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...credit, Morris does not attempt to summarize Europe with her commentary. She does try to encapsulate some of the trends behind the major political and social upheavals in European history, and uses Trieste always as her reference point, example or microcosm. The book holds together nicely, and the subtitle seems very apt--the book feels like the photo album of a dedicated, lifelong traveler. Anyone with a real hunger for the European experience would probably enjoy a leisurely read of Fifty Years in Europe. Yet, like someone else's photo album, more than anything else the book inspires a desire...
Well, that's it. Steven Spielberg gets the Golden Ladle Award. In a desperate attempt to relive the legitimacy and respect seemingly conferred on him after Schindler's List, Spielberg thought he'd wash the bad taste of The Lost World out of his mouth by once again tackling human suffering. In Amistad, the story of a shipful of African slaves and their struggle for freedom, he pulls out all the stops, pouring on the pathos and the pity, spooning on the sympathy and drenching it all in melodrama. Spielberg has apparently decided to stop making films and instead...
...really happy to return to school," she says. "I really had to make the attempt to finish it at that time...
...What Links Me With Ladislaus the Posthumous," Holub humorously recounts his successful attempt to pass his medical exams by flattering his examiners' egos. The cause of the death of King Ladislaus, an obscure fifteenth-century Czech monarch, is an unsolved mystery with political implications: a patriotic Czech is expected to agree with his nation's medical historians about the cause of Ladislaus' death (though no one is in agreement), rather than with the account of rival German historians. When Holub is quizzed on medical minutiae by his professors, he offhandedly conjectures that Ladislaus died from whatever ailment his examiner happens...
...holiday release of Scream 2 promises to once again send chills down America's spine, the movie's soundtrack delivers a unique mix of R & B and mainstream modern rock tracks that half-heartedly attempt to characterize the film. The combination of the two genres, however, provides a refreshing change from the normal movie soundtrack which, instead of providing variety, usually throws together a collection of similar-sounding tracks...