Basically this is Thom Andersen's essay highlighting the horrors and failures of the push to rid America of members of the Communist Party. It is a dense and thick film, and I was lacking two important pieces of information: what exactly is communism in that era—and in terms of "members...
Walking from The Wellcome Collection down towards the river, I took a detour along Denmark Street to see where Cormoran Strike’s office/home is set, it’s the building to the left of Hanks guitar shop, which is not nearly as photogenic, and had a vehicle parked in front I hope your...
As she read on, years seemed to fall away from her son like the imaginings of a dream, and all the old dark horrors of his usual preparation for the sleep of an innocent child to overshadow him. She shut the book and remained for a little time with her face shaded by her hand. ...
I’ll gossip and giggle, and have horrors and raptures over any trifle you like. I rather enjoy this, and now I’ll imitate what is called ‘a charming girl’. I can do it, for I have May Chester as a model, and I’ll improve upon her. See if the Lambs don’t say, ‘What ...
What this is about is my passing interest in the horrors of the Near East; and — more so — why Britain gets much of the ordure for recent history. Which means an awful lot of history: not just the Mandate from 1929-1948, but the centuries of precedence that led to that. What I ...
I had suffered unspeakable horrors with two more restroom breaks (one au naturale which was expressly forbidden…I thought no judge would do me for it considering I had used all the portaloos on the course too) When I got to the top of the penultimate hill ‘the Canine’ (see map of ...
And shop; of course we'll shop." She hemmed embarrassedly. "But mostly it's the boat ride. There's nothing to change the spirit like a summer crossing."Stealing the champagne, Peter Bell led Grady away and up through the saloons and onto an open deck where voyagers, parading with ...
In addition, now that I’m largely healed from the horrors of radiation, I’ve been meeting regularly with my plastic surgeon, who’s been slowly refilling the expander in my right boob (which he’d UNfilled prior to radiation, to get it out of the way of the hell beams), so I’m...
Across that vast expanse of flat nothing and tried to imagine the horrors that had taken place in those fields.At a few minutes before 8, I smartened myself up as much as possible, and then stood at attention with the others while the haunting tune rang out into damp, cool night. ...
Unflinching, penetrating and razor-sharp in its depiction of the horrors of suburban domestic life,Daddy’s Gone A-Huntingis one of Penelope Mortimer’s better-known novels, and rightly so. It’s a truly excellent book, as insightful in its portrayal of mental illness as it is in the explo...