Articles Archive for July 2010
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List of 67 Movies Every Man Should See at Least Once
compiled by Stephen Page
1. China Town
2. Patton
3. Pat Garret and Billy the Kid (dir. Sam Peckinpah)
4. Easy Rider
5. The Dirty Dozen
6. Dirty Harry
7. The Godfather
8. The Last Detail
9. Mean Streets
10. Cool Hand Luke
11. Rocky
12. The Deer Hunter
13. Raging Bull
14. To Kill a Mockingbird
15. Good Will Hunting
16. Saving Private Ryan
17. Gallipoli
18. Cross of Iron
19. The Guns of Navarone
20. MASH
21. The Manchurian Candidate
22. Apocalypse Now
23. Pork Chop Hill
24. Battle Cry
25. Catch 22
26. Stripes
27. Caddyshack
28. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
29. Henry V (dir. Kenneth Branagh)
30. Macbeth (dir. Polanski)
31. Romeo and Juliet (dir. Zeffirelli)
32. Kill Bill
33. Gods and Generals
34. The Lion in Winter (dir. Barry)
35. The Seven Samurai
36. Shaft
37. Animal House
38. Ghostbusters
39. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
40. The Longest Yard
41. The Untouchables
42. The Hustler
43. The French …
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We meet today Sat at 7 pm Pizza Mass
PIZZA MASS,
Sarmiento 1601(Esq Montevideo),
Paseo La Plaza
Cheers
Pablo
contact: potenza78ar@yahoo.com.ar
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Mortal by Ivy Alvarez
Reviewed by Stephen Page
Demeter is the ancient Greek goddess of agriculture and fecundity. She is often depicted in artwork as carrying corn, shafts of wheat, or the horn of Cornucopia (or a combination). She governs harvestable food for the people and plant life for the earth. The myth goes something like this, depending which version of the myth you read: Demeter bears a daughter named Persephone. When Persephone is a young maiden, Hades, the Greek god of the underworld spies her picking flowers in a field …
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The female protagonists in Mary Akers’s collection of short stories, Women Up On Blocks, live maledominated lives. They feel trapped, yet are in the situations they are in because of decisions that they made during certain periods of their lives.
The first story, Medusa Song, begins as a story of child neglect:
She scrambles the eggs while the baby howls at her knees. To drown out the racket, she hums and jabs the fork into the yolks… then does a quick sidestep when the baby lunges for her knees.
His little fat hands …
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MidSummer, MidWinter, MidLife
It’s been a very eventful month.
In June, I celebrated my 50th birthday here in
Uruguay. Because I was so far away from many friends
and family, my oldest daughter got stealthy, contacted
my Facebook friends asking them to send her a birthday
video or image, and she put it all together in a ten-minute
miracle video of love and blessings. It was the best gift I have
ever received, hands down. You can watch it here:
http://www.mayafrost.com/blog/2010/06/19/fifty-years-love-adventure/
Tom and I spent most of June traveling around Uruguay in order to
escape the …
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Bongo provides a US mailing address and forwards your purchases to you overseas
Via Lifehacker
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Expat Connection is a group providing a range of social events that bring Expats and Argentines together in a relaxed environment. The group was formed by American Martin Frankel, a recent expat himself, with the dual purpose of catering for the vibrant and growing Expat community, and providing a bridge between foreigners and Argentines.
Forget the traditional tourist path: Expat Connection provides you with a host of activities both social and educational – such as happy hours, dinner parties, day trips and on the more serious side our very successful “Buying …
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English/Spanish Conversation Group
Now Poetry Recital
Saturday, 10th of July
Talkarama English-Spanish Conversation Group
Bilingual chats and hang-out,
Poetry Reading and Recital
Please, bring some poems to read and share.
(In Spanish or English)
-From 7 to 9.30 pm
PIZZA MASS (PASEO LA PLAZA)
Sarmiento 1601(Esquina Montevideo)
Buenos Aires City
-No fee charged
-Feel free to invite your friends and spread this out.
Cheers!
Pablo
contact:
potenza78ar@yahoo.com.ar

