In her 1926 essay on "Impassioned Prose," Virginia Woolf declared that Thomas De Quincey was "an exception and a solitary." Subsequent readers have often agreed that he defies categorization. From the beginning of his writing career, De Quincey enchanted...
In her 1926 essay on "Impassioned Prose," Virginia Woolf declared that Thomas De Quincey was "an exception and a solitary." Subsequent readers have often agreed that he defies categorization. From the beginning of his writing career, De Quincey enchanted...
Best known as the author of the Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1822), Thomas De Quincey was an innovative master of English prose style whose importance has been eclipsed by the modern tendency to consider poetry the major Romantic genre, as well...
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Hail Caesar 09/08/2002: 678 words, approx. 2 pages
Hail Caesar, comedy's living legend As funnyman turns 80, he looks back at a life full of laughter and pain By BOB THOMAS Associated Press Sunday, September 8, 2002 Beverly Hills, Calif. -- Sid Caesar, who turns 80 today, hasn't...
Rendering Caesar Et Tu Brute? A Short History of Political Murder By Greg Woolf Harvard University Press 224 pages, $19.95 What might distinguish assassination from an ordinary offing is that its victim has a bodyguard. If so, the violent incident on March 15,...
A Kentucky man who was playing slot machines at the Caesars Indiana casino claims he sat in a chair soaked with urine left by a gambler who had just exited the seat.Floyd Kibiloski, 60, of Fern Creek, Ky., filed a complaint with the Indiana Gaming...
The tofu had been cooked in meat juices! The busy store went quiet. Three vegetarians—or were they meat-eaters who happen to like fermented soy products?—anxiously, embarrassedly shifted out of the market's well-groomed lines to return their lunches. The chef begged the buffet patrons to put...
