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fatimazainab

Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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joytri

People, people, people, an ocean of people, but I can't find even a drop of humanity.

Sadia Hakim

oldshowbiz

Steve Allen

citizenscreen

70 years ago today:

“The Tonight Show" premiered on NBC. Known as “Tonight” it was hosted by Steve Allen.

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Steve Allen, Dorothy Kilgallen, John Charles Daly, and Arlene Francis, backstage during the filming of the panel game show 'What's My Line' (circa 1954)

heartwasglass

I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

autumncottageattic

Spring was a revelation to him this year. In a kind of intoxication he would watch the pink-white buds of some backward beech tree sprayed up in the sunlight against the deep blue sky, or the trunks and limbs of the few Scotch firs, tawny in violent light, or again, on the moor, the gale-bent larches which had such a look of life when the wind streamed in their young green, above the rusty black underboughs. Or he would lie on the banks, gazing at the clusters of dog-violets, or up in the dead bracken, fingering the pink, transparent buds of the dewberry, while the cuckoos called and yafes laughed, or a lark, from very high, dripped its beads of song. It was certainly different from any spring he had ever known, for spring was within him, not without.

- "The Apple Tree", a short story by John Galsworthy

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americanrussophile-blog

CHRIST ENTHRONED BY FEOFAN GREK (1405). Here’s one more by Feofan Grek (‘Theophanes the Greek’). This is actually a fragment of an icon - the face of Christ from of the icon Christ Enthroned (Христос в силах) painted in 1405. It is part of the iconstasis of the Cathedral of the Annunciation (Благовещенский собор) in the Moscow Kremlin. The amazing thing about it is that it really looks a lot like a kind of modernist expressionism (think Modigliani). Although this is a religious painting, it’s obvious that, like the much later expressionists, Feofan Grek was using exaggeration and distortion of forms to express his emotions toward the subject.