"It captures what it's like to live in this chaotic and deadening world so well it might be the movie of the year, and last year, and next year too. If a visitor from the future wanted to know what it was like to be alive right now, this is what I'd show them." —Sam Adams...
The Austrian-born Baum was riding a wave of success from her novel, Menschen im Hotel, which became a best-seller in the U.S. as Grand Hotel and, in turn, the 1932 movie of the same name that won the Oscar for best picture of the year. Zane Grey. Grey had, by this time, ...
Photo: Uni You, courtesy of Isabel Crook, The Beijinger One of Canada’s most respected “Old China Hands,” Ms. Isabel Crook, passed away in Beijing at the age of 107 on Sunday, August 20. She was born to Canadian ...
aLi Yundi,a well-known Chinese pianist,always loved music.He was born in 1982 in Chongqing.When he was a small boy,he could hum songs and difficult pieces of music.He began to learn the accordion at the age of four,and he started to learn the piano when he was seven.In October 2000...
Pengelley was a born scholar. He was studious, book-minded, and thoughtful rather than practical. He was as much out of place among a windjammer’s crew as a marble statue in a farmer’s bamyard. Nevertheless, Pengelley was the light, the life, and the pride and ennobling influence of ...
New Zealand-born designer Sean Kelly emerged as the victor in Season 13 by impressing the judges challenge after challenge. For the memorable “rainway” challenge — which tasked the competitors with creating a look that was both avant-garde and waterproof — he presented a white dress that blo...
Michael Eble on Where Y'Art Works | Michael Eble was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He received a BFA degree in painting from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a MFA degree in painting and drawing from the University of M
I interrupt her to ask who uses this term. She continues: “Polish people in England… The first thing we learnt here [in England] was ‘oh, here comesciapaty’” and her partner adds: I don’t know, I thought that ciapaty is a strange colour, such undefined […] and the best th...
And Isabel Sanford was the only one for the role, actually born in Harlem herself. Her first film role was in the 1967 Sidney Poitier led Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, in which her performance garnered solid reviews and the interest of one of the most important men in Hollywood, Norman...
More recently[93], the protocol was amended with E, for EKG-based heart rate reserve (HRR, defined as peak/rest HR < 1.62), which also provides prognostic information, and ABCDE was born. This protocol has been used in the last 5 years in the SE2020 study[94-96], demonstrating ...