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In Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest, the character Miranda’s exclamation, “O, wonder! / How many goodly creatures are there here! / How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, / That has such people in't!” is widely regarded as proof of...
The Watergate villain G. Gordon Liddy. I don't like to make preimpressions, but I expected not to like him. And I really liked him. I thought he was wacko, but wackos can be fun. I loved his passion. I loved his sense of humor. He was a true character...
You couldn't exactly say that Dickens is hot right now, but something is going on with him. Not just with his work, but with Dickens the person. So far this year he's turned up as a character in Dan Simmons' Drood and Matthew Pearl's The Last Dickens...
...imagine 19 year-old fellows thinking ‘this is better than some musky old attic in some other house.’” In addition to its cutting edge architecture, residents recalled the novelty of the House’s avant-garde art, which Busch characterized as “Picassoesque.” Yet in the November 28 edition of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Harvard alumni expressed disapproval of the artistic quality of the mural decorating Quincy dining hall. Gordon G. Sampson 1910 and Bernard A. Merrian 1909 agreed that the “graffito...
Ed Asner, who voiced the main character in Up, has a gruff side that can't match Bale's, at least as expressed in Bale's obscene, YouTubed rant on the set of Terminator Salvation. But he wasn't the lead in last year's top-grossing film, The Dark...