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...aging Bond through the hospital and traps him in a laboratory, desperation. Bond picks up the nearest beaker and throws its contents at the assailant, who recoils and impales himself on a wall of test tubes. Connery casually looks at the beaker, which is belled "James Bond's urine." Portrait of the self-sufficient secret agent...
...first program, "The Roots of War," follows the development of the Vietnamese Revolutionary movement through WWII coloring a lively and startling portrait of Ho Chi Minh. The program shows how Ho, a charismatic leader, actually received aid and training for his troops from the U.S.; he also rescued downed American flyers in Vietnam and saved them from the Japanese. At the end of WWII. Ho proclaimed, using Thomas Jefferson's very words, a Vietnamese Declaration of Independence Meanwhile, the British released and rearmed recently captured Japanese so that they-might destroy the Vietminh and restore control to the French...
Virginia Woolf celebrated Mme. de Sévigné in a lyrical essay: "This great lady, this robust and fertile letter writer, who in our age would probably have been one of the great novelists ..." Thornton Wilder sketched an invidious portrait of the 17th century French author in The Bridge of San Luis Rey; the poet Alphonse Lamartine called her the Petrarch of French prose; Proust compared her art to Dostoyevsky...
...book, Finnegans Wake-final title of his long-heralded Work in Progress. In his 57 years this erudite and fanciful Irishman, from homes in exile all over Europe, has written two books that have influenced the work of his contemporaries more than any others of his time: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the best of innumerable novels picturing an artist's struggle with his environment; Ulysses, considered baffling and obscure 15 years ago, now accepted as a modern masterpiece...
...Portrait of a Sensualist...