” adding: “George Burns’ sense of timing and captivating smile touched the hearts and funny bones of more than three generations. He enabled us to see humor in the toughest of times and laugh together as a nation.”
the twenty-three year old Giorgio Bambini who, having to meet the overwhelming Foreman in the semi-finals, lay down on the carpet of the ring after a single punch, deaf to the indignant exhortations of the trainers who shouted at get back on your feet immediately. Make that “Fossi mad,...
Tom Vesey
9. When Knighthood Was in Flower, Charles Major 10. Alice of Old Vincennes, Maurice Thompson 1 9 0 1 Fiction 1. The Crisis, Winston Churchill 2. Alice of Old Vincennes, Maurice Thompson 3. The Helmet of Navarre, Bertha Runkle 4. The Right of Way, Gilbert Parker 5. Eben Holden, Irvin...
Bonesheal.Reputationsdonot. 我知道父亲 Iknow,father. 别担心弗朗西斯 Dontworry,Frances. 这是最好的结果 Thisisallforthebest. 对我来说不是 Notmine.Isit? 你喜欢我吗兄弟 Doyoulikeme,brother? 什么 What? 妈妈不喜欢 Motherdoesnt. 姐hearts;妹hearts;们hearts;也不喜欢 Noroursister. 手下的人也不喜欢...
From where I sit [palely loitering] I can only imagine by smudging black ink on yellowing parchment as my candle burns [wavering] in the damp draft of my shallowed breathing. My lungs afraid to [surge] surge against the light of the nurturing flames; held aloft by the torch bearers who...
Close by, there also stood a statue of be-knickered plough-boy poet Bobby Burns in a tam-o’-shanter, holding a mountain daisy like a potato chip. I didn’t realize then that public art with few exceptions is doomed to fail because art and consensus mix as poorly as the well-...
It burns, it does. Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don’t have the strength to fight it. It’s easier just to sit down or go to sleep. They say you don’t feel any pain toward the...
“Keep to the number, Ugo; and moreover, she is not a woman, but a noble virgin. I discern a distinction, though you may not. The Vestal’s fire burns straight.” “Who is she?” “It rejoices me that she should be so little known. All the greater the illumination when her light...
In a statement, President Clinton called Burns “one of the great entertainers of all time,” adding: “George Burns’ sense of timing and captivating smile touched the hearts and funny bones of more than three generations. He enabled us to see humor in the toughest of times and laugh toget...