![]() ![]() I began sifting through this box because, after nearly a decade of writing nothing at all, I was trying to write a story. We went as far as Los Angeles and then turned around and came back. I wanted to see the Deep South and she wanted to see the southwest so after setting out from Pittsburgh, we headed south and then west. It was a box full of notes and mementoes from a road trip two decades earlier, when - in our early twenties - my best friend and I spent several months traveling across the country and back. In the summer of 2011, I opened a box that had been closed for twenty years. ![]() Elissa Wald- Author of “Meeting the Master” and “The Secret Lives of Married Women” ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Will it be the erudite King, who’s capable of crafting dark, textured, adult stories? Or will it be the goofy shockmaster, delivering scenes of gruesome terror and borderline nonsensical plot twists? In TNT’s anthology series, Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King, the answer is: both. To borrow a phrase from a film that clobbered Shawshank at the Oscars, King’s work is “like a box of chocolates.” You never now what fresh hell you’re gonna get. The stylistic gap between Carrie and Shawshank highlights the biggest problem with adapting King. ![]() In 1976, Brian De Palma turned King’s debut, Carrie, into iconic cinematic horror 1990’s Misery won Kathy Bates an Oscar and in 1994, the cult status and adoration of the adult and engaging Shawshank Redemption cemented King’s reputation as a critically acclaimed popular storyteller. It’s possible that more film and TV adaptations have been made from the works of Stephen King than any other living author. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This paper takes The Handmaiden as the text, Beauvoir's feminist theory in the Second Sex as the perspective, takes two female characters in the film, lady and maid, as samples, discusses the complex relationship formed by two women with completely different backgrounds, and studies how the film expresses the relationship between them from the initial competitive relationship to the relationship of cooperation and synergy. It tells the story of money and love between an aristocratic lady who inherits a huge fortune, a deceiving count who covets her property, a maid who is hired by the count to approach the lady, and the lady's guardian during the Japanese colonial rule of Korea in 1930. Abstractĭirected by Park Chan-wook, the Korean film The Handmaiden is adapted from the novel City of Briars by British writer Sarah Waters. Feminism Park Chan-wook The Handmaiden Female relations. ![]() ![]() Shakespeare, as the son of a leading Stratford citizen, almost certainly attended Stratford’s grammar school. Not long after that, however, John Shakespeare stepped back from public life we don’t know why. John rose through local offices in Stratford, becoming an alderman and eventually, when William was five, the town bailiff-much like a mayor. A prosperous businessman, he married Mary Arden, of the prominent Arden family. Their father, John Shakespeare, was a leatherworker who specialized in the soft white leather used for gloves and similar items. Growing up as the big brother of the family, William had three younger brothers, Gilbert, Richard, and Edmund, and two younger sisters: Anne, who died at seven, and Joan. ![]() He was John and Mary Shakespeare’s oldest surviving child their first two children, both girls, did not live beyond infancy. ![]() William Shakespeare was probably born on about April 23, 1564, the date that is traditionally given for his birth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As that search increasingly leads back to the wealthy east end of the island, she discovers a hidden savagery that no one suspected. ![]() To clear his name, Peggy joins forces with allies in Dreamland to find the real killer. Young women are showing up dead, and to Peggy's horror, her love affair with Stefan throws suspicion his way. But all is not well on the island that summer. But the rebel heiress defies all the rules to explore America's Playground, and in the dazzling park Dreamland, she meets Stefan, an artist who left his hate-torn Eastern Europe homeland in search of an American utopia. Just one mile away from the hotel is raucous, uninhibited Coney Island, a place Peggy has been warned to stay away from. Peggy Batternberg comes from one of the wealthiest families of all, and they're forcing her to leave her job at a bohemian bookstore to join them for the summer at the grand Oriental Hotel, rising on the sea in Brooklyn. The wealthy move within a pampered, protective world, while the poor live five to a room. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But fate has other plans and if she doesn’t bow to the power coursing through her, she could destroy the entire fabric of life and death. When Autumn finally uncovers her family’s secret legacy, she wants nothing more than to turn back time or walk away. There are weird, secret rooms in the house and her new friends keep urging her to learn more about her past in order to unlock her powers. Or so she thinks.Įver since she moved into her dad’s ancestral home to give Windhaven Academy a try, strange things have been happening. ![]() She’s a mundane human with no special abilities whatsoever. When Autumn gets a full scholarship invite to the Windhaven Academy, an exclusive college meant for witches and other supernaturals, she thinks someone in the head office has clearly made a mistake. An Ancestral Home with Secrets of its Own. ![]() ![]() ![]() In studies ranging from Rebecca Klatch's A Generation Divided to Lisa McGirr's Suburban Warriors to John Andrew's The Other Side of the Sixties, a new wave of scholarship has pored over the defining institutions, personalities, and moments of the '60s right, deepening our understanding of the decade and illuminating the subsequent rise of Reaganism. But over the last decade, there has been a surge of interest in the right-wing movements that produced or cheered on such rallies. The first histories of the 1960s and early '70s weren't always sure how to treat such events, when they deigned to notice them at all. On May 20 approximately 100,000 union men in Manhattan held what Time called "a kind of workers' Woodstock," carrying signs with slogans such as "God Bless the Establishment." A cement mixer hauled a banner mocking New York's liberal mayor: "Lindsay for Mayor of Hanoi." In subsequent days more marches, some spontaneous and some quietly encouraged by the White House, broke out in such cities as Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and San Diego. The most famous was the hard hat riot of May 8, when Manhattan construction workers beat up hippies and demanded that City Hall raise the American flag. ![]() In May 1970 the United States saw a wave of political demonstrations-demonstrations in favor of Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. What she has to say specifically about the music and the text is sharp, accurate, and telling she hears what takes place musically with unusual sensitivity."-The New York Review of Books All music-lovers should read it, and cheer." The Women's Review of Books"McClary writes with a racy, vigorous, and consistently entertaining style. No review can do justice to the wealth of ideas and possibilities book presents. ![]() Exciting reading for adventurous students and staid professionals." Choice“Feminine Endings, a provocative 'sexual politics' of Western classical or art music, rocks conservative musicology at its core. achievement borders on the miraculous." The Village Voice“No one will read these essays without thinking about and hearing music in new and interesting ways. A groundbreaking collection of essays in feminist music criticism, this book addresses problems of gender and sexuality in repertoires ranging from the early seventeenth century to rock and performance art. ![]() ![]() ![]() Out the windows, water and sky merge into a gray field dappled with darkness that signals a coming storm. Despite the joke, she’s acutely aware of the lake’s magnetic pull and knows just how to invoke it she has strategically chosen for us to meet at a café with a window-filled back room that overlooks the lake. “Weird juju” is what she jokingly calls the lake’s power when I visit her in Duluth one December day to talk about The Long-Shining Waters, her new novel about Lake Superior. ![]() I confess: I myself tend to the lake for granted.īut Duluth author Danielle Sosin doesn’t. But today, in the age of lakefront condos, virtual landscapes, and tweets about Republican presidential candidates, the Great Lake’s power is easily overlooked. ![]() LAKE SUPERIOR, ONE OF THE LARGEST LAKES IN THE WORLD, DOMINATES thousands of miles in not one, but two countries, creates its own climate, and nurtures and kills daily. ![]() ![]() ![]() And yet it’s being crammed down his throat. He is blind-sided with the news that he has a cousin who is actually duke. He did an excellent job, his people were happy and thriving. Thomas was raised to be the Duke of Wyndham. While Julia Quinn made her characters happy in the end, none of it seemed fitting to either of the men’s personalities. The ending was nice for Jack and Grace but it felt hollow. She was a rude, awful woman, and I have no idea why Julia Quinn would create such an unlikeable character who isn’t a villain? By the way, that woman had zero redeeming factors. I liked how we got to see Grace, and Jack interact, but there wasn’t a lot of opportunity for that, since Grace was with the duchess all the time. She then kidnaps him and forces him to stay to prove that he is the actual duke, being that his late father was the elder brother to Thomas’ father. Jack, a highwayman, holds up Grace and the dowager’s coach, but the dowager recognizes Jack as being a Cavendish. Here we have Grace, a companion to the dowager duchess, the poor 2 dukes’ grandmother. Cavendish, I Presume was much more interesting and enjoyable. ![]() I read the second book in this series first and Mr. This is the first book in Julia Quinn’s series “The Two Dukes of Wyndham.” ![]() |