Index Arts & Entertainment Categories : Arts & Entertainment | Celebrities | Humanities | Humor | Movies | Music | Photography | Poetry Results 11 - 20 of 4838 The Columnist in the Mousetrap Author : Sam Vaknin I am a voracious reader of the most convoluted and lexiphanic texts - yet, there is one author I prefer to most. She gives me the greatest pleasure and leaves me tranquil and craving for more when I am through devouring one of her countless tomes. A philosopher of the mundane, a scholar of death, an exquisite chronicler of decay and decadence - she is Dame Agatha Christie. I spend as much time wondering what so mesmerizes me in her pulp fiction a... | Read more... Romantic Movies That’ll Make You Laugh Author : Nicole Dean Romance is serious business. Or is it? Which do you think your husband would choose if put to the test: a.) Watch the beautiful tearjerker movie, The Notebook b.) Do anything that doesn’t involve watching The Notebook My answer is easy. My husband would opt for a root canal rather than sitting through a movie like The Notebook or Terms of Endearment. Now don’t get me wrong. That doesn’t mean he’s not romantic. The man loves deeper than ... | Read more... Ten Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters Author : The Screenplay/Story Consultant TEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL SCREENWRITERS By Derek Rydall Founder, ScriptwriterCentral.com “Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of,” -- Unknown “Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones,” -- Benjamin Franklin Think of this as a quick-reference for instant inspiration – whe... | Read more... The Matrix Author : Sam Vaknin It is easy to confuse the concepts of "virtual reality" and a "computerized model of reality (simulation)". The former is a self-contained Universe, replete with its "laws of physics" and "logic". It can bear resemblance to the real world or not. It can be consistent or not. It can interact with the real world or not. In short, it is an arbitrary environment. In contrast, a model of reality must have a direct and strong relationship to the world.... | Read more... The Talented Mr. Ripley Author : Sam Vaknin "The Talented Mr. Ripley" is an Hitchcockian and blood-curdling study of the psychopath and his victims. At the centre of this masterpiece, set in the exquisitely decadent scapes of Italy, is a titanic encounter between Ripley, the aforementioned psychopath protagonist and young Greenleaf, a consummate narcissist. Ripley is a cartoonishly poor young adult whose overriding desire is to belong to a higher - or at least, richer - social class. Wh... | Read more... Why Do I Write Poetry? Author : Sam Vaknin I use words as others use algebraic signs: with meticulousness, with caution, with the precision of the artisan. I sculpt in words. I stop. I tilt my head. I listen to the echoes. The tables of emotional resonance. The fine tuned reverberations of pain and love and fear. Air waves and photonic ricochets answered by chemicals secreted in my listeners and my readers. I know beauty. I have always known it in the biblical sense, it was my passion... | Read more... First a Trickle then a Flood.The Birth of the Blues in Britain Author : Robin Piggott Chris Barber’s Jazz Band with the beautiful Otillie Patterson on vocals brought the sound of New Orleans to British traditional Jazz buffs in the late fifties and early sixties. This was just the beginning of a wave of new sounds that culminated in what came to be known as the British Blues Boom! On Banjo was the great Lonnie Donegan who became the Godfather of Skiffle a year or two later. All of the early musical melting pots were springboards f... | Read more... Marble And Granite – What Produces The Shine? Author : David Andrew Smith Many people make the assumption that marble, granite and other finely polished natural stones shine because a ‘polish’ has been added to them. Nothing could be further from the truth. Natural stones are made of crystals. The crystals are made up of different minerals. Each mineral forms a different crystal shape. These different crystals interlock together to make up the stone. When stone is first quarried it has a very rough texture to its su... | Read more... A Choice to Survive: Book Review Author : write 2 right Nance Sparks’ new novel, A Choice to Survive, brings to the reader a detailed and realistic view into what it takes to survive the impending threat of chemical, biological and nuclear war on American soil. She uses her characters to discuss political and social issues with a passionate stand on what is wrong with the world. Watching the alarming increase of hate, crimes and war, Sparks’ main character, Caley, becomes obsessed about the sta... | Read more... ARTURO EL REY - Book Review Author : write 2 right This large (378 pages), fantasy-adventure novel should give best selling authors like Stephen King heavy competition. Fantastically interwoven with elements of King Arthur’s realm, including a little Arthurian romance, Arturo el Rey will keep the reader captivated. The main character, Art Reyes, escapes gang life and joins the Marines – but when terrorists release the devastating plague, there was no government left to for him to serve. Surviv... | Read more... << Start < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next > End >>     [ Back ] Top AlphaContent 2.5.4 © all - visualclinic.fr

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