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...this instance he has chosen to abuse the power that has flowed to him as the most commercially successful playwrightscenarist in human history not only by fobbing off a retitled and rewritten version of his old demi-flop show, The Gingerbread Lady, but also by casting his wife Marsha Mason in the leading role. It is hard to say which is the more unforgivable...
Knowles explores the same undercurrent of violence in A Separate Peace. In the earlier novel, he concentrates on the relationship of two friends: Gene, a lonely intellectual, painfully unsure of his own identity, and Phineas, a demi-god, full of love and humor, the embodiment of the separate peace. Although seemingly protected from the destruction of the war by Devon's ivy-covered walls, the two classmates create their own violence. Driven by jealously and insecurity. Gene transforms a friend into the enemy. He deliberately destroys Phineas, shattering the illusion of peace at Devon...
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Klaussen is the first Harvard skier to qualify for both the NCAA slalom and giant slalom events since demi-god Ben Steele did it in 1973. Last year, Klaussen, the only Harvard contender and seeded a dead last, barely qualified for the giant slalom. Although he was the 57th man to leave the gate, Klaussen took a surprising 26th place at the University of Vermont-hosted meet...
...TOOK THE LORD six days to create the earth, and on the seventh he rested. Following that lead, the minor demi-gods charged with operating the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority last month announced that they too would take Sunday...