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The Long and Winding Winter

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy."

Thomas Sgovio

Thomas Sgovio, an artist, was a first generation Italian American born in Buffalo in 1916. He died in Arizona in 1997. It was what happened in between that was so interesting.

Among the high points of a recent cinematic rampage, during which I saw more first-run films in a fortnight than I am used to seeing within a 3-year period, Michael Fassbender’s “Macbeth” was conspicuous.

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What the Kids Are Doing

“When I was a child, my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.’ Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.” Pablo Picasso

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Bring the Child Down to Size

I ended a recent column by proposing that, “while their proper upbringing is a big deal, children themselves are not.”

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