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5/12/2023 0 Comments And So It Goes by Linda Ellerbee![]() ![]() For her higher education, she later on enrolled at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, however, she dropped-out in 1964. She holds American nationality and her ethnicity is White.Įllerbee attended River Oaks Elementary School, Lanier Middle School, and Lamar High School in Houston. Her zodiac sign is Leo and people of this zodiac loves to be in the limelight. ![]() She is an American and belongs to White ethnicity. Linda Ellerbee was born Linda Jane Smith on August 15, 1944, in Bryan, Texas. The news reporter-turned-author, Linda retired in 2015 after 51 years of successful career. She is, however, mostly known for her work on NBC News Overnight which was considered as "possibly the best written and most intelligent news program ever." Besides, she is also an author and some of her popular books include Move on: Adventures in the Real World and Girl Reporter. correspondent and as the television host of the popular Nickelodeon show Nick News with Linda Ellerbee. She has worked at NBC News as a reporter on The Today Show, as Washington D.C. Lina Ellerbee is considered as one of the legends of the American journalism world. Linda Ellerbee of CNN humorously described her personal background leading to a career in television journalism. Linda Ellerbees timeless look at Television journalism is even more important in 21st Century as Media Conglomerates rule the airwaves. ![]() ![]() ![]() This hidden quarter of the city, somewhere between the Inns of Court and the river, somehow exists outside time and space as we understand them. Michael meets Friar Isidore, an honest-to-god monk, with a tonsure and everything, who introduces him to Alsacia, the secret heart of London. And this, as they say, is where the story really starts. ![]() From the printing presses around Fleet Street to the coffee bars of 1950s Soho, young Michael received an eclectic education on the streets that saw him become, by the age of 16, a published author, aspiring skiffle musician and editor of Tarzan Adventures magazine. Few children, he writes, could have enjoyed growing up as much as he did. ![]() Moorcock’s first memories are of the Blitz and a childhood spent in the tangle of streets that mark the border between the City and the West End. It’s fitting indeed that Michael Moorcock should become his own unreliable narrator. The fictional elements of the book are, confusingly enough, about exactly the same subjects. ![]() The reality in The Whispering Swarm is the life and career of one Michael Moorcock, writer, guitarist, Londoner and working-class hero, plus the magnificent city in which he grew up. So it stands to reason that, having played around with notions of time, space and genre, he should do the same with reality and fiction. Michael Moorcock never saw a boundary he didn’t want to cross, blur or dispense with altogether. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Life of Pi by Yann Martel![]() It takes a team of eight human puppeteers, alternating duties, to bring Richard Parker to theatrical life as the great cat prowls, shudders, leaps and purrs. The glory of this creation is the tiger, of course, whose comical name, Richard Parker-the result of a bureaucratic mix-up with its hunter-represents one of Life of Pi ’s running themes: the thinness of the line between man from beast, especially when survival is at stake. Animal puppetry, lights, action, music and sound flood the theater, especially in the show’s second half stage magic crashes out then gently recedes, tugging us into its currents. Its sea-tossed story-about a shipwrecked Indian teenager named Pi (Hiran Abeysekera) who spends hundreds of days afloat in the Pacific in the company of a Bengal tiger-demands imagination, and director Max Webster provides it in abundance. ![]() Adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti from Yann Martel’s bestselling 2001 novel, which also inspired a 2012 film by Ang Lee, this British import has been mounted to spectacular effect. Some plays offer a slice of life Life of Pi is a wedge of fantasy. ![]() |
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