THE BARD’S FLICKS PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE SHARED DETAILS of Henry V, Titus Andronicus, and Hamlet. Today in Part 2, Chimes at Midnight and A Midsummer’s Night Dream complete my top five, and I discover … Continue reading
THE BARD’S FLICKS PART 1
THERE IS NO SHORTAGE of cinematic treatment of Shakespeare’s plays. Indeed, Wikipedia observes that “The Guinness Book of Records lists 410 feature-length film and TV versions of William Shakespeare’s plays, … Continue reading
A MULTIPLE-TIME MACHINE
TIME MACHINES TYPICALLY TAKE YOU to the future or to the past, but this one has a multiple-feature: R&T’s February 1955 road test of the Morgan Plus Four describes the … Continue reading
CUISINE DU SUD-OUEST
SORTING THROUGH THE cookbook shelves, I came upon this little gem from Auberge D’Chez Eux, a Parisian restaurant having earlier made a SimanaitisSays appearance. Its Traditions et cuisine de Sud-Ouest … Continue reading
A GLANCE ACROSS THE PACIFIC IN 1955 PART 2
YESTERDAY, THE TOPIC WAS the Japanese Automobile Industry, circa 1955. Today’s Part 2 continues with a well known marque as well as a few rather less familiar. As in Part … Continue reading
A GLANCE ACROSS THE PACIFIC IN 1955 PART 1
“AMERICANS,” TOM PROBST WROTE in Road & Track, January 1955, “are often surprised to learn that Japan has a thriving auto industry and that the narrow streets of Tokyo are … Continue reading
NORTH AMERICAN B-25 MITCHELL—MOVIE STAR PART 2
TODAY IN PART 2,the B-25 bomber has two movie roles, one celebrating the famed Doolittle Raid of Japan in early 1942, the other a scathing 1970 satire of wartime madness. … Continue reading
NORTH AMERICAN B-25 MITCHELL—WAR HERO AND MOVIE STAR PART 1
THE NORTH AMERICAN B-25 medium bomber was named for a pioneer U.S. military aviator and was employed by another famed aviator in a retaliatory strike on Japan just four months … Continue reading
APHRODITE AND HER EROTES
THESE ANALYSES OF LOVE are gleaned from Stephen Fry’s fascinating Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined. “Aphrodite, the supreme goddess of love and of beauty,” Fry says, “was attended by a … Continue reading
東京 自動車 競争
“MOTOR SPORTS ACTIVITIES are flourishing in Japan.” So reported Road and Track in “Tokyo Road Race,” its heavily illustrated one-page article appearing in September 1951. A Familiar Slogan. “All of … Continue reading
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