Subject matter and human activity on screen had to be toned down for the proverbial Sunday School Picnic. When the Production Code was enforced the resulting repression squashed half the life out of Hollywood movies. Desperate to build audiences in the worst years of the Depression, the studios (un-)dressed their heroines in scanty costumes and played naughty games with double-entendre dialogue. It was an early introduction to the frisky delights of early 1930s movies that hadn't had all the saucy content scalded out by puritanical censors. Working for MGM Home Video in 1992, I remember editing a humorous sales promo for a new VHS line called "Forbidden Hollywood". Starring William Powell, Kay Francis, Joan Blondell, David Manners, Una Merkel, Loretta Young, Geroge Brent, Louis Calhern.ĭirected by William Dieterle, William Dieterle, William Dieterle, Thornton Freeland Street Date J/ available through the Warner Archive Collection / 39.95 Jewel Robbery, Lawyer Man, Man Wanted, They Call It Sinġ932 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 68, 68, 62, 69 min.
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And he’s the same Jack Smith who rules over the physics department at MIT, standing right between Elsie and her dream job. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and arrogant older brother of her favorite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor’s career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere. True love has no guarantee I guess lifes a mystery Youre fire and Im water Thats just how it is my friend Love. Looking for a funny rom-com with a woman in STEM Well Ali Hazelwoods latest book has you covered. This is the classic enemies to lovers scenario. Honestly, it’s a pretty sweet gig-until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Love, Theoretically is a love story between two physicists. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people-pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully STEMinist romcom from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis and Love on the Brain. Perhaps when I got close enough, I’d be able to hear something that would give me a clue as to what was out there. I decided the best way to approach the situation was to get up and go over to the door. On my “Things That Terrify Me List,” Stephan now held top rank-one step above the Death Walkers. Or even worse than Death Walkers, what if Stephan came in? For all I knew I’d opened the door and a thousand Death Walkers’ would come swarming in, their yellow eyes glowing with the hunger to kill me. Should I get up and go see what was out there? If there was one thing I’d learned, it was that there was no such thing as being too careful. Hmmm…so what was I supposed to do? There was a door on the wall right in front of the bed. The buzzing in my head dropped down a notch, now only as loud as a faint whisper. I did my classic pinch-myself-to-see-if-I’m-awake thing and, yep, it hurt. Perhaps my mind was creating this room as a sort of comfort from being trapped in the dark. Vegas? How could I be in Vegas? I’d been in Colorado when I’d…well, I wasn’t sure what had happened to me yet. “What the…?” I squinted my eyes toward the outside window, not believing what I was seeing. Pale purple walls surrounded me, and there was a small window next to the bed where I could see colorful lights flashing all over and strange shaped buildings that stretched up toward the sky. A bed? I was now in a bed, with a blanket draped over me. My head was buzzing as I shot upright in the bed. My eyes flew open, and I was instantly blinded by a bright light. And the invitation is irresistible.” - San Francisco Chronicle “A bold and vivid tale that invites the reader to get lost in the intoxicating rhythms of another world. It is, quite simply, superb.” - Chicago Sun-Times It is an epic, a tour de force, a staggeringly complex and tantalizingly layered tale that will keep readers engrossed in days. One is swept along by those enduring emotions that defy modern art and a random universe: hunger for revenge, longing for justice and the fantasy secretly entertained by most people that the bad will be punished and the good rewarded.” - The New York Times “So compulsively absorbing that reality disappears. An extraordinary modern novel in the Victorian tradition, Charles Palliser has created something extraordinary-a plot within a plot within a plot of family secrets, mysterious clues, low-born birth, high-reaching immorality, and, always, always the fog-enshrouded, enigmatic character of 19th century-London itself. ‘Author of Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash Tasha Suri’s The Jasmine Throne, beginning a new trilogy set in a world inspired by the history and epics of India, in which a captive princess and a maidservant in possession of forbidden magic become unlikely allies on a dark journey to save their empire from the princess’s traitor brother. Source: Physical ARC provided by the publisher (this in no way affects my review which is honest and unbiased) (Hardcover copy purchased by myself) Added bonus – morally grey main characters… another weak spot for me. I’m biased in a sense as I love sapphic stories, and The Jasmine Throne was no exception. Today’s review is for the second book featured in golden trifecta of sapphic excellence, following on from the first which was The Unbroken by C. Moore uses his trademark brand of confrontational, exasperated humor skillfully as he offers a primer on how to change the worldview of one's annoying conservative blowhard brother-in-law, & he crafts a surprisingly thorough "Draft Oprah for President" movement. But his book is intended to serve as a handbook for how people with liberal opinions (which is most of America, Moore contends, whether they call themselves "liberals" or not) can take back their country from the conservative forces in power. Bush & his fellow conservatives concerning the reasoning behind going to war in Iraq, the collapse of Enron & other companies, & the relationship between the Bushes, the Saudi Arabian government & Osama bin Laden. Granted, Moore is angry & has harsh words for George W. But while plenty of liberal scholars, entertainers & pundits have made similar arguments in book form, Moore's Dude, Where's My Country? stands out for its thoroughly positive perspective. Tricked, he says, by Republican lawmakers & their wealthy corporate pals who use a combination of concocted bogeymen & lies to stay rich & in control. The people of the United States, according to author & filmmaker Michael Moore ( Bowling for Columbine, Stupid White Men), have been hoodwinked. Ellis Shookman is Associate Professor of German at Dartmouth College. Special attention is paid to Luchino Visconti’s film Morte a Venezia, to Benjamin Britten’s opera Death in Venice, and to other artistic adaptations of Mann’s story. Lawrence, Georg Lukács, Lionel Trilling, Wolfgang Koeppen, Susan Sontag, Allan Bloom, Camille Paglia, and Mario Vargas Llosa. Among the critics, scholars, and reviewers cited are Heinrich Mann, Hermann Broch, D. Comparisons of Death in Venice to Mann’s other writings are considered, as are comparisons to works by authors such as Euripides, Plato, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Platen, Nietzsche, Gide, Conrad, D’Annunzio, and Mishima. Those issues also include politics, philosophy, psychoanalysis, homoeroticism, music, and translations. Issues raised in the interpretations discussed include art and artists, myths, sources, symbols, style, and narrative structure. This comprehensive chronological approach helps put the extensive criticism and scholarship on Mann’s story into literary and historical perspective. It treats over seven hundred books, articles, and other reactions to Mann’s Death in Venice thematically yet within five chronological categories. Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice: A Novella and Its Critics This study surveys and analyzes the reception of one of the most famous and most widely read stories in all of modern literature. Acknowledging that some Christians invoke the Ten commandments of not having graven images as an objection towards art, Schaeffer has a beautiful and powerful presentation of the Biblical data that this cannot be what the prohibition means since the Bible has arts. He begins his case with the Lordship of Christ, in which Christ and God is in charge of every area of the Christian life including their creative pursuits. In the first chapter, Schaeffer attempts to establish Biblically that art is a godly pursuit. Francis Schaeffer delivers in this work that’s really two chapters/essay that lays the foundation for the development of a Christian view of art. They say don’t judge a book by it’s cover and for this work I would also add that neither should you judge a book by it’s size–the book turned out to be better than I expected. This is a good introduction to a Christian view on art. This is one of the books I recommended for this year’s Christian worldview and apologetics presents suggestion. She’s gay af If Teagan can just keep herself wrapped up tight for one more weekend, she can claim the scholarship and go off to college out and proud.She’s a giant nerd for everything GreatCon.She loves the dresses but hates the tiaras.Pageant queen Teagan Miller (Miss Virginia) has her eye on the much-needed prize: the $25,000 scholarship awarded to the winner of the Miss Cosmic Teen USA pageant. But there’s this con-sponsored publishing contest, and the chance to meet her fandom idols…and then, there’s Teagan. Especially when her hometown bully, Miss North Carolina, shows up in the very same hotel. Kiss a girl for the first time It’s…a lot, and Kay mostly wants to lie face down on the hotel floor.Try out they/them pronouns to see how it feels.She also has a side quest for the weekend: Up and coming fanfic author Kaylee Beaumont is internally screaming at the chance to finally meet her fandom friends in real life and spend a weekend at GreatCon. Most Anticipated by: Buzzfeed * Lambda Literary * LGBTQ Reads * Bustle * Book Riot * Autostraddle * The Nerd Daily * Epic Reads * Frolic “A breezy, snappy story about fandom, friendships, and being true to yourself.”-TJ Klune One small fandom convention. Going in deeper, Malcolm lets us read about certain personality types that he finds are the major influencers for this phenomenon and analyzes further into their own behaviors and characteristics. In The Tipping Point, Gladwell thoroughly analyzes this phenomenon regarding various topics such as fashion, tech, commerce, politics, crime rates, to discover what is that magical tipping point moment that changes everything. Well, that’s the topic that Malcolm is discussing in this book, so get ready to hear some of his amazing conclusions about this and how he feels about that magic moment. Have you ever done something in life where it seemed like it’s not working and it’s pointless until that one magic moment when everything suddenly turns around and starts working amazingly? Here are our favorite picks for our best books by Malcolm Gladwell list. You will find that his books are focused on everyday things we as people experience in a society and that his conclusions are based on his own research about them, as well as learning about some amazing ways to achieve success. Luck or not, that was the start of his fruitful new career. |