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Barbarians alone was enough to earn Coetzee literature's ultimate accolade, but there were many more great novels in his pen, foremost among them Life and Times of Michael K (1983), the first of his two Booker prizewinners, and Foe (1986), the story of an Englishwoman who, stranded on a desert island, struggles desperately to communicate with a black slave whose tongue has been cut out. On its face, the novel is a retelling of the Robinson Crusoe fable, but in its depths I discerned something else entirely, the most profound book ever written about race relations in a society...
...watch tapings of TV shows and participate in game shows. When the company faced a cash-flow crisis in the early 1990s, he took them all to Las Vegas, gave each of them about $100 (from two cartoonish bags painted with dollar signs) to gamble away, ostensibly to help earn money for end-of-the-year bonuses. It was a joke, but one that made light of a stressful situation...
...theater, you work for years and earn nothing. In Hollywood, they pay you, but they own your work” Ahrens advised aspiring artists. “If the daughter of the producer says, ‘Daddy, I think she should be sitting right there when she sings that song,’ then you have to rewrite the song...
Despite soccer’s loss to Yale this past weekend, Chandis is very positive regarding his team’s ability to win Ivies as well as earn an NCAA berth...
Crimson senior skipper Clemmie Everett paired with freshman Christina Dahman to earn a second-place finish under the difficult conditions in the first race. The duo captured an early lead off the start in the following race, but a shift in the light winds ruined the course layout, causing the race committee to scrap the remaining races...