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University funding. You have it and we don’t. Not a term goes by in Oxford without a disgruntled don heading over to the other side of the pond citing the abysmal pay offered by this supposedly “world-class” institution. Oxford is a...
When Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930, he was immediately impressed by one aspect of the French capital's street life. "Montmartre is simply lousy with whores," he noted on his first Sunday in town. "They sit in the cafés and beckon to you from the window...
CT scans represent a major advance over the simple X ray, which did not allow doctors to visualize brain tissue at all. Instead of a flat, two-dimensional X-ray picture, CT scanners produce a series of successive images. Taken as the patient, lying down, moves through a scanning ring...
For the audience, watching The Two-Character Play constantly challenges the notion of reality and illusion. At one point, Felice draws a gun with the intention to commit suicide. It is up to the audience to determine whether this crucial moment is real or acted.
Warren Schmidt moves ponderously. This is not because Jack Nicholson, who plays him to perfection, is particularly weighty or out of shape for a 66-year-old man. What slows him is the rhythms of his region and his culture; he is a Midwesterner of the Wasp persuasion, which means...