“Water for Elephants” is the latest in a string of musicals to close amid tough times for Broadway, joining in the company of “The Notebook,” “Lempicka,” “The Heart of Rock and Roll” and “The Who’s ...
Although Holden thinks lots of things are funny, he hasn’t much sense of humor; he has the deadpan literalness and the all-or-nothing combativeness of the passionate adolescent. Salinger’s use ...
Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its ever so little scar. . . . Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. As we become permanent drunkards by so many ...
On the other hand, the tone of the manuscript is sharply subjective. The title of chapter I, "My Eagle," with its sudden symbolism, jolts the reader into an emotional dimension which is in stark ...
I would translate verse 42 as “those who seem to rule over the Gentiles exercise dominion over them”. Here are some other versions, in approximate descending order of date and literalness: Literal ...
Those lapses conspire to sabotage Time The Conqueror – notably the wince-inducing literalness of “The Drums Of War” (“Why is impeachment not on the table?/We better stop them while we are ...
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: The personification of death is not the grim reaper, nor a pale horseman, nor an Irish banshee, but a parrot. The parrot — all right, a macaw, if we ...
More: The Eagles deploy pristine sound, dazzling visuals at Vegas Sphere kickoff concert: Review Aside from the opening “One More Time” – obviously chosen for its literalness – from ELO ...