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...Other Woman in his Bessie Smith short, St. Louis Blues") also chose Fredi to play a prostitute in the Paul Robeson "Emperor Jones," where makeup darkened her skin so viewers would not think Robeson was consorting with a white woman. Washington's role is small and contra-textual: why would Jones leave town for the jungle when Fredi was ready to play...
...says DeFotis, on the other hand, is less concerned with sound and more concerned with expression, textual interpretation and the communicative aspects of music...
With a very serious expression, Segal responded that he had just solved a “crux” in Thucydides, meaning a textual problem that had baffled generations of scholars...
...translation of a dead mother’s diaries (written in Korean) and the resulting love triangle that develops among the mother (in the form of her writing), the translator and the daughter (an archivist and the narrator). So basically it’s about language, obsessions with textual characters, a threesome with your mom and lots of paper. A major part of the novel is the family story, typically dysfunctional and told through the daughter’s memories triggered by the diary entries...
...acquisition, Gates began the arduous process of authenticating the manuscript. He explained that his verification process entailed “lining up” the events, times and places in the text and comparing them to known historical facts. If the purported origin of the text is genuine, the textual and factual details “will look like mirror images,” he said...