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...been available for years in poor-quality, black-and-white bootleg copies at a few hundred indie video stores around the world, but there is only one way to see it legally. In 1972, Swiss-born photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank made a documentary about the first Rolling Stones tour of North America after the tragedy of four deaths at Altamont Free Concert two years earlier. The film was called Cocksucker Blues, after a song Mick Jagger wrote to anger record company executives with its stark, homoerotic lyrics and the aggressive manner in which he sings them. Although the movie...
...more efficiently. And while Gap's stock still lags its competitors', the company's shares rose 66% on Pressler's watch. "Under his leadership, the company has meaningfully improved its operations, strengthened its balance sheet, greatly enhanced its online presence and improved our standing as a global corporate citizen," Robert Fisher, son of Gap's founders, told TIME in an e-mail...
Imagine my surprise, then, to open Robert Fagles' new translation of The Aeneid and discover that it's, you know, pretty great stuff. Here's the demise of Euryalus: "He writhes in death/ as blood flows over his shapely limbs, his neck droops,/ sinking over a shoulder, limp as a crimson flower/ cut off by a passing plow." Fagles published terrific translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey a few years ago, so maybe I shouldn't have been gobsmacked by his Virgil. They're all quite popular too, part of a renewed passion for the classical world. The culture...
...just nothing, just ash." While the eldest of his three daughters, the house's sole occupant at the time, escaped, part of Australia's literary heritage was not so lucky. Gone were many of Hall's slavishly hand-written manuscripts and letters, including his lifelong correspondence with English writer Robert Graves. Fire couldn't erase Hall's favorite memories of the place, including a visit from Salman Rushdie at the height of his fatwa, but recently his family made the difficult decision to put the property on the market after 32 years. "What we couldn't face was the shell...
...life Country Women's Association presidents, murderous property developers or delusional district nurses. These, of course, are the dark characters Hall employs to keep Mrs. Shoddy's sanity at bay (most memorable of all, there's a big black bull that materializes from the fog). But as in the Robert Graves poem from which the novel takes its name ("? as when the young bird-catcher/ Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's daughter,/ So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly"), Hall's dark vision is lit by a transforming lyricism, with bravura passages that can take...