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Saturday, February 11, 2017

Movie review: "Louder than bombs" versus "Rashomon"

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Recently I saw a superb movie with French actress Isabelle Huppert, "Louder than bombs" (2015). It is about a deceased woman photo...
Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Esperanza en Español / Portugués / Inglés

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Rosseti's "Pandora" Al mirar una película hoy me dé cuenta de algo cuando alguien dijo "I hope". En inglés hop...
Sunday, January 15, 2017

Pindar and Christina Perri sing of people as a Shadow of a Dream: Sports glory, defeat and loneliness

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This week after Cristiano Ronaldo won his best player award I remembered two things: one, an ancient greek song about glory and defeat in Sp...
Sunday, December 18, 2016

Trotando por las iglesias de Santiago de Chile

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En Santiago hace casi siempre buen tiempo. Todos los domingos de mañana la municipalidad cierra el paso de vehículos cerca del rio Mapocho ...
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Sunday, November 13, 2016

Trump and the role of executive versus ceremonial rulers

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During the last US presidential elections several pundits expressed concerns over whether Trump represented a returning trend towards the po...
Monday, October 31, 2016

Halloween: My favorite word in Portuguese means Sorrow

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One word for the day of the lost, the departed, the abandoned and the grieving. All languages are special but the saying goes that one’s f...
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Thursday, September 15, 2016

Evoking a love memory from the Iliad while listening to Lana Del Rey

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Lana Del Rey often makes reference that she studied philosophy and considered becoming a poet, which is something that reflects on her lyri...