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Lightning may not strike twice, but Bill Bryson, the serial memoirist, seems to have struck again with what appears to be recollections of his exciting 1950s childhood. The cover shows a well-worn and moth-eaten sweater with a yellow lightning bolt hanging on a clothesline. Does Bryson know that the “thunderbolt” is actually a lightning bolt? The cover is ambiguous in that regard, though as the author of “A Short History of Nearly Everything,” I suppose Bryson should know. Either way, it is funny to imagine the over...
...Symonds’s friendship that will be missed the most. “Many friends would agree in saying that I count your friendship as one of my life’s greatest honors,” he said. Symonds’s surviving brother, Robin, recalled their childhood. “He was stage managing, even then...
...have been road-testing their ripest ideas. In the hand-to-hand combat of daily news, and the endless campaign loop, Labor is gaining ground on industrial relations, climate change and volatile consumer issues (petrol prices). So far, Beazley has rolled out "blueprint" statements on issues such as early childhood, energy and skills; his colleagues have released a range of policy discussion papers. Like a burlesque performer, Beazley is trying to keep voters interested in the dance without revealing too much skin early in the show...
...insistence that certain recent titles, especially the ones on the outer edges of the mainstream, are classics of the future - movies like David Gordon Green's George Washington, Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl and Lodge Kerrigan's Clean, Shaven. Ramsay's 1999 story of a boy's troubled childhood in Glasgow in the 1970s is tender and harrowing at the same time. The disc includes three of her short films, two of which won prizes at the Cannes Film Festival...
...such as a svelte and feline sylph painted in pink and purple stripes, looking very much like a human Cheshire Cat. As Fergie and her friends lather up with frosting for soap in a kiddie-pool of cake, it became clear that any social commentary on the problems of childhood sexuality would have to wait. At the same time, the video throws you back to the past, to a time when you thought Princess Peach was cute, and the fish in Fantasia were really sexy. But just as everything changes when Charlie enters the Chocolate Factory, there is a sinister...