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Leyser, who has written two books and numerous papers on medieval history, says he has spent the bulk of his 40-year teaching career concentrating on German history and such historical figures as Gregory VII and Henry...
...Marxist terms as "an artist of the people" miss the point. Goya had many disillusioned moments, and by the last years of his life, when -- sick and old and bitterly disappointed by the betrayal of the liberal Spanish constitution at the hands of that squat reactionary King, Fernando VII -- he moved to France, they became a continuous pessimism. He never idealized the Spanish proletariat: it was el populacho, the 18th century "mob," a many-headed beast capable of every atrocity and stupidity as well as sublime moments of collective courage...
When James Bond roars off in the upcoming License to Kill, he'll be driving a Lincoln Continental Mark VII instead of his famous Aston Martin. It's not that No. 007 has altered his automotive allegiance. It's that Ford Motor Co., the maker of the Continental, offered free cars for the film in exchange for putting Bond behind the wheel of its top-of-the-line luxury model. So it was farewell, Aston Martin. In the lucrative world of product placement, show business and big business are seeing eye to eye about getting brand names into the movies...
Eventually, Hopkins left the firm and brought suit, contending that the promotion process had violated Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits job discrimination. Pointing to the terms used to describe her in the written evaluations, she argued that she was a victim of sexual stereotyping by male partners who expected women to be sweet and conciliatory and who bridled at any departure from that image. "To be difficult to work with is somewhat in the eye of the beholder," she says. "We had difficult jobs...
...pedigree of astrology in ancient times had a certain splendor. But astrology has been intellectually weightless since Isaac Newton. Yet it accomplished a miraculous revival around the turn of the century. King Edward VII (Scorpio) and Enrico Caruso (Pisces) consulted astrologers. The '60s, the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, brought in the great age of astral tourism...