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...death to great, gothic effect. But she's hardly the first novelist to "go there," as the kids say. Leo Tolstoy, Robert Graves, Nikos Kazantzakis and Norman Mailer, to name a few, all took a run at Jesus, to say nothing of the eyebrow-raising suggestions found in The Da Vinci Code. One James BeauSeigneur has authored a lively series of novels about a reconstituted Jesus who was cloned from cells found in the Shroud of Turin and who does battle with Yahweh for the fate of all mankind. So all those with feathers to ruffle have probably already...
...decided to consult the experts. I put in a call to the Home for Retired Racial Stereotypes in a black section of Hollywood. The Kingfish answered. "Holy mack'rul dere, Andy, somebody wants to talk 'bout dis 'ere Ebonics. Could you or Tonto tell Buckwheat come to da phone? He de resident expert...
...Maus” series about the Holocaust, for instance, won a Pulitzer Prize. It is unlikely that the lack of widespread acceptance of graphic novels is due to inferior writing—indeed, it seems unlikely that readers of ludicrously popular “The Da Vinci Code” were drawn in by its prose or character development...
...figures in the two frames face each other. One is a study of sullen little girl rendered in hasty brushstrokes. The other, a delicately sketched Renaissance noblewoman, is a copy of a drawing attributed to Leonardo Da Vinci. At first glance, these two works seem to have little in common.But Stephan Wolohojian, professor of history of art and architecture and a curator of the “Degas at Harvard” exhibit, can point out exactly why these two works are hanging side by side. It’s not simply that both were created by Edgar Degas during...
...missed with the American version. With all due respect to Steve Carell, who is very funny in almost everything he does, the U.S. “Office” just isn’t very funny. The whole experience is like watching a version of “Da Ali G Show” starring James Rebhorn...