A new essay in which moments from her childhood and youth in Communist Romania are relived while remembering the frustrations, wrongs and menaces of that period. With a remarkable precision, the author follows the thin line border between life and literature, between the “written word” and ...
and three-tenths of their income will be dissipated; while government expenses for broken chariots, worn-out horses, breast-plates and helmets, bows and arrows, spears and shields, protective mantles, draught-oxen and heavy wagons, will amount to four-tenths of its total revenue...
fallen, of the Celestial City; and, it was told, he had ages ago built the mighty thunder chariot of Lord Shiva: that engine that fled across the heavens belching gouts of fire in its wake.Despite
She looks over VIOLA'S shoulder and VIOLA realises WESSEX has moved up behind her. WESSEX bows. QUEEN (CONT'D) (to WESSEX) My Lord--when you cannot find your wife you had better look for her at the playhouse. The COURTIERS titter at her pleasantry. QUEEN (CONT'D) But playwrights te...
Théoden says that Gríma is freed of Saruman, and that he can surrender and be a Man of Rohan as he once was. Gríma happily bows to Théoden; however, Saruman insults the Rohirrim and claims that Gríma will never be free and slaps him to the floor. In his anger, Wormtongue ...
The King: Eternal Monarch: Episode 4by quirkycaseOur leading man’s sudden disappearance leaves our heroine confused. She can’t get the mysterious man and his absurd claims off her mind, so she goes in search of answers. But the closer she gets to the truth, the harder it is to ...
Tobey Maguire is a pitch perfect anti-hero in this bizarre, absurd, dark movie about love and raccoons. The movie plays like a demented fairy tale, replete with butterflies, rainbows and cross-bows. The audience I saw it with was in stitches. But this isn't really a comedy. I wouldn'...
Yeong stands in amazement as the gate appears and steels himself when Gon tells him they’re headed to another world. We cut to that HG Group chairman guy who goes to meet with Rim. He bows and calls him by his imperial title. The son calls him an idiot, ordering him not to bow ...
He is believed to have killed over 500 men during the 1939–40 Winter War, the highest number of sniper kills in any major war. He used a Finnish-produced M/28-30 rifle, a variant of the Mosin–Nagant rifle, and a Suomi KP/-31 submachine gun. Häyhä estimated in his diary that...
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