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Tag Archives: Graham Greene
secret agent cult: lawless in the struggle
…In fact as in fiction, the spy is the indispensable person of our time. Yet their activity poses a deadly threat to the open society… …In all secret service literature, fiction and nonfiction alike, there is an ambiguous and extremely … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Bennett screenwriter, Compton Mackenzie, E. Howard Hunt, Graham Greene, John Buchan, John Gielgud, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, Somerset Maugham
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cold war: down honkin & tonkin way
What exactly was the Cold War? How did it start, who was responsible and could it have been avoided?… …South of the Chinese border, in an ancient province of the French empire, Tonkin, not yet generally known by its new … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged French Vietnam War, Gar Alperovitz, Graham Greene, Graham Greene The Quiet American, Henry Roberts Russian Institute Columbia, Ho Chi Minh, Leon Blum French premier, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Capa, Sam Huntington, The Cold War
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waugh: enjoying the little box
Phantom voices.Evelyn Waugh was a strange bird: the sort of upper class British snobbism that has been washed away; the reactionary conservative with an almost paranoid fear of the “other” with particular emphasis on Jews, who, based on his own … Continue reading
Door prize: will the real Joan please identify herself
There is the strange and mysterious episode of the “false Joan of Arc” – or “false Joans of Arc,” for we cannot be quite sure now whether there were one or several pretenders…. Men, we may conjecture, did not quite … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Antonin Artaud, Carolyn Gage, Graham Greene, Jean le Maistre vice inquisitor, jean seberg, Joan of Arc The Maid, Jules Quicherat, Madame Pickwick, Mark twain Joan of Arc, otto preminger, Perceval de Cagny, Pierre Cauchon Bishop of Beauvais, Scherrer painter, Susan Crane, The Vigils of Charles the VII, The Vigils of Charles VII, Trial of Joan of Arc
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phantom film maker
It turns out slippery Sam the shock doc maker may not be who he purports to be. That is, an American-Israeli who put together “The Innocence of Muslims” for a a claimed mere $7 million, funded by “a hundred jews”. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Abu Yahya al-Libi, Ambassador Stevens Libya, Ayman al Zawahri, Christopher Stevens, Debbi Schussel, Debbie Schlussel, Graham Greene, Jeffrey Goldberg, Jeffrey Goldberg The Atlantic, Orson Welles, Pastor Terry Jones, Sam Bacile, Steve Klein and Sam Bacile, Terry Jones Koran burning, The Third Man, USS Laboon
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odd couple: moons and mountains and source of the matter
Captain Sir Richard Burton and the “Speke-easy” … Burton went to Africa in late 1858 with the thirty year old John Speke, who had been wounded with him in Somaliland. This was to prove a disastrous choice. Speke was a … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Arthur Symons, Bob Rafelson, Burton and Speke, Captain Sir Richard Burton, Captain Sir Richard Burton Nile River, Discovery of Nile River Source, Graham Greene, Graham Greene The Heart of the Matter, Iain Glen, Isabel Arundell, John Hanning Speke, John Speke, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Rupert Everett, Rupert Everett Captain Sir Richard Burton, Sir Roderick Murchison, Thomas Wright, Thomas Wright biographer, Walter Phelps Dodge, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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lets drink to that
The narcissism of small differences. When religion meets politics the poetics of demagoguery can launch a thousand careers. Anti-Catholic sentiment in the New World was an almost original sin of the founding settlers. All that was missing was a blood … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged alfred e. smith presidential candidate 1928, Christopher Hitchens, daniel okrent, david goldfield, Graham Greene, Howard Zinn, James Gillray, ken burns prohibition, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, michael sheldon, Prohibition period, rory gallagher, Thomas Nast, Voltaire
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politically sophisticated thrillers
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) … Eric Ambler (1909-1998)! British writer Ambler is widely regarded—with Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene—as one of the pioneers of the politically sophisticated (especially espionage) thriller. Ambler published 19 … Continue reading
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Tagged Alec Guinness, alexander korda, anthony george, Arnold Bennett, charles rodda, david lean director, e. mcKnight kauffer, eliot reed novels, eric ambler, glynis johns, Graham Greene, hammond innes, jesse marinoff reyes, joseph cotton, nicholas monsarrat, Orson Welles, orson welles mercury company, rank organization, raoul walsh, sebastian cabot, Somerset Maugham, Somerset Maughan
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TROPICS OF THE MIND: Forgotten Memories of an Ancestral Darkness
His is the simple and yet incredible story of an unworldly petit bourgeois who painted in an introverted, almost autistic manner. He himself cannot have been fully aware of what he was doing; he did not distinguish between his pictures … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Alfred Jarry, Arsene Alexandre, Asperger Syndrome, Camille Pissarro, Charles Baudelaire, Cindy Sherman, Claude Monet, Cornelia Stabenow, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Edmond Frank, Elena L. Grigorenko, Emile Zola, Fernand Leger, Gerhard Richter, Graham Greene, Graham Greene The Heart of the Matter, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Rousseau, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Henry Certigny, Jackson Pollock, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jill Fell, Joseph Brummer, Kate Bush, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Nancy Pinard, Odilon Redon, Pam Rosenthal, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Paul Klee, Paul Verlaine, Pierre Loti, Richard Jinman, Richard Powers, Robert Delaunay, Roger Shattuck, Salvador dali, Shakespeare, Vincent Van Gogh, Wilhelm Uhde
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