Sonias presence in Delhi is costing India dearly Dec 2, 2008
In 1898, the French writer Emile Zola wrote an open letter to the then French president in the newspaper LAurore, titled jaccuse (I accuse), where he accused the French government of anti- Semitism towards Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer unfairly condemned for treason. Now it is time for the people of India to say openly that which many, including within the Congress, think secretly and may utter in the privacy of their chambers. (Express Buzz)
The power of love revealed in Shunned Nov 10, 2008
Nana by Emile Zola. Mother by Maxim Gorky. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
Righting the left Sep 14, 2008
Ever since Emile Zola accused the French military of railroading a conviction in the case of Alfred Dreyfus in 1898, Parisian thinkers have been especially adept at this task. In "Left in Dark Times," Bernard-Henri Levy, perhaps the most prominent intellectual in France today, seeks to revive this tradition of speaking truth to power. (Boston Globe)
Nightscapes of Van Gogh at MoMA Sep 13, 2008
Museum of Modern Art Presents Nocturnal Theme. The Museum of Modern Art in New York is presenting Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night, the first exhibition that examines Vincent van Gogh's lyrical view of the night. (Suite101.com)
Book paints famed French artist as murder suspect Aug 16, 2008
Westbury and Vernet had set up a salon, a place for intelligent people to come to discuss authors such as Darwin and, perhaps, Emile Zola, the foremost French novelist of the time. Zola happens to be a friend of Cezanne, having met the painter a long time ago in Aix-in-Provence. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Maybe tobacco is good for us, too Jun 26, 2008
And one of Emile Zola s novels has reports of an absinthe drinker who stripped himself naked in the street and died doing the polka. But surely there are worse ways to die. (Woburn Advocate, MA)
* [BOOK REVIEW] 'Fear not for the future, weep not for the past' Mar 30, 2008
So what is still needed is some young Taiwanese writer, some modern Emile Zola untouched by the academic proprieties, to bewail from the rooftops the continuing lack of a full account of such a hideously cruel, and indeed horrific, past, pointing the finger of accusation where he or she will. This story has been viewed 289 times. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Artist Frdric Bazille Mar 17, 2008
Another of Bazille s works centered around his artistically-minded companions is his Studio Rue de la Condamine, which features Bazille himself, Monet, Renoir, Edmond Maitre, writer Emile Zola and Manet all hanging around the studio. Reportedly, Manet was the one who painted Bazille into the picture. (Suite101.com)
here. The Properties Of Words Mar 16, 2008
It will be called "The Human Beast," which was the title of a book by Emile Zola published in 1890, influenced directly by Darwin's doctrine, which, Wolfe points out, "was then barely 30 years old.". As one of the most widely read authors of our time, Wolfe is renowned for best-selling books such as "The Right Stuff," "The Bonfire of the Vanities," "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," and "A Man in Full." Wolfe-ian terms like "the right stuff," "radical chic," "the Me Decade" have become popular... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
* [REEL NEWS] Mar 7, 2008
This grim social realist tradition can be traced back to the 19th-century writer Emile Zola and his bleak mining novel Germinal. But Bienvenue Chez les Ch'tis, written and directed by comedian Danny Boon, a Ch'ti himself who also stars in the movie, satirizes the prejudices about the area to reveal the warmth and big hearts of its people. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Shifting Gears Mar 2, 2008
Oscar winners that year include "The Life of Emile Zola" for best picture; Spencer Tracy in "Captains Courageous" for best actor; and Luise Rainer in "The Good Earth" for best actress. Oh, that Mae. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Death be not loud Feb 25, 2008
Thus we learn that Shields is the father of an "annoyingly vital 14-year-old girl," Natalie, at whose birth he wept; that his father's birth certificate reads "Milton Shildcrout"; and that he - and therefore his son, the author - may (or may not) be related to Joseph Schildkraut, "who played Otto Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank and won an Academy Award in 1938 for his portrayal of Alfred Dreyfus in The Life of Emile Zola.". There's much more of the same. (Globe and Mail)
Focused on artists' lives, novelist takes on Renoir Jan 5, 2008
Stung by a negative review by Emile Zola, Renoir set out to make a formal painting with 14 subjects in a balanced design to prove to Zola and other critics of the Impressionists that the group was more than just daubers of paint blobs. Vreeland s book is full of the problems Renoir had of arranging 14 paid models in one place, keeping them together for two months in a small locale. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
* 'J'accuse' the French president over Taiwan Dec 9, 2007
In 1898, the famous French writer Emile Zola wrote an article titled "J'Accuse" in the literary newspaper L'aurore in which he expressed his deep concern over the lack of justice in the case of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an army officer who had been unjustly arrested and imprisoned on the infamous Devil's Island. The article generated a wide public debate and eventually led to Dreyfus' release. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
In Which World Gallery Nov 12, 2007
" It resides in the Frick Collection in New York. The Haywain by John Constable In this painting (1821) the mill belonged to Constable s father and the house on the left to a neighbor, Willy Lott, who supposedly never left the place for more than four days in his lifetime. Lott s cottage has survived to today virtually intact. Today it is revered as one of the greatest British paintings and hangs in the National Gallery, London. The Kleptomaniac by Theodore Gricault This (1822) is one of a... (Suite101.com)
Harry Selfridge: The 'showman of shopping' Oct 31, 2007
The story of Harry Gordon Selfridge (or "HGS" as he drew with his fingers if he found dust on a store showcase) is the tale of a remarkable individual who crossed the pond from Chicago at age 50 to build in 1909 what the French novelist Emile Zola had described as "great cathedrals of shopping" - a store that still stands, happy and glorious, on London's Oxford Street today. It is also the social and cultural history of the first half of the 20th century when speed, electricity, airplanes, radio... (International Herald Tribune)
Award Season Launch Oct 26, 2007
Author Danny Peary argues that "Since 1927, the one people pick is the one they want to represent Hollywood or the Academy." Examples from the earliest days abound, from "The Life of Emile Zola" and "Gentleman's Agreement" to "Hamlet," a tradition carried on by "Amadeus," "Out of Africa" and "Schindler's List.". Peary, whose tome "Alternate Oscars" argues year by year in favor of his ideas about artistic integrity vs. the Acad's choices, hears the voters saying, "This is the one we're proud of,... (Variety)
Absinthe Makes Splash After 100-Year U.S. Ban: Cindy Skrzycki Oct 17, 2007
Emile Zola mentioned it in a novel and Ernest Hemingway said: ``Got tight last night on absinthe. Did knife tricks. (Bloomberg -- Columnists)
Phil Brennan Aug 24, 2007
On Jan. 13, 1898, famed French author Emile Zola wrote a defense of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish French army officer, who was falsely charged with giving military secrets to the Germans in a horrendous miscarriage of military justice. Zola began his defense with the phrase "J'accuse.". (Newsmax)
Dresden and Dreyfus Aug 4, 2007
Tension reached a turbulent high in 1897 when Emile Zola s open letter appeared in print (days later anti-Semitic riots occurred throughout parts of France). Zola, a famous writer and strident Dreyfusard, was convicted of libeling the army for his work like Dreyfus, he, too, was later exonerated of charges. (Suite101.com)
City of Lights and Many Faces Jul 22, 2007
France s own literary giants have depicted their largest city, including the social intrigues of Honore de Balzac, Emile Zola s underworld, and Colette s sensuous details and insight into human nature. The mysteries of Georges Simenon and Henri Murger s Scenes de la Vie de Boh;me which later inspired the musical Rent all have shown Paris from her various sides. (Suite101.com)
The Secret History of Paris Jul 9, 2007
Some of the most famous writing is cited by poets and writers such as Rimbaud, Victor Hugo, Fran;ois Villon, the marquis de Sade, Chateaubriand, Emile Zola, Charles Baudelaire, Jules Verne and Colette. The Dadaists, Impressionists, Communists and Surrealists are all included in the important movements that shaped the city. (Suite101.com)
Designers prepare Les Halles for a facelift Jul 3, 2007
Once a collection of wrought-iron pavilions housing the city's wholesale market, the writer Emile Zola called this area "the belly of Paris". But after the market was demolished in the late 1960s, leaving a giant hole for most of the 1970s, followed by then Paris mayor Jacques Chirac's modernist vision, it has more often been likened to the city's backside. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Inside the village 'hell' that is gripping France Jun 24, 2007
Emile Zola (1840-1902) was convicted of criminal libel after his J'Accuse newspaper story charged the French government with anti-semitism. Many of his novels used the hardships of French rural life as metaphors to attack well- known political and religious figures. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
The nominees Jun 20, 2007
LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA, THE 1937. LION KING, THE 1994. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
Book roundup: Historical fiction May 31, 2007
Renoir, 39, is a struggling artist who gathers together 14 people models for a painting he conceived as a "souvenir for future ages of life as it was lived in the summer of 1880." Enough names, Emile Zola to Claude Monet, are dropped to fill an encyclopedia, but it's done with a flourish worthy of Renoir himself. EXCERPT. (USA Today -- Life)
Asteroid discovered by UNT graduate student May 25, 2007
In all, about 13,000 asteroids have names that range from gods (Zeus and Eros) and authors (Emily Bronte and Emile Zola) to pop singers (each member of the Beatles) and leaders (Vladimir Lenin). But there is some etiquette when it comes to naming asteroids. (KHOU.com, TX)
Sarkozy or Royal? French Rockers, Film Stars Pick Sides in Vote Apr 20, 2007
Historian Michel Winock traces the tradition back to the late 19th century, when author Emile Zola defended the wrongly convicted Captain Alfred Dreyfus with the headline: ``J'accuse. (``I accuse. (Bloomberg)
Miracle nun: 'I wrote John Paul II's name and I was cured' Mar 31, 2007
Aix-en-Provence, the southern French city better known for the painter Paul C;zanne and the writer Emile Zola, is in the limelight once again. Diagnosed with incurable Parkinson's disease in 2001, two years ago Sister Marie-Simon-Pierre could barely move her left side. (Guardian Unlimited)
Henri Troyat, 95; Russian refugee became a leading French writer Mar 7, 2007
He also wrote biographies of French writers, including Emile Zola, Honore de Balzac and Gustav Flaubert. Troyat remained prolific in his later years, publishing his final novel, "La Traque" (The Hunt), last year, when he was 94. (Los Angeles Times)
Looking with love, hope and hunger Mar 5, 2007
They could see and smell and feel what others couldn't," but that makes them more vulnerable. So she does the ritual to protect her daughter. It's an odd narrative choice, making Isabel instantly less interesting, and she could really use those powers when she's a teenager in the capital. But the more desperate her search becomes, the more she relies on superstition and signs in her dreams, and her intuition turns out to be right. Her powers appear to be returning. In "The Piano Tuner," Mason's... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Books you can't live without: the top 100 Mar 1, 2007
78 Germinal Emile Zola. 79 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
First impressions of Camille Pissarro (Deborah K. Dietsch) Feb 10, 2007
Such direct handling of paint led writer Emile Zola to single out Pissarro's austere "Banks of the Marne in Winter," exhibited at the Salon in 1866, as "showing an extreme concern for the truth." With its darkly mounded hill, planar white building and broad bands of green earth, this powerful work points toward the structured, analytic landscapes of Cezanne. While painting large, somber landscapes for the Salon, Pissarro undertook smaller, brighter vignettes of suburban life. (Washington Times)
editorial page editor Jan 7, 2007
" That wasn't true, either. So what are you? Philosophically? Politically, philosophically, ideologically -- whatever. A moderate, a classical liberal, a contemporary conservative with a foot in both the freedom (or libertarian) and virtue camps. A moderate? Come on. Look. When was the last time you heard leftists call themselves liberals? It's the name -- the label they dare not speak. They have co-opted moderate, expropriated it, and simultaneously they dismiss all those to the right of them... (Richmond Times-Dispatch, VA)
