Having rooted his narrative, rather grandly, in the ancient cultures of Mesopotamia, China and India ("dice are like pieces of divine coal, which cause the hearts to burn, though remaining themselves cold," we read in the Rig-Veda, a Hindu volume), Mr. Schwartz sets out on a quick global march that takes the reader from the gambling dens of Pompeii to the slots at Caesars Palace.
"I've always been fascinated with the art of acting, and respect actors for being able to play such wonderful and varied characters in their films whilst remaining themselves at the same time," Smitts says.
Leon James and Trisha Brown remain themselves, and yet, together, they become something marvelous and new.
Yet they always remain themselves, and in putting on their elaborate disguises, they only reveal more of their own personalities.
Rather than act as impostors attempting to reproduce this personal chemistry, the current performers wisely remain themselves and Mr. Jones has made the program something new for our time.
Some writers embody Hitchens's line about "living dyingly," straining to remain themselves, expressing dark humor and secular defiance, downshifting from existential fears to the banal process of death.
East Berlin streets named after "slain border guards, minor [East German] politicians, and foreign Communists such as Ho Chi Minh" were rechristened, and Leninallee became Landsberger Allee, but Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse and Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse remained themselves.
He submitted his manuscript under the smartly ironic theme of people and how hard they must work to remain themselves.
Whether it's Andy's stomach, freshly stapled, or Ginsberg caught in the rapture of Orlovsky's arms, the sitters remain themselves, individuals not merely signifiers for a character type or sociocultural movement.
They love unique people, and those people are only those who remain themselves and don't change according to others or trends.
The same is true of the remaining groves themselves.
