WEB BOHEMIAN
Weekend Edition (Saturday/Sunday, August 18-19, 2012)
(1)- FINE RUSSIAN JOURNALISM -- Marina Akhmedova spent four days in the
company of drug users in Yekaterinburg, central Russia, and was met with a
picture of desperation, punctured by love, humanity and misplaced hope.
(2)- LEGUME-BASED ARTILLERY -- This 11/2/1907 Fargo Forum and Daily
Republican story satisfies our inexplicable craving for 105-year-old news about
angry farmers shooting annoying children with peas on Halloween.
(3)- SMART BIRDS – The African Grey parrot may be the brainiest of them all — a
highly intelligent bird that we know now can make inferences and reason like a
three-year-old child.
(4)- NEWLY DEFINITIVE VERSION -- In correcting some 1,500 inaccuracies,
Prof. Menachem Cohen, 84, has carried out the first major textual overhaul of
the Old Testament in 500 years.
(5)- COMES AROUND, GOES AROUND -- A bra maker said its research indicates
women's lingerie fashions follow a 40-year cycle of vintage styles coming back
into vogue. One example: 1950s padded bras making a 1990s comeback.
(6)- THERE WAS A TIME WHEN THE OLYMPICS ---In the modern Olympics’ early days,
official medals were awarded for painting, sculpture, architecture, literature
and music, alongside those for the athletic competitions.
(7)- ISOLATIONISM
– It’s often portrayed as intellectually bankrupt, a redoubt for idealists,
nationalists, xenophobes, and fools. Yet the term (a political epithet) has
deep roots in American political culture.
(8)- EDWARD GOREY -- the drawings he made throughout his life
capture a whole little personal world, “equally amusing and sombre, nostalgic
at the same time as claustrophobic, at the same time poetic and poisoned.”
(9)- HARD TO READ – Here resides a list devoted to identifying
the hardest and most frustrating books ever written, as well as what made them
so hard and frustrating.
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