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This is also the only segment of the film to suffer from glaring historical inaccuracies. A liberal use of creative license gives the audience the distinct impression not only that Jane must have been on the throne for quite longer than a week and two days, but also that many decrees of substance were put into operation under her personal super vision. The sad, unromantic truth of those nine days is that they constituted a reign in name only, fraught as they were with civil strife and disorder, not to mention differences of opinion among those directly manipulating the young...
This unique quality makes Harvard distinct fromother institutions, including Boston University,which have Irish Studies departments, Kellehersaid...
Milbank has produced lucid, well-researched essays on 61 designers from Charles Frederick Worth, who is considered the first professional couturier, as distinct from a private dressmaker, to Armani and Issey Miyake, the latest clothing innovators. The author, who is 30, began her work four years ago when she headed the costume department at Sotheby's auction house and realized that there was no single useful reference work. Couture certainly is that, but it is also highly entertaining social history. Milbank is gifted at writing appreciations, often the hardest kind of criticism to do convincingly. But there is something...
Scientists long ago recognized that every comet has not one but two tails, not always visually distinct, both extending millions of miles by the time the comet has moved close to the sun. They now know that the yellowish, often curved tail is composed of dust particles released during sublimation and swept away from the sun by the pressure of solar radiation. Sunlight reflecting off the tail produces the fiery effect. The second, bluish appendage is called the plasma or ion tail. It is formed when gases from the comet's nucleus become charged by solar radiation and then react...
Families with children, the mainstay of most communities, are a distinct minority in West Hollywood, constituting only 5% of the populace. The local International House of Pancakes does far more business during Halloween and the Gay Pride Parade in June than on Mother's Day. "In West Hollywood we don't have children's specialty shops or McDonald's with a playground," says Ruth Abrams, 36, whose daughter...