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...sculpture is just three and a half inches tall and looks like a female body-builder with a lion's head. But there's no question that the 1948 purchase of the "Guennol Lioness" by Alistair Bradley Martin was a brilliant investment. The 5,000 year-old piece of Mesopotamian religious art - presumably of Inanna, goddess of sex and war - was sold at auction by Sotheby's New York last week for a record-shattering $57.2 million. Found at an archaeological dig near Baghdad, it is an extremely rare representation of the goddess - known elsewhere as Ishtar - in animal form...
...wrist had to be put back in place right away. I told him that the nerve going to his strangely numb fingers was wrapped tightly around a jagged edge of broken bone, that every minute it stayed there increased the likelihood of permanent damage, maybe a palsied hand. His brilliant dark eyes understood immediately. He understood the time pressure, the risks and why I had to treat him right away, in the emergency room. Sasha nodded and said O.K. Then, so did Mom and Dad. I marveled at how these parents deferred to Sasha's judgment. They knew...
...Visually, McEwan’s novel translates wonderfully to film. The score deserves praise for its beauty and originality. During many of the film’s critical moments, the harsh sounds of a typewriter combine with the already striking instrumentation, creating a completely unique synchronization. This jarring but brilliant combination echoes the various tensions in the story—between love and war, loyalty and betrayal, and, most importantly, Briony’s writing and Cecilia and Robbie’s relationship. The second half of the film, set four years later, alternates between war-ridden northern France...
...What a brilliant piece of writing from Lev Grossman. I don't yet own an iPhone, but I plan to in the near future. Like Grossman, I'm sick of the sour grapes from naysayers who moan about what the iPhone doesn't do and ignore what it does do and just how well it does it. I hate my conventional cell phone with its 100-page, four-language manual that I can't begin to understand. I've used the iPhone without having to look at the manual. And the only language required is intuition. Brad Cathey Wheaton...
...Knox] was her brilliant self, blue-collar worker—what do you need done I’ll do it,” Delaney-Smith said. “We wanted them...