Rona Jaffe's 'The Best of Everything' still impacts culture 65 years later
Writer Rachel Syme reflects on the 65-year-old novel The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe — and why it's so potent today.
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Walton Goggins Unveils The Ghouls Journey and Exclusive Poster on Fallout
Amazon is going to bring the adored video game series Fallout to the small screen with a TV series that will debut on Prime Video in 2024, a move that has been highly anticipated. GameSpot has as of late disclosed an exclusive poster, revealing insight into one of the significant characters, The Ghoul, played by the talented Walton Goggins.
The Ghoul is shown in the newly revealed poster standing in a doorway against the background of an irradiated wasteland.
You, the Living
Roy AnderssonReview(Cert 15)When Ingmar Bergman died in July last year, the soul-searching and breast-beating began on the subject of whether there was anyone who could possibly take his place. There isn't. Why should there be? At the time, though, I made a muted and qualified proposal that one candidate has a sliver of something little noticed in Bergman: his sense of humour. This was the Swedish film-maker Roy Andersson, whose poignant and hilarious movies - like a hypnotic succession of sumptuously mounted Beckettian tableaux - take him an enormously long time to fund and produce.
'60 Minutes' Reporter Ed Bradley Dies
Remembrances on NPR Web Resources CBS News Video: Ed Bradley's '60 Minutes' Archive CBS News Biography: Ed Bradley, 1941-2006 Legendary CBS journalist Ed Bradley has died of leukemia. The 65-year-old correspondent had been reporting for CBS since 1967, and was a key member of the 60 Minutes reporting team.
Longtime friend and former 60 Minutes producer Don Hewitt hired Bradley to be part of the pioneering news magazine's team for the 1981 season, and he remained a key part of the show's roster of reporters almost to the end of his life.
Ben Shapiro Net Worth
Title: Ben Shapiro Net Worth: A Closer Look at the Pundit’s Wealth
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Ben Shapiro, a prominent conservative political commentator, author, and lawyer, has become a well-known figure in the media landscape. Apart from his sharp and incisive debating style, Shapiro has amassed considerable wealth through his various endeavors. In this article, we delve into Ben Shapiro’s net worth as of 2023, accompanied by five interesting facts about his financial success.
Bryan Rufenach; Detroit Red Wings prospect dies after he's electrocuted on trip to Switzerland
Star hockey player dies after he's electrocuted on trip to SwitzerlandBy Daily Mail Reporter Published: 11:00 EST, 7 June 2012 | Updated: 11:41 EST, 7 June 2012 4
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Degree: As well as being a star athlete, Rufenach, pictured, had graduated Clarkson University with a degree in finance
A star hockey player was killed by an electric shock on Tuesday while backpacking with a childhood friend in Switzerland.
Catholic church tries to clear confusion over condom use | Catholicism
CatholicismCatholic church tries to clear confusion over condom useOfficial says 'lesser evil' in areas of HIV contagion risk, but congregation gives mixed reaction to announcementThe Vatican today paved the way for the widespread use of condoms by Catholics, stirring impassioned theological debate among his millions of followers across the world.
In an attempt to clarify the confusion caused at the weekend by the leaking of differently translated passages from a book of interviews with the pontiff, his spokesman used its launch to signal that condom use is acceptable as a lesser evil where there was risk of HIV contagion.
Defeating the Dictators review: prescriptions for democratic health
BooksReviewCharles Dunst salutes Joe Biden’s domestic spending but also points to how Trump’s sclerotic grip still hobbles the US
Charles Dunst’s “aspirational” book about how democracies can do a better job of competing with autocracies is bursting with statistics and lots of common sense.
It’s OK to be Angry about Capitalism review: Bernie Sanders, by the bookRead moreThe statistics are there to convince us that many autocracies spend much more sensibly than the world’s richest democracies do.
Mad Men on the Couch: A Psychiatrist Analyzes Don and Roger
Don Draper has reinvented himself time and again — yet every time he sheds his skin, the same old Don eventually emerges. In the final scene of the season-six premiere, we saw him hopping into bed with another woman, confirming that his fidelity to Megan was as short-lived as those bottles of Scotch in his office. Nothing, it seems, will ever satisfy this man: not his hard-earned success, not his “It” girl wife, not even an all-expenses-paid vacation to Hawaii.
Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations by Jules Evans review
The ObserverPhilosophy booksReviewCognitive psychology has had little impact on our culture, but this intellectual manual makes a startCognitivism has become the dominant psychological system of our times. Its theories have swept aside Freudian mythology; its therapists, armed with treatment manuals, have taken over the NHS; its avant-gardists in the positive psychology movement have infiltrated the US military. Yet cognitive psychology has made curiously little cultural impact. Empirical, clinical and imaginatively narrow: as revolutionary intellectual movements go, it's rather boring.