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...soon. Fights would get bad enough that Shane spends stretches at a time with his grandmother, who takes him with her to the bar where she works. While she flirts with customers, making him "feel weird," Shane drinks "flat cokes" and eats "smoke-flavored pretzels." Such details become a hallmark of North Country, bringing scenes alive. One sad and telling sequence finds Shane delighted by an old piano left in a house into which his family moves. "But the music didn't last," he writes over a frame of his father smashing the instrument. "To make more room, they dismantled...
When Paul Robeson first played Othello on Broadway in 1943, he was given a twenty-minute standing ovation. Robeson was the first African-American actor to take the role of Othello in over a century, and his hallmark production showed both how much progress America had made on issues of race...
...Clark can lead her Labour party to victory on Sept. 17 in a general election, she will be free to continue the frugal economic management and progressive social makeover that have been the hallmark of her winning ways since 1999. After the country's stagnation in the '90s, and the reform shocks of the preceding decade, the Clark era has been a prosperous one. "There is no mood for radical change in our country," Clark declared at her campaign launch in Auckland on Aug. 21. Economic output has grown by an average of 4% a year; the country's unemployment...
...accepted a reporting job in Texas with the United Press, while Betsy remained in Kansas City writing greeting-card verses for Hallmark. Love-struck and lonesome, I found my way back to Betsy as a traffic manager in Kansas City for Braniff Airlines. Because I'd been away, I now had other suitors to edge out. I ingratiated myself with Betsy's large, close-knit and witty family and kept her away from the competition by wooing her over dinner and dancing...
...approach recommended by the report—which calls for engineering to be integrated with other fields including the sciences, finance, and applied math—is already “Harvard’s hallmark,” according to DEAS Dean Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti...