The French author Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954) was concerned with feminine independence in experiencing the joys and sorrows of love. She succeeded in translating a delicate sensibility into ...
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No other writer appears to have told so much about herself as Colette, to have plundered so markedly her own life in each of its stages in order to create her different fictional aliases: Claudine, Re...
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The street lights still worked. No one had to worry about mold or rotting timber. And there wasn't a FEMA trailer in sight. The scene late Sunday night in San Diego seemed entirely normal for a cit...
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The street lights still worked. No one had to worry about mold or rotting timber. And there wasn't a FEMA trailer in sight. The scene late Sunday night in San Diego seemed entirely normal for a cit...
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For Japanese icon Toshiro Mifune, the movie camera always acted as his portal to new worlds.But his trek to stardom wasn't easy. As a war veteran in 1945, he wandered the bombed-out streets of Toky...
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