Word: barrettes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great melodists of the 19th century. The literary equivalent of melody is, of course, story, the engaging what-next of narrative prose. Hansen's tersely told tale hangs expectantly on the outcome of Mistress Blum's treatment, which unexpectedly includes the arcane input of the enchanting Madame Helena Barrett and her spiritualist friends...
Judi Dench, who recently won an Oscar for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love, takes on a very different but equally convincing role here. She plays Arabella, a sentimental amateur artist who cries while reading Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Arabella introduces Luca to the beauty of Florentine sculpture and paves the way for his later interest...
Judi Dench, who recently won an Oscar for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love, takes on a very different but equally convincing role here. She plays Arabella, a sentimental amateur artist who cries while reading Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Arabella introduces Luca to the beauty of Florentine sculpture and paves the way for his later interest...
That takes all of five minutes, and in two weeks Dr. Meirowitz will snake an endoscope--a flexible tube with a fiberoptic core--down my throat (not pleasant but, he assures me, not as awful as it sounds). If he sees Barrett's, he'll bring me back every year for another look and, if necessary, a biopsy. Under this sort of regimen, my chances of getting cancer will drop dramatically...
...Morris Barrett...