Joan Rivers Dead: Comedy Without Limits

 Posted on August 18, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  634 words  |  Martina Birk

For Joan Rivers, the boundary-busting comedian who died Thursday at 81, no topic was off-limits for a joke. Not even death. In 1994, speaking to TIME, she told writer Ginia Bellafante that she wasn’t afraid of death. “I’m in show business,” she said, quoting a new play she had co-written. “I died a million times.” In fact, one of the subjects addressed in another project Rivers released that year, a made-for-TV movie about her husband’s suicide, was the fact that her daughter Melissa was unhappy about her mother’s joking about her father’s death. [Read More]

Just Perfect! Torvill And Dean Skate To Glory

 Posted on August 18, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  672 words  |  Patria Henriques

July 27, 1958 — Ice skater Christopher Dean was born on this day. With his partner Jayne Torvill the pair created a sensation at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo when they performed their dance routine to the music of Ravel’s Boléro. At the end of their stunning performance they were showered with flowers by the rapt 8,500-strong audience at the Zetra Olympic Ice Hall. Turning to look at the screen, the pair saw a row of “perfect” sixes, a record score that will never be repeated. [Read More]

Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art - University of West Bohemia

 Posted on August 18, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  33 words  |  Patria Henriques

Researchers’ Night with the Topic Time Invited Visitors to the Campus

Take a look at this year's popular European event, which the University of West Bohemia joined again, in photos. read more

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Lana Del Rey's Norman Fucking Rockwell Lyrics Explained

 Posted on August 18, 2024  |  11 minutes  |  2157 words  |  Patria Henriques

Lana Del Rey has built her career on being a character: it’s a melange of classic Americana aesthetics, southern California mythology and Old Hollywood ingenue spirit. On her brooding, expansive sixth album, Norman F-cking Rockwell, she digs even further into the image she’s crafted for herself as a tortured creative soul still in thrall to romance. Del Rey has always made sure to seamlessly mix the fictional with the factual; it’s hard to say where her persona begins and ends, as we discovered after her surprise viral hit “Video Games” launched her to stardom in 2011. [Read More]

LeBron James takes immaculate care of his body, and the NBA world is in awe of it

 Posted on August 18, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  928 words  |  Billy Koelling

At 33 years old, in his 15th season in the NBA, LeBron James is just 12 games away from doing something he's never done before — playing all 82 games in the regular season. There is no rest program in place for James, who should theoretically be in the back-end of his prime. Instead, James is playing only one minute less than his career average, carrying even more weight than usual for a Cleveland Cavaliers squad that relies on him even more than in past season. [Read More]

Left Handed People Have Better Sex, Are More Satisfied: Study

 Posted on August 18, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  137 words  |  Tandra Barner

April 3, 2014 10:21 AM EDT Life can be pretty tough for left-handed people. For example, they can’t use those those university classroom desks and they struggle with everyday devices like can openers. Apparently, though, left-handed people ultimately prevail over their right-handed counterparts because they have better sex. According to a recent survey, lefties are 71% more satisfied in the sack than righties. Of the 10,000 people surveyed, 86% of left-handed people reported being “Extremely Satisfied” with their sex lives, compared to just 15% of righties. [Read More]

Lulu, Singer and Co-Star of To Sir With Love, Remembers Sidney Poitier, and Working With

 Posted on August 18, 2024  |  11 minutes  |  2267 words  |  Patria Henriques

The legendary Scottish singer Lulu has had a career that’s spanned six decades and is still, as she says, “smashing it onstage.” But she is most associated with a song and a film that she made when she was a teenager: the 1967 Sidney Poitier-starring classic “To Sir, With Love.” The film depicted Poitier as a British Guyanese teacher at a tough East London school and the ensuing racial issues, and featured Lulu not just as a student in his class but also singing the title song to him in a pivotal scene at the end. [Read More]

MANAGEMENT: Atoms Abroad | TIME

 Posted on August 18, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  503 words  |  Kelle Repass

A new project for harnessing the atom to peaceful uses was laid before the 3,000 members of the National Association of Manufacturers, who gathered in Manhattan last week for their annual convention. The plan, as laid down by General Dynamics Corp. Chairman John Jay Hopkins, called for the “financing . . . of atomic reactors in the power-short . . . areas of the world by American private enterprise and the American Government working together with friendly national governments. [Read More]

Maps Show US Cities' Music Preferences By Downloads, Twitter Activity

 Posted on August 18, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  374 words  |  Kelle Repass

Ask most country fans where in the U.S. you should go to hear the best music and they’ll likely say Nashville. Latin music fans might say Miami, and hip hop fans might opt for New York. Sure, these towns have vibrant live music scenes, but which areas are truly home to the most dedicated and active fans? Global news site Vocativ set out to answer that, determining where you can find the most diehard fans of the following genres: pop, country, rock, R&B/hip hop, dance/electronic, Latin, Christian/Gospel, blues, jazz and reggae. [Read More]

Mark Twain's Real Name: How Samuel Clemens Picked a Pen Name

 Posted on August 18, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1133 words  |  Martina Birk

Powerful gravity drew young men west during the Civil War, especially after the armies began drafting to fill their ranks. One of the thousands who traveled “the plains across” was an obscure Missourian named Samuel Langhorne Clemens who had spent a few weeks riding with a band of Confederate irregulars. Despite Sam’s mild secessionist sympathies, his older brother Orion Clemens had campaigned for Abraham Lincoln. As reward, the new president appointed Orion secretary of the Nevada Territory, then in the throes of a mining frenzy centered on the Comstock Lode beneath booming Virginia City, the largest town in the territory. [Read More]