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...film has an authentic feel, thanks to its use of Afghan children in the lead roles and dialogue in the native tongue. But at heart it's a Victorian novel transposed to war-torn Afghanistan: Dickens spoken in Dari. Every atrocity endured in childhood will face an equal and opposing vengeance at the end; virtually every major character will reappear later; family relationships are not what they seem. Readers (and viewers) don't love books (and movies) like The Kite Runner in spite of these clichés but because of them. The fierce tidying up of ancient grievances allows...
...Renaissance drama. Audiences adored how his plays went right to the limits - his sex was dirty, his violence grisly, his politics risky. His work was so popular in his time that it broke box-office records at London's Globe theater. But over the centuries, thanks to censorship and Victorian prudery, he fell out of fashion. By the time the world was ready again for Middleton's R-rated brand of theater, Shakespeare reigned as the undisputed heavyweight champion of English literature, knocking everyone else to the margins of the curriculum and away from center stage...
...behind bars. The windswept island seems a lifetime removed from the vibrant multicultural city across the water. Stay at the Africa Studio www.sa-venues.com/wc/africastudio.htm) a loft-style complex close to Cape Town's liveliest restaurants and the bohemian neighborhood of Bo Kaap, or the Metropole Hotel (www.metropolehotel.co.za), which fuses Victorian architecture with one of South Africa's most modern interiors. Both hotels are close to Ginja, a modern take on a traditional French brasserie. After dinner, head upstairs to Shoga, a bar where the color of your skin matters less than what clothes you wear or what car you drive...
WOMEN’S VICTORIAN COFFEE...
...themed bordello. It ranks up there on the “duh” scale with this summer’s piece on emoticons: I mean, it just feels like an American tradition to take it all off for Halloween. I’m pretty sure women in the Victorian era took a break from demanding the vote to hitch up their petticoats and show a saucy swath of ankle, paving the way for their liberated granddaughters to pay for their own $34.99 Vixen Pirate costumes from Party City. I guess reducing women to pneumatic parodies of actual people with...