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Sometime during the five hours he spent pinned in the wreckage of his car, grievously injured and delirious with pain, Robert Hughes was visited by Death. "He was sitting at a desk, like a banker. He made no gesture, but he opened his mouth and I looked right down his throat, which distended [an error occurred while processing this directive] to become a tunnel: the bocca d'inferno of old Christian art." So Hughes begins his new memoir, Things I Didn't Know, quite literally with a bang. The accident took place in 1999 on a deserted road in Western...
Sony Pictures Entertainment Directed by Steven Zaillian 2 stars I will now blaspheme the gods of American literature: I do not like Robert Penn Warren’s “All the King’s Men.” An unscientific facebook.com search tells me that the 700-page political tome is the favorite book of 123 of my peers. Preceptor Tom “Your Biggest Fan” Underwood of “Southern Writers Reconsidered” fame begged me to consider this a masterpiece of Southern literature. I think I fell asleep that...
...Ruffalo were disappointed, however, as he was not present in spite of advertisements to the contrary. The four speakers eagerly expressed their pride in the film, which Medavoy calls their “labor of love.” The film was never intended to be a remake of Robert Rossen’s 1949 “All the King’s Men,” and was inspired purely by Robert Penn Warren’s novel of the same title, said the filmmakers. Zaillian says he has not seen the 1949 movie, and still hadn?...
DormAid Chief Marketing Officer Robert D. Cecot ’08 said that College officials had postponed consideration on his firm’s application to run a laundry service for over a semester due to their concerns about “infringing upon the sovereignty” of HSA as the primary student business...
Johnny Depp, Errol Flynn, and Robert Louis Stevenson may have imbued the image of the pirate with intensity and legend, but what this unassuming little book adds—historical relevance—is what ultimately cements pirates as some of the coolest, most colorful characters in (actual) history...