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France is the home of fine wine, great cheese and Gallic humor where a restaurant chef is as likely to chase you out of a restaurant for asking for ketchup as he is to feed you cordon bleu cuisine. Notoriously fickle, with a language that has a sexy accent but sounds like someone is speaking [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 12:01 am
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Of loved movie characters, a few have stolen our hearts with the kind of admiration and unrivaled awe that other movie characters are not so easily able to achieve. The greatest of these movie characters are ones that most of us have met over the years (or at least should try to get to know if [...]
Posted by Natalie Jaro on Monday, October 11, 2010 at 12:01 am
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The perennial popularity of stories where star-crossed lovers struggle to be together have been with us since Adam and Eve. The following list has excluded some of the classics such as Tristan und Isolde, Orpheus and Eurydice and Joanie Loves Chaci. However, despite those omissions, it still covers some of the greatest literary romances of [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, October 13, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Filed under Literature · Tagged adam and eve, Books, Bronte, Buffy, Elizabeth, films, gone with the wind, Gregor, heathcliffe, Isolde, Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, Joss Whedon, Literature, margaret mitchell, orpheus and eurydice, Rhett, sacher masoch, Scarlet, scarlet o hara, Sex, Shakespeare, star crossed lovers, tempestuous relationship, tomorrow is another day, Tristan, venus in furs, Victor Hugo, wuthering heights