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...pictures of the demise of Bernard Madoff...
...start old and get younger?" 30-something Annie Potts cries in Pretty in Pink. That was Hughes' writing plan. And when he had exhausted the human family, from dad to teen to little kid, he moved down to canines: a bunch of slapdash farces about Beethoven the slobbering St. Bernard - climaxing, naturally, with Beethoven's Fifth...
...Madoff, Bernard • distress of at unkempt coiffure...
...City; it sold spectacularly but received mixed reviews. Teacher Man - which was both a critical and commercial success - recounted his backbreaking years teaching English and creative writing, 18 of them spent at New York's famous magnet school Stuyvesant, where he was a legend as a compelling teacher. "George Bernard Shaw said those that can do, and those that can't teach," McCourt was fond of observing. "Just goes to show that Shaw didn't know his arse from his elbow about teaching." Although he often spoke of a novel in progress, it has never been published. (See Richard Corliss...
...then there are the unsettling vignettes that have further tested the already strained relationship in recent years, such as when the late French Ambassador to the U.K. Daniel Bernard referred to Israel as that “shitty little country,” when eyebrows were raised in the French political establishment over President Nicolas Sarkozy’s part-Jewish heritage, and when, as recently as 2007, more than 7,000 French Jews requested asylum in the United States to escape the violent anti-Semitism they encountered in their home country...