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In Concert
Today Maggie Sansone Rams Head Tavern, 33 West St., Annapolis. 410-268-4545 or ramsheadtavern.com. Wu-Tang Clan The 9:30 Club, 815 V St. N.W., Washington. 800-955-5566 or tickets.com. Tomorrow American Diary, Brighter Shades, Everlove Recher...Tags: Popular Music, Music Theater, Wet 'n' Wild, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Motor Racing
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Translating the 150,000-word sentence in Mathias Enard's 'Zone'
Chicago TribuneMove over, James Joyce and all the other pretenders. The new owner of the record for the longest sentence in published literature is Mathias Enard for his 517-page French novel Zone. In fact, the entire novel, except for a few pages of flashbacks, is... -
Conor Cruise O'Brien dies at 91; Irish author became a prominent diplomat
Conor Cruise O'Brien, a leading Irish author, politician and diplomat who rose to international prominence while leading a United Nations mission in the troubled Congo and remained an independent, often contrarian thinker amid religious strife of his...Tags: Philosophy, Abba Eban, Dining and Drinking, Books and Magazines, Graham Greene
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The longest literary sentence
Tribune reporterMove over, James Joyce and all the other pretenders. The new owner of the record for the longest sentence in published literature is Mathias Enard for his 517-page French novel "Zone." In fact, the entire novel, except for a few pages of flashbacks, is...Tags: Jonathan Coe
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The problem is with the test
The spirit of creativity is far removed from the FCAT. The FCAT is a standardized test. To no one's surprise, preparing for this test has led to standardized answers. The dare to be creative has been stymied by the necessity of catering to The FCAT...Tags: Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, William Shakespeare, William Faulkner, School Examinations
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Theater: Board to consider ways to save canceled 2009 Carbonell Awards
Special CorrespondentThere's a slim chance that the closing notice for the Carbonell Awards may be rescinded on Friday. Far more drama has raged off stage than on in South Florida since the board of directors canceled the 2009 program two weeks ago. Board members wanted more...Tags: Music Theater, Elmer Rice, GableStage, Neil Simon, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida)
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Hip city living by the water
Special to The Baltimore SunOne sunny day two summers ago, as Yvonne Hardy-Phillips and her husband, Oliver, shopped for groceries at Whole Foods Market in Harbor East, something happened that took the couple and other store patrons by surprise. From out of the gourmet cheese aisle...Tags: Mount Vernon, Clothing and Textiles Industry, National Government, Fells Point, Seafood and Fishing Industry
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Pierce J. Flanigan III
Pierce John Flanigan III, president of his family's transportation infrastructure business who advised governors and mayors, died Wednesday of a brain hemorrhage in Chicago while on a business trip. The Harbor East resident was 66. Mr. Flanigan mixed a...Tags: Death and Dying, National Government, Government, Adlai Stevenson, Bolton Hill
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Approach with caution
JUST imagine the canon of Western literature without damaged children.
Think "Call It Sleep," "The Book of Daniel," "See: Under Love," just for starters. The history of the novel has been home to a primary school of sensitive and fragile child...Tags: Illnesses, Book, Mental Illness, Family, Bruno Schulz
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Top 5 theater shows this fall
South Florida Sun-Sentinel1776 (Through - Nov. 2) and Les Misérables (Mar. 4-April 5), Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre in Coral Gables. Arguably the finest producer of musicals in Miami-Dade and Broward counties takes a huge fiscal chance offering two big-budget, epic...Tags: Elmer Rice, Music Theater, Caldwell Theatre, Coral Gables, Wine, Beer, and Spirits
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'How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken' by Daniel Mendelsohn
How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken
Essays
Daniel Mendelsohn
Harper: 456 pp., $26.95
HERE, among the flight of winged darts that pierce the critical essays of Daniel Mendelsohn:
Quentin Tarantino is "incapable of saying anything about...Tags: Sylvia Plath, Sofia Coppola, Euripides, Minority Groups, Vladimir Nabokov
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True New Yorker
About two years ago, when rats came down from a lowquat tree and began scratching around and scuttling around in the crawl space beneath our Venice home, I made my wife laugh (and wince) by reading to her from Joseph Mitchell's classic 1944 New Yorker...Tags: Natural Disasters, Archimedes, Jane Austen, Bullfighting, Natural Resources
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