![]() However, Astaire's contractual obligations prevented him from making the film and the role went to Jackie Gleason, who introduced the song. Cahn personally auditioned the song for Astaire's approval, which was given. However, in 1988, Sammy Cahn said during an interview with freelance writer Harlan Conti, in San Francisco, that the song was originally written for Fred Astaire to sing in the film Papa's Delicate Condition in which Astaire was to star. Garland later sang the song on the seventh episode of the show. At that time, Garland had just signed to do The Judy Garland Show on CBS, and the intent of the song was to parody her well-known problems. " Call Me Irresponsible" is a 1962 song composed by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics written by Sammy Cahn which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1963.Īccording to the Mel Tormé book The Other Side of the Rainbow with Judy Garland on the Dawn Patrol, Van Heusen originally wrote the song for Garland to sing at a CBS dinner. Song by Jackie Gleason "Call Me Irresponsible" ![]()
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![]() ![]() "Does the imperfection still allow for the piece to be functional?" she asked. Ashwell's favorites were those with character - such as a beautiful doll with a cracked face or some fingers missing. She learned that lesson in her childhood when she went to flea markets with her mother, who bought and restored antique dolls and teddy bears. "What is lovely is when you find old pieces that are made so well that if you tried to duplicate them today they would be very expensive."Īs you go along, you'll learn to appreciate what Ashwell calls the value of "imperfect beauty." "Workmanship is kind of a given when you are buying something old," she said. Weight is also important - the heavier the wicker, for instance, the better. Signposts of quality in furniture include sturdy construction and tongue-in-groove joints. When you do, Ashwell suggested making it beveled to add extra detail. If your image looks distorted, she recommended passing it up unless the frame is spectacular. ![]() Let's say you're looking for a mirror at a flea market or antiques mall. "If the piece is rickety, it's too far gone." "There is a fine line between fine and used and funky and junky," she said. Some of the hallmarks in fabric are worn damask, faded velvets, tea-stained florals, washed-out cotton prints and slightly tattered lace. Many of the objects she selects are worn but good quality. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The present article is anĪttempt at probing the language used by male and female characters in Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel to see how gender issuesĪre grounded in the play to let it play its didactic role. Nowadays, it is actively recommended to include aspects of gender in whatever project we undertake. As opposed to sex which refers to biological characteristics, gender is culture based. doi: 10.11648/j.cls.20150102.13Ībstract: The term gender is relatively new in such disciplines as Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, Sociolinguistics, ![]() Systemic Functional Grammar and Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective. Gender Issues in the Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka: A Linguistics-Oriented Analysis from a University of Abomey-Calavi (UAC), Abomey-Calavi, BeninĮmail (P. Grammar and Critical Discourse Analysis Perspectiveĭepartment of English Studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FLASH),Laboratory for Research in Linguistics and Literature (LabReLL), Linguistics-Oriented Analysis from a Systemic Functional Gender Issues in the Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka: A Gender Issues in the Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka: A Linguistics-Oriented Analysis from a Systemic Functional Grammar and Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective :: Science Publishing Group ![]() ![]() Belle does stand up for herself, but her circumstances really don't lend her much support, safety, or freedom. ![]() The Beast's tantrums, in which he breaks things, threatens to hurt people, and abandons Belle or traps her, are frightening. Elements of Death's plot are creepy and graphic, such as zombie marionettes who try to trap Belle. Death conjures a living book, utterly entrancing Belle, luring her closer to her own demise. It's a gothic tale in which Belle is caught in a scheme devised by a character named Death, who places a deadly bet with her sister, Love, that Belle will abandon the Beast. Parents need to know that Jennifer Donnelly's well-written fantasy novel Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book plays off Disney's 2017 live-action Beauty and the Beast movie. ![]() Bottles of champagne stand in "sterling wine coolers" on tables at a party.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. ![]() ![]() ![]() But at the end of the chapter, the restless spirit of reflection will cause us to look at that view as well." Look at the nice long words he uses. They can take some comfort from the tradition in theology that the more unlikely a belief is to be true, the more meritorious is the act of faith required to believe it. Some readers may feel threatened by this. ![]() To quote page 151: "To jump the gun a little, I am going to present a fair number of reasons against supposing that anything recognizable as religious belief is true. It's hard to know for sure when you find yourself unable to read so much of it. At least, I think that's what he was doing. I started with the God chapter and it soon became apparent that the author is trying to prevent the reader from 'thinking' for themselves, by subtly peddling his mildly atheistic viewpoint. Therefore, the only way to find employment as a modern philosopher is to construct confusing answers for the unanswerable questions in order to hide the fact that, essentially, they have nothing new to say. It seems to me that modern philosophers have all reached the conclusion that the big questions have already all been answered as well as they are ever going to be. ![]() Time and again I found myself re-reading sentences several times until I concluded that I couldn't get what the author was trying to say, before moving on to the next sentence, with some amount of hope that the previous sentence wasn't important anyway. ![]() Pitched as an introduction to philosophy, this book is actually very heavy going. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The consequences of ten years of bloody revolution were to stretch from the cities to the villages to the grand houses, form Ulster to East Anglia to the outer reaches of Cornwall.The tales uncovered by Diane Purkiss paint a picture of a world turned upside down, where madness and prophesy play their part, and where normal life and times are suspended. The English Civil War builds a gripping narrative of the individuals involved and their motives, from those whose reputations were made on the back of this violent and brutal war, such as Oliver Cromwell and Lady Eleanor Davies, to witchfinders and revolutionaries and ultimately, the ordinary men who fought and the women who lived with tragedy, finding their political voice for the first time. In an excitingly fresh approach to the period, Diane Purkiss tells the story of this critical era not just in terms of the battle of ideas, but as the histories of the people who conceived them. ![]() ![]() This compelling history, culminating in the execution of Charles I, brings to life the people who fought in it, died in it, and in doing so changed the history of the world forever. This is a remarkable popular history of the English Civil War, from the perspectives of those involved in this most significant turning point in British history. ![]() ![]() And while yes, we most commonly review literary fiction (please note, however, our own collection has a gorgeous nonfiction essay by Erica Sklar), after reading this book I needed the emotional cleanse of reviewing it here. This is also Radziwill’s first published book, making her a debut author and (gasp!) a candidate for our review series. ![]() Still, curiosity sparked as to whether the book was good, bad, or terrible (I had placed my bets somewhere in the latter category) and when a friend, and then another friend told me they enjoyed it, I inched closer to a copy. I haven’t taken a Real Housewife seriously as a person, ever, and her mere presence on the BRAVO network didn’t bode well for changing such impressions. (She’s one of those not-normal, normal people.) I learned about her memoir and the events within the book from the show, and before I even considered reading it, I was scoffing. ![]() Carole dated John Kennedy’s cousin, and was besties with Carolyn. Let’s be real: you’d all pick Ramona or Sonja. She’s the Housewife I’d most like to have dinner with, unless that dinner was taking place on New Year’s Eve and it was time to get rowdy, in which case I’d pick Ramona… or Sonja. Okay, let’s move on.) Carole is by far the most normal woman on the show, by which I mean she treats people with common decency and seems to have impeccable manners. ![]() ![]() I learned about What Remains while watching the Real Housewives of New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() They can be combinations of words: Cold sweat. When you’re writing, anything you’ve ever heard or read before is a cliché. Challenge all those verbs to really lift some weight for you. You know the ones: Was, did, had, made, went, looked… One-size-fits-all looks like crap on anyone. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. ![]() A terrific exercise is to take a paragraph of someone’s writing who has a really strong style, and using their structure, substitute your own words for theirs, and see how they achieved their effects. I also like Sexton, Eliot, and Brodsky for the poets and Durrell and Les Plesko for prose. I like Dylan Thomas best for this–the Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait. Read poetry aloud and try to heighten in every way your sensitivity to the sound and rhythm and shape of sentences. Learn to look at your sentences, play with them, make sure there’s music, lots of edges and corners to the sounds. It said: “Good enough story, but what’s unique about your sentences?” That was the best advice I ever got. Long ago I got a rejection from the editor of the Santa Monica Review, Jim Krusoe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That is, it doesn't shy away from including the topics of sex and sex abuse. The book also covers a topic most parents are too comfortable with. But I think it's important not to forget the draconian, populist racism people of color had to deal with at the time. So, it offers an important historical perspective about race I think most people may not be comfortable thinking or talking about. It takes place in a camp where a young black boy falls in love with a Hispanic girl, and it being in the 1930s, people handle it about as well as you'd expect. It covers the topic of race in the South (Texas) during the oil boom of the 1930s. ![]() ![]() I think it's probably a good lesson for kids to know you probably shouldn't make snap judgements about people, whether for good or for ill, until you get to know them. Some of the characters seem like good people but as you go along, you learn more about who they are and what they believe. It didn't tell you so much as showed you about them. Overall the book took its time to introduce the characters. So I bought a copy and started to read it. I researched it and saw the book had many accolades and was on many critics top ten list. I heard about this book when some people showed up at a school board meeting demanding it be removed from all the libraries in each of the schools in the district. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And despite the busybody old women who used to pop up whenever I was having a bad day and tell me I would miss these days when they were over, I don’t miss those days at all. It genuinely never occurred to me when they were little that this would ever end – an eternity of Teletubbies and Duplo and In The Night Bastarding Garden and screaming, never an end in sight. I just wanted them to stop wittering at me, eat vegetables without complaining, let me go to the loo in peace and learn to make a decent gin and tonic. Number One bestselling author Gill Sims is back with her eagerly awaited fourth and final Why Mummy novel. ![]() |