What is the secret of true love
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The secret to true love as opposed to sexual love is to under stand that it is unconditional, if you love some one or something you must love it warts and all, otherwise it’s conditional love. a dog can spend its life being mistreated and still welcome its master. That is true love.
The first secret [...]
Bed-Hopping Love Songs Wilts in the Shadow of Godard
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If the great movie musicals of yesteryear put a song in your heart, Christophe Honoré’s Love Songs leaves you with a funny taste in your mouth. How else to describe Honoré’s orally fixated post-postmodern operetta, whose libretto includes lyrics like “Keep your saliva as an antidote/Let it trickle like sweet venom down my throat”? Those [...]
What do you look for in a friend? What do you think makes a true friendship
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I’d just like to start a topic about what each of you look for in a friendship. And what qualities you think define true friendship. Don’t know if this topic has been posted before..so the mods have to help me out here. Friendship is one of the few things we can choose for ourselves. [...]
McDormand, Adams shine in “Miss Pettigrew Lives”
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By Kirk Honeycutt
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - So fluffy that it
threatens to blow off the screen at any moment, “Miss Pettigrew
Lives for a Day” sustains itself through glorious star turns by
gifted actresses Frances McDormand and Amy Adams.
This is a self-described “fairy tale for adults,” set in a
Noel Coward [...]
New York Times Endorses Clinton McCain
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(01-24) 20:53 PST NEW YORK, (AP) —
The New York Times editorial board has endorsed Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain in the presidential primary race.
In editorials posted Thursday on the newspaper’s Web site, the board argued forcefully on Clinton’s behalf, while saying that McCain, R-Ariz., was the best of a [...]
Review Beginners Greek a frothy romp
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Beginner’s Greek
By James Collins
LITTLE, BROWN; 441 PAGES; $23.99
Imagine you’ve just settled into a window seat at the back of an airplane, about to fly from New York to Los Angeles. The aisle seat next to you is occupied, and you await your five-hour companion - not with annoyance at sharing this cramped space - but [...]
Literary Life
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Tagline of the year: for the forthcoming paperback of Jason Goodwin’s The Snake Stone, featuring a sleuth called Yashim: ‘The Ottoman detective may be a eunuch - but he’s not missing anything.’
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Most obvious put-down of the year: Charles Nicholl’s The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street received rave reviews here but so far the Americans have [...]
Literary Life
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Tagline of the year: for the forthcoming paperback of Jason Goodwin’s The Snake Stone, featuring a sleuth called Yashim: ‘The Ottoman detective may be a eunuch - but he’s not missing anything.’
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Most obvious put-down of the year: Charles Nicholl’s The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street received rave reviews here but so far the Americans have [...]
Literary Life
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Tagline of the year: for the forthcoming paperback of Jason Goodwin’s The Snake Stone, featuring a sleuth called Yashim: ‘The Ottoman detective may be a eunuch - but he’s not missing anything.’
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Most obvious put-down of the year: Charles Nicholl’s The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street received rave reviews here but so far the Americans have [...]
Literary Life
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Tagline of the year: for the forthcoming paperback of Jason Goodwin’s The Snake Stone, featuring a sleuth called Yashim: ‘The Ottoman detective may be a eunuch - but he’s not missing anything.’
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Most obvious put-down of the year: Charles Nicholl’s The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street received rave reviews here but so far the Americans have [...]
