Word: reals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Havel, 53, actually were an enemy of the society in which he grew up, it would be understandable. Long before he was singled out for his outspoken politics and insurrectionist art, he was subjected to discrimination because he was born to wealth. His father was a real estate developer. An even richer uncle owned hotels and the Barrandov movie studios, which remain the center of Czechoslovak filmmaking. One of his English-language translators, Czech emigre Vera Blackwell, has said, "If Czechoslovakia had remained primarily a capitalist society, Vaclav Havel would be just about the richest man in the country." Instead...
...them virile and the other literally dying in her arms. Whether Leimbach intends Hilary to be as dim-witted as she seems is immaterial. The trick finally works. Near the end, something dawns on Hilary that is not a truism. As Victor's imminent death begins to seem real to her, she realizes that he "has made it seem that the future of a relationship is not as important as I once imagined." It would be nice to hear Victor on whether dying is a price he willingly pays to teach Hilary about life. But she has the last...
...even deeper real-life influence on Beckett's work, scholars have suggested, came in 1938. As Beckett walked along a Paris street, a panhandler stabbed him in the chest, perforating a lung and narrowly missing his heart. When Beckett later asked why the attack happened, the assailant replied, "I don't know, sir." That glimpse of the random perils of existence may have confirmed Beckett's dark vision but did not initiate it. His novel Murphy, published the same year, depicts a destitute Irishman, living in London, who daydreams away his days in a rocking chair until a gas plant...
...gave rise to "the Jewish members of the GPU, the Capos, the thieves, speculators, informers," as Singer describes them in Enemies, a Love Story. Instead, characters are as reductive as in any old-time western. The good guys wear the Star of David; the bad guys wear swastikas. The real victim in these films is dramatic ambiguity, and the result is what critic Art Spiegelman has called "holokitsch...
...stride. Recently, he, his second wife, costume designer Myrna Colley-Lee, and their seven-year-old granddaughter E'Dena began to live part time on their 38-ft. ketch Sojourner, which is moored in the Caribbean. "When you live in the world of make-believe, you need something real," says Freeman. "I go sailing, I'm in the real world...