The Way We Were, produced by Ray Stark and directed by Sydney Pollack from Arthur Laurents’ adaptation of his novel, is a traumatized, painful movie about a woman born with an unwavering sense of justice who ultimately frees herself from a harrowing love affair/marriage with a man who shoul...
I f hally picked up the classic novel I had always wanted to read andwas soon lost in the beautiful language. I kept a journal of my feelings,thoughtsand daily activities to see how much progress I was making. I w...
A child and a man were walking on the beach when the child found a shell and held it to his ear. Suddenly he heard strange, low, musical sounds. These sounds seemed to be from another world and the child listened to them wit...
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It was impossible for her to donate (捐赠) a lot of money, so she had to think of another way. She wanted to take advantage of her love of art. So she started making and selling beautiful cards to raise money for these kids. Because these cards were all handmade, it would take h...
She kept her gaze on Elliott, for she knew her mother's eyes were fixed upon her and she didn't want to meet them. “We haven't quarrelled. We talked it over this afternoon and came to the conclusion we'd made a mistake.He doesn't want to come back to America;he wants t...
though serious interest in him did not begin until the beginning of the 20th century;his plays were known to the Chinese readers by way of Charles Lamb and his sister's Tales from Shakespeare.By far,Shakespeare study has been an important part of scholarship in foreign literature and culture ...
The first 10% of the novel starts off as we’d expect, with a woman running for her life from (you guessed it) two fluffy things with teeth. The suspense here is unreal, and the atmosphere created is one of sheer confusion and panic. We’re thrown in at the deep end, and we thin...
vintage botanical illustrations and assorted ephemera not normally bound into the pages of a novel, we get to know the inhabitants of the place from colonial times to present day. There’s an apple farmer, an abolitionist and a wealthy manufacturer. A pair of beetles. A landscape painter. A...
“The big advantage was that, when we had doubts and had to find our way back, we just went to the book, and all the answers were there,” he added. Francisco Ramos highlighted the importance of the legacy that this adaptation would leave. "From the beginning, we established certain ...