that is. Also, as the twenty-first-century detective learns, Christmas really isn’t a thing in Victorian Scotland. It’s all about Hogmanay. But her boss, Dr. Duncan Gray, treats her to an early gift of tickets to the event of the season: a Charles Dickens reading. There, they bump...
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Whisky by the drink was selling from fifteen cents for blends to twenty-five cents for bonded varieties. One of the “higher priced” stores quoted a price of $3.80 for a quart of Four Roses (roughly eighty bucks today) while you could grab a quart of Crab Orchard straight Bourbon whisky...
As You Awaken.The translators, Omnia Amin and Rick London, chose twenty poems from Darwish’s 2004 volumeDon’t Apologize for What You’ve Done.They explore his usual themes: “you are not you and/home is not home.” But I
Film Critic John Mosher noted the continued rise of two leading female stars, twenty-seven-year-old Katharine Hepburn and six-year-old Shirley Temple. Mosher recalled Hepburn’s recent performance in Little Women, and proclaimed that she “succeeds again” in The Little Minister. OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS...
Laura is tired of being asked where she’sreallyfrom. Her family has lived in Aotearoa New Zealand for four generations, and she’s ambivalent at best about her Chinese heritage. But when she’s asked to write about the Chinese New Zealander experience for a work project, Laura finds hersel...
In 1943, he wrote an article titled “Back Home” for The Los Angeles Times about visiting his boyhood streets for the first time in twenty years. “As I walked slowly around the block and let the memories flood back,” he wrote, “it seemed to me that my old neighborhood was a ...
Newman is, well, Newman. Aging handsomely with his dazzling blue eyes he can charm the pants off any woman. I didn’t quite buy the romantic element and not because he is at least twenty years older than she. He is suave and charming, and she is so strait-laced that the romance does...
The film gets darker than I anticipated in the final act which is to its credit with two deaths. This surprised me in a good way because so much of The Four Musketeers is light-hearted. The death by the beheading of a major character is well-done. The heroes watch an executioner perfor...
It usually costs about twenty to fifty dollars. (7)Last time I paid twenty-five. W: That’s not very expensive. Maybe we can go together sometime. M: Great! It will be more fun to watch the game with a friend. Text 7(133词)享受散步 W: (8) You are out the whole afternoon, ...