![]() ![]() In the immediate hours after the shooting, President Biden demanded reform, again. In Texas, it’s alarmingly easy to buy and openly carry a gun. Law enforcement couldn’t immediately subdue the killer. This is one.Īt least 19 elementary school children and two teachers are dead, many more are injured, and a grandmother is fighting for her life in Uvalde, Tex., all because a young man, armed with an AR-15-style rifle, decided to fire in a school.īy now, you know these facts: This killing spree was the largest school shooting since Sandy Hook. ![]() This piece by Scientific American's editors presents the case that simple gun laws can prevent future tragedies. Editor’s Note (5/24/23): One year ago, on May 24, 2022, 19 students and two teachers were fatally shot at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tex. ![]()
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![]() Perhaps the whole show should have been done like Chicago, with the band on stage throughout. Having hit this level of excitement, they revisit Nutbush City Limits and Proud Mary from the first half, making the previous versions pale into insignificance. No one hears the comparatively honest simplicity of her attitude towards Sebastian (“He liked me and so I loved him”), nor her insight when it comes to human relationships in general: “We all use each other and that’s what we think of as love.” No one seems to take into account the fact that she was raped. Poor Catharine is deemed insane and left to bounce between asylum walls. ![]() Giblin gives us a Mrs Venable who relishes the suffering of others like some do rare steak, her drool all but visible as she contemplates it. She was his muse, an almost holy function, and she in turn idealises him to the point of idolatry.īoth Mrs Venable (Belinda Giblin) and her niece Catharine (Andrea Demetriades) are trapped inside their own imaginations, and neither place has a welcome mat at the door. ![]() In her own mind she alone understood his peculiar temperament as a poet – even if he only wrote one poem a year, and kept that much a secret from the world. ![]() He was the sun and moon of her life, and someone is going to pay for this loss, regardless of the details of his death. Mrs Venable (think “venal”) has lost her only son, Sebastian. Andrea Demetriades stars as Catharine in Suddenly Last Summer at Ensemble Theatre. ![]() ![]() The Westerners will do anything to keep the Echelon program out of the hands of Valentin Lebed-the Chechnyan Mafioso who makes Nick an offer he can't refuse-and the Maliskia, a gang of rival Russian criminals who want to derail Lebed's plans and take over Echelon themselves. When Nick realizes it's not industrial espionage that he's involved with but military secrets, he's caught between warring factions of the Russian Mafia and the Anglo-American alliance of intelligence agencies. Little Kelly needs expensive treatment for the post-traumatic stress that's turned her nearly catatonic, so Nick takes on a freelance assignment that gets him mixed up with Russian organized crime-in particular, with an enigmatic mob boss who has designs on some Finnish cybertechnology. ![]() In his third outing (following ** and **), Nick Stone, Andy McNab's series SAS agent, is off the Firm's regular payroll owing to a major screwup in his last assignment that left his best friend's family slaughtered-except for the one child who survived. ![]() ![]() Labouisses' fifteen years as Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund, he and Eve Curie Labouisse traveled to many of the more than 100 developing countries that were receiving UNICEF assistance. ![]() In 1952, she was appointed Special Adviser to the Secretary General of NATO and served on its International Staff until she and Henry R. She later wrote Journey Among Warriors, a chronicle of her travel to the fronts of World War II.Īfter the defeat of France in 1940, Eve Curie moved to England and worked for the Allied and Free French causes during the rest of the war. After her mother died in 1934, Eve Curie researched and wrote the internationally known and best selling book, Madame Curie. Eve Curie Labouisse is the daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie, the discoverers of radium and Nobel Prize winners. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Anyway, I have watched a few of his films in the meantime and also read a bit about him and this book has a lot of common threads that appear in Grillet’s works.įranck is here agaun for dinner, smiling, talkative, affable. This is his best-known novel I have already reviewed A project of a Revolution in New York which was written a number of years after this book. He was both a writer and also a filmmaker. Robbe Grillet wrote a weekly column about his view of the modern novel. When we got a group of writers that were grouped together as the roman Noveau the new novel Grillet and other writers like Claude Simon (I have my eye on a new edition of his work from The Flanders road I have reviewed him and also a book from Nathalie Surraute. So I decide the next few french books will have a few older books and here we go with a book from the post-war era of French Literature. When I noted the other week that I was only 19 books away from 150 french books read I had a look back over all the books I had read from France over the years and looked at my shelves and thought I need a little more depth to the selection is mostly modern writers so I do have a lot of french books as they now are my go-to country to read from when I started the blog it would be German fiction but these days it is very much French literature but as I say more modern french literature. ![]() |