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Richard Nelson Current dies at 100; Lincoln scholar fought distortions of 16th president
Richard Nelson Current, a prolific and award-winning Abraham Lincoln scholar who for decades was a leader in his field and helped shape a more realistic view of the iconic president, has died of complications of Parkinson's disease. He was 100....Tags: Parkinson's Disease, Daniel Webster, Gore Vidal, Abraham Lincoln, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Nobel laureates in literature: the good, the bad and the Nazi
Jacket CopyWhen the Nobel Prize in literature was announced this month, the name "Herta Muller" met much American head-scratching. Muller, an ethnically German Romanian who writes of trials of living under a repressive dictatorship, has a strong reputation in Europe... -
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Dreamer and Dissenter
Ingar Sletten Kolloen
Yale University Press: 378 pp., $40
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The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance
Monika {Zcaron}agar
University of Washington Press: 344 pp., $30 paper
In the spring of 1891, 31-year-...Tags: Adolf Hitler, Nazi Party, Literature, Oslo (Norway), Arts and Culture
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Shiver me timbers R.L. Stine, author of the beloved "Goosebumps" series of creepy, crawly stories, is heading to "HorrorLand." The ghoulish theme park will be the springboard for 12 new tales, with Scholastic Books planning to release the first two...Tags: Elections, NPR, U.S. Supreme Court, Truman Capote, Punishment
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Taking another look at Oscar nominees
Tribune movie criticLast Tuesday's Oscar nominations were both exciting and intriguing -- and only intermittently outrageous. But they remind us that Academy Award races are usually taken seriously for the wrong reasons (their possible commercial effects) and not seriously...Tags: Elections, Bette Davis, Peter Jackson, Brazil, Documentary (genre)
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TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday November 21, 1997 A little girl approaches a tall, distinguished-looking old man, throws a book at him and, saying her mother told her to, asks, "Why did you become a traitor?" In his remarkably compelling 160-minute "Hamsun," veteran Swedish...Tags: Adolf Hitler, England, Family, Germany, Sweden
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Movie review: 'The Green Butchers'
TRIBUNE MOVIE CRITIC3 stars (out of 4) Anders Thomas Jensen's "The Green Butchers" is a macabre, oddly gripping Danish dark comedy that introduces us to two small town butchers who unintentionally become murderers and then convert their unknowing customers to cannibalism....Tags: Death, Mads Mikkelsen, Cinema Industry, Billy Wilder, Paul Bartel
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