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...Conqueror" and "Best Intentions") was chosen by Allende to write and direct "The House of the Spirits." August described adapting Allende's dense novel as "a bit like being a boy in a candy shop," but he seems to have chosen all the wrong pieces for this feature-length film...
...members of his British navy Arctic expedition, sent to find the Northwest Passage. Vollmann relates that event to a glum romance in present time between one of the author's fictional alter egos, whom he calls Captain Subzero, and a young, deaf Inuit woman named Reepah. Vollmann insists at length that Subzero, an & Arctic tourist who, as Vollmann himself did, makes a two-week trek to the north magnetic pole, is a modern counterpart of Franklin. Further and sillier, he imagines that Reepah bears some resemblance (or shows some useful contrast) to Franklin's wife Lady Jane...
Anyone with a bicycle (which can be rented cheaply in all of the towns) and a good pair of legs can bicycle the length of the island along wooded roads and bike paths. The island's crowning glory is a sunset seen from the cliffs at Gay Head over a plateful of fried clams...
...editorial on teaching fellows opened with an imitation of a math teacher with an East Asian accent (Carcurus....hunh hunh.....that's cool). A piece about the Harvard-Radcliffe Students for Choice compared the organization's officers to characters from "Beverly Hills 90210" and spent a quarter of its length parodying typographical errors in the group's newsletter (hunh hunh.... 90210 is cool...
Recent studies have confirmed that AZT does not actually add length to the life of asymptomatic patients, but may postpone the onset of the disease for a small amount of time, Testa said...