Word: beautyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bodard is stunned by the cold beauty of Brasilia, the new futuristic capital designed by the socialist architect Oscar Niemeyer. The city, Bodard says, has been given "the face of socialism in its purest state, the face of political commissaries in a totally futuristic Kremlin. But the truth is that...
The pick of the collection is the title story, which is a partial return to the dream kingdoms of the earlier works. With powerful brevity, Borges limns a decadent nation where language-and all that it implies of hope and beauty -is the execrated enemy. Disdaining vowels, Borges' updated...
In the context of the rags to riches Cinderella theme, Chaplin also deals with his artistic personality. When the beleaguered factory worker finally breaks down, he does not collapse, but dances a ballet-mime. And near the end of the film, when Chaplin must sing before a crowd and loses...
The beauty of Jimmy Cunniff was that he saw the good in each person whom he came in contact with, and that everybody, from the goalie of the Lowell House hockey team to the varsity's star running back, was equal. And he treated each one as if he were...
The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stands this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.