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...result, under the guidance of Bernbaum Professor of Literature Leo Damrosch, was a creative thesis titled “’If Answerable Style I Can Obtain...’: An Analysis and Account of Illustrating Paradise Lost” — a film noir-style graphic rethinking of John Milton’s classic poem, which won Chiang a summa cum laude reading and a Hoopes Prize. Damrosch remembers Chiang as one of his all-time favorite students because of his “no bullshit” attitude and self-confidence, he says. Not knowing...
...Dans le Noir, 51 rue Quincampoix (33-1-42-77-98-04). A fascinating place where you eat in the dark and you experience what it is like to be blind. The food is very good...
...city of Cologne's Golden Book. In the past century the Montblanc fountain pen has been on hand?and in hand?at the world's most historic moments. Created in 1906 by three residents of Hamburg, Germany, who were tired of messy inkwells, Montblanc launched its Rouge et Noir fountain pen in 1908. Two years later the trio introduced the Montblanc fountain pen, named for the snow-covered summit of western Europe's highest mountain. And in 1913 the company adopted a tiny six-pointed white star, also symbolic of the snow-covered peak, as its trademark. Since its launch...
Soderbergh doesn't miss a trick, and for a while it's fun for us to share in his fun. But there comes a moment when his Euro-noir film turns into another sort of exercise for the audience: an exercise in boredom. We begin to see that Soderbergh is counting on style to distract us from the familiarity, not to say banality, of the narrative that Paul Attanasio has winnowed out of novelist Joseph Kanon's rather good thriller. What we have here are two standard noir characters. There's the hard-shelled antihero, Jake Geismer (George Clooney), returning...
...famous French bubbly, who do most of their annual business in the last few weeks of December.[an error occurred while processing this directive] Big houses such as Moët & Chandon, Bollinger, Piper-Heidsieck and G.H. Mumm account for the majority of exports. They buy Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier grapes from the region's growers and assemble their Champagnes to ensure consistency from year to year. But the last few years have also seen the rise of smaller-scale producers, who take pride in doing things differently from their big rivals, and often make a Champagne that...