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- Victoria's Secret: The TV drama that lifts the lid on Queen Victoria's lusty affairs (Daily Mail)
The history books portray her as a symbol of moral rectitude with her mind closed to all pleasure. But the real Victoria, as a fascinating Channel 4 film reveals, was hot-blooded woman with a high libido.
- Author Gowdy wins Trillium Book Award (Toronto Star)
Barbara Gowdy's gripping novel Helpless , which incited controversy in some quarters for its sympathetic portrayal of a man who abducts a young girl, is the winner of the $20,000 English-language Trillium Book Award.
- Water World (Boston Globe)
DISTANCE FROM BOSTON: 61 miles POPULATION: 86,000 WEBSITE: warwickri.gov ODD FACT: In the mid-19th century, textile mill owner Robert Knight saw images of fruit painted on bolts of his cloth sold in a friend's shop, bought the idea, and in 1871, one year after Congress passed the country's first trademark laws, Knight received patent 418 for his new brand: Fruit ...
- U.S. poet laureate is a fitting role for a Fairfax teacher - Marin Independent Journal
HAVING YOUR name on a short list of literary honorees that includes Robert Frost and Robert Penn Warren can be heady. But Fairfax's Kay Ryan appears to find the limelight that comes with being named U.S. poet laureate much brighter than that to which ...
- Cirque du So Gay! - Queensland Pride
Cirque du So Gay!Queensland Pride, Australia - 21 hours agoThe gay Circus website claims that "expressiveness, sensuality and poetry will fuse … achieving an up-to-date, modern and attractive aesthetic. ...
- Yoko Ono owns the remix - AfterEllen.com
Yoko Ono owns the remixAfterEllen.com - 2 hours agoIt sets her inspiring, articulate poetry (“Think peace, act peace, spread peace”) against a driving electronic rhythm mixed with the original chorus of “All ...
- The write stuff - WalesOnline
The write stuffWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 13 hours agoOther activities include poetry and short stories for children and adults written by members. Polly Davies, secretary of the group, said: “Those who wish to ...
- "Man on Wire": An enthralling documentary - San Jose Mercury News
"Man on Wire": An enthralling documentarySan Jose Mercury News, USA - 5 hours ago... York Police Department sergeant who recounted Petit's act of physical poetry in dry press-conference prose, would more aptly be described as dancing. ...
- Louise Erdrich: Secrets in the Indian file (Independent)
Of all the fictional hamlets American writers have planted, from William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County to Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon, the most complex, luminous place yet might be a little town called Argus, North Dakota. Since she first introduced the town in Love Medicine (1984), Louise Erdrich has gone back to it continually, conjuring the reservation it abuts, the love affairs which ...
- Going A Bit Woodcraft Folk - Guardian Unlimited
Peering through binoculars from its vantage point in the bushes beside Italy's Viennese training base earlier today, the Fiver was able to read the papers on a nearby newsstand. One reported that Luca Toni looked tired, while another declared its ...
- Club News (Lowell Sun)
BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSTORE: All clubs meet at 235 Daniel Webster Hwy., Nashua, N.H.: American Girl Group, second Mon. each month, 6:30 p.m.; Positronic Brains Sci-Fi Readers, third Tues. each month, 8 p.
- Reviewed by Alexandra Fuller - Washington Post
Reviewed by Alexandra FullerWashington Post, United States - 21 minutes agoThe martyrdom of Saro-Wiwa is a challenge to writers who find themselves in the midst of gross injustice to abandon the subtleties of fiction and poetry. ...
- Art Explores the Science of the Very Small - Voice of San Diego
Art Explores the Science of the Very SmallVoice of San Diego, CA - 38 minutes agoViewers can watch and listen to looping poetry videos about a nano-infused future installed in iPod Nanos. The bespectacled woman on the screen is set in ...
- Learning a foreign language integral to future success (Independent Florida Alligator)
There’s a lot of advice I could give you about the next four years of your life. There’s a ton of stuff I could tell you that you should or shouldn’t do and a mass of truisms I could throw at you about how important education is or whatever. I’m sure you’ve heard it all before.
- Mick Hucknall: Why I quit Simply Red for the blues - Daily Mail
Daily MailMick Hucknall: Why I quit Simply Red for the bluesDaily Mail, UK - 3 hours agoHe sang with a twisted sorrow that was more like Irish poetry, so he never quite fitted in. He came along just before Motown, so he never quite got into ...
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