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...jumping all over Somerset Maugham, "screaming like devils," but also watching Aldous Huxley and Charlie Chaplin singing old London music-hall songs on the Santa Monica Pier. No wonder the unchanging center of Isherwood's life, the Hindu Vedantist teacher Swami Prabhavananda, asked his worldly disciple to bring the Duke of Windsor to his Hollywood temple: Isherwood was the rare Hollywood Hindu who did justice to both the adjective and the noun...
Here's the most eclectic cast in movie history--Julie Christie, Billy Crystal, Gerard Depardieu, John Gielgud, Rosemary Harris, Charlton Heston, Derek Jacobi, Jack Lemmon, John Mills, Robin Williams, Kate Winslet and the Duke of Marlborough, to name but a dozen--in the second longest film released by a major studio (after Cleopatra). If Kenneth Branagh doesn't win an Oscar for his four-hour, uncut Hamlet, he should at least cop a Chutzpah Award...
Generous, centrally located space has allowed women’s centers at other schools to thrive without their own buildings. At Duke, for instance, a residence hall holds a 2,000-square-foot, seven-room women’s center, which offers a kitchen, a work area with computers, a reading room, two lounges, a copier and fax machine, and a TV, VCR, and DVD player. Duke’s center has five professional staff members, and its website boasts that “Our meeting spaces are HEAVILY used throughout the year...
...Harvard field hockey team, the 2005 season has been one of streaks. The defense has played spectacularly the whole way, save one hiccup against Duke. But coming into Sunday’s Ivy matchup against Cornell, the Crimson had also lost four consecutive games. Unfortunately for Harvard, the latter streak wasn’t broken in Ithaca, N.Y. The Big Red (6-4, 4-1 Ivy) downed the Crimson (5-6, 1-2) 2-1 on Sunday afternoon as Harvard found itself on the wrong side of another close contest. Five of the team’s six losses this...
...wonders of the palace are fairly ceaseless. There's a massive subterranean layer where wines were stored and baths taken. Just off the duke's study are two alcoves: the Temple of the Muses and the Chapel of Forgiveness. (Between his battlefield deeds and the generally agreed-upon fact that Federico was complicit in his half-brother's rubout, there was much to absolve.) I sat on the floor in both rooms and absorbed the feel of history, whistling to hear the little echoes and gently rubbing my hands over the stone floors. Maybe I was being a tad presumptuous...