 pm
It isn't at all clear to me why Officer Joseph Gray, who wasdrinking in a topless bar for hours befo read more »
Sexy at Last: Why Bill & Gary Chose Those Girls
by Anne Roiphe
Aug. 5th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Aug. 5th, 2001, 8:00 pm
Once upon a time, on my first trip to France, when I wasliving in a dormitory for American girls and read more »
Poland Offers a Sorry Apology 60 Years Late
by Anne Roiphe
Jul. 22nd, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Jul. 22nd, 2001, 8:00 pm
What a strange and uncomfortable business it is, thissix-decades-late apology by the president of Po read more »
'Living With AIDS' Is Not as Simple as It Sounds
by Anne Roiphe
Jul. 1st, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Jul. 1st, 2001, 8:00 pm
As most of the reading world knows by now, I have a daughterwho is living with AIDS. read more »
The Hamlet of the Himalayas: A Holy Mess
by Anne Roiphe
Jun. 17th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Jun. 17th, 2001, 8:00 pm
It happens in the best of families: Someone gets mad and,before you know it, heads are blown off and read more »
Summer Forecast: A Human Tragedy Heading West
by Anne Roiphe
Jun. 3rd, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Jun. 3rd, 2001, 8:00 pm
We now know what to name the thing in the closet that goes bump all night long, disturbing our sleep read more »
Summer Forecast:A Human TragedyHeading West
by Anne Roiphe
Jun. 3rd, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Jun. 3rd, 2001, 8:00 pm
We now know what to name thething in the closet that goes bump all night long, disturbing our sleep. read more »
This Mansion Ain't Big Enough for Three of Us
by Anne Roiphe
May. 20th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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May. 20th, 2001, 8:00 pm
Can Judith Nathan, First Girlfriend, hang around the Mayor's mansion with his family, or is she de t read more »
Out of the Know and Suffering From Adulthood
by Anne Roiphe
May. 6th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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May. 6th, 2001, 8:00 pm
No one ever thought ofGerard Manley Hopkins as being a with-it kind of guy. read more »
Isn't It Tragic? A Greek Lesson for Middle East
by Anne Roiphe
Apr. 22nd, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Apr. 22nd, 2001, 8:00 pm
I saw a performance of Troilus and Cressida the other evening, a Shakespeare play I had never seen b read more »
I Want More Than Just the Facts, Ma'am
by Anne Roiphe
Apr. 8th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Apr. 8th, 2001, 8:00 pm
People complain that journalists are getting too personal.What right do they have to poke around in read more »
Britney Spears Is Good for the Jews
by Anne Roiphe
Mar. 25th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Mar. 25th, 2001, 8:00 pm
The other night I was on a panel at the 92nd Street Y,biting my tongue as fellow panelist Dennis Pra read more »
Please Excuse My Dear Bill's Pardons
by Anne Roiphe
Mar. 11th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Mar. 11th, 2001, 8:00 pm
Who among us has not used connections to receive anadvantage, to win a job, admission to a school, a read more »
Rejection: A Very Private (School) Matter
by Anne Roiphe
Feb. 25th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Feb. 25th, 2001, 8:00 pm
This is the week that parents, fingers fluttering, open the acceptance and rejection letters from nu read more »
Be Bold, or Be Bowled Over
by Anne Roiphe
Feb. 11th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Feb. 11th, 2001, 8:00 pm
What should the Democrats do in the next four years? read more »
The Bitter Taste of Vengeance
by Anne Roiphe
Jan. 21st, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Jan. 21st, 2001, 8:00 pm
Maurice Papon, the French bureaucrat supreme whose signatureis on transportation orders that sent 1, read more »
The New Yorker 's Psychiatric Evaluation
by Anne Roiphe
Jan. 14th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Jan. 14th, 2001, 8:00 pm
In the Jan. 8 issue of TheNew Yorker, Daphne Merkin describes her multiple stays on the psychiatric read more »
A Fleeting Taste of Comfort and Joy
by Anne Roiphe
Dec. 10th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Dec. 10th, 2000, 8:00 pm
December is the month of holidays. read more »
A Bitter Awakening From Dreams of Peace
by Anne Roiphe
Nov. 12th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Nov. 12th, 2000, 8:00 pm
Disappointed, yes; surprised, no. Grieving, yes; angry, yes. Defeated, no. read more »
No Rest for the Brooding
by Anne Roiphe
Oct. 29th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Oct. 29th, 2000, 8:00 pm
Some nights, a person can't sleep. read more »
Watch Out, Conservatives, Here I Come
by Anne Roiphe
Oct. 15th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Oct. 15th, 2000, 8:00 pm
Here's the fellow I'd like to meet in a dark alley-me all armed to the teeth and him woozy from drin read more »
Please, Sir, I Want to Do More
by Anne Roiphe
Oct. 1st, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Oct. 1st, 2000, 8:00 pm
Dickens did it. read more »
God Save Us From All This Godliness
by Anne Roiphe
Sep. 17th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Sep. 17th, 2000, 8:00 pm
Separate the church from the state-of course. read more »
Poetic Justice for My New Lawyer
by Anne Roiphe
Jun. 25th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Jun. 25th, 2000, 8:00 pm
Uneasily I write this column: In the fear-heavy shtetls , where superstition was as common as the co read more »
Don't Step on the Toes of Peace
by Anne Roiphe
Jun. 11th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Jun. 11th, 2000, 8:00 pm
When you have been dancing with the same partner for many years, you can anticipate his moves, your read more »
At the iPost , Vicky Ward's Coattails are Off-Limits
by Anne Roiphe
May. 21st, 2000, 8:00 pm
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May. 21st, 2000, 8:00 pm
There are jellyfish in my strip of the ocean. They are small as daisies and clear white. read more »
Copenhagen Echoes With Roaring Silence
by Anne Roiphe
May. 14th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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May. 14th, 2000, 8:00 pm
No doubt the play Copenhagen , by Michael Frayn, is brilliant. The subject is fascinating. read more »
Feeling Tired? Blue? Cranky? Just Sue!
by Anne Roiphe
Apr. 30th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Apr. 30th, 2000, 8:00 pm
I'm thinking of suing a few people.First my orthodontist or perhaps, by now, his heirs. read more »
To Voucher or Not, I Cannot Say
by Anne Roiphe
Apr. 16th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Apr. 16th, 2000, 8:00 pm
I've always been opinionated. Opinions are my bread and butter after all. read more »
John Paul Begs Your Pardon, Masterfully
by Anne Roiphe
Apr. 2nd, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Apr. 2nd, 2000, 8:00 pm
"Say you're sorry," we tell a child who has pinched another or swiped a favorite toy. read more »
To Age Alone Gracefully, or Die Mercifully?
by Anne Roiphe
Mar. 19th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Mar. 19th, 2000, 8:00 pm
On my block at 101st Street on the Upper West Side there is a low iron fence, a series of uneven ups read more »
Go, McCain! Win, You Big Galumph!
by Anne Roiphe
Mar. 5th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Mar. 5th, 2000, 8:00 pm
I thought I was so sophisticated that I would never fall for a candidate just because his image on t read more »
Hacking Away Just For … the Hell of It?
by Anne Roiphe
Feb. 20th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Feb. 20th, 2000, 8:00 pm
It's a little hard for this preflood lady to understand the kick. read more »
Little Elián's Still Not Safe From the Sharks
by Anne Roiphe
Feb. 6th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Feb. 6th, 2000, 8:00 pm
Some winter days are so bleak I feel as if I am the groundhog's shadow willing itself to be visible. read more »
In Rigid Rules, No Heart and No Justice
by Anne Roiphe
Jan. 23rd, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Jan. 23rd, 2000, 8:00 pm
It seems as if some self-righteous, law-and-order legal eagle without a heart in Delaware is actuall read more »
Moral Debt Worth More Than Money
by Anne Roiphe
Jan. 9th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Jan. 9th, 2000, 8:00 pm
Reading Richard Z. read more »
Yoo-hoo, Millennium, We're Here!
by Anne Roiphe
Dec. 19th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Dec. 19th, 1999, 8:00 pm
I had wanted a bonfire on the Amagansett beach for the millennium. read more »
Crazy Laws Keep Crazies on the Loose
by Anne Roiphe
Dec. 5th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Dec. 5th, 1999, 8:00 pm
You, too, could be pushed under the subway train if your number is up, or bashed into unconsciousnes read more »
Mr. Safire's Nixon Problem
by Anne Roiphe
Oct. 24th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Oct. 24th, 1999, 8:00 pm
William Safire of The New York Times , like a very small, yappy dog, has been biting, snapping, tear read more »
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