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“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.” -George Bernard Shaw

Joined January 2021
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Breaking News: Claudia Cardinale, a leading lady of 1960s Italian cinema who starred in “8½” and “The Leopard,” has died at 87. nyti.ms/4gMttcU

Claudia Cardinale, Actress Who Was ‘Italy’s Girlfriend,’ Is Dead at 87 (Published 2025)

A sex symbol with girl-next-door appeal, she rose to fame in the 1960s and starred in more than 150 films, including the Oscar-winning ‘8½’ and ‘The Leopard.’

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nyti.ms/4poNlqf Robert Redford, the big-screen idol turned Oscar-winning director, independent film advocate and environmental activist, died at 89.

Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89 (Published 2025)

He made serious topics like grief and political corruption resonate with the masses, in no small part because of his own star power.

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The New Yorker
@NewYorker24 Jan 2024
A new book details denunciations, dissents, proposals, and power plays from an era of the Supreme Court previously lost to obscurity. nyer.cm/E6SpxBb
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Pinta@Pinta3900044219 Jan 2024
👄Ella se apartaba del mundo, Cuando se sumergía en la lectura. La poesía era su pasión. Cuando ella leía un hermoso poema, Su corazón palpitaba con locura y su cuerpo se transportaba. Ella no se daba cuenta que ella también era poesía. 🖌 #LYF15
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George Orwell est mort il y a 74 ans. Dans son roman 1984, il invente la "novlangue", un langage dont le but est l’anéantissement de la pensée, l'asservissement du peuple. Réflexions sur le pouvoir des mots. ➡️ l.franceculture.fr/jjZ
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Andedo...@Andedo176 Jan 2024
Afternoon Evening Enjoy
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The new movie from Yorgos Lanthimos, “Poor Things,” starring Emma Stone, is about the act of knowing. In it, Stone takes a cautionary fable of the early machine age and crowns it with a generosity of spirit. nyer.cm/Hi4v8zk
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Ramin Nasibov
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Umberto Eco’s enduringly popular manual “How to Write a Thesis” is more than a guide for undergraduates; the book is a celebration of the magical process of self-realization. nyer.cm/cEUathM

A Guide to Thesis Writing and a Guide to Life

Writing and research manuals like Umberto Eco’s “How to Write a Thesis” offer a vision of our best selves, Hua Hsu wrote, in 2015.

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#Musica #Music #Musique Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonata per pianoforte n. 30 in Mi magg. Op. 109, III° mov., Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo youtu.be/muWxlTEZh-I?feature… 🎨 Claude Monet
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Joyce Carol Oates has long been concerned with the question of personality. She once told her friend Susan Sontag that “the pages you perfect, day after day,” will be the “means by which you define your deeper and more permanent self.” nyer.cm/XFMLxwf
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Jon@Cassini_jon9 Dec 2023
Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary (1853 - 1919) 
Coaching in Athens at New Moon, 
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Ernest Hemingway’s short stories are striking for their humanity, their feeling for human fragility. nyer.cm/cWhj3b0

A Death in the Afternoon

What stands out in Ernest Hemingway’s short stories is their humanity, their feeling for human fragility.

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Monica AS
@_monica_as3 Dec 2023
“When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.” ~ Boris Pasternak 🎨 Annie Ovenden
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This year’s Booker Prize winner, “Prophet Song,” by Paul Lynch, is a novel set in Dublin during a political crisis. Benjamin Markovits takes a look. nyti.ms/414RhRf

Life Descends Into Chaos in This Year’s Booker Prize Winner (Published 2023)

“Prophet Song,” a novel by Paul Lynch, is set in Dublin during a political crisis.

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Sabrina Moro@SabrinaMoro924 Nov 2023
Gyokudō Kawai 🎨 ( 24 November 1873 - 30 June 1957 ). A Mountain in Autumn Rain, 1950.
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Philip Glass’s Piano Etudes: A Diary of an Influential Life nyti.ms/47C1xCB

Philip Glass’s Piano Etudes: A Diary of an Influential Life (Published 2023)

Begun to improve his own technique, piano exercises that Glass wrote over decades are the subject this month of a new book, a concert and dances.

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FM22@AngeloC1875735719 Nov 2023
Loui Jovier Art
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Arthur Conan Doyle, entre la raison et les esprits ➡️ l.franceculture.fr/dow
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