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… Marie Antoinette impatient, and she asks her husband, the comparably effete Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman), to … Gang of Four’s “Natural’s Not in It,” and draws on a steady diet of new wave and post-punk amid more period-appropriate … costume dramas—in which Emily Dickinson elegantly needlepoints the phrase F My Life ; Catherine the Great …

… what those lost enthrallments meant. He knows they weren’t false, though behind the last unlocked knob, a chalk-faced …

… “Tomorrow,” he writes to Miss Lucy Baxter on February 26, “I shall pass down the Potomac on which Mrs. … their friend Mr. Washington. I wonder will anything ever come out of that preface, and will that story ever be born?” … where, after the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, he died loyal to the Crown, but still on affectionate terms …

… the bulbous nose—with a self-deprecating anecdote for his audience. Thanks to the fairy tales his own mother had read to … Austria, making it impossible to verify. However, it was completely plausible that a scholar of this stature would be … their death.” As his former student Ronald Angres astutely points out: “Structurally speaking, his implied attack on …

… milky red blood of the jungle swirling below. The roar of a diesel engine is deafening as it spins, launching excavated … it a useful conductor of low-voltage electricity and a component of nearly every consumer and industrial electrical … the roaring engine. I cannot hear what Hermes says as he points up at me, standing in the shadow of the trees. …