Staging Scenes from the Operas of Donizetti and Verdi: A Guide for Directors and Performers
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In Staging Scenes from the Operas of Donizetti and Verdi, veteran opera director William Ferrara...
How to Build Dry-Stacked Stone Walls: Design and Build Walls, Bridges and Follies Without Mortar
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How to Build Dry-Stacked Stone Walls shows how to build a wall using the traditional method of dry...
Staging the Trials of Modernism: Testimony and the British Modern Literary Consciousness
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In Staging the Trials of Modernism, Dale Barleben explores the interactions among literature,...
Milleen (47 KP) rated The Last Mile (Amos Decker #2) in Books
Nov 14, 2018
A Number
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With her finger as always on the pulse of our deepest concerns, in "A Number", Caryl Churchill turns...
The Challenges of European Governance in the Age of Economic Stagnation, Immigration, and Refugees
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This book examines the political and legal challenges of regional governance of the 28 countries of...
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Last Samurai (2003) in Movies
Feb 12, 2018
Clearly wants to be a lavish Dances With Wolves-style epic drama; works well enough as a historical adventure with some well-staged action sequences, but not quite as moving or powerful as it would really like. Every Japanese person I know who's seen this movie seems to think it's supposed to be a hilarious deadpan comedy. Someone should tell Cruise it's bad manners to organise a kamikaze charge and not die alongside everyone else.