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… repeat her opening words, so he can get her on film. She complies cheerfully. The microphone crackles in her hand, … with Ratko Mladić, mastermind of the Srebrenica massacre—died somewhere in Bosnia to be miraculously resurrected in … power he called Human Quantum Energy. On his personal website www.psy-help-energy.com (for he didn’t spurn …
… Bernard Crick. Atlantic-Little, Brown. $17.95. Orwell’s uncompromising intellectual honesty made him one of the most … Dali: “Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of … was wounded in Spain, witnessed a hanging and saw the poor die, lived with tramps and went down the mine, and was …
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… a Mother’s Legacy In July 2021, five weeks after my mother died, my husband dropped me off at the emergency room of the … mother, whose voice by that point was almost gone. She was coming home on hospice after a nightmarish few weeks in different hospitals where no one seemed to be in charge of finding out what …
… dreaming creator and to a devoted posterity. In its unique combination of infamy and obscurity, that person’s case … specifications for it. His reply to Godwin, never bodied forth, was to be “a six shilling octavo” but “to … is only into a void beyond reference to mankind’s compass-points, into rarity unsustaining to the blood; and their …
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… Aaron Gilbreath ( @AaronGilbreath ) is part of our online companion to our Winter 2013 issue on Classic Hollywood. ( … she said. “You have to go.” She warned me that it could also be dangerous. The bar sits on the northwest corner of … The bar added wi-fi for paying customers, and launched a website plus Facebook and Twitter accounts. Some bar …
… By Paul B. Armstrong. University of North Carolina Press. $26.00 In a 1952 essay entitled “The Critic Who Does Not … example, to show how Hawthorne, Melville and Poe, besides becoming excessively eccentric persons, anticipated, in the … 19th-century American tales of arrested development but also forward to the great modernist muddles of this century. …