{"id":1394,"date":"2016-12-31T10:49:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T14:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2016-12-31T10:49:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T14:49:06","slug":"new-york-city-blog-dec-23-dec-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1394","title":{"rendered":"New York City Blog \u2014 Dec. 23- Dec. 31"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s the last day of 2016. Oysters for breakfast. Now, I\u2019m luxuriating in the sounds of Bach. WKCR (89.9 FM) transports its devoted listeners back to the seventeenth century with its annual Johann Sebastian Bach\u00a0Festival that runs from 12\/23 to the last minute of the old year.
\nTwo military events: One is from 1962. A friend and I went to the MOMA screening of the Italian film, March on Rome<\/em> with Vittorio Gassman and Ugo Tognazzi as two desperately poor men who join Mussolini\u2019s black shirts. Their adventures reminded me of Don Quixote: lots of fighting, lots of bewildered and futile idealism.
\nAnd one from today: The PBS NewsHour, the bastion of correctness with the headmistress of correctness, Judy Woodruff, had, for once, an amusing segment. Did any one see a division of the military singing A Partridge in a Pear Tree<\/em>? Absolutely hilarious.<\/p>\n

Do the Italians still throw things out the window on New Years Eve? Once upon a time, the Romans got their cars and trucks out of the city or into garages because at midnight bath tubs, chests of drawers and anything else you wanted to get rid of flew out the windows and landed on the city streets.<\/p>\n

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Graphic Lessons: Recent widow Millie Fitzgerald applies for a private school teaching job, faints on a stabbed and dying man, deals with the only witness to the stabbing – a troubled nine year old, develops a crush on a NYPD detective and her dog dies.<\/p>\n

Graphic Lessons: NYPD Detective Steve Kulchek: something\u2019s eating at him: a failed marriage? surviving a car bomb? his girlfriend marrying his corrupt boss? screwing up an important case?<\/p>\n

Graphic Lessons: Nine year old Dana is the only witness who overhears three people fighting with George Lopez, the soon to be stabbed Windsor School kitchen worker. Who can she tell? Her mother who never listens or accuses her of lying? Her father who\u2019s started a new family in Singapore?<\/p>\n

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