Having grossed over a billion dollars since its release, the comic-book movie The Avengers (Avengers Assemble in the UK) is on track to becoming one of the most successful films in history. The US$220-million picture tells the story of six…
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One of the strangest examples of the degree to which ordinary life is undervalued is the example of popular literature, the vast mass of which we contentedly describe as vulgar. The boy’s novelette may be ignorant in a literary sense,…
