Word: pantheons
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...many lovers of drawing, Hirschfeld was a divine manipulator - not the God, but a god. Museums, which had once deemed the cartoon inadmissable to the Pantheon of seriosity, mounted retrospectives of his work. "The Line King" brought his amicable wit to a new audience. Disney animator Eric Goldberg, who had based his Genie in "Aladdin" on Hirschfeld's protean line design, paid elaborate tribute to the Master in the recent update of "Fantasia." The Goldberg variation on "Rhapsody in Blue" was a smartly syncopated homage that crawled with furtive graffiti: a few Ninas, a "Goldberg" apartment house and, everywhere...
...means to be a Chinese author, to the point where much of the most robust "Chinese" literature is no longer even written in Chinese. In just the past decade, Chinese émigré authors who have adopted other languages have gained prominent seats in the world's literary pantheon. Dai Sijie's Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, written in French, was an immediate best-seller in France and won five prizes. Anchee Min's 1994 English-language memoir, Red Azalea, was named a "Notable Book" of the year by the New York Times, and Ji-li Jiang...
...Shanghai, Jung Chang's Wild Swans and Adeline Yeh Mah's Falling Leaves had proved that memoirs about China sell. When I refused to change categories, I was turned down. But when Ha Jin's novel Waiting became a best-seller in the U.S., my luck changed. In fact, Pantheon Books, the same New York publisher that brought out Waiting, published Lili...
...determined to make the character her own that she stopped watching the movie of Sophie's Choice after less than 20 minutes because "I wanted to take the chance to create something by myself." Kirchschlager has succeeded in creating a vivid character, but whether Sophie enters the pantheon of operatic heroines will depend ultimately on composer Maw's work. The opera is his third (and his first in over 20 years), and his experiences with sub-par productions of his first two left him "very disillusioned with the world of opera." But this time, he had the best midwives...
...Harvard, Dodd has focused on mead. Mead is considered to be the first alcoholic drink brewed by men, earlier than wine or beer. It is most famous now as the beverage of the Vikings and their pantheon; in Valhalla, the Viking heaven, newcomers were welcomed with generous chalices full of mead. Dodd’s version is an uncarbonated drink made from molasses and mixed—more accurately, chased—with ginger ale and lemon juice. He brought two kinds of mead to the competition. Why mead? “I wanted to diversify from the vodka...