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...death prompted an emotional crisis that ebbed when a wealthy widow hired Beethoven as a private music tutor. He was drawn to the widow’s 16-year-old daughter Eleonore, whom he taught piano—but the love was unrequited. He never had much luck with the fairer sex, and he nevera married despite interest in a number of women. Prudishness and shyness are partial explanations: when one woman made passes at him in a tavern, “He was at first cold, and then violent, giving her head a sharp smack,” Morris...
...series about the Holocaust, for instance, won a Pulitzer Prize. It is unlikely that the lack of widespread acceptance of graphic novels is due to inferior writing—indeed, it seems unlikely that readers of ludicrously popular “The Da Vinci Code” were drawn in by its prose or character development...
...devoid of logic: while fleeing from the cops in New York, Harry stumbles into a film audition and pretends to try out for the part. They like him and fly him to L.A., where he’s introduced to Perry as training for his role. Somehow, Harry gets drawn into a mess involving a couple of hit men and a lot of killing...
...Jets and The Falcons won’t be the only two teams facing off next Monday night. The battle lines have been drawn between two television-seeking camps whose shows both air at 10 p.m.: fans of MTV’s Laguna Beach versus NFL aficionados. The worst situations have occurred in freshman dorms where there is only one television; among these are heated exchanges in Matthews and Greenough common rooms...
...process has to be one that’s not drawn out over too many months or years,” Gadgil says. “Moving along the calendar at a pace that doesn’t obstruct the formation of this center on campus is something that’s really important...