Word: beautyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kinue's madness, and her assumed beauty, are equated with Toru's self-awareness and Honda's perception of unyielding fate. "Don't you suppose a beautiful, well-shaped girl has the best chance of becoming an angel?" she asks Toru. "Only a beautiful woman can really know..."
Throughout the book, reality is twisted and torn by the unique perceptions of individuals. Toru marries the madwoman Kinue, who turns her own horrible ugliness into the delusion of stunning beauty; her own reality "became malleable, selective, a seeing of what was desirable and a rejection of everything else." But...
"If you take care of your insides, the outside will take care of itself," is one of Gloria Swanson's favorite maxims. Looking fit, Gloria, 75, was in Manhattan after a brief but glamorous appearance in the film Airport 1975 and was delighted to provide the details of the...
Earlier in this century, composers rarely featured the cello, considering it a lowly second cousin to the violin. Artists like Pablo Casals, Gregor Piatigorsky, Mstislav Rostropovich and Starker revealed the silken tonal beauty of the instrument. Still, the repertory remains narrow. Starker speculates that this Brahms sonata, written in the...
Jaromil indeed becomes a poet. He tries to spy on the maid as she takes her bath, and fails, but produces a vivid poem about his "aquatic love." The genius of lyric poetry, Kundera observes, "is the genius of inexperience ... We can scoff at the poet's lack of...