Word: twain
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...KING KONG PW gives a rhapsodic, starred, boxed review (its highest accolade) to "Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales" by Stephen King (Scribner: March 19). "The author is not only immensely popular but immensely talented, a modern day counterpart to Twain, Hawthorne, Dickens...This will be the biggest selling story collection of the year, and why not? No one does it better...
Where does a stand-up comic with a newly acquired taste for playing killers go next? He has been talking to Richard Attenborough about doing a film on Mark Twain, his wife Olivia and Twain's progressively angry view of life. "Twain was one of the first to write about the American character, about us, but it became darker and darker. By the end he was so angry at God and at his life. A character like that, you look for those. They have everything...
...it’s also a historical document reflecting the times in which it was made. Rejigging these movies to be inoffensive to a new legion of fans ruins them: It desecrates the art and eliminates the history. Why not take all that racism out of Mark Twain? Huckleberry Finn: Special Edition...
...sacrifice their own children's future for a stab in the dark at improving an overly bureaucratic public school system. We have chosen to home school in order to provide our children with a superior academic experience that is provided in a morally protected atmosphere. As Mark Twain said, "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." HENRY AND SONNYA VARENHORST Smithfield...
...crafty fellow who likes to be underestimated is a classic character in American history and literature. Ben Franklin liked to pose as the common man, and the simple sayings in Poor Richard's Almanac cloaked profound ideas. Both Tom Sawyer and his creator Mark Twain liked to pass themselves off as country bumpkins who were easily duped before they cleverly duped you. Abraham Lincoln invariably described himself as a slow-speaking country lawyer before outwitting his rivals...