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If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
The Editor of Quadrant Music, Alexander Voltz, has won the symphonic section of the prestigious George Enescu International Competition in Bucharest.
Sep 03 2024
1 mins
She Came to Me: Dinklage Finally Gets the Girl
I have a friend who says the world doesn’t need another angry dwarf. —Peter Dinklage
Peter Dinklage is arguably the most successful and gifted dwarf actor of all time. He is the most recent in a long line of famous Hollywood small actors (or midgets), beginning with Kurt Schneider and his sister Hilda, who starred in the 1932 classic Freaks (see Quadrant, May 2024, and, with their two siblings, as the Munchkins in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.
Others we have noticed, but perhaps not really seen, have been Warwick Davis and black actor Tony Cox (Willow, 1988), Zelda Rubinstein (Poltergeist, 1982), Verne Troyer (Mini-Me in Austin Powers, 1997), Hervé Villechaize (Tattoo in Fantasy Island, 1977), Michael Anderson (Twin Peaks, 1990) and Kenny Baker (R2-D2 in Star Wars, 1977).
Dinklage is unique, however, in that he has refused to take any roles—such as elves or leprechauns—usually offered to actors with these kind of conditions. He once said that his ideal role was “the…
The Editor of Quadrant Music, Alexander Voltz, has won the symphonic section of the prestigious George Enescu International Competition in Bucharest.
Sep 03 2024
1 mins
Some have argued that Auden was a victim of his own naivety regarding the prospect of impending war. A few days before its declaration and while on a Greyhound bus at the end of that 1939 “honeymoon” with Kallman, he had written home to England: “There is a radio on this coach, so that every hour or so, one has a violent pain in one’s stomach as the news comes on. By the time you get this, I suppose, we shall know one way or the other.”
Aug 29 2024
15 mins
This is the paradox of the War Against the Past: those who are waging it are, inadvertently, denying themselves the capacity to win. For if your past is evil, if your centuries-old story is defined by bitterness and bad faith, how can you possibly hope to redeem yourself?
Aug 29 2024
11 mins
