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...Tis the season to be shopping for best-selling books. Thanks to an almost comical price war that has broken out among a few of the country's retail giants, more people may be reading over the holidays. On Oct. 15, Walmart, the world's largest retailer, announced it was lowering its online preorder price for 10 new book releases. The new cost: a measly $10. The titles include the Sarah Palin memoir Going Rogue, John Grisham's Ford Country and Michael Crichton's Pirate Latitudes. Not to be outdone, Amazon.com matched Walmart's price on the same books. Walmart...
...TIS THE SEASON
McCourt followed Angela's Ashes with two more volumes of memoir. 'Tis picked up where his first book left off, on his arrival in New York City; it sold spectacularly but received mixed reviews. Teacher Man - which was both a critical and commercial success - recounted his backbreaking years teaching English and creative writing, 18 of them spent at New York's famous magnet school Stuyvesant, where he was a legend as a compelling teacher. "George Bernard Shaw said those that can do, and those that can't teach," McCourt was fond of observing. "Just goes to show that Shaw didn...
...relaxed program was built largely around music and talking points interspersed with a series of videos downloaded from YouTube. The audience sang a verse each of "America, the Beautiful," "My Country 'tis of Thee," and "God Bless America," then watched a video bit from the late comedian Red Skelton in which he invokes one of his former teachers who broke down the Pledge of Allegiance word by word. Pagano then asked the crowd to stand and led them in reciting the Pledge...
...think “Gossip Girl” is raunchy, you haven’t brushed up on your English dramaturgy. The Renaissance aristocracy had their fair share of dirty laundry, and in the rendition of John Ford’s “’Tis Pity She’s A Whore” on show in the Loeb Experimental Theatre from May 1-9, things are going to get even dirtier. Complete with contemporary costume design, a modern club scene setting, and a dirt pit constructed on stage, “’Tis Pity?...