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...curious, off-kilter life in London and Bombay, the book limned the early history of photography while foreshadowing the advent of the moving image. Strange by name and nature, Sixty Lights risked alienating readers but ultimately dazzled with its precise image-making, from a gentleman's top hat set aflame in gaslight London, a dhoti-flapping Indian impaled by a shard of mirror glass, to the birth of Lucy's daughter: "She was irrefutable, glistening, a kind of absolute light." The novel was long-listed for London's Man Booker Prize...
...show yesterday. “Ted Kennedy, a member of the Owl Club himself at Harvard,” Limbaugh said, according to a transcript on his website. “Do you remember what the Owl Club was? Exactly what he was trying to make people think [t]hat CAP was at Princeton: a bunch of rich white kids who only wanted to associate with themselves.” CAP gained notoriety for its opposition to affirmative action, homosexuality, and the increase in minority and female students on the Princeton campus. A 1983 article in CAP?...
...second volume), Prez-Reverte firmly buckles on his swash and swaggers into the muddy, bloody streets of 17th century Madrid. It's a poor but proud city where tempers run high and everybody is ready to stab and/or shoot one another at the drop of a plumed, foppish hat and where a woman has just been found strangled in her sedan chair, along with a pouch of coins and a note that reads, "For Masses for your soul...
...famous Boathouse Row, he even coached there for many years. As I’ve grown up, and been lucky enough to talk more extensively with my parents and other relatives, even more of the things that I thought set me apart turn out to be old hat. My predilection for strenuous exercise and physical activity? Two of my uncles are exercise nuts who have gone so far as to renounce caffeine. My respect and admiration for the Catholic Church and, a little more oddly, a deep-seated hatred of Henry VIII? My uncle Jim, still sharp at 83, recently...
...display the Discovery Channel saves for sweeps weeks, but Bono is not one of them. He's handsome but short--5 ft. 7 in. in thick-soled shoes--and swings his arms wide when he walks, so he looks open and soft, like a pillow in a cowboy hat. It's not at all what people expect, and it sets them at ease...