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Roald Dahl remains the most popular children's author among young adults, a survey has found. JK Rowling, whose first Harry Potter book sparked a publishing sensation when it hit the bookshelves 10 years ago, is only the fourth most popular author. Second and third place were taken by CS Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia series, and Peter Pan creator JM Barrie. Prolific children's writer Enid Blyton, famous for the Famous Five series and the Noddy books, only made 10th place.She was scooped by Anthony Horowitz, creator of the Alex Rider teenage spy novels, followed by bestselling writer Jacqueline Wilson. Dr Seuss, whose most famous book was The Cat in the Hat, was seventh, followed by His Dark Materials author Philip Pullman and Francesca Simon, author of the Horrid Henry books. The survey of 16- to 34-year-olds was commissioned by ITV3 to mark its Roald Dahl weekend on September 22. Roald Dahl literary estate director Amanda Conquy said: "It's always great to...

In one of the many (many) startling scenes in the new HBO drama Tell Me You Love Me , which debuted Sunday night, a young, attractive married couple sit side by side on a sofa, watching a boxing match on TV. The wife unbuckles her husband’s pants, and after some noisy kissing, she pulls away and says, “I want to see it.” She sees it and— holy cow —so do we. Over the past few months, the breathy buzz on the show—about married and almost-married couples in various stages of intimacy-related despair and dishabille—has centered on the amount of its frank sexual content. And it was there all right—from minute two, when a man masturbates under the covers, to real-time full-monty couplings, to angelic, white-haired Jane Alexander kissing meaningfully down her husband’s graying chest. Throughout the hour, as bodies moved and eyefuls of flesh and bikini waxes flashed, it was still the sight of that erect penis being clinically manipulated into a graphic orgasm that prompted did-I-jus...

A couple of weeks ago, I attended a European Union summit meeting for the first time in nineteen years. Wandering through the bowels of the new Council of Ministers building in Brussels, I felt suddenly like that great Dutch-American Rip Van Winkle. He woke after a twentyyear nap in the Catskill Mountains to find that the thirteen British colonies had become the United States. Returning to my old hunting grounds in Brussels after nearly two decades, I was confronted with a bewildering New Europe. The twelve EU member states had become twenty-seven. Germany was now one country, not two, represented by a tough little woman with a beautiful smile. There were briefing rooms for the national delegations of countries that had not existed nineteen years before, such as Slovakia, Slovenia, and the Czech Republic. There were offices guarded by the national flags of countries that had been separated from the EU by minefields and barbed wire in 1988: Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania. Ther...

There is magic in the last line of The Lord of the Rings. To recap: the stolidly courageous Sam Gamgee, having watched his best friend, Frodo Baggins, sail towards the Grey Havens and into a kind of death, is left to walk back to the Shire where he finds his wife and children waiting with the promise of a quiet life far from the slaughter of the War of the Ring. J. R. R. Tolkien finishes with the sentence: “‘Well, I’m back,’ he said”. It is a touchingly understated conclusion which returns the prose to the homely simplicity of the inaugural chapters after the archaic epic mode of The Return of the King. However, as Diana Pavlac Glyer tells us in her scholarly and perceptive study The Company They Keep, this is not how Tolkien originally intended to finish his trilogy. He had in mind a further epilogue, set sixteen years after the events of the rest of the book, which would have provided another, superfluous glimpse into Gamgee’s domesticity. In this ultimately excised version, a grey...

Here's a horrific quote: "The United States is the only advanced economy in the world that does not guarantee its workers paid vacation." Ouch! The statement is from a recent report, No-Vacation Nation , written by Rebecca Ray and John Schmitt of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. The report paints a sorry picture of the American workplace which columnist Ezra Klein has expanded upon in his rather depressing analysis, Keeping up is Getting us Down . " Every other advanced economy offers a government guarantee of paid vacation to its workforce," Klein states, rattling off the number of days guaranteed in Britain (20), Germany (24), and France (30). And then, just to make us Americans feel worse, he throws out a couple more statistics to really hammer the point home. 10% of full-time employees in America get no vacation 60% of part-time employees in America get no vacation Those who do get vacation take only 12 days a year on average Klein explains ...

São 285 peças, entre desenhos, esculturas e quadros originais. Exposição inédita em Portugal. A exposição é da Fondazione Metropolitan de Milão, Itália. Vão estar patente ao público algumas das obras mais emblemáticas de Salvador Dali da Colecção Clot (obras originais certificadas). Mulher Nua subindo a escada, Cavalo com joquéi tropeçando, Homem sobre Golfinho, Perseo, Trajano a Cavalo, são as esculturas monumentais que os portuenses e todos os visitantes vão poder admirar no Palácio do Freixo (Estrada Nacional 108, 4300 Porto). Dom Quixote Sentado, Elefante Cósmico, Gala Gradiva, Mercúrio, Divindade Mostruosa são outras esculturas que poderão ser vistas nesta mostra. Quanto aos trabalhos gráficos, destaque para a Bíblia Sagrada, composta por 150 litografias, Fausto (12 litografias), Gargantua e Pantagruel (25 litografias), Tricórnio (20 xilografias), entre outras obras deste pragmático artista espanhol. 01 de Agosto a 04 de Novembro de 2007 - PALÁCIO DO FREIXO - Porto ...

A Bíblia: Toda a Palavra de Deus (sintetizada) de Adam Long, Reed Martin e Austin Tichenor, é um espectáculo que irá certamente pôr todos os portugueses a rir a bandeiras despregadas, e que resulta duma leitura muito particular (mesmo!) e divertida dos principais episódios narrados nos Livros Bíblicos, do Génesis ao Apocalipse. Esta nova encenação de Juvenal Garcês, com as representações duma velocidade de cortar a respiração de João Craveiro, Paulo Duarte Ribeiro e Tobias Monteiro, desmistifica sem desrespeitar e parodia sem satirizar algumas das principais questões suscitadas pelos textos sagrados e pelo cristianismo, pedindo apenas ao público uma "suspensão da seriedade e uma entrega sem pudor ao discurso humorístico da obra, à genialidade da encenação e à qualidade irrepreensível das interpretações". Para comodidade dos nossos Espectadores , a partir de agora, e para todos os espectáculos da CTC , temos bilhetes à venda na Bilheteira do Teatro-Estúdio Mário Viegas , em P...

Kira Cochrane despairs in The Guardian: Flicking through the newspapers yesterday I was stopped in my tracks by an image of the new Vanity Fair cover. This shows Nicole Kidman - two-time Oscar nominee, one-time winner - with a military cap on her head and an open-mouthed expression. Said expression is, I guess, supposed to be a Monroe-esque pout, but just makes her look (though it pains me to say it) completely bloody vacant. Beneath this vacuous visage, for no apparent reason, she is holding her shirt open to expose her white, bra-clad breasts. There is something strangely passionless and perfunctory about the pose - as though, off camera, a doctor has just shown up and told her it's time for an impromptu mammary examination. (Or, indeed, the magazine editor has just told her she is off the cover unless she gets on with it and gets 'em out.) "Nicole Kidman Bares All" screams the coverline. And this image arrives just a few days after the release of photogr...

Esta iniciativa decorre simultaneamente em várias cidades do Mundo e consiste na leitura colectiva de poemas de autores zimbabueanos em espaços públicos, nas rádios locais ou nacionais, e é promovida pela Fundação Peter Weiss for Art and Politics no âmbito do Festival Internacional de Literatura de Berlim (de 4 a 16 de Setembro nesta cidade). Na quarta-feira dia 12, o espaço Ler Devagar/Eterno Retorno em Braço de Prata (antiga Fábrica Braço de Prata ) acolhe o evento: 20h: documentário «Sisters in Law» de Kim Longinotto e Florence Ayisi, rodado nos Camarões, vencedor do Prémio Art et Essai do Festival de Cannes em 2005 e visionado em mais de 100 festivais (legendado em inglês); 21h30 : leitura colectiva de poesia do Zimbabué pelos artistas Luanda Cozetti (Couple Coffee), Chullage, Meirinho, Nástio Mosquito, Belen Adamo e o editor Tiago Gomes, com ambiente musical da caboverdiana Danae. E, ainda, conversa com o jornalista Jorge Heitor (Público) e o advogado Mamadou Ba (SOS Ra...

THE DARING BOOK FOR GIRLS is the manual for everything that girls need to know –– and that doesn't mean sewing buttonholes! Whether it's female heroes in history, secret note–passing skills, science projects, friendship bracelets, double dutch, cats cradle, the perfect cartwheel or the eternal mystery of what boys are thinking, this book has it all. But it's not just a guide to giggling at sleepovers –– although that's included, of course! Whether readers consider themselves tomboys, girly–girls, or a little bit of both, this book is every girl's invitation to adventure.

College fraternities, long known as bastions of grace and decorum, are these days featuring yet one more accoutrement of scholastic refinement - the stripper pole. The most important campus development since the keg, the stripper pole shines like a luminous totem festooning the halls of the American academy. It's erected for a single, glorious purpose: To get drunken chicks to do slutty stuff. As students convene on college campuses, many will be partying on and around sturdy items such as the portable Lil' Mynx dance poles, manufactured with love in Fresno, Calif. Easy to install - and easy to take down when parents and alumni show up - the poles are au courant. "Not in Philly, maybe," Mynx publicist Jenn Hoffman says, doubtless inspiring relief among local deans. "But in a lot of schools like Arizona State University and New York University. A very good percentage of frat houses now have them." Retailing for $259 to $600, poles are available in schoo...

Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking revealed his desire on Monday to make "real science as exciting as science fiction" as he launched a new children's book about the cosmos. "It is easier to explain things to children because they have open minds and are eager to learn," he told reporters at the University of Cambridge, in England, where he is a professor. Planned trilogy George's Secret Key to the Universe , the first book in a planned trilogy, explains the workings of the Solar System, asteroids, black holes – one of Hawking's favourite topics – and other celestial bodies with the help of a set of young heroes. It will be released in French on Thursday, and in English a week later, and is set to be sold in 29 countries. The second book in the trilogy will be published next year. The book was written with his daughter Lucy, who came up with the idea, and Christophe Galfard, the first Frenchman to write a doctorate thesis on Hawking's observations. ...

To understand Naypyidaw (interchangeably spelled Naypyitaw or Nay Pyi Taw, and translated from Burmese into “Abode of Kings”), it helps to know some of the situation in Burma, the country to which it now serves as capital city. The poorest country in southeast Asia, and home to the world’s longest-running civil war (infighting has been ripping state lines to shreds since independence from Britain was granted in 1948), the universally-abhorred military government is fighting a difficult war with the very people it should be protecting. A progressive democratic party was elected in 1990 but prevented in the aftermath from taking power, its Nobel Prize-winning leader put under a house arrest that lasts to this day. The GDP has become stagnant. Cities are in shambles while in the countryside thousands die every year from starvation. And in a greenfield miles from anywhere sits a surreal suburban fantasyland where tap water is drinkable and electricity runs freely. From Sequential One blog

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All along history, the task accomplished by translators has acquired an extraordinary importance in the development and transmission of the Cultural Heritage of Humankind. As creators of alphabets, of writing systems, of dictionaries, of lexical coining or of the first writing manifestations in a large number of national literatures, translators have been obliged to overcome many obstacles comprising not only the inherent features of their job, but also the misunderstanding and even the persecution by society and authorities. A summary account of the landmarks in translation history implies the making of a cartography of our civilisation, of the different phases gone through in the construction of the fundamental and democratic values, of scientific progress and humanistic knowledge. Translators, as cultural mediators, have always become essential actors in the struggle for mutual understanding and peace between nations and linguistic communities. This linguistic diversity is one of...