Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Artsby Wolf Burchard. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2021. Written to accompany an exhibition at the Met in New York (which we saw) and later at the Wallace Collection, London and the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gard...
Try writing one yourself and you’ll imagine the task faced by the French writer Georges Perec, when a friend challenged him to write a whole novel without using E - a letter which is even more common in French. Perec was a frighteningly clever writer, a lover of word games and puzzle...
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Joey Carbery looking forward to a fresh start abroad: French side Bordeaux Bègles were the name hanging on people’s lips at Tuesday’s Munster press conference. But Joey Carbery, training at their Limerick base in advance of his team’...
Side note: what’s the most obscure app you have on your home screen? Mine is probably a Crossword puzzle app. This will likely be relegated to second screen to make room for TikTok. I’m Not Going Here Again Everyone has a list of restaurants they boycott. I’ve been asking around ...
do crossword puzzles. You may also change your diet a little by adding meals which enhance memory, such as salmon or sardines for Omega-3s, memory-enhancing gingko biloba, as well as blueberries or maybe additional foods high in antioxidants. As long as you’re preserving energetic, you’ll...
Everything at Rumpelmayer’s tastes like undiluted quality: the best ice cream, real whipped cream, superior fruit toppings, French fan biscuits, proper and restained. Nothing to make the pulse race … but very good. Sundaes, $1; sodas, 90 cents; ice cream, 80 cents; banana splits, $...
Try writing one yourself and you’ll imagine the task faced by the French writer Georges Perec, when a friend challenged him to write a whole novel without using E - a letter which is even more common in French. Perec was a frighteningly clever writer, a lover of word games and puzzle...
根据倒数第二段中Perectookupthechallenge.Hewasunabletousemorethan70%oftheFrenchwords,includingthosemostcommonlyused.Surprisingly,hediscoveredthis"impossible"ruleunlockedhisimagination.(佩雷克接受了挑战。他不能使用超过70%的法语单词,包括那些最常用的单词。令人惊讶的是,他发现这个"不可能"的规则释放了他的想象力...