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The Shining (1980)
About the Show After landing a job as an off-season caretaker, Jack Torrance, an aspiring author and recovering alcoholic, drags his wife Wendy and gifted son Danny to snow-covered Colorado’s secluded Overlook Hotel, an isolated hotel, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future.
Why we fall for scams
"You don't get conned because you're stupid—you get conned because you're human." That's the message of this week's guest, Brian Brushwood. He's an Austin-based magician, podcaster, and professional skeptic. With shows like Scam Nation and The Modern Rogue, he's taught millions of us how to upgrade our B.S. detectors in a world where truth is more up for grabs than ever before.
On Welcoming: Social media - does it help or harm our sense of community?
Many people rely on local social media sources such as community-based Facebook pages to stay abreast of local news and events. Many of us likely follow not only our own community, but also neighboring communities, perhaps the community where we work and the community where we grew up. Facebook pages and other social media often provide timely information regarding news and events about local schools, governments, businesses, churches, and organizations.
Old-Fashioned Chirstmas, 2024 style
Get in the holiday spirit at Old-Fashioned Christmas in historic downtown Delano Saturday, Dec. 7. Fun activities for people of all ages will take place throughout the day in various locations. Start your day by visiting OFC Central in the lobby of city hall to pick up a schedule and map for the day. Before the event, you can visit […]
Salmon Arm author publishes children's story she wrote more than 50 years ago - Salmon Arm News Original
A Salmon Arm author’s first children's book has been published after she held on to a copy of the original draft for more than 50 years. Diane Johnson, a proud Salmon Arm Secondary School graduate, said she originally wrote the story in the early 1970s when she was attending the University of Victoria and living in a character home in Oak Bay alongside four other girls. “I still had a copy of it 50-some years later, and I finally had some time to put into trying to publish it,” she said.
Doing the accounting: Wayne County Fair 2024 livestock auction by the numbers
Diane Johnson Wayne County Extension Weeks have passed from the 2024 Wayne County Fair. The hustle and bustle has calmed down on the fairgrounds now. Families have unpacked and cleaned their tack boxes, cleaned out their campers, vehicles and trailers from all the fair supplies that were needed to take care of their animals. The OSU Extension staff has unpacked and are collecting the 4-H/FFA exhibitor thank-you cards for the buyers of their projects.
On Welcoming: This must be said
Since we started the “On Welcoming” column, we have been intentionally non-partisan. We haven’t promoted candidates campaigning for any office. We’ve acknowledged that our columns are often political, in the Greek sense that the word “politics” has to do with affairs of the city. That said, in this column in the final days before this year’s election, we feel compelled to offer the following thoughts.
Accepting my mother, finding me
Diane Johnson · Follow 2 min read · -- Accepting my mother, finding me On why I will never have the kind of relationship with my mom that I once imagined a daughter and mother should have: Today, I met up with one of my high school mentors. We had only spent a brief summer together on a mission trip, but it left a lasting impression on me. Back then, I was young, broken, and naive. Meeting her again after all these years gave us both new perspectives.
Shining - Film (1980)
Data di uscita: 07 ottobre 2024 Genere: Horror, Thriller Anno: 1980 Attori: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Anne Jackson, Tony Burton, Philip Stone, Joe Turkel, Barry Nelson Paese: Gran Bretagna Durata: 146 min Distribuzione: PIC, Warner Home Video, Laserdisc, Lucky Red (versione integrale 4K del 2024).
Books in Emily's Bag: What to Read After Watching Emily in Paris Season 4
Books in Emily’s Bag: What to Read After Watching Emily in Paris Season 4 After traveling back to Emily’s life of glitz, glam and love in the city of lights, we know you must be wondering what to do now. Part 2 of season 4 (why, oh, why do we have to wait?!) will be out in September, but what to read until then? We’ve got just the thing. Please enable javascript to add items to the cart. Please enable javascript to add items to the cart.
Complaints about golf carts? Cops get very few
PAXTON — With high gas prices, residents are seeking cheaper modes of transportation, and golf carts have become popular vehicles for getting around in local neighborhoods.
Sensational Shelley: ten memorable performances from the late Shelley Duvall • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
While her filmography isn’t as long as many would have liked it to be, Shelley Duvall cemented her lasting legacy almost immediately as a truly singular screen presence.
Calling on Wayne County 4-H members past and present to share recipes and memories
The Wayne County 4-H Advisory Committee is working to put together a one-of-a-kind cookbook. Its goal for the cookbook is to be a collection of treasured family dishes, the ones passed down through generations of 4-H members. The committee believe this could be a treasured keepsake for years to come. But they are needing some help. They are putting this together to support our Wayne County 4-H program. You can order yours today for $30, pay at the time of pick up.
SMALL BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: Power Planter Inc. seeing success, growth
RURAL LODA — The old saying, “Grandpa would be proud,” might be a bit cliché, but to Greg Niewold’s grandfather, it would be a gross understatement. In 2013, a then-30-year-old Niewold assumed control of the company his grandfather Wayne Niewold founded — Power Planter Inc. — on the sixth-generation Niewold family farm in Wall Township west of Loda. Under the leadership of the younger Niewold, sales have increased a whopping 4,000% in the 11 years since.
Community throws support into live and silent auctions to benefit Wayne County 4-H
Diane Johnson April 1, 2024 at 11:00 AM·3 min read The 2024 Wayne County 4-H Legacy Dinner was held March 21 with more than 120 guests enjoying the evening with fellow local businesses and 4-H alumni. Tom Stocksdale, a 4-H alumnus who has been serving on our Wayne County Agricultural Society since 1988, was the guest speaker.
Wayne County 4-H Legacy Dinner is just around the corner
Where has the time gone? It seems to be just flying by. But here at the OSU Extension Office the 4-H Staff and volunteers have been busy coordinating the 2024 Wayne County 4-H Legacy Dinner, that we are excited to bring you on March 21. This will be the seventh Legacy Dinner for our Wayne County 4-H program. The event will be held at the Shisler Conference Center on OSU Wooster Campus, starting with a cocktail reception at 5:30 p.m. sponsored by Troutman Vineyards.
The Rachel Incident
By Caroline O'Donoghue / June 25, 2023 at 3:11 am Share Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Twitter Hardcover $23.80 $28.00 The Rachel Incident The Rachel Incident By Caroline O'Donoghue In Stock Online Hardcover $23.80 $28.00 Caroline O’Donoghue’s debut adult novel is an outstanding coming-of-age story that is perfect for fans of Trespasses by Louise Kennedy or any of Sally Rooney’s books.
Interview: Gore Vidal
Interview first published April 17, 1977 Mr. Vidal, you recently wrote in The New York Review of Books, “When it comes to matters of prose and of fiction at this time and in this place, I am authority.” Is this authority conferred by fiat? By whom? Or is it seized? Or revealed? It is earned, mostly, but it is also a matter of temperament. The critic must know more than either writer or academic. He must also value experience and have a truth-telling nature. I think I have that.
It’s All in the Family in These New Novels From Veteran Authors
Fiction Joyce Maynard (left) and Diane Johnson (right) tackle a universal subject in their new novels.Credit...From left: Audrey Bethel; Miriam Berkley July 13, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET COUNT THE WAYS By Joyce Maynard LORNA MOTT COMES HOME By Diane Johnson Reading a family novel offers a tried-and-true method of dead reckoning with the family we didn’t choose — a means of measuring our own trajectory beside the quandaries of others navigating family dramas.
Diane Johnson’s Homecoming
Diane Johnson’s global comedy of errors. fb tw mail Print msg wa sms Bookmark June 28, 2021 Illustration by Joe Ciardiello. “We know a lesser life does not seem lesser to the person who leads one,” wrote the novelist and critic Diane Johnson in 1972. “His life is very real to him; he is not a minor figure in it.” This wise and witty insight appears in The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives, Johnson’s monograph on Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith.
Review | ‘Le Divorce’ was a ’90s sensation. Many novels later, Diane Johnson has another hit.
The opening scene is perfection. We meet the eponymous heroine of Diane Johnson’s latest novel, “Lorna Mott Comes Home,” as she rides in the back of a taxi, en route to the train station in Lyon.
A Parlour in Purley
Another report from the front line of the sex war. New York Review Books has reprinted a clever little book, published in 1972, about the first Mrs George Meredith, which is nothing so crude as a blow struck in battle: it’s a poignant needling, deflating the male creative genius – not ungenerously – and providing yet another plausible case of a wife abused by posterity.
Midlands Voices: Omaha has many positive options to boost the Old Market
Midlands Voices: Omaha has many positive options to boost the Old Market Omaha’s Old Market is designated on the National Register of Historic Places. A number of historic buildings can still be found along the brick-paved streets. RYAN SODERLIN, THE WORLD-HERALD I lived in the Old Market area for six years. I walked or bicycled there nearly every day.
We’ll Always Have Paris
I live in the center of Paris, a hundred yards from the Seine. Every day I walk along it, or cross one of the bridges that link the Left Bank to the Right. As someone who grew up along the Mississippi, I almost require the sight of a dirty brown stream to feel normal and happy, and thus am the ideal reader for Elaine Sciolino’s well-researched book The Seine: The River That Made Paris, which will tell the reader all there is to know about it.
Ray Aguilar will work in Legislature for job creation, strong economy
Ray Aguilar will work in Legislature for job creation, strong economy I’m supporting Ray Aguilar for Nebraska Legislature because Ray knows how important a strong economy and good paying jobs are for Grand Island’s hard-working families. We need a leader like Ray back in the Nebraska Legislature because he will always fight for working families, our children, seniors, veterans and the men and women that protect us.
Five Best: Diane Johnson on Novels of Betrayal
The Death of the Heart By Elizabeth Bowen (1938) 1. Upon rereading, this novel seems to me quite different from the one I first read 30 years ago. The innocent and naive orphan, 16-year-old Portia, is sheltered by circumstance from normal teenage life until she is sent to live with her half-brother and sister-in-law in London.
The Biography That Reimagined a Life-and the Genre
Diane Johnson’s The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives uses speculation and fabulation to correct the biases of history. fb tw mail Print msg wa sms Bookmark Mary Ellen Meredith, 1858, by Henry Wallis. (Ashmolean Museum / Heritage Images / Getty Images) In her introduction to the 1972 biography The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives, Vivian Gornick imagines its author, Diane Johnson, playing a board game.
Review | ‘The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith’ toppled the standardized Great Man tradition of biography
The originality and jazzy brilliance of “The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith” will be immediately apparent to anyone who starts Diane Johnson’s deeply felt portrait of a vivacious 19th-century woman virtually erased from history. Born the daughter of one novelist and later married to another, Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith (1821-1861) is now chiefly remembered, if at all, because she fled the lawful embraces of her husband for the unlawful ones of a sensitive young painter.
Plots and Counterplots
July 25, 1976 See the article in its original context from July 25, 1976, Page 165Buy Reprints TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.
Voice of America
Toni Morrison in New York City. Photograph by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. What does a girl from Lorain, Ohio, know of the world of the Virginia colonies of 1682? Toni Morrison is by definition our greatest writer, the one living American Nobelist in literature. Only eight people born here have won this august prize, and just one other was a woman (Pearl Buck).
Centre's 'Third Century' campaign ends with $210 million raised - The Advocate-Messenger
By DIANE JOHNSON Centre College The Third Century Campaign, a five-year drive to raise $200 million to support Centre’s third century of service, successfully concluded Dec. 31, 2018, on the eve of Centre’s bicentennial that begins in 2019. The campaign generated gifts and pledges of $210,184,128, more than $10 million over the goal. The campaign’s achievements include the Grissom Scholars Program for high-achieving first-generation college students, established by Marlene and J.
Behind the Kidnapping Case That Inspired ‘Lolita’
Sarah Weinman is a crime writer who has seriously researched the Nabokov connection. Her book provides extensive background for the Horner story: Among the many people she tracks down are one of Horner’s nieces and a neighbor who was instrumental in Sally’s rescue. The achievement of her impressive literary sleuthing is to bring to life a girl whose story had been lost.
Scientology: The Story
Not to be read home alone on a stormy night: Going Clear, Lawrence Wright’s scary book about Scientology and its influence, with its accounts of vindictive lawyers and apostate captives confined in the “Hole,” a building that held dozens of people at a time.
Former Centre professor to speak at opening convocation in August - The Advocate-Messenger
Nayef H. Samhat, president of Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, will be the featured speaker at Centre College’s opening convocation on Sunday, Aug. 26. His topic will be the importance of civility on college campuses. The annual ceremony marks the official start of the academic year and offers an opportunity for the whole college to meet the new members of the faculty and new first-year students. It will be a homecoming for Samhat, who taught at Centre from 1996 until 2009.
Postmodern Mom | by Diane Johnson
A decade after Grace Paley’s death, a new collection brings together fifteen of her most famous stories, with nineteen essays and thirty-four poems, all of them dealing with her characteristically large subjects: war, men, marriage, children, life and death. The fiction gathered in A Grace Paley Reader is peopled by lovable and profoundly eloquent characters living mostly in the Bronx, where Paley herself grew up.
Walk on By: A Celebration of Women’s Pleasure in Wandering a City (Published 2017)
FLÂNEUSE Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London By Lauren Elkin Illustrated. 317 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27. As a student in Paris, Lauren Elkin loved to wander aimlessly in the streets, but she needed to adapt the existing word for a person doing that, flâneur — an idle stroller, killing time — to fit her own case: feminine. But the feminine form, flâneuse, implied sitting decorously on benches rather than anything more vigorous.
Frail, Funny, and Prescient About Our Mess | by Diane Johnson
When the English writer Beryl Bainbridge died in 2010, The Guardian obituary began by noting that she was considered “one of the best novelists of her generation,” but the piece went on to say: No one was sure quite who the real Beryl Bainbridge was. Her life appeared rackety, her face ravaged, with wide eyes that looked (as the Daily Mail once noted) “as if they have seen something ghastly.” She was a great talker, a likable and amusing woman famed for falling over at parties.
'AIDS Without End' | by Diane Johnson
AIDS Without End from the August 18, 1988 issue Diane Johnson and John Murray, in their discussion of the “patient zero” story in Randy Shilts’ book And The Band Played On, say that epidemiologists no longer believe the story. They attribute this opinion to William Darrow in an interview with me.1 This is not correct; the study on which the story is based was Darrow’s; the opinion is mine. I do however feel that it should be his as well.
On the Election—III | by Benjamin M. Friedman
This year’s election is not about economics. The paramount question is whether a person exhibiting no qualification for the office—neither experience, nor preparation, nor personal character—is nonetheless to become president. Yet economics is at the heart of the matter. The reason Americans face this possibility is grounded in our country’s economic experience of the last decade and a half. And the challenge facing whoever wins will be largely economic as well.
‘The Festival of Insignificance,’ by Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera, now 86, has been living quietly in France since his defection from Czechoslovakia in 1975, seven years after the Soviet invasion that ended the so-called Prague Spring of 1968 and nearly 15 years before the Velvet Revolution that brought down the Communist regime. Earlier, he had been an enthusiastic member of the Communist Party, but had left it and become a dissident.
Who Is Not Guilty of This Vice?
Love makes the world go round, says the poet, while the cynic says it’s money; and Peter Toohey, professor of classics at the University of Calgary, constructs an entertaining argument for jealousy being the wellspring of a much greater part of our emotional lives, and of a larger proportion of literature, law, and daily existence, than we may have thought.
Let’s Go to Dystopia
Kunsthaus Zurich/© 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris Max Ernst: The Entire City, 1935–1936 Dystopian novels portray a society, usually of the future, that has arrived at the destination we’re all headed for if we don’t change now. The great dystopian novels and the scary developments they portray convince us of things that are all too possible in the society we live in, if we hadn’t spotted them for ourselves.
The Burled Arch - Iditarod
There is quite a history behind the Burled Arch. When the first musher reached Nome during the first Iditarod, there was no specific marker to show the end of the race. As legend has it, someone ran out into the street when the first musher was arriving and drizzled a package of Kool-Aid across the street to mark the finish line.
Shining (1980) | Film, Trailer, Kritik
Der einstige Lehrer und jetzige Schriftsteller Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) reist mit seiner Frau Wendy (Shelley Duvall) und seinem Sohn Danny (Danny Lloyd) in die Abgeschiedenheit der Bergwelt Colorados, um hier im über den Winter geschlossenen Overlook-Hotel als Hausmeister zu fungieren. Herrscht unterwegs auch zunächst freudige Aufbruchstimmung bei der Familie, liegt bereits in der Luft, dass sich in diesem Hotel schon äußerst mysteriöse Dinge ereignet haben.
Darn that Darning | Diane Johnson
“In the vast literature on personal conduct published in America after 1830, middle-class concerns about the problem of hypocrisy assumed the form of an extended attack on two archetypal hypocrites, the confidence man and the painted woman.” Thus Karen Halttunen in Confidence Men and Painted Women.
The Shining (1980) ⭐ 8.4 | Drama, Horror
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while...
Justice to Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë; drawing by David Levine Since their own day, which misprized Emily, the Brontës have been installed in the literary constellation in fixed relation: Emily with her colossal masterpiece, and with the moral advantages of a solitary nature and an early death, has been set far above not only the sad Anne and Branwell but also the more heroic Charlotte, whose unlucky combination of passion and candor exposed her to the strictures of her contemporaries—for being coarse and...
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