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...love letters to an unknown man while Ana's older sister starts to play with children her age. Her father is removed and cold, listening stonily as Dr. Frankenstein describes his desperate hope to discover the meaning of beauty in the universe. He minds his beehives calmly, without a sting. Never properly nurtured, Ana begins to create a monster who will respond to her cries, giving him her father's clothing and gold watch when he materializes. Her fantasies are realized when the town must search to bring her back from the dream-world where she hides. The dark vastness...
Harvard's teaching hospitals may be leaders in disease treatment and vaccine development, but they're still not immune to the sting of competition...
...there an American composer more important, more familiar and yet more obscure than Scott Joplin? His signature tune, The Maple Leaf Rag (1899), was the first piece of sheet music in America to sell a million copies, and after the 1973 release of the film The Sting and its accompanying soundtrack, his rag The Entertainer was heard constantly all over the country. And yet this genius, whose ambition it was to merge white European classical forms with black American rhythms and harmonies, has remained a shadowy historical figure, a mysterious creature of the late 19th century urban demimonde...
...good story, what the heck?", says Benson, who quit a job as a coach in Athens, Greece to take the Crimson helm. "In all seriousness, though, we've got some serious challenges ahead of us, and a big part of my job will be trying to placate the sting of Jeff's leaving. The team really relied...
...moved so many people with his work end up a suicide so soon after his great triumph? The brief obituaries that appeared around the world suggested a morality tale about a person undone by the curse of fame. The details, however, show how fame was only the final, dramatic sting of a death foretold by Carter's personality, the pressure to be first where the action is, the fear that his pictures were never good enough, the existential lucidity that came to him from surviving violence again and again -- and the drugs he used to banish that lucidity. If there...