20世纪80年代初,在皮尔·卡丹先生的影下,我国出现了时装表演这一让中国人感到新奇的事件。此后,时装模特成为人们乃至媒体经常议论的话题。没有人知道模特在我国是不是一个被国家承认的正式职业,没有人知道哪个政府机构对模特具有管理职能。但是不管怎样,全面有上百家可以找到名字的模特公司,几十所大专院校设有大专或本科的模特专业、一年中全国性的模特大赛层出不穷。这足以证明模特已经成为一个被社会认可的啊业。就作者本人所在的模特公司而言,每天都可以从公司网站上看到数十名梦想成为模的少男少女的请求报告,还有一些想让孩子的梦想成为现实的家长们带着他们的“千金少爷”不远千里来到北京一睹中国著名模特公司的风采。模特——已经成为社会中的一分子、一种职业,虽然没有专业的管理机构,没有可以查找到的专有法规,但它已成为当今众多自认为身材“还可以”的少女们求职的首选职业。模特是荣誉、时尚、奢华生活的...
IN THE LAND OF SOULS [21][21] From the Red Indian.Far away, in North America, where the Red Indians dwell, therelived a long time ago a beautiful maiden, who was lovelier thanany other girl in the whole tribe. Many of the young bravessought her in marriage, but she would listen to one onlyahandsome chief, who had taken her fancy some years before. Sothey were to be married, and great rejoicings were made, and thetwo looked forward to a long life of happiness together, when the...
美国北卡罗来纳州亨德森维尔的双胞胎兄弟比利·利昂(1946~1979)和班尼·劳埃德·麦克拉里(1946~2001)在六岁前发育正常。1978年11月,比利和班尼的体重分别为337千克和328千克,腰围都达到2.13米,后来两人均死于心脏病。世界之最(1)眼球突出最高的人(图)金·古德曼(美国)能使她的眼球突出眼眶外11毫米。1998年6月13日,在美国加州洛杉矶《黄金时段:吉尼斯世界纪录》电视节目拍摄现场对她的眼睛进行了测量。金是在她戴着冰球帽的头部受到猛然撞击之后,首次发现她独一无二并有些令人吃惊的才能的。当时她的一只眼球比平时突出多很多。从此之后只要金一打哈欠,她的眼睛就会突出来。现在她已经学会如何自如地使眼睛突出来。...
SCHIPPEITAROIt was the custom in old times that as soon as a Japanese boyreached manhood he should leave his home and roam through theland in search of adventures. Sometimes he would meet with ayoung man bent on the same business as himself, and then theywould fight in a friendly manner, merely to prove which was thestronger, but on other occasions the enemy would turn out to be arobber, who had become the terror of the neighbourhood, and thenthe battle was in deadly earnest....
FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSENA LEAF FROM HEAVENby Hans Christian AndersenHIGH up in the clear, pure air flew an angel, with a flowerplucked from the garden of heaven. As he was kissing the flower a verylittle leaf fell from it and sunk down into the soft earth in themiddle of a wood. It immediately took root, sprouted, and sent outshoots among the other plants."What a ridiculous little shoot!" said one. "No one will recognize...
FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSENDELAYING IS NOT FORGETTINGby Hans Christian AndersenTHERE was an old mansion surrounded by a marshy ditch with adrawbridge which was but seldom let down:- not all guests are goodpeople. Under the roof were loopholes to shoot through, and to pourdown boiling water or even molten lead on the enemy, should heapproach. Inside the house the rooms were very high and had ceilings...
BOOK II: OF THEIR TOWNS, PARTICULARLY OF AMAUROTHE that knows one of their towns knows them all, they are so likeone another, except w here the situation makes some difference. Ishall therefore describe one of them; and none is so proper asAmaurot; for as none is more eminent, all the rest yielding inprecedence to this, because it is the seat of their SupremeCouncil, so there was none of them better known to me, I having...
THE COMPARISON OF FABIUS WITH PERICLESby Plutarchtranslated by John DrydenWE have here had two lives rich in examples, both of civil andmilitary excellence. Let us first compare the two men in their warlikecapacity. Pericles presided in his commonwealth when it was in itsmost flourishing and opulent condition, great and growing in power; sothat it may be thought it was rather the common success and fortune...
Preface Of The Author.It is not my intention to detain the reader by expatiatingon the variety or the importance of the subject, which I haveundertaken to treat; since the merit of the choice would serve torender the weakness of the execution still more apparent, andstill less excusable. But as I have presumed to lay before thepublic a first volume only ^1 of the History of the Decline andFall of the Roman Empire, it will, perhaps, be expected that I...
FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSENTHE LITTLE MATCH-SELLERby Hans Christian AndersenIT was terribly cold and nearly dark on the last evening of theold year, and the snow was falling fast. In the cold and the darkness,a poor little girl, with bare head and naked feet, roamed throughthe streets. It is true she had on a pair of slippers when she lefthome, but they were not of much use. They were very large, so large,...
CONCLUSION.There was one time of the year which was held in Raveloe to beespecially suitable for a wedding. It was when the great lilacs andlaburnums in the old-fashioned gardens showed their golden andpurple wealth above the lichen-tinted walls, and when there werecalves still young enough to want bucketfuls of fragrant milk.People were not so busy then as they must become when the fullcheese-making and the mowing had set in; and besides, it was a time...
THE HAZEL-NUT CHILD [29][29] From the Bukowniaer. Van Wliolocki.There was once upon a time a couple who had no children, and theyprayed Heaven every day to send them a child, though it were nobigger than a hazel-nut. At last Heaven heard their prayer andsent them a child exactly the size of a hazel-nut, and it nevergrew an inch. The parents were very devoted to the littlecreature, and nursed and tended it carefully. Their tiny son toowas as clever as he could be, and so sharp and sensible t
were clever and wise, but the third did not speak much, and wassimple, and was called the simpleton. When the king had become oldand weak, and was thinking of his end, he did not know which of hissons should inherit the kingdom after him. Then he said to them, goforth, and he who brings me the most beautiful carpet shall be kingafter my death.And that there should be no dispute amongst them, he took themoutside his castle, blew three feathers in the air, and said, youshall go as they fly. On
Once there was a miller who was poor, but who had a beautifuldaughter. Now it happened that he had to go and speak to theking, and in order to make himself appear important he saidto him, I have a daughter who can spin straw into gold. Theking said to the miller, that is an art whichpleases me well, if your daughter is as clever as you say, bringher to-morrow to my palace, and I will put her to the test.And when the girl was brought to him he took her into a roomwhich was quite full of straw,
FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSENTHE BUTTERFLYby Hans Christian AndersenTHERE was once a butterfly who wished for a bride, and, as maybe supposed, he wanted to choose a very pretty one from among theflowers. He glanced, with a very critical eye, at all the flower-beds,and found that the flowers were seated quietly and demurely on theirstalks, just as maidens should sit before they are engaged; but...
前言 现代化与传统文化的关系问题,是若干年来学术界争论得十分热烈的一个话题。记得有一年在曲阜开儒学国际学术讨论会,曾在大会之外开过一个小型座谈会,题目叫"传统文化与现代化"。我曾对召集人建议,题目似应叫做"现代化与传统文化",意谓在实现现代化的过程中,如何对待传统文化。这个建议是否被接受,我不管。在会上,发言者都是不同程度地肯定传统文化的。但对传统文化本身,各人有不同的理解,这也很自然。记得有一位年轻学者提出一个看法:优秀的东西未曾成为传统,传统的东西未必优秀。 我体会他的意思是,这里说的传统,指的是官方所提倡的传统。因为他所举的例子是,清代乾隆年间编《四库全书》,扼杀了不少有价值的东西。...
FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSENTHE LAST PEARLby Hans Christian AndersenWE are in a rich, happy house, where the master, the servants, thefriends of the family are full of joy and felicity. For on this daya son and heir has been born, and mother and child are doing well. Thelamp in the bed-chamber had been partly shaded, and the windows werecovered with heavy curtains of some costly silken material. The carpet...
FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSENTHE ANGELby Hans Christian Andersen"WHENEVER a good child dies, an angel of God comes down fromheaven, takes the dead child in his arms, spreads out his greatwhite wings, and flies with him over all the places which the childhad loved during his life. Then he gathers a large handful of flowers,which he carries up to the Almighty, that they may bloom more brightly...