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...artifact so telling as the Portuguese telephone letter intensifies this feeling, as do marginal notes and inscriptions. In the introduction to her recent study Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books, H.J. Jackson mentions the scene in Wuthering Heights where the narrator, Lockwood, flips through one of Catherine’s books and finds “pen-and-ink commentary…covering every morsel of blank that the printer had left.” I have rarely been lucky enough to find so heavily-annotated a used book, but—even after reading brief and inane notes...
...Towers clarifies Jackson's vision that the end result will be not three films but a single majestic nine-hour artifact--one likely to become the supreme film adventure of our time. Towers, while not quite so varied as Fellowship in its moods and settings, has a grave gusto that energizes every moment...
...audience can follow this complex storyline, without crib sheets, over a two- or three-year span. And he's right. Taken with its predecessor, The Two Towers makes Jackson's vision even clearer: that the end result will be not three films but one mammoth, majestic 9-hr. artifact that is likely to become the supreme movie epic of our time. Towers, while naturally lacking the variety of moods and settings in Fellowship, has a grave gusto that energizes every moment. For this episode is a very war-y war movie, a long assault to determine whether the crusading companions...
...cultural artifact that has significance for two groups will create this kind of issue,” he said...
...Shanks, a book on the ossuary. Granted, there needs to be "some semblance of caution," says Eric Meyers, professor of Judaic studies at Duke University who has published on ossuaries. The combination of the three names could be simply a coincidence. "But there is a strong possibility that the artifact is what Lemaire says it is: the oldest extra-biblical archaeological evidence of Jesus...