Meet some of history's most interesting characters in this book that
visits key moments of the past from around the world.
Not exact matches
There are a few action pieces (a
visit to another district, a daring raid on the capital and the like), but this is an otherwise quiet, lower
key and viscously paced affair, often having difficulty engaging in the in - between
moments.
Its tractability is astonishing — protean, not too much to say magical; in describing his first film experience as a
visit to «the kingdom of shadows,» Maxim Gorky brushes up against the ineffable sublimity of a medium that mimics the eye, stimulates the ear, and has as one of the
key elements of its academic study a concept that suggests the
moment a viewer finds himself «sutured» into the text.
Purpose drives us all — whether it's a resident holding the door for a peer, an associate delivering the perfect cup of coffee, or a
visiting musician tickling the
keys of the community piano — we all set out to live each
moment and each day meaningfully.
«We can make ourselves more user - friendly, but ultimately one of the
key experiences of
visiting a museum is that
moment of standing in front of an object,» he says.