Wife of Huw Edwards names him as BBC presenter at centre of allegations | BBC

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1402 words  |  Kary Bruening

BBC This article is more than 6 months oldWife of Huw Edwards names him as BBC presenter at centre of allegationsThis article is more than 6 months oldNews comes shortly after Met says there is no evidence suspended presenter committed criminal offence Huw Edwards has been named as the BBC presenter suspended over allegations he paid for explicit images, after a media scandal that has rocked the national broadcaster and left him in hospital. [Read More]

A Horse at Night: On Writing by Amina Cain review reading as a sensual act

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  693 words  |  Kary Bruening

The ObserverLiterary criticismReviewThe novelist’s atmospheric evocation of favourite scenes from others’ books strips them of their weight Books about reading other books are a genre where the act of reading is always, unfailingly, romanticised. Amina Cain’s first foray into nonfiction, A Horse at Night, is no different. Two years ago, she wrote a remarkable novel, Indelicacy, about a cleaner in an art museum wanting to produce art herself. Now she has written a book-length essay where she reads fiction, (and watches cinema, and stares at paintings) not for the value of the stories they tell, but for the landscapes they portray. [Read More]

Group F: Japan v Brazil | World Cup 2006

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  17 minutes  |  3534 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Group F: Japan v Brazil Tamada 34; Ronaldo 45, 80, Juninho 53, Gilberto 59 Mike Adamson Thursday June 22, 2006 A bowl of ramen. But who's the guy with the chopsticks? PreambleHello there. This is a match which proves correct the theory that Brazil are everybody's second favourite team. Normally this is a load of nonsense, because Brazil are Brazilians' (first) favourite team. Obviously. But not today. For, you see, everyone wants Japan to win - not just those in the land of the samurai, instant ramen, Godzilla, sushi, Mount Fuji, the rising sun and canned hot drinks; not just neutrals everywhere supporting the underdogs; but even Brazilians, too. [Read More]

Harold Russell | | The Guardian

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  703 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

ObituaryHarold RussellBrave actor whose artificial hands helped him win two OscarsThe ironic title of William Wyler's multiple Oscar-winning film, The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946), refers to the fact that many servicemen had "the best years of their lives" in wartime. The picture focused on three second world war veterans returning to civilian life with severe disabilities. One of them, Homer Parrish, a young sailor, has had both hands, lost in combat, replaced with articulated hooks. [Read More]

Jennifer Lawrence and Rihanna among celebrity victims of hacked nude photos | Privacy

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  841 words  |  Valentine Belue

Privacy This article is more than 9 years oldJennifer Lawrence and Rihanna among celebrity victims of hacked nude photosThis article is more than 9 years oldLawyers for Lawrence and Kate Upton warn of prosecution over 'outrageous privacy violation' but experts say more photos likelyA series of high-profile stars including Jennifer Lawrence, Rihanna and Jenny McCarthy have fallen victim to one of the biggest celebrity privacy breaches in history, resulting in photographs and videos apparently showing them in the nude being widely circulated on the internet. [Read More]

Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 1910-40 review

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1147 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

The ObserverRoyal Academy of ArtsReviewRoyal Academy, LondonFour Zapatistas in sombreros sit astride the cow-catcher on the front of a steam train. One has no boots, two have no bullets and all are darkened by the blazing heat and dust. But these nameless fighters cock their rifles at the future, fearlessly facing whatever fate awaits them down the line. They are literally the revolutionary vanguard. This classic photograph was taken in 1911 by the German emigré Hugo Brehme. [Read More]

MM Kaye | India | The Guardian

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  900 words  |  Valentine Belue

IndiaObituaryMM KayeNovelist in harmony with the far pavilions of her Indian youthNo romance in the novels of MM Kaye, who has died aged 95, could equal her love for India - not even that between Ashton Pelham-Martyn and his Anjuli, climaxing in a sandstorm, in her bestselling work The Far Pavilions (1978). She had been born in Simla, summer capital of the Raj, the descendant of a battery commander in the siege of Delhi, and the daughter of an Indian civil service linguist and cipher expert. [Read More]

New York banker claims she was fired for being attractive | New York

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  490 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

New YorkNew York banker claims she was fired for being attractiveCitibank denies sex discrimination claim it sacked worker because her appearance 'too distracting' for male colleaguesDebrahlee Lorenzana likes to dress sharp when she goes to work – she is a fan of Burberry and Hermes and has five closets full of well-fitting dresses and skirt suits. What the New York banker hadn't anticipated was that in some workplaces looking good can earn you the sack. [Read More]

The Climbers review stirring tribute to China's mountaineering hero

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  399 words  |  Valentine Belue

FilmReviewBombastic and unsubtle this paean to Fang Wuzhou may be, but its vertiginous set-pieces put many US blockbusters to shame Produced by celebrated spectacle-peddler Tsui Hark for co-writer/director Daniel Lee, this is the latest in a run of preposterously patriotic yet enjoyable Chinese event movies. It pays stirring tribute to Fang Wuzhou, a humble, Mallory-worshipping mountaineer who led a successful ascent of Everest in May 1960, declaring “the whole world will remember this day”. [Read More]

Two bald eagles nested in a pine for years. A utility company tried to chop it down

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1691 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Bald eagles are protected under state and federal laws. Photograph: Fred Thornhill/APBald eagles are protected under state and federal laws. Photograph: Fred Thornhill/APCaliforniaThe fight to save the birds’ habitat ignites old frustrations over California’s engagement with tribal communities Up a winding northern California highway, beneath a 120ft ponderosa pine tree, a group of environmentalists gathered for some high stakes bird-watching. Everyone was waiting for a pair of bald eagles to swoop into their nest, an orb of twigs and branches balanced amid the tree’s scraggly branches. [Read More]