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...trademark. (That coincidence did not go unnoticed in Britain. An artist commemorated the 60th birthday of Prince Charles and the board game by creating a portrait of the Prince entirely composed of Scrabble tiles.) In countries like Senegal, Scrabble is an official sport. In fact, when Senegal hosted the French Scrabble World championship this summer, its government commissioned a special Scrabble song to mark the occasion. (See the 50 best inventions...
...Glendale, Calif., under the marker "Wife of Mr. Science Fiction." On his MySpace page, Forry wrote: "My life companion, Wendayne (the only one in the world) Ackerman, as the aftermath of a mugging in Italy, died some years ago, but not before translating 150 sci-fi novels from French & German, moonlighting while teaching for 20 years at university...
Hall, who co-taught a historical studies course with Hoffman, called the expert on French political and intellectual history the “finest lecturer I’ve ever heard...
...began to unbuckle his trousers. He heard the drumbeat of anticipation in his ears. Too late, he realized what the drumbeat was: the sound of hoofbeats.“Onward Zalathal!” cried The Stable Boy, barefoot and shirtless, as he and the stallion burst through the French doors into the center of the bedroom.Frederick had thought he couldn’t be any more aroused. He was wrong...
...English gentleman, after all, while Pat became the obedient and self-denying Indian wife of legend, Naipaul's strength lay not just in the clarity of his observations but in the passion--the grief and terror and rage--that trembled just beneath them. When Pat finally died, in 1996, French tells us, her husband leaned against a car, weeping uncontrollably, as her ashes were scattered. He knew--such is his tragedy and his power--all that he had done, and all that he had lost...