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Lawrence tadema6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Under the advice of his physician, he traveled to England for a medical diagnosis, where he was invited to the house of a fellow painter, Ford Madox Brown. Disconsolate and depressed, he ceased painting and his health was failing. In 1869, Alma-Tadema lost his wife of six years to smallpox. By 1862, he set own in his own studio to pursue his individual career in art. His first major work was exhibited in 1858, and it won much critical praise, and creating a sensation in the art world. He regained his health and studied at the Royal Academy of Antwerp in 1852, where he won several respected awards. Once left to his own devices, he decided to study art, as his mother had paid for art lessons in his earlier childhood and it was one of his interests. ![]() He was diagnosed as consumptive, given a short time to live, and thus free to pursue a life of leisure and pleasure. Later, as he tried to make his niche in the art world, he changed the spelling of his first name to the more English “Lawrence,” and included his middle name “Alma” as part of his surname, so he would be listed among the “A’s” in exhibition catalogues.Īs a child, it was decided that Alma-Tadema would pursue the career of a lawyer, but he suffered a mental and physical breakdown when he was fifteen years old. He was born in the Netherlands as Laurens Tadema, to the family of the town notary. Lawrence Alma-Tadema is one of the most highly renowned romantic artists of late 19th century Britain. ![]()
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Total recall schwarzenegger6/12/2023 ![]() at the front desk, that's all there is to it. Get your ass to Mars, and go to the Hilton Hotel and flash the fake Brubaker I.D. Take this out of the case, and stick it up your nose. Now, let's start by getting that bug out of your head. Now, here comes the hard part, old buddy. But if you're hearing this, it means is that he's got to me first. there's enough shit in here to fuck Cohaagen good. She taught me a few things, like I was playing for the wrong team. You are not you, you're me.Īll my life, I worked for Mars Intelligence, I did Cohaagen's dirty work. Now, whatever your name is, get ready for the big surprise. If things have gone wrong, I'm talking to myself and you don't have a wet towel around your head. Richter goes hog-wild screwing up everything that I spent a year planning. Perfect, my ass! You pop your memory cap before we can activate you. The guy with the suitcase, the mask, the money, the message from Hauser. ![]() You don't kill someone you're trying to plant. This idiot has been trying to kill me ever since I went to Rekall. ![]() Fact is, Hauser volunteered to become "Doug Quaid." It was the only way to fool the psychics. So Hauser and I sat down and invented you: the perfect mole. ![]() Fuckin' mutants could always sniff us out. You see, Quaid, none of my people could get close to Kuato. The resistance has been completely wiped out and you were the key to the whole thing. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008. Purloined Letters: Cultural Borrowing and Japanese Crime Literature, 1868-1937. “Satō Haruo ‘Ritsugisha,’ Edogawa Ranpo ‘Imomushi’ no ken’etsu.” Nihon kindai bungaku 83 (2010), 199-206. Kaitei shinpan Nichibei kaiwa hikkei = A Handbook of American English Conversation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Murder Most Modern: Detective Fiction and Japanese Culture. In Edogawa Ranpo kessakusen (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1960), 220-244.Įdogawa Ranpo. Gessel (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005), 365-375.Įdogawa Ranpo 江戸川乱歩. In The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature, Volume 1: From Restoration to Occupation, 1864-1945, ed. ![]() ![]() Fukuoka: Kurodahan Press, 2008.Įdogawa Ranpo, “The Human Chair,” in Edogawa Rampo, Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination, trans. Paris: Éditions Philippe Picquier, 1990.Įdogawa Ranpo. ![]()
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The flesh and the devil teresa denys6/12/2023 ![]() While it moves a little slower than Teresa Denys' other book, 'Silver Devil', the story is similar in style. The Duque's keeper is the foreigner, Felipe Tristan, who carries out both Castaneda's and his own plans for Juana. Disappointed by her love and angry with her father's plans for this marriage, Juana becomes even more reluctant when she discovers that the Duque is seriously flawed both physically and mentally. Set in Spain not long after the time of the Spanish Inquisition, a young noblewoman, Juana de Arrelanos, arrives at the Castillo Benaventes to marry Eugenio de Castaneda's nephew, the Duque de Valenzuela. Martin's Press,0312295839 The flesh and the devil Teresa Denys 9780312295837 Books Reviews ![]() From review - "Set in Spain not long after the time of the Spanish Inquisition, a young noblewoman,Teresa Denys,The flesh and the devil,St. ![]() The flesh and the devil Teresa Denys 9780312295837 Books Download As PDF : The flesh and the devil Teresa Denys 9780312295837 Books The flesh and the devil Teresa Denys 9780312295837 Books ![]()
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Mike tyson hbo documentary6/12/2023 ![]() The diagrams and punch-stat numbers shown on the screen are nice and neat a great way to keep pace of the fight, and it's keeps you interested. This duo of Merchant and Lampley always keeps you well informed. Plus Larry is a veteran sports reporter who knows his stuff so well. The broadcast team is the best in the business and Jim Lampley is boxing's all-time best blow by blow man, yes even better than Howard Cosell! Lampley knows his stuff, and his vocabulary is unmatched and I love to hear his exciting voice during fights! Plus Larry Merchant who to many seems arrogant does a great job as a big prize fight analyst, who gives between the rounds commentary so well. Many champions would fight fights in their hometown, like Lennox Lewis defending in London, or Wladimir making a defense in the Ukraine. The network has always featured the best champions and high quality fights from places like Atlantic City, Las Vegas, and New York City's Madison Square Garden. ![]() Many people forget that boxing started on HBO in 1973 at a time when Ali, Frazier, and Foreman ruled, and HBO is still king of boxing today. ![]() ![]() Over the years I've watched De La Hoya, Lewis, Holyfield, Mosley, and many others carry the sport to new heights on HBO. For over three decades now HBO has brought us great fight after fight on it's ever popular series "World Championship Boxing". ![]()
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The leavers ko6/11/2023 ![]() “It was a funny thing, forgiveness,” Deming finds. The narration is then taken over by Polly, who describes her journey to America as an unwed pregnant teenager, and the cramped living arrangements and low-paying jobs that finally take her and Deming to the Bronx. ![]() ![]() And then he learns that his missing mother is alive. But it hardly guarantees a storybook ending Daniel fails in college and struggles to make it as a musician. Weeks later, Deming is handed over to a “new family”-white suburban college teachers Kay and Peter, who name him Daniel. Eleven-year-old Deming’s mother, Polly, suddenly disappears from the nail salon where she works, leaving him at the Bronx apartment they share with her boyfriend, Leon, Leon’s sister, and her 10-year-old son. Ko’s debut is a sweeping examination of family through the eyes of a single mother, a Chinese immigrant, and her U.S.-born son, whose separation haunts and defines their lives. ![]()
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The pendulum julie lindahl6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Julie holds a BA from Wellesley College, an MPhil in International Relations from Oxford University and was a Fulbright Scholar in Frankfurt, Germany. ![]() She writes and speaks widely about her experiences, is a contributor to WBUR Cognoscenti, and has been featured on National Public Radio. As Julie delves deeper into the abyss of her family's secret, discovering history anew, one precarious step at a time, the compassion of strangers is a growing force that transforms her world and the way that she sees her family-and herself. Julie Lindahl is an author and educator living in Sweden. The pendulum used by Julie's grandmother to divine good from bad and true from false becomes a symbol for the elusiveness of truth and morality, but also for the false securities we cling to when we become unmoored from them. During World War II, he was responsible for enslavement and torture, and complicit in murder of the local population on the large estates that he oversaw in occupied Poland, before fleeing to South America to evade a new wave of war-crimes trials. ![]() ![]() In a remarkable six-year journey through Germany, Poland, Paraguay, and Brazil, Julie uncovers, among many other discoveries, that her grandfather had been a fanatic member of the SS since 1934. Out of the unbearable heart of the story-the unclaimed guilt that devours a family through the generations-emerges an unflinching will to learn the truth. This powerful memoir traces Brazilian-born American Julie Lindahl's journey to uncover her grandparents' role in the Third Reich as she is driven to understand how and why they became members of Hitler's elite, the SS. ![]()
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Candide in english6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not rejecting optimism outright, advocating a deeply practical precept, "we must cultivate our garden", in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, "all is for the best" in the "best of all possible worlds".Candide is characterised by its sarcastic tone as well as by its erratic, fantastical and fast-moving plot. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply "optimism") by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best (1759) Candide: or, The Optimist (1762) and Candide: or, Optimism (1947). Reading Level: 7.3 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 5.0Ĭandide is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. ![]() ![]() Physical Information: 0.18" H x 6" W x 9" (0.28 lbs) 86 pages Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platformīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions ![]()
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Interaction of colour josef albers6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ‘What I think is so brilliant about Albers Interaction of color is…it’s a really great way to get students to think more philosophically. Graphic designer Peter Mendelsund, textile designers Denyse Schmidt and Christopher Farr, artists Brice Marden and Anoka Faruquee, architect Annabelle Selldorf, and Brian Mullan, design director of Fab.com are all featured in the App’s video elements, providing commentary on Albers’ theories as well as the use of colour in their professional practices. ![]() In addition to the full text of the best-selling book and the original set of over 140 colour studies, the forthcoming Interaction of Color app for iPad features insightful commentary from a variety of experts. One of the most influential books on colour ever written, now in the 50th anniversary year of its publication, Josef Albers’ masterwork achieves its full, interactive potential in this groundbreaking new application. Yale University Press is proud to announce the release of the digital edition of Interaction of Color. ‘Color is really the mise-en-scène in which everything else takes place’. ![]()
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Book about sackler6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() “I think in some ways it’s a story about hubris,” he said. Keefe said it was “a portrait of three generations of one family behaving very badly, but also on a deeper level a story about systems and about impunity.” ![]() “Empire of Pain” traces the rise of the family’s fortunes under three doctor brothers and their children, and its downfall in a web of lawsuits and bankruptcy proceedings. A reckoning has come with the revelation that much of that fortune was based on Ox圜ontin, a powerful prescription painkiller that the company developed in the 1990s and marketed aggressively to doctors. Keefe’s book chronicles the billionaire Sackler clan, owner of Purdue Pharma, whose members used their fortune to fund museums and art galleries around the world. Patrick Radden Keefe’s “Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty” was awarded the 50,000 pound ($67,000) Baillie Gifford Prize during a ceremony at London’s Science Museum. LONDON (AP) - A book about a wealthy American family whose actions helped unleash the United States’ opioid epidemic - described by its author as a “story of hubris” - won Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize Tuesday. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. ![]() |