When the post-war settlement allowed for the projection of a way of life that might integrate past, present and future, the novel responded by replacing the experimental temporalities of modernism with a restoration of the linear conventions associated with realism. But the realism that observed ...
Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images Do the British really have unusually bad teeth? Are they any worse than American chompers? Here’s one statistic: In the past year, about seven in 10 people in Britain visited a dentist, according to theOrganisation for Economic Cooperation and Developme...
Filmed with great care and precision in piercing monochrome and with barely any dialogue to drown out the intense expressiveness of the people and the landscapes captured on camera, Douglas has often been cited as Britain’s answer to France’s Robert Bresson. It’s an accolade that makes ...
Overall, British respondents were more likely to spend money on BDSM clothing than people from the USA (The UK mean for spending on BDSM Clothing was 59%, the US mean was 52%), with the exception of leather – where the USA was 2% more likely to have spent on leather (not a big di...
playing his fiddle. He was suddenly surrounded by a group of small people who wanted him to go away. As a bribe, they said they’d make him the best fiddle player in the world- an offer he couldn’t refuse (of course, this story might be more to do with howbadhis playing was bef...
In 2004,(69)theOrganization for Economic Co-operation and Development found that Britain had the lowest number of people with bad,(70)missing(miss)or filled teeth among all of its 34member states.The United States was in the middle of the rankings. ...
“The greatest thing that happens when people see white sharks with their own eyes is a change in perception,” added Stone, who uses the Instagram handle@harrystone_photo. A great white showing off its fearsome array of splendid teeth. Mediadrumimages/HarryStone ...
Since the death of Princess Diana in 1997, there have been argu- ments in the UK about the extent to which the press report on the private lives of people (Petley 2013, p. 59). Aggravated by the News of the World phone hacking scandal, these arguments sought to answer the question,...
As for Beatrice's perfectly straight teeth? Those are thanks to her braces. "Many people with her facial form have crowding on their front teeth, particularly incisors," Patel explained. "Following braces, she may have had a fixed wire retainer on the back surface of the teeth, which keeps...
The film blends Higashida’s revelatory insights into autism, written when he was just 13, with intimate portraits of five remarkable young people. It opens a window for audiences into an intense and overwhelming, but often joyful, sensory universe. Moments in the lives of each of the character...