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- 6421: Dorothy Parker
- ... wit, and love" (Adams 519), together with an absolute foreknowledge of their futility. Love, especially, plays a major role as a theme of Parker's verse. Many poems are relating to love and loneliness or death as results of love. Parker once said of an actress in a review of a play that she "runs the gamut of emotions from A to B." The same could almost be applied to the ...
- 6422: David Belasco
- ... genre's best practitioner, and heappeared at the tail end of the melodrama tradition, as though it were his destiny to see the style out, and to bring Sensation Melodrama to its perfection and its death by overwhelming excess. Belasco became the epitome of the old-fashioned,bombastic,insensitive, commercial "Old Style" which young American experimentalists were determined to replace.
- 6423: Critical Biography On J. D. Salinger
- ... For Esme: with Love and Squalor," with a corporal named Clay shooting the head off a cat and constantly dwelling upon the senseless act. The relationship between Hemingway and Salinger would last until Hemingway's death in 1961. Despite having a personal relationship with Hemingway, according to Harold Bloom, " [Salinger's work actually] derives from F. Scott Fitzgerald (qtd. in "Salinger" SSC 2: 318)." Such a conclusion can be drawn for ...
- 6424: Cortes
- ... In 1541 Cortes went on the expedition to Algiers. This was unsuccessful and there he was shipwrecked. After this expedition the court neglected Cortes and he retired in a small estate near Seville till his death in 1547. He died at the age of 62.
- 6425: Comparison And Contrast Of Washington Irving And Edgar Allan
- ... movements in the hollow coffin. I heard them many, many days ago yet I dared now I dared not speak! And now tonight Ethelred ha! ha! the breaking of the hermit s door, and the death-cry of the dragon, and the clangor of the shield! say, rather, the rending of her coffin, and the grating of the iron hinges of her prison, and her struggles within the coppered archway of ...
- 6426: Christopher Columbus
- ... man of great and inventive genius. Columbus in today's perception is a grasping fortune hunter, an incompetent governor of the "New World" colonies, those fame to the Indians he "discovered" was plunder, servitude, and death. Columbus is like Hitler to a greater extent, in that he persecuted, and tried to progress his own (European) race, just like Hitler tried to persecute jews, and progress his own (Aryan) race. Environmentalists see ...
- 6427: Chistopher Reeves
- ... rights organizations, and the environment. Amnesty international, Lindbergh Foundation, and people for Creative Coalition, just to name a few. In nineteen eighty-seven Reeve went to Chile to demonstrate in support of some artists with death warrants. For his successful efforts he was awarded a special Obie Award in nineteen eighty-eight. In the years to come, he made several other contributions to other causes, some even involving the United Nations ...
- 6428: Charlie Chaplin 2
- ... escaped on its way to a slaughterhouse near where he lived. Charlie and other youngsters chased the sheep around, laughing and having fun. But when it was taken away, Charlie realized the sad finality of death and cried to his mother. That incident paved the way for the theme of Charlie s future filmmaking career. Comedy mixed with pathos made perfect sense to him. He was also an everyman character, a ...
- 6429: Bruce Lee
- ... Through these means and others, Bruce always strove to improve himself. Bruce Lee is the greatest martial artist to ever live. His life is not only inspiring, but also very interesting due to his untimely death. Through this extraordinary life Bruce Lee has and will continue to prove to be a good role model. This is due to his discipline, determination, and self- improvement. If one quote could sum up his ...
- 6430: Brian Piccolo: A Short Season
- ... disheartening piece of news. What was this piece of news, you might be asking yourself. The answer is in the book, "Brian Piccolo: A Short Season" by Jeannie Morris. This book traces the life and death of a superstar hwo had a dream. A dream to make his loving fans happy and to become a big name in the National Football League. With his friends and family, Brian will live on ...
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