![]() ![]() But as the summer deepens and the history of the mansion manifests, the messages signed by their research subject become increasing spectral. They set out to teach their subject, who would eventually be known to the world as Smithy, American Sign Language. They set out to teach their subject, who would eventually be known to the world as Smithy, American Sign Language. ![]() Piers Preis-Herald brings together a group of seven collegiate researchers to study the inner lives of man's closest relative―the primate. In the tumultuous summer of 1974, in the shadowy rooms of a rundown mansion in Rhode Island, renowned psychologist Dr. "This original haunted house tale, with a unique plot and compellingly vivid characters, moves from uneasy to creepy to all-out 'keep the lights on' terror." - Library Journal, starred review. ![]()
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![]() “Loving Husband,” the gravestone reads, just as John himself had requested earlier in the film. ![]() After that, we cut to New York, with Winston (Ian McShane) and the Bowery King (Laurence Fishburne), along with John’s dog, standing over his grave, where he’s been buried next to his late wife, Helen. We do, in fact, see Wick, seriously wounded and bleeding after his literal pistols-at-dawn duel with Donnie Yen’s blind assassin, Caine (not to mention an entire night of getting shot, punched, kicked, and run over by seemingly everyone in Paris), keel over, lifeless, on the steps of the Sacré-Cœur basilica. We are recirculating it now that John Wick: Chapter 4 is available to own digitally. This piece was originally published in March. That final shot and the end-credits stinger might be more closely connected than they appear. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Joe has a crush on "totally cool, smart" Colin (the "C" entry), a jock who returns his affection but is not ready to go public with their relationship and eventually calls it off. He confesses that in fifth grade he wanted to be a "guy-guy" so badly that he asked his friend to teach him how ("Oh. For "A is for Addie," he recalls his earlier years, when he liked to dress up and play with Barbie dolls (a pastime that bonded him to Addie, also from the Gang of Five). In this alphabetical survey, assigned by his English teacher, he shares his heartfelt, snappy reflections. The novel's innovative format reveals the "alphabiography" of 13-year-old Joe Bunch, the gay member of the seventh-grade misfits. Delivering trenchant messages about tolerance, self-knowledge and the vacuity of teenage popularity, Howe's ultimately uplifting tale marks the welcome return of the Gang of Five (though there are really only four), introduced in The Misfits ![]() ![]() ![]() They want to portray the war, the poverty, the disease, the corruption. They always tend to portray Africa as a horrendous basket case. If there is a criticism I would level against celebrities-they have tended to perpetuate negative stereotypes. "The problem that Africa is really suffering from," she told me, "is negative PR. The book takes special aim at the rock star Bono, who has become the world's most prominent spokesperson for the people of Africa. Moyo believes this dependency relationship is perpetuated by Western governments and glorified by the celebrities who have made Africa their cause du jour. She recommends shutting off all foreign aid to African within 10 years. ![]() Aid, Moyo argues, keeps Africa in a supplicant's role when its governments need to become self-sufficient. "Dead Aid"-a tiny volume, forcefully written-insists that foreign aid (a trillion dollars over the past 60 years) is a waste: it's bad for Africa, she says-and for Africans. ![]() ![]() What attracts them is her provocative argument. She is scheduled to appear on "Charlie Rose." These titans of the media establishment are not pursuing Moyo for her beauty or her résumé (though these don't hurt). The beautiful Zambian economist, formerly of Goldman Sachs and educated at Harvard and Oxford, arrives in New York this week to launch her new book, "Dead Aid." The billionaire publisher Steve Forbes is throwing her a party at the Four Seasons. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the End of the World, Wonderland’s locational foil, poetic prose replaces the dry and calculated tone of the odd chapters. The protagonist’s mind is predominately a machine, utilized for the scientific and pragmatic purpose of processing data. Instead of a testament to individualism and passion, consciousness is a means to an end. However, if we consider the mind’s portrayal in Hard-Boiled Wonderland as consciousness, this idealization of consciousness becomes completely uprooted. If we were to conceptualize consciousness as the way it is widely understood, we would describe it as identity, personality, awareness, even life-force…in essence, consciousness is what distinguishes us from other animals and what drives us to achieve. In the way that people in our society risk everything to attain money, members of this society see data as the new necessity. Life and existence itself are disposable entities in the midst of numbers, as the protagonist functions as a biologically-based processor who is in danger of losing his own sense of self. In fact, the protagonist’s sole purpose is to shuffle through tons of data and protect it with everything in his power. In Hard-Boiled Wonderland, the protagonist’s work environment, big data rules every aspect of life. In Murakami’s novel, two concepts of mind, the conscious mind and the unconscious mind, are juxtaposed as different worlds in the main character’s plane of existence. ![]() ![]() To say Dune: Part One is a masterpiece isn’t wrong, but it’s also kind of like one of those incomplete Van Gogh paintings. If you only watch Dune: Part One on HBO Max, this might make the film feel like an overly long pilot episode to a TV series that may or may not get picked up. Villeneuve has made it clear he wants to make a trilogy of films from two novels - Dune and Dune Messiah - and the ending of Dune: Part One is the set-up for the events of the rest of the proposed trilogy. More accurately, Chani could have said, “This is about two-thirds of the way through the beginning, but it also depends on how far in the series we’re going to go.” It’s also not a spoiler to reveal that right toward the end of the film Chani (Zendaya) says to Paul Atreides (Timothee Chalamet), “This is just the beginning.” ![]() It’s no secret that Dune: Part One ends roughly 500 pages into the 794 pages (excluding the appendices) that comprise the bulk of the storyline of Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel Dune. Paul (Timothee Chalamet) in Dune: Part One Warner Bros ![]() ![]() He then explores the surviving documentation (from the Habsburgs, their allies, and their adversaries) on the formation of strategy in three crucial case studies: Philip’s unsuccessful efforts to maintain his authority in the Netherlands, his defective peacetime management of foreign relations with Scotland and England, and his failed Armada campaign against England. Geoffrey Parker begins by defining the characteristics of Spain’s strategic culture: the king’s distinctive system of government, the “information overload†that threatened to engulf it, and the various strategic priorities and assumptions used to overcome the disparity between aims and means. The author investigates the strengths and weaknesses of Philip’s strategic vision, the priorities that underlay his policies, the practices and prejudices that influenced his decision-making, and the external factors that affected the achievement of his goals. From 1556 until his death in 1598, Philip II of Spain ruled the first global empire in history, yet no one so far has analyzed precisely how he accomplished this feat. ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īefore she loathed me, before she loved me, Genevra Katherine Winslow didn’t know that I existed. Before she knows it, she has everything she’s ever wanted: friendship, a boyfriend, access to wealth, and, most of all, for the first time in her life, the sense that she belongs.īut as Mabel becomes an insider, a terrible discovery leads to shocking violence and reveals what the Winslows may have done to keep their power intact-and what they might do to anyone who threatens them. Mabel must choose: either expose the ugliness surrounding her and face expulsion from paradise, or keep the family’s dark secrets and make Ev's world her own. On scholarship at a prestigious East Coast college, ordinary Mabel Dagmar is surprised to befriend her roommate, the beautiful, wild, blue-blooded Genevra Winslow. Ev invites Mabel to spend the summer at Bittersweet, her cottage on the Vermont estate where her family has been holding court for more than a century. Mabel falls in love with midnight skinny-dipping, the wet dog smell that lingers near the yachts, and the moneyed laughter that carries across the still lake while fireworks burst overhead. ![]() ![]() Suspenseful and cinematic, Bittersweet exposes the gothic underbelly of an idyllic world of privilege and an outsider’s hunger to belong. ![]() ![]() Yet the film has somehow also strayed too far from Austen’s light to succeed. The Netflix film has lost the delight of those modern Austen re-imaginings by not being original enough. Persuasion’s anachronisms, however, comprise the kinds of phrases you’d find scattered on a wine mom’s Facebook wall or overhear at a sorority pregame, where one of the girls can’t stop whining about her ex. But while this Persuasion blends Regency-era gowns with 2020s-styled language (a la Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette), it’s a far cry from the joys of the Taylor Swift-soundtracked Bridgerton. Why? Plenty of other Jane Austen adaptations take the anachronistic route-see Clueless or Fire Island-and have been met with critical acclaim. ![]() ![]() Netflix’s new rendition of Persuasion, which premiered Friday, has already been taking a lot of hits for its use of anachronistic language. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "With monumental learning.Spengler surveys man's cosmic march.Always forceful.eloquent. Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West: Outlines of a Morphology of World History (1918/22) exerted a profound influence on intellectual discourse in. Decline of The West is a book squarely beyond the range of typical modern literary critique.The fact that Dr.Spengler discovered a true existence of a living form in the history- and life-cycles of civilizations has been deliberately ignored by critics. "This grand panorama, this imaginative sweep, this staggering erudition, this Nietzschean prose, with its fine color and ringing force, mark a work that must endure." - The New York Sun It makes available in one volume a masterpiece of grand-scale history and far-reaching prophecy that remains essential reading for anyone interested in the factors that determine the course of civilations. This abridgment presents the most significant of Oswald Spengler's arguments, linked by illuminating explanatory passages. A sweeping account of Western culture by a historian of legendary intellect, it is an astonishing informed, thrillingly controversial work that advances a worldview based on the cyclical rise and fall of civilizations. Oswald Spengler in his unsurpassed work The Decline of the West had predicted risks of our epoch and had developed the unique scheme of the study of the past as the foundation for the. ![]() Since its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about books of our time. ![]() |