When two or more witnesses give their account of an event, the story never comes out the same. The differences, as Browning fully realized in The Ring and the Book(1868-69), provide for powerful ironic tensions. Over and over again, in Browning's poem, the story is told of what happened on the fatal night when Count Guido Franceschini went in seach of his seventeen-year-old bride Pompilia who, in the company of the handsome young priest Giuseppe Caponsacchi, had runaway from his ancient villa and returned home to her parents in Rome. And in every telling there is another version of the mo...

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Synopsis Born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a musician capable of playing multiple instruments who started playing in public at the age of 6. Over the years, Mozart aligned himself with a variety of European venues and patrons, composing hundreds of works tha...

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They could jam liberalism down our throats on every television broadcast, morning show, late-night comedy program, and large-circulation newspaper and magazine in the country."" ... Maslin missed the astounding error about her own paper in Slander's last-page peroration, where Coulter indicts the snobbish Times for waiting two days to cover the racing accident that killed NASCAR idol Dale Earnhardt. ... (With her customary chutzpah, Coulter denied that this was a mistake "but after the Daily Howler Web site and others exposed the Earnhardt error, Crown corrected it in subsequent ed...

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