![]() ![]() ![]() Jieyu wants revenge on Jin, for publicly dumping her in favor of a schoolgirl. Fenyu, a young widow who has just arrived from Northeast China (aka Manchuria) where the Japanese are making incursions, is staying at the country home of Madam Du, her grand-aunt.Īt a glitzy fund-raiser for refugees thrown by Hudong Bank chairwoman Mo Jieyu at Yifan's nightclub, Jieyu, an old friend of Yifan who has never succumbed to his advances, asks him to rob Beibei, the 16-year-old fiancée of tycoon Jin Zhihuan, of her virginity. Shanghai, September 1931: Wealthy businessman and playboy seducer Xie Yifan is introduced to his uncle's granddaughter, Du Fenyu, when his maternal grandmother, Du Ruixue, arrives at his apartment one day. The film screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, and the 2012 Busan International Film Festival. This version is set in 1930s Shanghai and stars South Korean actor Jang Dong-gun and Chinese actresses Zhang Ziyi and Cecilia Cheung. The novel has been adapted numerous times, including Les Liaisons dangereuses, an adaptation by Roger Vadim (1959), the eponymous Hollywood film (1988), Valmont (1989), Cruel Intentions (1999), and Untold Scandal from South Korea (2003). Dangerous Liaisons ( Chinese: 危險關係) is a 2012 Chinese period romance drama film by Hur Jin-ho loosely based on the 1782 novel with the same title by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. ![]()
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![]() Venetia, a lonely girl who's one true love, Captain Fox, is heartbroken and angry. This was my least favorite story in the collection, probably because the dialect was rather difficult to read and get into. I had to read it a bit slower to fully understand what was going on, but in the end the tale was very much like a classic folk tale of fairy mischief. "On Lickerish Hill" is told in an amusing, but sometimes confusing, Suffolk dialect. ![]() This piece was filled with humorous jabs at the old culture, and it indeed was fun to see Strange again. ![]() They take a trip to Grace Adieu, where a few odd things happen. This story was short and featured a cameo by Jonathan Strange and his lovely wife, Arabella. No, it is unseemly for a lady to do magic. Its characters are, on the surface, three simple ladies of the times, that is to say that they're quiet, subservient, obedient, perfect in their manners, ignorant, and occasionally witty, but never clever. ![]() "The Ladies of Grace Adieu" is the title story from this collection. This anthology features fairy tales, but not in the traditional setting. She is a very clever writer, writing in the style of Charles Dickens and Jane Austen, and her words are always a delight to read. Clarke is the author of one of my favorite books, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (reviewed here). The Ladies of Grace Adieu is a collection of seven short stories, written by Susanna Clarke. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dan Millman: My dad's got plenty of cash, school's kind of a breeze, I get straight A's. Dan Millman: What does happy have to do with anything? Socrates: Everything. Socrates: Are you happy? You said I could ask you anything. Socrates: There's a lot you'd have to know before you could understand what you saw. Dan Millman: Yeah? What's the difference? Socrates: You know how to clean a windshield, right? Dan Millman: Yeah. ![]() Socrates: And you think more than you know. Coach Garrick: Sorry doesn't mean anything.ĭan Millman: I know more than you think. You practice gymnastics, I practice everything!ĭialogue Dan Millman: You know you got two different shoes on, right? Socrates: One's a little newer than the other.ĭan Millman: Sorry, Coach.Do you know what's the difference between me and you?. ![]() The sad thing is: most people don't live at all. The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination. ![]() ![]() I read this book with the lights on after chapter 1. What I liked about this book :This book had a lot of suspense and was definitely a page turner. Can she elude the cops ,shake off her friends growing questions and morbid curiosity and get away with it all while staying under the roof of the head cop in charge? You have to read to this book to find out. The only problem is all killers even Ryann's favorite serial killers and murderers the greats as she calls them make mistakes and she's no different. Ryann picks up the worst habit you possibly can pick up she decides murdering people is a good way to keep life interesting and to know that all the people around her even those she closest to her that no one would ever suspect her. Ryann would tell you that she is your average teenager just looking for something more to prove herself and wants everyone especially her dad to see her as more than just the good girl with good grades on the cheerleading team. Nothing ever happens in her small town and she's constantly searching for something to do. Ryann has and older sister who ignores her, a mom who works full time at a diner,a close circle of friends ,good grades and secure spot on the cheerleading team. ![]() What this book is about :R yann is a teenager whose dad is a cop she's always been fascinated by his work and the criminals he brings to justice. ![]() This book was provided to me for free by NetGalley in exchange for a review on this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The World Socialist Web Site published detailed refutations of the numerous falsifications contained in the Times project, and interviewed leading historians of the United States. It presents and interprets American history entirely through the prism of race and racial conflict. The Times wrote that its project intended to “reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.” It included not only a special magazine edition that was freely distributed in hundreds of thousands of copies to schools and museums nationally, but a proposed teaching curriculum for teachers to use in their classrooms.ĭespite the pretense of establishing the United States’ “true” foundation, the 1619 Project is a politically motivated falsification of history. In August, 2019, the New York Times launched its “1619 Project,” marking the 400th anniversary of the initial arrival of 20 African slaves at Point Comfort in Virginia, a British colony in North America. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book features an assortment of characters, some good, some awful, and some indifferent. It is set in an almost unimaginably distant future when the Sun has dimmed to red, magic has returned, and civilization is spent and withered. Jack Vance did not create the dying earth setting–credit for that concept lies with several Romantic poets and authors–but he assuredly coined the term with the publication of his first book, The Dying Earth (1950). Explicitly, it will “constrict the subject in a pore some forty-five miles below the surface of the earth.” I knew the D&D magic system had been lifted from Vance, but I had to chuckle at such a blatant steal. Step forward a year or two and imagine my surprise when, reading The Eyes of the Overworld, Iucounu the Laughing Magician threatens the scoundrel Cugel the Clever with the spell of Forlorn Encystment. It seemed an oddly specific (and oddly-titled) spell, but who was I to question the wisdom of Robert Kuntz and James Ward? Under the section titled “The New Spells” in the chapter on Finnish mythology, was one called “Forlorn Incistment.” It allowed the caster to immediately bury, harmlessly, his target deep in the ground until released. The first roleplaying book I ever bought was the Gods, Demi-Gods & Heroes supplement for D&D. ![]() It was sometime during high school I’m sure, but an unapprehended brush with the story came several years earlier. ![]() I’m uncertain as to when I first read Jack Vance’s The Eyes of the Overworld (1966). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Their suggestions had to be reflective of things about the culture that people wanted to change." "It wasn't something that we would just go and implement for them," she says. ![]() For instance, how does Google ensure its overseas employees are, as they say, "Googley" enough - meaning entrepreneurial, scrappy and outside-the-box thinkers - whose voices will be heard back at headquarters?įor one, Sullivan implemented the company's charting tool, the Google-O-Meter, to gauge the popularity of employee suggestions, such as housing more doctors on site or bringing overseas employees to headquarters for a visit. "They care about those details even today." And that team spirit extends to ideas, which can surface from any employee without being filtered by layers of management.īut as the company grew into the $29.32 billion behemoth it is today, so did the cultural challenges, Sullivan says. Even the founders busied themselves with basic tasks such as keeping the cereal in the cafeteria fresh, she says. For example, Sullivan says while she helped outline the company's core values, she also pitched in to answer the phones. ![]() ![]() ![]() Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Between 15 he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. Scholars believe that he died on his fifty-second birthday, coinciding with St George’s Day.Īt the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. ![]() ![]() His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. ![]() ![]() ![]() Quickly recovering from a near-fatal mistake, I embraced Carolina heart and soul.Įxhibits C, D, E, maybe F: I didn’t know many first- or second-year UNC women, as none was admitted (other than nursing students) until ’66. Mom said Duke’s tuition exceeded our means. I redirected them to the circle’s North Carolina arc, but foolishly pointed to … Durham. As a lawyer and teacher, I offer evidence proving mistakes in judgment that warrant humility.Įxhibit A: I am not a Tar Heel born, though I was born again when I came to Carolina in ’67.Įxhibit B: To discuss college options, my folks drew a circle around our Georgia home large enough to include Florida U attended by Dad’s family. ![]() If I applied for admission now, UNC would wish me “good luck” elsewhere. In contrast, I have much to be humble about. ![]() My “Carolina Story” includes serving on this board with members and staff who have earned the right to feel pride in your many good works. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Writers: Stephen Hauser, Paul Attanasio (screenplay) Kurt Wimmer (adaptation) Michael Crichton (novel) And it’s clear this is an expensive movie, with a lot of the money going to the sets: a habitat for the explorers, and a huge spaceship of unknown origin that contains an alien sphere. Composer Elliot Goldenthal conjures wonder in the fashion of “2001” and “Contact” and fear in the nature of “The Abyss” and “Event Horizon” – both of which hit theaters first but post-date the “Sphere” novel.Īdam Greenberg’s underwater cinematography complements Goldenthal’s score with its own strange, dark beauty. Setting the story aside for a moment, the film is a work of art. ![]() ![]() Goldenthal is goldenĮven though I think a theoretical 3-hour cut of director Barry Levinson’s film would be a masterpiece, I am a “Sphere” apologist even given its actual state. ![]() This Michael Crichton adaptation had little chance of being a mainstream hit upon release, as it offers something to tick off everyone: It’s too long (2 hours, 14 minutes) if the story doesn’t hook you, it’s too short if it does hook you, it’s too dependent on Crichton’s 1987 novel if you haven’t read it, and it diverts too much from the book if you’re a fan. It’s been more than 20 years now, so I guess “Sphere” (1998) won’t become a cult classic. ![]() |