听力原文:W: Did you read that letter in the newspaper about smoking? The person who wrote that must be crazy. M: I don't think so. I think the government should do everything it can to discourage people from smoking. W: Maybe so. But a law prohibiting cigarettes would do no good....
"Al Romper La Burbujais my first album. It's a project that I wrote mostly when I was around 19 years, so it reflects a very transitional stage in my life," Joaquina explained. "Where, for the first time, I was learning to be an adult, discovering many things about myself and the...
She often had to fight misogyny in the industry, like when Getz said he rescued her from being a housewife. She wrote on her website, “Nothing is further from the truth. I guess it made them look 'important' to have been the one that had the 'wisdom' to recognize talent or 'poten...
The project to erect a statue of Beethoven in his birthplace stalled in 1839 due to lack of funds, and the Beethoven commitee in Bonn announced that it had failed to raise enough money despite an international appeal. An outraged Liszt wrote to the committee offering to make up the funds ne...
People can hear your phone vibrate, depending on how severely it vibrates. 【2】 Tell others what you’re doing Sometimes, you will be in a situation in which you need to use your smart phone. 【3】 If you don’t, people will think that you’re either interacting with someone else...
Piaf wrote the much-loved song for the love of her life, boxer Marcel Cerdan, who died in a plane crash less than a month after it was first performed. Celine Dion performs on the Eiffel Tower at the conclusion of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris.Picture: Getty ...
She is also known for her essays, including A Room of One's Own (1929), in which she wrote the much-quoted dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." Woolf became one of the central subjects of the 1970s movement of feminist criticism ...
Many times during the reading of this book, I put it down and wrote a few lines of my own. I read several ofDigregorio’s poems out loud, luxuriating in the evocative language and the emotional effect it had on me. Her haiku is particularly inspiring and she is a master at it. I ...
The Conversation: Pantera were a band of brothers and Machine Head’s Robb Flynn and the band were pretty close. This is the guy who wrote a ‘fuck you’ song (“Aesthetics of Hate”) to a dimwit outsider journalist (we shan’t even speak the poser’s name) who unabashedly insulted ...
The Conversation: Pantera were a band of brothers and Machine Head’s Robb Flynn and the band were pretty close. This is the guy who wrote a ‘fuck you’ song (“Aesthetics of Hate”) to a dimwit outsider journalist (we shan’t even speak the poser’s name) who unabashedly insulted ...