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...Carlyon has spent eight years erecting his own monument to those half-forgotten men. He started with Gallipoli (2001), about the doomed campaign that launched the Anzac legend. Now, in The Great War (Macmillan; 860 pages), he looks at the Australians on the western front, the 750-km line of trenches that snaked through France and Belgium. In the national memory of the war, Gallipoli is the big event. Places like Fromelles, Bullecourt, Mont Saint Quentin are "hardly spoken of," Carlyon writes. Yet they should be bywords for valor?and tragedy. Most of the 324,000 volunteers who sailed...
...their latest album, “Sam’s Town,” lead singer Brandon Flowers and his Merry Bunch of Killers have turned musically and thematically towards New Jersey legend Bruce Springsteen, using his brand of proletarian songwriting to illuminate the plight of their blue-collar peers on the mean streets of Vegas...
...whole Breakfast at Tiffany’s thing is so overdone—so one clever Quincyite dressed up as Harvard’s own celebutante, Erica S. Birmingham ’06, for Quincy Golf. Birmingham was psyched to hear that her legend lives on, and sent us a pic of her Halloween costume as a busty St. Pauli lass. At the Signet on Friday night, a certain Hasty Pudding Theatricals producer waved to a friend...inadvertently whacking a Signette in the eye. 20 minutes of tears and condolences ensued. Earlier that night, the same...
...fervently attacks the claim that morality is rooted in religious scripture: “To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird…the legend of the animals going into the ark two by two is charming, but the moral of the story of Noah is appalling. God took a dim view of humans, so he (with the exception of one family) drowned the lot of them including children?...
Werner Herzog's passions are the stuff of moviemaker legend: the time he walked 400 miles, from Munich to Paris, to help a sick friend live longer; or when, having told budding director Errol Morris that if the young man ever completed a film Herzog would eat his shoe, and Morris did, Herzog ate the damn shoe...