“A memorial is not a biography in stone. A memorial’s task is not to sum up a life, but to capture the essence of a life in a unified, powerful image.”
Tag: 07.04.12
Suspects Held In Theft Of Compostela’s Most Valuable Manuscript
“A former church caretaker, his wife, son and another woman have been arrested in connection with last year’s disappearance of a priceless medieval text from the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral in northwest Spain, police said on Wednesday. The Codex Calixtinus, a 12th century collection of sermons and liturgical passages [and music], vanished from a safe deposit box in the cathedral.”
A Dance Critic’s Passion For The Statue Of Liberty
Alastair Macaulay: “I don’t like to sit close to dancing in theaters: I have to feel the whole stage space around and above the dancers. It matters to me how even tiny effects of dancing can register in the depths and heights of a vast space. The marvel of Liberty is that her stance and her gesture radiate for miles. The emotion she generates keeps changing, according to angle, distance, time of day, weather and light.”
Our Ozzes, Our Selves: Why We Keep Repaving The Yellow Brick Road
“New books, movies, and plays keep spilling out of the perennial wellspring of Oz. Each reveals a facet of that fabled land – and of the generation that produces the work.”
Help Choose The Worst History Books In History!
“[The] History News Network … has announced that it would be celebrating the Fourth of July by … accepting nominations … for ‘history books that nobody should take seriously’.”
Fake Variety Editor Goes On A Campaign
“The hoaxer introduced himself — sort of — to entertainment journalists and insiders last week with the launch of www.peterbart.org, claiming he was the real Bart, gay and engaged to be married to Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly.”
Faulkner’s The Sound And The Fury To Be Published, As Intended, With Colored Ink
“The four sections of the book, which tells of the disintegration of a southern family, move back and forth through time. Faulkner had hoped to use different colours of ink to mark the sometimes-confusing chronological shifts.” Now, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the author’s death, the Folio Society is releasing a printing following Faulkner’s plan.
Film Censorship Increasing In Once-Liberal Lebanon
“With a new government dominated by allies of Hezbollah, long a proxy of Syria, censorship has been on the rise. Four new films have been banned this year – a record for the … censorship bureau … Intellectually and artistically, Beirut has long been freer than other places in the Middle East; some now fear that that is under threat as never before.”
BBC’s New Director General A Promising Choice
When George Entwistle was editor of the flagship BBC television program Newsnight, colleagues applauded him for “re-establishing [the show’s] reputation as a ‘significant place for political debate’. … Entwistle, it is said, had ‘a huge amount of energy, oodles of enthusiasm and was very hands-on’.”
British Comedian Eric Sykes Dead At 89
“Although he first came to fame as a writer for radio,” Sykes – who was fascinated by silence (and, cruel irony, ultimately went deaf) – fulfilled his ambition by writing and directing several films that were virtually wordless.” This in addition to being Britain’s most admired postwar comedy writer and having a brilliant career acting on stage and television – most notably in a long partnership with Hattie Jacques.