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David – Acocella is just a little star – such clarity of thought in her prose, such elegant concision in her expression.
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Those of you who self-identify as artists or think about art as vocation might enjoy my favorite work of art criticism, a biography of the choreographer Mark Morris by Joan Acocella.
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Instead, she gossips about Cather's purported lesbianism and gives us a few platitudes: Cather's work explores "the spirit that built America"; it "has so much to do so directly with the most central problems of living," or so says Joan Acocella, quoted by Torrance.
Experimental Fiction 2010
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Biblowit, Elizabeth Hurley and Marisa Acocella Marchetto Perhaps not, but there is apparently a formula for this sort of event.
Shopping Giants On Same Aisle In Cancer Fight Jen Wieczner 2011
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Diaghilev was a tastemaker, a despot, a hustler and a genius: he not only "jump-started Western ballet", as the critic Joan Acocella has said, "but he staffed it".
Diaghilev: Lord of the dance Andrew O'Hagan 2010
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"Every place you drank was a shot-and-a-beer joint," said Nick Acocella, a Hudson County resident and editor of Politifax, a weekly publication that covers New Jersey politics.
Jersey City Is Working to Boost Its Cool Heather Haddon 2012
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Joan Acocella wrote a piece a few years back in The New Yorker about the continuing popularity of Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet.
Josh Radnor: Why I Chose "happythankyoumoreplease" Over "sadscrewyougetlost" Josh Radnor 2011
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Joan Acocella – late 20th century American critic whose essays bowled me over last year.
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Acocella, a 35-year-old IBM marketing manager, was 5-feet-9 and a chunky 185 when he decided two years ago to enroll in the company's web-based fitness program.
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Early this year, Acocella moved to the IBM office in San Jose, Calif.
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