![]() ![]() ![]() Her first film role was in Center Stage (2000) in which she played a ballet dancer. ![]() Ī trained dancer, Saldaña began her acting career in two 1999 episodes of Law & Order. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2023. Films she has appeared in have grossed more than $14 billion worldwide and, as of 2023, she is the second-highest-grossing film actress, and the fourth actor overall. Known primarily for her work in science fiction film franchises, she has appeared in all three of the highest-grossing films of all time ( Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water and Avengers: Endgame), a feat not achieved by any other performer. Zoë Yadira Saldaña-Perego ( / s ɑː l ˈ d ɑː n ə, - ˈ d æ n-/ sahl- DA(H)N-ə, Spanish: née Saldaña Nazario born June 19, 1978) is an American actress. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Maurice Meisner - Mao Zedong's: A Political and Intellectual Portrait It is an easy read but interesting for someone who has no background.)Ĭhen Jian - Mao's China and the Cold War (This is about Mao era foreign policy, still heavily focused on Mao. Rebecca Karl - Mao Zedong's and China in the Twentieth-Century World (This is meant for an intro/undergrad course. ![]() Stuart Schram - The Political Thought of Mao Tse-tung (Old but still widely cited)įrederic Wakeman - History and Will: Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-tung's Thought (Again on Mao's Marxism) Nick Knight - Rethinking Mao: Explorations in Mao Zedong's Thought (This is about his views on Marxism) Maurice Meisner - Mao's China and After (Mostly political history) My recommendations are mostly sympathetic toward Mao without letting him off the hook for the disasters of his period. ![]() What you read depends on what you want to know about him. You can gather the main points from other mentions of it. The Chang/Halliday book is really derided in many histories of the Mao period. ![]() ![]() Directed by Lloyd Richards, the cast featured James Earl Jones, Mary Alice and Courtney B. Fences premiered on Broadway at the 46th Street Theatre on March 26, 1987, and closed on June 26, 1988, after 525 performances and 11 previews. Fences had it’s world premiere at Yale Repertory Theatre with a subsequent production at The Goodman Theatre. The play won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play. Like all of the “Pittsburgh” plays, Fences explores the evolving African-American experience and examines race relations, among other themes. ![]() Set in the 1950s, it is the sixth in Wilson’s ten-part “Pittsburgh Cycle”. Fences is a 1983 play by American playwright August Wilson. ![]() ![]() While Barker is critical of organized religion, he has stated that he is a believer in both God and the afterlife, and that the Bible influences his work.įans have noticed of late that Barker's voice has become gravelly and coarse. This award is presented "to an openly lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender individual who has made a significant difference in promoting equal rights for any of those communities". In 2003, Clive Barker received The Davidson/Valentini Award at the 15th GLAAD Media Awards. Barker's second long-term relationship, with photographer David Armstrong, ended in 2009. It was in Liverpool in 1975 that he met his first partner, John Gregson, with whom he lived until 1986. ![]() Educated at Dovedale Primary School and Quarry Bank High School, he studied English and Philosophy at Liverpool University and his picture now hangs in the entrance hallway to the Philosophy Department. ![]() Clive Barker was born in Liverpool, England, the son of Joan Rubie (née Revill), a painter and school welfare officer, and Leonard Barker, a personnel director for an industrial relations firm. ![]() ![]() ![]() What’s more, often all it takes to remove these works from our libraries and schools is a single objection. “Book bans aren’t new,” she continued, “but they have been on the rise - according to the, 40% more books were challenged in 2022 compared to 2021. “So they ban my book from young readers, confuse me with Oprah, fail to specify what parts of my poetry they object to, refuse to read any reviews, and offer no alternatives,” she wrote. ![]() ![]() Gorman issued a statement on her Instagram on Tuesday saying she was “gutted” by the move. The principal of Bob Graham Education Center and the superintendent of the Miami-Dade School District did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Entertainment & Arts Amanda Gorman Has Had Presidential Dreams for Years ![]() ![]() ![]() Told entirely in speech bubbles with a repetitive use of familiar phrases, this highly original book from the award-winning author of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! is perfect for children just learning to read.
![]() ![]() Despite the fact that she was on a musical scholarship, it did not take long before Allison lost interest in music and instead opted to writing. ![]() Jenifer Allison attended the University of Michigan on a musical scholarship. She later on went and joined the University of Michigan, where she was awarded a Bachelor’s of Arts degree. Upon concluding her high school education, Jennifer Allison joined Saline High school where she successfully graduated in the year 1984. Born and raised in Saline, Michigan, Jenifer Allison grew up to be one of the most successful writers. Jennifer Allison is a mystery author who is best known for the Edgar-nominated book series, Gilda Joyce. ![]() ![]() ![]() “For more than half a century, this unusual yet organic cross-pollination of genius remained an almost mythic artifact, reserved for collectors and scholars,” until Princeton University Press saw fit to reprint it for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland‘s 150th anniversary (much as Taschen recently reissued Dalí’s bizarre cookbook Les Diners de Gala). “Dalí created twelve heliogravures - a frontispiece, which he signed in every copy from the edition, and one illustration for each chapter of the book,” writes Brain Pickings’ Maria Popova. It happened in 1969, when an editor at Random House commissioned the master surrealist to create illustrations for an exclusive edition of Carroll’s timeless story for the house’s book-of-the-month club. It thus only makes sense, despite their differences in nationality and sensibility as well as their barely overlapping life spans, that their artistic worlds - one with its grotesquely misshapen objects, obscure symbols, and hauntingly empty vistas, the other full of wordplay, whimsy, and mathematics - would one day collide. On canvas and paper, Salvador Dalí created apparently nonsensical realities that nevertheless operated according to logic all their own in writing, Lewis Carroll, author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, did the very same. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In her haunting new novel, Salley Vickers, the bestselling author of The Librarian and The Cleaner of Chartres, writes with the profound psychological insight and sense of the numinous power of place that is the hallmark of all her novels. She is befriended by eccentric, sharp-tongued Miss Foot, who recommends Murat, an Albanian migrant, made to feel out of place among the locals, to help Hassie in the garden.Īs she works the garden in Murat’s peaceful company, Hassie ruminates on her past life: the sibling rivalry that tainted her childhood and the love affair that left her with painful, unanswered questions.īut as she begins to explore the history of the house and the mysterious nearby wood, old hurts begin to fade as she experiences the healing power of nature and discovers other worlds. Vickers worked, variously, as a cleaner, a dancer, an artist’s model, and a psychoanalyst before writing her first novel Miss Garnet’s Angel which became a word-of-mouth bestseller around the world. ![]() Yeats’ poem ‘Down by the Salley Gardens’. Salley Vickers switches a gear in this gentle, beautifully observed slice of rural life in the Fifties. While Margot continues her London life in high finance, Hassie is left alone to work the large, long-neglected garden. Born in Liverpool, novelist Salley Vickers was named, by her father, after W.B. Artist Hassie Days and her sister, Margot, buy a run-down Jacobean house in Hope Wenlock on the Welsh Marches. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His flying career turned out to be exceptional. During the war, He flew 2,530 ground-attack missions exclusively on the Eastern Front. ![]() After graduating with Abitur in 1936, he participated in the compulsory Reich Labour Service (RAD).įollowing the labor service, Rudel joined the Luftwaffe in the same year, 1936, and began his military career as an air reconnaissance pilot. Rudel was born as a son of a priest in Konradswaldau, Prussia, Germany (modern day Kondratów in Poland). Post-war, he was a neo-Nazi activist in Latin America and West Germany. Hans-Ulrich Rudel was the most famous Stuka pilot in Luftwaffe, and is considered to be one of the most prominent fighter pilots of WW II, during which he flew a world record number of flights, 2,530. ![]() |