A real-estate transaction in Manhattan was as significant in its way as anything said in all of last week’s speeches in Washington.
On Fifth Avenue, with a fine view of Central Park across the street, sits a 66-room red brick Georgian mansion, one of the largest and most lavish houses in New York City. Across the street, the late Banker Otto Kahn’s Florentine stone palace is now the Sacred Heart Convent for girls; a block up Fifth Avenue stands Banker Felix Warburg’s six-story home: it is now the Jewish Museum.
What then, was the real story behind this transformation? Was Medusa always as hideous and deathly as the legends portrayed her to be? Well, it’s not uncommon to read of people whose stories have been left untold or misunderstood. So, what is Medusa’s side of the story and how did a once strikingly beautiful woman turn into something so frightening? Medusa’s story ADVERTISEMENT
In a version of the myth recounted by the Greek poet Pindar (517–438 BCE), Medusa was a strikingly beautiful woman.
As we all know, the 45-year-old is a legend in the hip-hop game and gangster rap movement. So, you can imagine my surprise when I heard that he intends to drop a gospel album soon. He shared the surprising news in an interview on Beats 1 Radio last week. According to the rap mogul, he has always wanted to do gospel music, but the gangsta business prevented from following his heart.
Every once in a while a murder is committed that unites in one "news story" all the sleeping romantic fancies of human nature. Such a murder is the Dorothy King case. It has love (and illicit lovewhich is always more fascinating), riches, social prestige, an underworld motif, intrigue and violence. It appeals to snobbery, outraged morality, pity, terror and man's appetite for the human hunt. Thousands of plain people, reading the lurid three-page account in the Hearst press, can imagine themselves either the beautiful Broadway butterfly, Dorothy King; the rich and socially prominent "
Hulu’s new limited series Under the Banner of Heaven, streaming April 28, is an adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s 2003 true-crime bestseller of the same name about the gruesome killings of Brenda Wright Lafferty (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and her baby daughter, which shocked a quiet Mormon town in the 1980s. The show, like the book, delves into the founding of the Church of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) by Joseph Smith in 1830, looking to make sense of the double murder.
“I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia…It is incredible how essential to me you have become,” wrote Vita Sackville-West to the novelist Virginia Woolf in 1926. A popular writer herself, Sackville-West was proclaiming her love for Woolf during the most intense years of their romantic relationship in the 1920s. Although both were married to men, the two women penned hundreds of poetic letters to each other, and their relationship would inspire one of Woolf’s most celebrated works, the 1928 novel Orlando.
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TIME Editor-in-Chief and CEO Edward Felsenthal sent the following note to staff on Monday:
Dear all,
This month marks four years since Marc and Lynne Benioff became TIME’s owners and I took on the joint role of Editor in Chief and CEO. What an incredible journey we’ve been on since then–working together as Founders to launch this amazing brand into its second century. Today, thanks to this incredible team and the commitment of our owners, we are a completely different company than we were in November 2018.
Nwoye made this allegation when he voted in his Nsugbe Ward I in Anambra East Local Government Area on Saturday at 11:50 a.m. He decried the arrest and detention of the APC state Chairman, Mr Emeka Ibe, “for no just cause”. According to him, the police have allowed themselves to be used as a tool of ‘oppression and suppression’ in the hands of the ruling party in the state.
Author: Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Year Released: 1986
Get This BookIt’s way beyond cliché at this point to call Watchmen the greatest superhero comic ever written-slash-drawn. But it’s true. In the world Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons created, it’s 1985, Nixon is still president, the Cold War is at absolute zero, and the nation’s superheroes consist of a bunch of neurotic, washed-up has-beens, mostly without actual superpowers, mostly retired.