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She's such a famous interior decorator she goes by one name: Clodagh She designed Robert Redford's Manhattan townhouse and regularly revamps the offices of entertainment-industry bigwigs. Total Design introduces readers to her design philosophy--a highly ambitious and authoritative set of quasi-spiritual suggestions about space that reveal why she's such a guru. In the introduction she writes, "Often when we contemplate a space and how it can be improved we begin with the material (What kind of flooring do I want? Should a buy a new sofa or re-cover the old one?) rather than the spiritual (How can this room help me live better? What am I not getting from my home that I could be getting?)." Incorporating ideas as varied as feng shui, aromatherapy, and color therapy, Clodagh resembles a New Age spiritualist--borrowing elements from various religions to form her own system. Her book is as much about quality of life as it is about what to buy, and much of her advice is indispensable: where to hang "provocative" artwork (in walk-by areas), what to do with "troublesome" windows that look out on the neighbor's house (replace clear with filtered glass), and how to contemplate your space so you understand its virtues. This is an ideal book for amateur designers or do-it-yourself types seeking serious inspiration.--Emily White.
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This is both a cookbook and a culinary tour of Ireland, celebrating the diversity and quality of local food and showing how the experience of shopping at farmers' markets can transform your everyday cooking. It features over 100 recipes that range from new takes on traditional Irish favourites to dishes with more Mediterranean flavours, always emphasising seasonality, local produce and fresh ingredients - the return to slow food. It includes a guide to the best farmers' markets in each region of Ireland, with profiles of some of the farmers and producers bringing their food sensations to market. As well as using ingredients available at the market, recipes also recreate some of the breads, cakes, chutneys available, like Robert Ditty's potato farls and Mrs Twomey's wellington squares - so even if you can't visit the markets you can still enjoy a taste of Ireland. It includes recipes for everyday cooking - Fried mackerel, Cork Beef Stew - as well as more unusual offerings that reflect the wider range of produce available at farmers' markets, such as Roast Teal (duck) with Spiced Apples..
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Title: The Expression of the Inexpressible in Eugenio Montale's Poetry: Metaphor, Negation, and Silence.(Book Review)
Author: Rebecca, Dame West
Publication:The Modern Language Review (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2003
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
Volume: 98 Issue: 2 Page: 481-482

Article Type: Book Review

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In this fascinating and colorful book, researcher and performer John McCormick focuses on the marionette world of Victorian Britain between its heyday after 1860 and its waning years from 1895 to 1914. Situating the rich and diverse puppet theatre in the context of entertainment culture, he explores both the aesthetics of these dancing dolls and their sociocultural significance in their life and time.

The history of marionette performances is interwoven with live-actor performances and with the entire gamut of annual fairs, portable and permanent theatres, music halls, magic lantern shows, waxworks, panoramas, and sideshows. McCormick has drawn upon advertisements in the Era, an entertainment paper, between the 1860s and World War I, and articles in the World's Fair, a paper for showpeople, in the first fifty years of the twentieth century, as well as interviews with descendants of the marionette showpeople and close examinations of many of the surviving puppets.

McCormick begins his study with an exploration of the Victorian marionette theatre in the context of other theatrical events of the day, with proprietors and puppeteers, and with the venues where they performed. He further examines the marionette's position as an actor not quite human but imitating humans closely enough to be considered empathetic; the ways that physical attributes were created with wood, paint, and cloth; and the dramas and melodramas that the dolls performed. A discussion of the trick figures and specialized acts that each company possessed, as well as an exploration of the theatre's staging, lighting, and costuming, follows in later chapters. McCormick concludes with a description of the last days of marionette theatre in the wake of changing audience expectations and the increasing popularity of moving pictures.

This highly enjoyable and readable study, often illuminated by intriguing anecdotes such as that of the Armenian photographer who fell in love with and abducted the Holden company's Cinderella marionette in 1881, will appeal to everyone fascinated by the magic of nineteenth-century theatre, many of whom will discover how much the marionette could contribute to that magic..
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Locating the greatest Italian poet of the twentieth century, Eugenio Montale, firmly within European Modernism, this book examines the struggle with language that is central to his work. In its unravelling of the inexpressibility paradox, the book offers a new reading of Montale's early verse, and reveals how in articles and metapoetic comments Montale gives us insights into both his poetics and the whole process of expression..
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