On August 12, 1915 the Sandringham Company - a group of volunteers from King George V's royal estate - advanced into withering enemy fire during the disastrous Gallipoli campaign and were never seen again. Eyewitnesses spoke of a strange ...
Playing With the Edge: The Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe (1995), Arthur Coleman Danto In 1989, the Corcoran Gallery, a prestigious museum in the nation's capital, capitulated to the bigotry of the then ascendant religious right ...
Buckle on your swash me hearties, the pirate ship is heaving into view. Those on board include dashing brigands, skulking villains, scantily clad harem beauties, a lecherous pasha and various maidens in distress. If you want to dress ...
It's a pity the new TNT miniseries "Nuremberg", adapted from Joseph Persico's nonfiction novel, doesn't sustain the queasy ambiguity of its first few minutes. Just surrendered Hermann Goering (Brian Cox) is greeted warmly by his American captors and joins ...
Suggested reading: Money Matters: Consequences of Campaign Finance Reform in House Elections (1999), Robert K. Goidel The Money Chase: Congressional Campaign Finance Reform (1990), David B. Magleby The night before the Democratic Party ...
Is it possible that anybody hasn't heard the lyric: I knew a man Bojangles/And he danced for you/In worn out shoes... ? It's a terrific song (Mr. Bojangles) that has been recorded by everyone from Bob Dylan to ...
Cervantes' great (and voluminous) novel, Don Quixote de la Mancha, with its captivatingly eccentric hero, witty satire, and literate wisdom, has held readers' attention for four centuries. It contrasts the grand against the mundane, the fantastic against the practical, ...
Our review of the 2003 Broadway production with Vanessa Redgrave For Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night was an act of contrition and a personal confrontation with his tumultuous family history. ...
The Thin Blue Line - Errol Morris's documentary about Randall Dale Adams, the man wrongly convicted of murdering a Dallas policeman in 1976 - may be the only film in history instrumental in freeing an innocent man from death ...
PBS stations, Sundays, March 29 2009 through April 26, 2009, 9:00 pm ET/PT. Adapted by Andrew Davies Directed by Dearbhla Walsh, Adam Smith, Diarmuid Lawrence BBC/WGBH Boston co-production http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/littledorrit/index.html DVD available for purchase A new, noteworthy and ...
