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Apart from the initial outburst, Fujimori, 69, dressed sharply in a pinstriped suit, alternated between looking bored, scribbling in a small notebook, and annoyed, pursuing his lips and knitting his brow. His supporters were not surprised by the results of the first trial but are nevertheless combative. "This verdict demonstrates that the president will not receive a free and fair trial. The court can do what it likes, but Peruvians will be the final jurors and they will vindicate him," said Rep. Carlos Raffo, a member of a pro-Fujimori congressional caucus. Fujimori's opponents, however, see the ex-president...
...waterfall of hundred dollar bills in this video, only Polaroid-style photo shots of Nas and his crew chillin’ through the years, while a mishmash of handwritten notes flutters across the screen. The video begins in silence, with a shot of a classic black-and-white notebook labeled “Nas Rhymes” opening up like a fairytale book. Scribbled on the ruled paper inside is the declaration, “This is the story of hip-hop’s greatest poet...” Following this humble statement, a mysterious hand inserts a cassette...
Lessing is a genuinely sui generis literary phenomenon, inexhaustible and defiantly unique - her oeuvre runs to over 40 books. Her principal theme is the experience of women in contemporary society, which she addressed most ambitiously, and successfully, in The Golden Notebook, her 12th novel, published in 1962. A formal tour de force, The Golden Notebook is the story of a divorced writer named Anna Wulf told through her four notebooks, each of which is concerned with recording a different aspect of herself. Brilliant, autobiographical and feverishly experimental, it's a bravura portrait of a shattered self, richly adorned with ruthless...
...which she re-imagines the history of the human race - originally, she proposes, humanity consisted entirely of women, all the trouble having begun when women inexplicably began giving birth to male babies. "The best thing one can say of anyone is that they fight," Lessing wrote in The Golden Notebook. Over nine decades, she has done nothing...
...tired of the tales, complaining to his mother that Holmes "takes my mind from better things." So, in 1893, he sent the detective over the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland during a struggle with his underworld nemesis, Professor Moriarty. "Killed Holmes" was all Conan Doyle deigned to scribble in his notebook. The public was devastated, as was his mother, but it would take 10 years of pleading and pressure before he gave in and resurrected Holmes from his watery grave...