Jeremy Pena had three hits for the Astros. France, who pitched five scoreless innings. Seattle's rally spoiled the major league debut of Astros right-hander J.P. With the Astros leading 3-0, losing pitcher Rafael Montero (0-1) retired the first two batters he faced in the eighth before nine consecutive Mariners reached base. Ty France had three hits for the Mariners. Jose Caballero added a two-run double in the ninth for Seattle, and reliever Tayler Saucedo (1-0) earned his first major league victory. Crawford's three-run double sparked a seven-run eighth inning as host Seattle rallied to defeat Houston for its fifth win in its past six games. It came after Keibert Ruiz and Lane Thomas homered in the five-run uprising to give the Nationals a 7-6 lead. Miguel Castro (1-0) picked up the win after coming on to record the final out in the top of the ninth. Christian Walker added three hits, including a single in the ninth, and he and Gurriel each scored twice. Pinch hitter Pavin Smith drew a bases-loaded walk from Kyle Finnegan (1-2) later in the inning for the winning run. went 4-for-5, including a game-tying home run in the ninth inning, as Arizona rallied from coughing up a four-run lead to beat Washington in Phoenix. The Red Sox have won eight in a row after the 7-4 victory against Philadelphia Phillies
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Hilda reaches out to a sad and lonely giant while her mum, worried about the threats they've received, mulls over a move to the city of Trolberg. As Kelly Hurley notes, the Gothic is "a cyclical genre that reemerges in times of cultural stress in order to negotiate anxieties for its readership by working through them in displaced (sometimes supernaturalized) form" (194). As such, its application in contemporary literature to anxieties around environmental problems can be seen as a logical evolution. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Gothic aesthetic gave voice to societal fears about industrial and technological changes (Del Principe 2). In its origins in the eighteenth century, 6 Gothic literature deployed horror, the supernatural, the irrational, and especially the ineffable to manifest a lack of confidence in the pretensions of the Enlightenment's ability to explain the world through reason and logic. The catastrophic consequences of the abuse of pesticides become obvious and urgent in Distancia de rescate, thanks to Gothic fiction's ability to give form to invisible threats (Haber 2). This chapter explores Schweblin's engagement with Gothic fiction in Distancia de rescate to resolve the difficulties of representing agrochemical pollution and, at the same time, to criticize the tendency to privilege the visible and the immediate, which makes the silent and hidden damage of slow violence easier to ignore. There’s no overt changing of names or fictional studios used. I was very surprised to actually see acknowledgment of actors and studios. There’s no description of his origins and the movie falls into a pattern of womanizing, filming, womanizing, filming. The movie captures the films leading from Flynn’s début up to the late thirties-early forties and ending with the scandal of Flynn’s dalliance-and possible rape-of an underage girl of which he was later acquitted. My Wicked, Wicked Ways details the exploits of actor Errol Flynn (Duncan Regehr) and his torrid marriage to actress Lili Damita (Barbara Hershey).įor a two-hour and seventeen minute TV movie there’s a very small window of time covered, or the few events of Flynn’s life took several years to unfold. The acting isn’t terrible, but it’s hard to swallow a tale wherein the world apparently begins and ends with Flynn (then again, don’t all biopics?). (Let’s all think about the fact Gable and Lombard was released to theaters at all.) I compare the two because My Wicked, Wicked Ways, loosely based on Errol Flynn’s autobiography is only fascinated in showing life as Flynn perceived it (or as the screenwriters perceived Flynn to have lived his life), turning the movie into one misogynistic fantasy. My Wicked, Wicked Ways is the bastard cousin of Gable and Lombard, if Gable and Lombard was a TV movie instead of a big-screen presentation. 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Time is of the essence aboard the week-long Trans-Siberian Express, but when someone is murdered on board, Benedikt and Marshall convince the officer in charge they are investigators and promise they can solve the murder if he doesn’t stop the train. Immortal Longings is Chloe Gong's adult debut, and the first book in a new trilogy. In This Foul Murder, Benedikt and Marshall have been summoned by Roma to find the illusive scientist, Lourens, and bring him to Zhouzhuang. In A Foul Thing, Roma and Juliette have established themselves as the heads of an underground weapons ring in Zhouzhuang, making a living the way they do best while remaining anonymous in their quiet life.īut when they hear about Russian girls showing up dead in nearby towns, they decide to investigate – and discover that this mystery is closer to home than they ever imagined … Every year, thousands in the kingdom of Talin will flock to its capital twin cities, San-Er, where the. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Chloe Gong come two captivating novellas surrounding the events of Foul Lady Fortune and following a familiar cast of characters from These Violent Delights. 1 New York Times bestselling YA author Chloe Gong’s adult epic fantasy debut, inspired by Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, is a fiery collision of power plays, spilled blood, and romance amidst a set of deadly games. Bambara was living in Atlanta at the time, and Those Bones Are Not My Child is the result of twelve years of first-hand research, as she delved into the murders and the world in which they occurred. It was called "The City Too Busy To Hate," but two decades ago more than forty black children were murdered there with grim determination, their bodies found - in ditches, on riverbanks - strangled, beaten, and sexually assaulted. Those Bones Are Not My Child is a staggering achievement, a major work of American fiction: the novel that Toni Cade Bambara was working on at the time of her death in 1995 - a story that puts us at the center of the nightmare of the Atlanta child murders. |