Word: prizes
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...whose collections also include Miles Davis and the Go-Go's (well, maybe not the Go-Go's). The day I walked into my town's music store and bought both the new Indigo Girls album and the Beastie Boys' "Ill Communications," the clerk told me I won the prize for breadth of taste, and I knew I'd made a breakthrough. That said, there was something disingenuous in my suddenly picking out the Beastie Boys at age 16. As an established member of the Indigo-Girls-and-Ani-DiFranco crowd, I was fully aware of and attracted...
...ROSETTA She is the teenager who will do anything to get any job, however menial. Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne's dour Belgian drama earned the top prize at Cannes this year by being both grinding in its bleakness and inspiring in its intensity. Emilie Dequenne plays Rosetta with a blank fury that suggests a medieval saint or a modern assassin...
BORN May 21, 1921 1948-53 Develops first Soviet H-bomb 1957-74 Speaks against dangers of nuclear testing 1975 Wins Nobel Prize for Peace 1980 Banished to Gorky for his protests 1986 Exile ended 1989 Dies in Moscow...
Readers of Frank McCourt's Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, Angela's Ashes, may have wondered from whence the title of the book came. Upon seeing the film, it becomes clear that the title refers to the ashes that grow on the end of the cigarettes that Angela, McCourt's mother, smokes continuously as she worries her way through poverty, saddled with several children and an alcoholic husband who can't seem to hold...
...almost feel that if the Nobel Prize were conferred on Jacques Derrida, he'd start talking like Bill Cosby on 'Picture Pages.' Laureates become the public faces of literature, and they start acting like publicizers instead of writers and scholars: what results can be something as banal and cliche-ridden as Nadine Gordimer's regrettable new release, Living in Hope and History...