![]() ![]() Linda Fiorentino’s viciously manipulative Bridget in ‘The Last Seduction,’ John Dahl’s 1994 neo-noir thriller. Glenn Close’s performance in Stephen Frears’s 1988 film adaptation does not disappoint. As precise a portrait of a psychopath as any in literature. Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil in Les Liaisons Dangéreuses by Choderlos de Laclos (1782). ![]() Lewis was a teenage show-jumper, and this tale of sex, power and addiction on the US equestrian circuit is as brilliant as it’s chilling. Tory, the charismatic but damaged object of the female narrator’s desire in Heather Lewis’s 1994 novel House Rules. But when you meet them, you can’t look away. ![]() Like Villanelle, they’re not exactly role models. Here are five female antagonists who have struck a chord with me, and may well have left their mark on Villanelle. Having said that, I’ve always been fascinated by anarchic women in literature and cinema. Which is another way of saying that I really don’t know. I’ve often been asked where Villanelle, the assassin of the Killing Eve series, ‘came from,’ and the only true answer I can give is that she came from my imagination. ![]()
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![]() ![]() There's obvious contemporary resonance to a story about holding male abusers accountable, though it would be reductive to describe Women Talking as a Mennonite #MeToo drama, as some have. As the idea of leaving gains momentum, the debate keeps intensifying: How will they survive in the outside world? Should they bring their young sons with them? Will their departure keep them from fulfilling their duty to forgive the men - or is it only by leaving that they can even consider forgiveness? Movie Reviews In 'Women Talking,' survivors must decide: Do nothing, stay and fight, or leave?Īugust is in love with Ona and wants to look after her and her unborn child, but she gently refuses: Whatever the women are going to do, they have to do it together and on their own. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of history’s great achievers, such as Napoléon, da Vinci and Mozart effectively managed themselves, but today everyone must take responsibility for their job, career and development. ![]() One of the key themes running throughout the book is that managing yourself is not only growing in popularity, but importance too. The book is an insightful read and five management lessons stood out: While these answers will help you understand how to manage yourself, as Drucker points out, knowing what to do and actually acting upon it are not the same thing. To begin this process, Drucker advises answering five questions: He makes the case for each of us to carve out our own place in the world by effectively managing oneself. Drucker suggests we do this by seeking to truly understand ourselves, discovering where our talents and weaknesses lie, playing to these strengths and then, changing course if necessary. ![]() ![]() The book espouses the idea of each of us becoming the CEO of our career. Drucker.ĭrucker is rightly considered the founder of modern management and many of his prescient ideas on management theory and practice, such as decentralisation, the rise of the knowledge worker and outsourcing have come to pass. On the flight home from INBOUND 16 I read Managing Oneself by renowned management consultant and academic Peter F. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hades has spent his life in the shadows, and he has no intention of stepping into the light. With no options left, Persephone flees to the forbidden undercity and makes a devil’s bargain with a man she once believed a myth…a man who awakens her to a world she never knew existed. ![]() But all that’s ripped away when her mother ambushes her with an engagement to Zeus, the dangerous power behind their glittering city’s dark facade. Society darling Persephone Dimitriou plans to flee the ultra-modern city of Olympus and start over far from the backstabbing politics of the Thirteen Houses. *A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Hades and Persephone that’s as sinful as it is sweet.* ![]() But from the moment I crossed the River Styx and fell under his dark spell…he was, quite simply, mine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because she doesn’t want her son to die, though, she struggles to fully banish the ghost of her husband from her life. Alving’s life, evidence of her husband’s immoral ways. According to this line of thought, Oswald is just another “ghost” in Mrs. ![]() ![]() Nevertheless, Ibsen uses Oswald’s syphilis to outline the idea that certain painful histories don’t simply disappear, but instead resurface in generations to come. ![]() The implication in the play is that he inherited this from his father, despite the fact that this is biologically impossible. Now, though, she learns that Oswald is entering the late stages of syphilis, which is what killed her husband. Alving thinks, believing that Oswald is nothing like his debauched father because he spent his formative years far away from the man. This is evident in many ways throughout the play, as Oswald Alving’s life begins to resemble his late father’s, despite the fact that he has supposedly led a much different existence. The play’s Norwegian title, Gengangere, is the Danish word for ghosts, but it also has connotations of repetition, suggesting that Ibsen is interested in examining how the past repeats itself. Ghosts is a play about how the past influences the present. ![]() ![]() ![]() Figes's characters range high and low: the revered Tolstoy, who left his deathbed to search for the Kingdom of God, as well as the serf girl Praskovya, who became Russian opera's first superstar and shocked society by becoming her owner's wife. He skillfully interweaves the great works-by Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, and Chagall-with folk embroidery, peasant songs, religious icons, and all the customs of daily life, from food and drink to bathing habits to beliefs about the spirit world. ![]() Petersburg-a "window on the West"-and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself-its character, spiritual essence, and destiny. ![]() Beginning in the eighteenth century with the building of St. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The mystery of who Miriam's in love with - when it's actually revealed is a complete surprise - all the 'clues' point elsewhere and that's actually annoying - I'd rather have worked it out - if you're going to set it up as some kind of guessing game, don't do that and then give the reader a completely out of the blue answer. ![]() The one thing I did like was how it wove in the real characters of Pliny, Rectina and Pomponianus - the way this handles Pliny's death, is fairly accurate to the sources.Įverything else I hated - The ASINE riddle that kicked this off wasn't enough of a mystery and the answer failed to satisfy me. Normally I love books set in the Ancient World, and I did enjoy The Thieves of Ostia, the first book in this series, but sadly this one left me cold. ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers will hope that Brashares chronicles the sisterhood for volumes to come. Their bonds, combined with a realistic portrayal of teen emotions (Tibby is embarrassed by the smock she has to wear to work at Wallman's, while Carmen boils with rage when the seamstress fitting her bridesmaid dress disparages her curvy figure), make for an outstanding and vivid book that will stay with readers for a long time. We love you too much," to console her friend for mistakenly accusing a cute neighbor boy of spying on her while she skinny dips in Greece). ![]() ![]() Even though they are separated for most of the summer, the friends communicate their love and understanding for one another (Tibby writes to Lena, "Don't torture yourself, Len. These magical pants serve as a substitute friend for each girl as she is tested that summer, from Carmen, who goes to visit her father only to find out he's engaged to a woman with two teenage kids, to Tibby, who befriends a precocious 12-year-old cancer victim. ![]() They promise to rotate the jeans among them and, upon their reunion at summer's end, record their favorite adventures on the pant legs. Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a series of 7 books written by Ann. As four lifelong friends prepare to split up for the summer, they discover that the second-hand jeans look good on all of them, despite their different physiques. First novelist Brashares successfully creates four distinct characters, each with her own story line, and ties them together with a creative device: a pair of pants purchased in a thrift shop. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1938, he completed The Master and Margarita. Stalin telephoned him personally and offered him a job at the Moscow Arts Theatre. By 1930 Bulgakov had become so frustrated by the suppression of his work that he wrote to Stalin begging to be allowed to emigrate if he was not given the opportunity to make his living as a writer in the USSR. In 1925 he completed The Heart of a Dog, which remained unpublished in the Soviet Union until 1987. He trained as a doctor but gave up practising medicine in 1920 to devote his life to writing. Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kiev on 15th May 1891. The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov (Translated by Michael Glenny) ![]() ![]() ![]() As one might expect, on a host of background and achievement characteristics, mixed race adolescents fall in between whites and blacks. This paper describes basic facts about the plight of mixed race individuals during their adolescence and early adulthood. There is little empirical evidence on how these children fare relative to their single-race counterparts. Over the past 40 years the fraction of mixed race black-white births has increased nearly nine-fold. Transportation Economics in the 21st Century.Training Program in Aging and Health Economics.The Roybal Center for Behavior Change in Health.Retirement and Disability Research Center. ![]() Measuring the Clinical and Economic Outcomes Associated with Delivery Systems.Improving Health Outcomes for an Aging Population.Early Indicators of Later Work Levels, Disease and Death.Conference on Research in Income and Wealth.Boosting Grant Applications from Faculty at MSIs.Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship.International Finance and Macroeconomics. ![]() |