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… the weather. It’s been hot for days; last week, several companies dismissed workers early on account of the heat. … acres—an area nearly the size of Los Angeles and San Diego combined—will be left fallow this year. Everyone in … both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. It was also wildly controversial. Officials of Kern County banned …
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… Children of the Middle Ages Medieval Children. By Nicholas Orme. Yale University Press. … the argument suspect. In different ways, and from different points of view, by pointing out the misuse of the sources, … is a traditional insular history, without any effort to compare it with developments on the continent. Even so, the …
… its rich illustrations of streets, is the more to be welcomed. Though well informed, it is proud to be naïve … All great cities are absurd, and should be. They have ladies in improbable costumes, preferably with lapdogs, old … from across its lake; others, like London, have few vantage-points, though the top of Hampstead Heath or Greenwich Park …
… Harper’s magazine, “represents an enormous academic accomplishment” [Oxford $9.95 paper]. Oxford has also issued a … that has the timeless tone of legend [Library of the Indies series $19.00]. Pantheon is offering a paperback … include K. K. Ruthven’s A Guide to Ezra Pound’s Personae (1926; [$7.95], Thomas G. Rosenmeyer’s The Art of Aeschylus …
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Behind the Motel A man lies under a car half bare a child plays bullfight with a torn cloth hemlocks grieve in wraps of mist a woman talks on the phone, looks in a mirror fiddling with the metal pull of a drawer She has seen her world wiped clean, the …
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… who nonetheless has its lone chart-topper play on the oldies station constantly. Dracula remains ubiquitous and has … Dracula — mostly for chills and thrills, you might come away feeling like you’ve been cheated somewhat, that … It’s a ghostly invocation of a former family dynamic. It’s also further proof that quiet Stoker is often efficient …