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...Her husband, Herman, was a book salesman and his brother, Oscar, ran a small press that published avant-garde writers such as Maya Deren and William Carlos Williams....
...own play Judas and the Black MessiahAn FBI informant infiltrates the Black Panthers in Shaka King’s truth-based movie starring Lakeith Stanfield and Daniel Kaluuya MankGary Oldman plays screenwriter Herman...
...Far from the Golden Age of Hollywood, audiences may not instantly throng to the true-ish story of screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz and his role in scripting Citizen Kane....
...It’s as true now as when Herman Melville made the point in his novel The Confidence-Man....
...He also talked approvingly of Herman Mashaba, the mayor of Johannesburg from the opposition Democratic Alliance party. Mr Mashaba, he says, has gone around the city looking for derelict buildings....
...Moby Dick, about a girls’ school musical of the Herman Melville novel, failed in 1993....
...A tall, muscular local party baron reminds me of the violence here in 1994 when Eugène Terre’Blanche led armed Afrikaner irregulars in a botched bid to disrupt the country’s first multiracial elections:...
...Descended from a noble family, he bore the title of jonkheer (baron) and was educated partly in Indonesia, where his grandfather had been governor of Java....
...The house was built in the 1870s by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild....
...Free societies, and even biased press barons, allow that journalism to exist. Yet journalism is at a critical point....
...As witnesses, he calls on a host of similarly sorrowful characters, from John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen to Vincent van Gogh and Herman Melville....
...Arthur Herman, though he is no Scot, subtitles his book, “The Scots’ Invention of the Modern World”....
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