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• Major Barbara (1941) - The Criterion Collection

  
  I'll tumble 4 ya. — Authority: 138
  Major Barbara (1941) - The Criterion Collection : As if I wasn’t looking forward enough to 2010, now I find out the Criterion Collection will release a DVD Box Set of Major Barbara on Feb 23. I’ve never seen the whole film, only about the last 45 minutes. Years ago (about 12 years ago, probably), back when ...
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• Joubert Jongens

  
  Pendock Uncorked — Authority: 409
  As any boerekos boffin knows, a boerejongen is a raisin marinated in brandy. The Joseph Barry Cape Pot Still Ten Y.O. crowned Best Brandy in the World at London’s International Wine & Spirit Competition recently will do (as will any of the other eight SA brandewijns that have won the trophy since 1999) but ...
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• REVIEW: My Fair Lady (Marriott Theatre)

  
  Chicago Theater Blog — Authority: 136
  Marriott’s ‘My Fair Lady’ loverly, but risk-free Marriott Theatre presents: My Fair Lady By Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe Directed by Dominic Missimi Through February 14th, 2010 ( ticket info ) reviewed by Leah A. Zeldes The story of linguistics ...
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• The Life-Long Challenge of Differentiating Between Truth, Paradigms, Truisms and Plain Lies by Frank Suess

  
  One Man's Thoughts — Authority: 135
  Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm. - Donella Meadows Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance can be deceiving; and, matters accepted as factual realities all our ...
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• Mont Blanc George Bernard Shaw Limited Edition Fountain Pen

  
  What Gift? — Authority: 131
  Mont Blanc George Bernard Shaw Limited Edition Fountain Pen Dark green marbled lacquer punctuated with platinum-plated fittings. These are the style features of the new Writers Edition in honor of the distinguished Irish free thinker George Bernard Shaw. This pen is inspired by Shaw’s best-known character ...
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• REVIEW: Mid-Winter’s Tales ‘09 (ShawChicago)

  
  Chicago Theater Blog — Authority: 136
  Unwrap This Holiday Present NOW!   ShawChicago presents Mid-Winter’s Tales 09 At the Ruth Page Theatre (1016 N. Dearborn) Adapted and directed by Belinda Bremner December 18th-21st (ticket info: 312-587-7390 )   By Katy Walsh Before the age of electronic ...
  5 days ago

• Holiday Celebration Tips

  
  Sheila Glazov - Author. Speaker. Educator — Authority: 121
  "> Whenyour relatives come home for a Holiday celebration, do theyresemble the people "> on the“Most Wanted” listings at your local post office "> or characters on a Disney World vacation brochure? "> Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw said, “When our relatives are ...
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• Winifred Gill and the Omega Workshops

  
  Venetian Red — Authority: 119
  by Christine CariatiWinifred Gill, Sketch of dancers, 1916Pencil, ink and watercolor on paperThe Bodleian Library, OxfordWinifred Gill (1891-1981) was one of the unsung heroines of the Omega Workshops. The task of  creating patterns or translating existing designs to be used on textiles, furniture and home ...
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• Jeanne d’Arc, the heretic saint

  
  The sayings of Uncle Vinny — Authority: 109
  If Joan was mad, all Christendom was mad, too; for people who believe devoutly in the existence of celestial personages are every whit as mad in that sense as the people who think they see them. Luther, when he threw his inkhorn at the devil, was no more mad than any other Augustinian monk: he had a more vivid ...
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• Quotations

  
  Indus Asia Online Journal (iaoj) — Authority: 141
  “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Sir Winston Churchill . “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” – Theodore Roosevelt . “You see things and say, Why?, but I dream things and say, Why not?” ...
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• Can a theatre critic write a play? | David Cote

  
  Stage: Theatre blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 123
  New York reviewer David Cote is braced for jeers – and possibly cheers – as he unveils his ending to George Bernard Shaws unfinished play Who is better suited than a theatre critic to write a play? After all, we spend our lives marinating in the damn things, reading them, watching them, analysing their structure ...
  2 weeks ago

• So Act . . . Because There is a Place for Us!

  
  Procurement Insights — Authority: 128
  So Act . . . Because There is a Place for Us! Some things cannot be explained or reasoned intellectually, you have to FEEL IT! As a writer one is very much familiar with the term that the pen is mightier than the sword . . . but not always. The deeper I get into writing my second book about the So Act Network, the ...
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• The Cream of Music

  
  Chandos Records — Authority: 123
  The Cream of Music As I was listening to Massenet’s famous Élégie (also known as Mélodie ) the other day, it occurred to me that no matter how many times I hear it, it always affects me in quite a special way, sending shivers down my spine. It is a tune which (along with the ‘Méditation’ ...
  3 weeks ago

• John Madden Set to Direct My Fair Lady Remake

  
  Fused Film — Authority: 439
  John Madden, no not the animated and legendary football commentator, rather the Academy Award winning British director behind Shakespeare In Love is set to direct the remake of the classic Lerner and Lowe musical, My Fair Lady , a 1964 Academy Award nominated film. Madden is currently completing production on ...
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• "A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows."

  
  vegansaurus! — Authority: 530
  “A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.” - God bless George Bernard Shaw . He was one crazy, beautiful bitch. I also love, “A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.” SO GOOD. Oh and, “There is no love sincerer than the love of food.” Girl, TELL IT.
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• The Myth of Ghoti

  
  The Lousy Linguist — Authority: 517
  (cartoon found at Caldwell Reading ) In reviewing the new book Reading in the Brain by neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene (do check out the cool Matrix -like book page), neuro-journalist Jonah Lehrer repeats the common claim that George Bernard Shaw coined the use of the spelling of fish as ghoti to ...
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• George Bernard Shaw – select quotes

  
  Kevin Stilley Dot Com — Authority: 141
  . Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don’t sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon. ~ Character in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion We learn from history that we learn ...
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• Quotations: Ouch! Words that hurt!

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 137
  Humour or hurtful? We have heard many a time that the pen is mightier than the sword. These quotes illustrate that words can be more hurtful than any weapon. The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, “If you were my husband I’d give you poison.” He said, “If you were my wife, I’d drink ...
  4 weeks ago

• If I were any good at drawing…

  
  KHdN - Kenneth Hynek (dot Net) — Authority: 435
  …I would totally do this . When Charlie Kratzer started on the basement art project in his south Lexington home, he was surrounded by walls painted a classic cream. Ten dollars of Magic Marker and Sharpie later, the place was black and cream and drawn all over. There are fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and ...
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• 5 links: Pod or Shed? Hut or Epu? Or Yurt?

  
  Madam Mayo — Authority: 119
  Where to write at home but not at home? Herewith 5 possibilities:PodEpuShedHutYurtMore anon.
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