Interview: Nancy Pearl, author and librarian, offers some great opening lines to booksSTEVE INSKEEP
It’s a collection of eye-opening and inspirational wisdom for girls from some of today’s most influential women, offering insights on being true to yourself, finding your voice, overcoming obstacles, and making a difference in the world.Of...
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“Each expression was a mixture of lip different facial movements, which included licking(舔) their nose, opening their mouth, or widening the pupils of their eyes,” said the scientists. They also found cats use 26 of these facial movements in total, which can be mixed to express how ...
Jean Harlow and Marie Dressler square off in Dinner at Eight; movie poster highlights the “Blonde Bombshell” Harlow along with a star-studded cast; a scene with Harlow, Wallace Beery and Edmund Lowe; to avoid wrinkling her gown between takes, Harlow reviewed her lines in a special stand-up...
Results of the previous “three major transformations” of socialism fueled Mao Zedong’s ambitions to further intensify socialist reconstruction in China, hoping to overtake the UK and catch up with the United States by realizing communism as quickly as possible. This led to the rise and ultimate...
My first published piece wasn’t a story but a poem. I came to writing picture books through poetry. The poem appeared in a student literary journal and I don’t remember much about it except for the opening lines: I’m growing my children under a pyramid ...
s work for water or olives. But a few lines aren’t enough for Gelon, who decides to stage a full production of Medea in the quarry. Inspired, incredibly, by real events, Ferdia Lennon’s fantastic first novel is written in a wonderfully Irish vernacular that brings the ancient world t...