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...places where he aims to articulate a deeper truth rather than give a strictly factual account. But in rendering scenes such as this, he was at his best, depicting the dynamics at work among a group of people in response to capricious circumstance. I also thought it a pitch-perfect description of this man's cancer-a source of misery, without question, but one that drew many people together, if even for an instant, and managed to produce a few moments...
...school, I loathed Latin, in general, but I detested Virgil in particular. After you'd spent hours wading through conjugations and declensions and ablative absolutes and gerunds and pasts perfect, imperfect and pluperfect, there was the pointless torture of learning and then reciting lines of dactylic hexameter about this bloke wandering aimlessly around the Mediterranean at the whim of a perpetually pissed-off goddess. I mean, even Milton was more fun than that...
...Bellow and his business partner, David Bernstein, also an experienced publishing hand, are betting that these bite-sized books are the perfect way to capture the best voices of the blogosphere in an easy-to-read format. Says Bellow: "Pamphlets are the ideal form for the needs of the intelligent reader in our fast-paced, media-saturated, ADD culture." The average TNP pamphlet averages 40 to 80 pages. Small enough to cart around easily (4x6 inches), they run $4 apiece on TNP's website...
...Pacific theater. It portrays Japan's soldiers as human, flawed and tragic, and Japanese audiences have no trouble identifying with them as they fight a doomed battle under a hard-driving but caring general (played by star Ken Watanabe) whom many Japanese would probably see as the perfect boss. Letters doesn't shy away from the suicidal warrior ethos that ultimately drove Japan's military to lead the country into obliteration - witness the scene where a lieutenant orders his men to kill themselves with live grenades, and all but one does so. But as the reviewer Aaron Gerow pointed...
...GRANGE PARK OPERA Near Winchester in Hampshire, the theater is a converted orangery, the mansion itself houses the restaurant. Fields and woods make the perfect backdrop for a picnic - eat in the big tent or a private Indian pavilion (but make note: if you bring more than one servant, you must book a separate pavilion for them). At season's end, some productions move briefly to Nevill Holt in Leicestershire, a medieval house with a theater in the old stables. Rare treats this season are Michel Legrand's 1964 marriage-of-convenience saga Les Parapluies de Cherbourg and Sergei Prokofiev...