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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is a memoir by Dave Eggers. Published in 2000, it chronicles his stewardship of his younger brother Christopher "Toph" Eggers following the cancer -related deaths of his parents. The book was a commercial and critical success, reaching number one on The New York Times bestseller list and being nominated ...
The goddess has been associated with sexuality, love, and fertility. [ 5][ 6][ 7] Xi Shi ( 西施 ), born 506 BC, was one of the Four Great Beauties of ancient China. [ 8] Physical attractiveness is the degree to which a person's physical features are considered aesthetically pleasing or beautiful. The term often implies sexual attractiveness ...
The Staggering Girl is a 2019 short film directed by Luca Guadagnino. The film was produced in collaboration with Valentino creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli. It was written by Michael Mitnick and stars Julianne Moore, Mia Goth, KiKi Layne, Kyle MacLachlan, Marthe Keller and Alba Rohrwacher . It had its world premiere at the Cannes Film ...
Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. Having soared over Paris for more than 150 years, the 19th-century spire of this Ile de la Cite cathedral was destroyed during an April 2019 fire.Begun in the ...
The Agony and the Ecstasy ( 1961) is a biographical novel of Michelangelo Buonarroti written by American author Irving Stone. Stone lived in Italy for years visiting many of the locations in Rome and Florence, worked in marble quarries, and apprenticed himself to a marble sculptor. A primary source for the novel is Michelangelo's correspondence ...
Toilet paper. A full roll of toilet paper. Toilet paper and toilet paper holder; the paperboard center of a spent roll is visible on the holder. Toilet paper (sometimes called toilet tissue, [ 1] toilet roll, [ 1] or bathroom tissue[ 1]) is a tissue paper product primarily used to clean the anus and surrounding region of feces (after defecation ...
Goodman went on to call the show's visuals as "a combination of staggering beauty – the directors make use of numerous wide-angle landscape portraits — and transfixing weirdness." [ 13 ] After the finale aired, The A.V. Club said that season three was "one of television's finest dramatic accomplishments.
Sleeping Beauty (1959) Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney based on The Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault. In 2019, Sleeping Beauty was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".