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… (in Middle English: “by God”), a place where they served meals that were elegant and shrapnel-small: the newest … round table headline up (“May’s Brexit deal crushed by Commons”). This was where she always sat. Right by the big … black and sinewed, tails swept to the right of their bodies. Focused. Unmoving. Like sentries standing guard. She …
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Femme Verité
… City. There she began collecting the footage that would comprise News From Home —scenes of 1970s New York presented … News From Home appeared in the wake of Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles ,the 1975 film … and daughter might continue to exist. In Israel, Akerman points a camera out the window of a racing vehicle, …
Notes on Current Books, Spring 1996
… for social cohesion and group survival in the past. McNeill points to dance as a precursor to religion and as an element … history as it was, and is. Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II, by Stephen G. Fritz. Kentucky $29.95 … The Perfect English Spy, by Tom Bower. St. Martin’s $26.95 To believe the dust jacket, this biography celebrates …
Everything Is Real, But Some Things Are More Real Than Others
… Random House. $4.95. This book is as up-to-date as they come. There are some wonderful stories in it as well as some … be all that different. The introduction to this collection also tells us that “realism is an invention of the … pseudophilosophical melodrama in which two disembodied characters talk, talk, talk themselves and the reader …
Hue and Cry
… he be taken, which all who are present when a Felony is committed, or a dangerous Wound given, are by the Common … Common Pleas, was long an authority unchallenged upon the medieval law. He says that hue and cry, “called in ancient … abbey church at Fontev-rault in the valley of the Loire. 26-37 By Frank L. Warrin, Jr. …
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Blurring the Worlds of Fiction and Reality
… Blurring the Worlds of Fiction and Reality David Plante, Becoming a Londoner: A Diary ( New York: Bloomsbury, … tantalizing, as the inner life of a literary figure comes into focus and trips are made behind closed doors. … (1980), and The Country (1982).  In one chapter, Plante reveals how his worlds of fiction and reality were blurred, …
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