![]() "Though not my favorite Austen, I have watched this movie again and again and I appreciate it more with each viewing. ![]() I know I will watch it again and again, just as I read the book again and again." I am very much looking forward to owning this video. More importantly, her Mary Crawford is true to Austen, and with my modern sensibilities, I liked her very much. On the other hand, the actress who plays Mary Crawford is beautiful but her looks are almost spoiled by the awful (yet historically accurate) wig she is made to wear. She uses her looks to portray the Fanny I imagined the Fanny who is the antithesis of Elizabeth Bennet. She is not movie star beautiful, but she has the eyes and complexion of a nineteeth century doll. The actress who plays Fanny Price is especially interesting. At first I was not impressed, but I kept watching it because I am such a Jane Austen fan. ![]() ![]() I saw it on television during a Jane Austen marathon about 5 years ago, and have been hoping to find this video ever since. For it is not a glossy big-screen-adaption which trades Jane Austen's genius for something else. "This version of Mansfield Park is worth 5 stars to me, but it will not appeal to everyone. ![]()
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![]() ![]() There were also strong elements of Annihilation and Resident Evil. PANDORUM isn't the only source material this is borrowing from. This amazing film starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster is eerily similar to this book - except much better executed. Together he and the little girl find other crew members who have survived, and they try to piece together what happened to the ship and how they can fix it.Įver hear of the film PANDORUM? I highly recommend it. ![]() Following the little girl, chasing the heat, always seeking water, food and clothes (stripped off the dead bodies of less fortunate crew members), the narrator has no idea what is really going on. Disoriented, with no knowledge of his name or his history, our naked narrator flees from the various monsters and machines on the ship which seek to kill him. Our narrator emerges from an amniotic sac, awakened by a little girl, who urges him to hurry. Traveling through space for hundreds if not thousands of years, the passengers kept in cryosleep. I fully expected this book to be awesome, and I was disappointed.Ī ship is sent from Earth to colonize a new planet. ![]() ![]() In opening remarks, Leibovitz commented on Steinem’s influence: “Gloria said there’s not enough imagery of women in art that shows us as whole human beings. Now, that heaviness seems to have lifted from their eyes and their bodies open, like the Serena Williams shot in which she is lunging like a warrior, stripped of glamour and pretense. The women appeared more guarded and uncertain, arms crossed and stern faces. ![]() ![]() Earlier images reflected their time – the 90’s – the Bush administration, war and generally low morale. ![]() Women’s voices have strengthened over the last 15 years, and it shows. ![]() Yet, compared to the 1999 images, these new portraits feel empowered. In an essay from the first series’ book, which featured photos of women in politics (Hillary Clinton), artists (Patti Smith) and non-celebrities like coal miners, Sontag wrote: “This is what women are now, as different, as varied, as heroic, as forlorn, as conventional, as unconventional as this.” As they still are in this 21st century exhibition, which includes portraits of Aung San Suu Kyi, Queen Elizabeth, Jane Goodall, Misty Copeland and Ms. The photographer with Gloria Steinem at the press preview for WOMEN: New Portraits ![]() ![]() ![]() The house may look respectable on the outside, but inside it's a literal and figurative mess: clutter on every surface, Impeachment: Now More Than Ever bumper stickers on the doors, cereal and takeout for dinner. A respectable job, Mary Jane's mother says. Shy, quiet, and bookish, she's glad when she lands a summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a local doctor. In 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying her family's subscription to the Broadway Showtunes of the Month record club. "I LOVED this novel.If you have ever sung along to a hit on the radio, in any decade, then you will devour Mary Jane at 45 rpm." -Nick HornbyĪlmost Famous meets Daisy Jones & The Six in this "delightful" (New York Times Book Review) novel about a fourteen-year-old girl's coming of age in 1970s Baltimore, caught between her straight-laced family and the progressive family she nannies for-who happen to be secretly hiding a famous rock star and his movie star wife for the summer. ![]() ![]() ![]() The year is 1984, set in the bleak future (despite the fact that it is now in the past). Oceania, ruled by a totalitarianism government, is at war with East Asia. ![]() Dispensing with CG and action/adventure allows for a more prominent examination of the harsh sociopolitical environments, which would have made Orwell proud, but prevents casual viewers from enjoying typical, over-the-top visual construction. The movie was photographed in and around London during the period of April – June 1984, the exact time and setting imagined by author George Orwell. Michael Radford’s version, released in 1984 itself, is perhaps the most notable due to the faithfulness in which it translates the weighty themes found in the book (first published in 1949). ![]() Ineteen Eighty-Four” is rarely adapted for the screen, especially in forms that don’t make use of heavy special effects or extensive artistic reworking. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "I literally got to the point of terrible sleep deprivation and had hallucinations in the middle of the night."īaby sleep isn't some novel parenting problem invented by chronically online millennials and Gen Z. Online baby sleep experts promised Alex something different. Following the old adage, "sleep when the baby sleeps," is nearly impossible when the baby isn't sleeping anywhere but on you. But online, there was no shortage of free advice from people claiming to be baby sleep experts or consultants. Exhausted and bleary-eyed, she went looking for solutions to ease the burden of constant sleep deprivation.Ī first-time mom who gave birth during the pandemic, Alex didn't have much of an in-person network to seek support from and turn to for advice. She didn't expect her son to be six months old and still not be able to sleep through the night. She knew a lack of sleep would be part of early parenting. But what she didn't expect was the barrage of motherhood-related content that would follow her postpartum, too.Īlex was caught off guard by the challenges of getting her baby to sleep. She also knew conversations online could negatively influence her expectations of birth. ![]() She knew all too well that once algorithms picked up on her pregnancy, that's the content she would see. got pregnant, she made a decision to retreat from the digital world as much as possible. ![]() ![]() ![]() 6 years later, Louise was awarded a Roald Dahl funny prize. ![]() In the year 2004, her fourth in the series, she topped the Best Sellers List for the New-York Time. Again, she was awarded a Printz Honor Book two years later. Louise Rennison was awarded a Nestle Smarties Book Prize for her first novel Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Frogging in the year 1999. Thus those childhood friends were able to recognize who they were in the book. Immediately after completing the book, Louise had forgotten to change the names in the book. Louise Rennison used the real names of people from her past. Her very first novel was published in the year 1999 and became an international best seller. She then began writing a newspaper column, and in this column, Louise wrote whatever pleased her. Louise Rennison went on tour performing this book and later on BBC did a special on the book. Her very first career success was when, Stevie Wonder Felt My Face, a one-woman biographical show became an instant hit. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He returned to Concorde after two years with his book, Walden, but not many showed an interest in it, so he spent the next nine years writing seven full drafts before trying to publish it. He gave a lecture and was imprisoned briefly for not paying his poll tax, but mostly he wrote a book as a memorial to a river trip he had taken with his brother, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. While at Walden, Thoreau did an incredible amount of reading and writing, yet he also spent much time wandering in nature and absorbing it. At the age of 28, in 1845, wanting to write his first book, he went to Walden pond and built his cabin on land owned by Emerson. He worked for several years as a surveyor, and making pencils with his father. ![]() He and his brother taught school for a while, but in 1842, John cut himself while shaving and died of lockjaw in his brother's arms, an untimely death which traumatized the 25 year old Henry. Thoreau grew up very close to his older brother John, who taught school to help pay for Henry's tuition at Harvard. One of his first memories was of staying awake at night 'looking through the stars to see if I could see God behind them.' One might say he never stopped looking into nature for ultimate Truth. He was a complex man of many talents who worked hard to shape his craft and his life, seeing little difference between them. Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() ![]() PST using tv demand data from Parrot Analytics for Long Way Round inīrazil. 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Of course, I merely extrapolated the status quo. ![]() That would be about triple the number of SOV commuters that we have now. With an Single Occupancy Vehicle (SOV) mode share of 80 percent, that’s 520 million people commuting alone by car. My gut reaction to the title, One Billion Americans, was, “Do you really think it’s a good idea to have many more people who are like us?” Assuming a workforce participation rate of 65 percent, that is a workforce of 650 million. Yglesias published an e-book, The Rent is Too Damned High, which might be described as an early YIMBY manifesto. Then, just as now, Matt Yglesias is in many ways best characterized as a neo-liberal. ![]() I started reading his commentary when he worked for the Center for American Progress. I am a long-time reader of Matt Yglesias. Reviewed: Matthew Yglesias, One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger (New York: Portfolio, 2020). ![]() |