Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While it is unusual, Ronis said that he was not the first to do a play somewhere other than a normal stage. Other shows in Harvard history have been performed in places ranging from the Adams House swimming pool to an elevator in Hilles Library...
...life and art gradually dovetails into the narrator's biography. His attempts to understand are shot through with melancholy, as the past remains elusive: "My wife: someone I feel I understand less well than a foreign writer dead for a hundred years. Is this an aberration, or is it normal? Books say: She did this beacuse Life says: She did this." Barnes keeps the details of his narrator's life purposfully vague: the novel's complex and subtle design involves a sublimation of the personal into the scholarly, but Braithwaite's inner struggles remain the generating force...
...life at 16, in 1978. And yet (of course) he was one of nature's noblemen, loved by puppies, blind girls and the motorcycle gang his mother Rusty hung out with. "I look weird," says Rocky (Eric Stoltz, in a wonderfully authentic performance), "but otherwise I'm real normal." Better than normal. He shines in school, plays Cupid between his mom (Cher) and a rowdy old friend (Sam Elliott), and falls into tender love with a City Lights sweetie (Laura Dern) who can see only his good heart and humor. Metaphorically, Rocky is the beautiful soul hidden in every...
...government insisted that everything was normal, but Guatemalans were noticeably jittery late last week. The country was bracing itself for a weekend march by relatives of the thousands of people who have disappeared over the past 20 years and are presumed to have been kidnaped and killed by pro-government forces. Two human-rights activists have been killed in the past month alone...
...there is something here, not just normal journalistic screw-ups. There is a genuine lack of understanding of Islam, one that dates back centuries. Muslims are considered fanatics, in contrast to our rational Western selves...