They said gentle things like “You oughta keep an eye on that one,” and sent us links to Wall Street Journal articles about child prodigies. And then the other parents in the play groups started to comment; “He’s pretty intense, huh?” And the teachers were on to it pretty quickly...
The British version too understood the acute danger of feral law (Kahn), was kind about the sloth bear (Baloo), not so much about the ape (Louis), and warned for the hypnotic stare of the ancient reptilian python (Kaa). Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious How was Hitler able to befuddle ...
Weird Fact #2: Bruce was partly British.Bruce’s Grandfather was British (many believed he was German). This “non-pure” Chinese status prevented his acceptance into many Kung Fu schools back in the 50’s and slimmed his choices. Lucky though, otherwise he may have never learned Wing Chun...
cured ham are favourites - is virtually indistinguishable from that of its near neighbour.Even in the local dialect and street names of towns like Pula, Rovinj and the resort of Porec, Italian influences are keenly felt.Traditions such as a nightly wander through the streets, close families and...
Major cities in Japan were filled with millions of homeless civilians and psychologically damaged war veterans, who slept in bomb craters, ruined buildings, tents, shanty towns, or on the street. Many Japanese Soldiers Never Returned Home from Manchurian China Unlike POWs captured by American...
They Are Watching You: A promotional portrait of the British rock band The Police (L-R): Sting, Andy Summers, and Stewart Copeland, circa 1980. (Photo by Express Newspapers/Courtesy of Getty Images) E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Was an Extra Big Hit Getty Images 'E.T. The Extra-Terrestria...
I managed to fit in an extremely quick trip to theBritish Libraryfor theMedieval Women exhibit, and cannot rate it highly enough; if you have the opportunity to visit, don’t miss it, even if you’re not the biggest fan of Margery Kempe – there’s so much more, including my longtime...
British spice girls, Blaney, Jennifer Lopes, and even Madonna, all of the past ten years' platinum sellers have accepted the idea that fashion and femininity are sexy, cute and cool. Singers wear clothes that are very easy to sell, or are easily copied in the commercial street fashion, suc...
British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, in his latest incarnation as a gay Austrian fashion reporter, jet skied through a canal into Amsterdam’s red light district on Friday to open a brothel full of men in thongs ahead of the Dutch premiere of ‘Bruno’. ...
British Library, 2018 331 pp paperback "It's a terrible thing to meddle with the Powers of Darkness..." from "The House of the Black Evil," 285. The British Library has once again thrown temptation in my path, and I was completely unable to resist. We're talking not just one book,...