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Students receive a drop of 'aha'
"Aha moments" are the best thing about reading good literature. Those moments occur when connections are made, memories are stirred and the intellect is stimulated. I see these moments every day in the classroom, and I cherish them. English class is...Tags: Poetry, The Herald-Mail
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PASSINGS: Doris Betts, Norman Fruman, Stanley R. Resor, Greg Ham, Maersk Mc-Kinney Moeller
Doris Betts
Southern author of short stories, novels
Doris Betts, 79, a novelist and writing teacher best known for short stories and novels that evoke the geography and mores of the South, died of lung cancer Saturday at her home in Pittsboro, N.C.,...Tags: Obituaries, Washington, DC, Companies and Corporations, Los Angeles Times, England
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Fashion News: Madonna and Lourdes' Material Girl adds new stuff
All The RageMadonna and Lourdes Leon's Material Girl adds beauty products, among other things.... -
Pleasure and pain
In his “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote, “Water, water, every where . . . Nor any drop to drink” to explain the thirst of the ancient sea-going man (part II, stanza 9). The story grows old with...Tags: Human Body, Salt
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'The Vampire Archives,' edited by Otto Penzler
The Vampire Archives
The Most Complete Volume
of Vampire Tales Ever Published
Edited and with an Introduction
by Otto Penzler
Vintage: 1034 pp., $25 paper
"You have heard, no doubt, of the appalling superstition that prevails in Upper and Lower...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Neck, Ray Bradbury, Hamburgers, Breast
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Coming to the Festival of Books: Matthew Zapruder
Jacket CopyPoet Matthew Zapruder talks about writing about high culture and low culture. He'll be at the Festival of Books Sunday.... -
Sleep where the legends slept in grand old California hotels
Special to the Los Angeles Times"Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole," British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." And, I might add, place to place. There's something special about bedding down where Albert Einstein, Marilyn...Tags: California, Boris Karloff, Thomas Edison, Building Material, Music Theater
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'Operation Bite Back' by Dean Kuipers
Operation Bite Back Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness Dean Kuipers Bloomsbury: 320 pp., $25 In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's epic poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," a ship strays into uncharted waters and an albatross appears out of the...Tags: Animals, California, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Wildlife, Crimes
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Man of mud
By Nick Owchar
Why do so many monsters live in Victorian London? Was there something toxic in the Thames (Spenser probably wouldn't call it "sweet" if he could have seen it then -- or now) or in the fog that, as the Environmental Protection Agency points...Tags: Adolf Hitler, Steven Spielberg, Heroism, Philosophy, Prague (Czech Republic)
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A complex relationship with 'King Lear'
Special to The TimesOctober 24, 2007 With this piece, we introduce a series of occasional articles in which contemporary writers look back at classic works of literature. Here, Jack Lynch, the author of "Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a...Tags: Gloucester (Gloucester, Virginia), History, Arts and Culture, Literature, Rutgers University
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'Serenity'
Times Staff WriterTo the uninitiated, "Serenity" may seem like just another "Star Trek" knockoff, but to so easily dismiss writer Joss Whedon's feature directing debut, a continuation of his short-lived 2002 sci-fi western TV series "Firefly," would be to miss out on a...Tags: Science Fiction (genre), Syfy (tv network), Movies, Alan Tudyk, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (tv program)
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'Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life' by Edna O'Brien
Happy the poet whose life and work remain so well-remembered that his name becomes an adjective.
George Gordon Byron, sixth baron of that title, is certainly a poet who stands in that rarefied company, though it's hard to believe that even the linguistic...Tags: Death, Poetry, Biography (genre), William Faulkner, James Joyce
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