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Neither prude nor Puritan, Hogarth sought to lay bare the foibles of his England. Yet he was no revolutionary; he wore the scarlet coat of a gentleman, and respected the Crown. He married the daughter of the man who painted murals in St. Paul's, eventually succeeded him as Serjeant-Painter to Kings George II and III. He began life as an apprentice silversmith, wound up with a country house and six servants...
Pasty-faced and crater-eyed, behind his boldly rouged cheeks, the lone figure onstage when the footlights go up on Broadway's hit musical, Cabaret, is a garish apparition indeed. He twists his scarlet mouth into an obsequious leer as he whines the lyrics of Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome. The character has no name, no dialogue. But in Joel Grey's insinuating performance, the sleazy, empty-souled, fanny-grabbing emcee of Berlin's Kit Kat Klub is not only the glue that holds the musical together but also the embodiment of a nation's depravity during...
...Discretion. Meanwhile, with a canny eye cocked on the box office, she carefully nurtured a public image that equated her offstage life with the scarlet ladies she portrayed. At various times, she gulled newspapers into gossiping about "affairs" with any notable that came to her mind: Gene Tunney, William S. Hart, Al Smith and the Prince of Wales. (If in fact she had any famous lovers, nobody ever discovered who they were.) When Billy Sunday preached against her sensuous dance of the seven veils in Salome, she went to see him and quickly won his friendship over an ice cream...
...Pink Panther, The Great Race). As Julie says: "People will talk and gossip, and there is nothing you can do about that, so you might just as well go your own sweet way. I don't think anybody goes out of her way to be a scarlet woman, but then there is very little I can do about it if that's what they want to make...
...class is required to reread chestnuts like The Scarlet Letter or Huckleberry Finn. But obscure writers like Rilke and Jose Luis Borges also get assigned. Robert Crunden has chosen ten books on Woodrow Wilson and the Victorian period to illustrate styles of historical writing for his Expository Writing...