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I hate my neck by nora ephron5/29/2023 But mostly she speaks frankly and uproariously about life as a woman of a certain age. She recounts her anything-but-glamorous days as a White House intern during the JFK years ("I am probably the only young woman who ever worked in the Kennedy White House that the President did not make a pass at") and shares how she fell in and out of love with Bill Clinton - from a distance, of course. But her dermatologist tells her there's no quick fix for that.Įphron chronicles her life as an obsessed cook, passionate city dweller, and hapless parent. Oh, and she can't stand the way her neck looks. The woman who brought us "When Harry Met Sally"., "Sleepless in Seattle", "You've Got Mail", and "Bewitched," and the author of best sellers "Heartburn," "Scribble Scribble," and "Crazy Salad," discusses everything -from how much she hates her purse to how much time she spends attempting to stop the clock: the hair dye, the treadmill, the lotions and creams that promise to slow the aging process but never do. With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in "I Feel Bad About My Neck," a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.
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John Hayes, Gainsborough Drawings: A Supplement to the Catalogue Raisonné, in Master Drawings, 21, 1983 pp. Derow, Gainsborough's Varnished Watercolor Technique, in Master Drawings, 26, 1988 pp. Smit, Gert Jan van der Sman (eds.), Academies of Art, 's-Gravenhage, 1989, pp 474-492 Een beschouwing van geëxposeerde schilderijen van Reynolds en Gainsborough in het licht van de tentoonstellingsomstandigheden bij de Royal Academy, in Anton W.A. Rosenthal and Martin Myrone in 2002, noticed the artists preoccupation with. Susan Sloman, Sitting to Gainsborough at Bath in 1760, in Burlington Magazine, 139, 1997 pp. Hallett on a Tate Britain display of Gainsborough paintings curated by Michael. Michael Rosenthal, Thomas Gainsborough's Ann Ford, in Art Bulletin, 80, 1998 pp. Susan Sloman, 'A Divine Countenance': Gainsborough's portrait of his nephew rediscovered, in Burlington Magazine, 146, 2004 pp. Hugh Belsey, A Second Supplement to John Hayes's "The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough", in Master Drawings, 46, 2008 pp. 231-237Ĭarol Christiansen and Eleonora Luciano, The evolution of Gainsborough's portrait of Elizabeth Sheridan, in Burlington Magazine, 155, 2013 pp. Susan Sloman, Gainsborough's 'Blue boy', in Burlington Magazine, 155, 2013 pp.
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Book mr nice guy5/29/2023 To avoid disapproval, Glover explains that Nice Guys go out of their way to hide their true selves, including their perceived flaws. Hiding one’s humanity and trying to project an image of perfection makes a person vague, slippery, lifeless, and uninteresting.” Nice Guy, quotes from the book are a great way to start: If you want to fully understand the lessons from No More Mr. Here are the eight best quotes from No More Mr. Understanding key quotes from the book is important if you want to apply these principles to your own life. Nice Guy, Robert Glover shares his opinions about how men can become more confident, secure, and integrated. Robert Glover? How can these quotes help you to increase your confidence? What are the best quotes from No More Mr. Like this article? Sign up for a free trial here. Shortform has the world's best summaries and analyses of books you should be reading. This article is an excerpt from the Shortform book guide to "No More Mr.
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Book the narrow road to the deep north5/28/2023 A woman's ear is an invitation to adventure? Give me a break. How can you criticise a work that sets out to tell such an horrific story of war and violence? But this book is drowning itself in its own pretentious language. It makes me feel bad saying this about a book which was clearly inspired by the author's father's own experiences on the Burma death railway. I guess I'm inviting haters and trolls by reviewing this much-loved Booker Prize winner, but the eye rolls started somewhere halfway through chapter one and they just wouldn't stop. "I shall be a carrion monster, he whispered into the coral shell of her ear, an organ of women he found unspeakably moving in its soft, whorling vortex, and which always seemed to him to be an invitation to adventure."
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She put the device against his hole and pressed inward, and he pushed back dutifully when the. “You know the routine, pet,” she smiled “relax into the penetration and push back against the plug when it enters you.” She opened her bag and took the biggest plug it contained, lubricating it thoroughly. She said, humming in approval when he obeyed without hesitation. She got up and chained his still-cuffed hands to the bedposts, leaving his ankles free before she retrieved her toy bag from the cupboard. When she finally broke the kiss, she felt as bereft as he did. His tongue snuck out to play with hers, and she let him, allowed this charming little sub to lure her into a tenderness she’d never showed before in the middle of a scene. He kissed her back so hungrily, caressing her lips with his as if they were the most wonderful thing in the universe. This quite a lovely femdom story with some excellent pegging and. “Kissing him was so easy, she couldn’t resist, his taste invading her senses like delicious chocolates. Finally Its nice to read a femdom story where the woman wasnt a man-hating psychopath.
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Master of Darkness by K.T. Kaye5/28/2023 Not only did Cumberbatch have to follow an animal act, but Letterman, who began by referring to Star Trek as Star Wars, asked his guest-a veteran of twenty movies, including Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and War Horse-if he was new to major motion pictures. Cumberbatch-his dead-white complexion shaded by a newsboy cap-is “chuffed” by his posh digs it’s his first starring role in a blockbuster, and he’s not used to this level of star treatment-well, from everyone except David Letterman, who has not, apparently, been following the actor’s rise as avidly as the actor’s Internet fan club, the Cumberbitches. It’s a summery spring day in New York, and we’re on the patio of his room at the Bowery Hotel. I meet Benedict Cumberbatch the afternoon after an awkward appearance on Letterman, where he was promoting his part as John Harrison, an intergalactic terrorist, in J. J. Photo: Brian Bowen Smith/Paramount Pictures
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The Fight Within by Andrew Grey5/28/2023 However, the comments are set to cause alarm on the party's left, who are already angered by Sir Keir's decision to drop pledges on tuition fees and the nationalisation of utilities.įormer Home Secretary Priti Patel is set to be one of the keynote speakers at the inaugural Conservative Democratic Organisation (CDO) conference later today. The speech comes after a successful set of local elections for Labour, with a general election expected to be held next year. "This is about rolling our sleeves up, changing our entire culture, our DNA. "This is about taking our party back to where we belong and where we should always have been… That’s why I say this project goes further and deeper than New Labour’s rewriting of clause IV," Sir Keir will tell the Progressive Britain conference. Sir Keir Starmer will claim that Labour has to offer voters a vision that goes "further and deeper" than Sir Tony Blair's 1997 government, in a speech later today.ĭue to the scale of the crisis facing the country, Sir Keir will say that the scale of changes he would make are comparable to "clause IV on steroids" - a nod to Sir Tony's controversial move in 1995 to ditch the party’s then commitment to mass nationalisation in a dramatic shift towards the centre ground.
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Some historians consider Gray's account of Turner's "confessions" to be told with prejudice, and recently one writer has alleged that Gray's account is itself a fabrication. Styron's ambitious novel attempts to imagine the character of Nat Turner it does not purport to describe accurately or authoritatively the events as they occurred. He claimed to receive messages, and these messages told him to follow through with his rebellion killing white families with their own weapons. In the historical confessions, Turner claims to have been divinely inspired, charged with a mission from God to lead a slave uprising and destroy the white race. The novel is based on an extant document, the "confession" of Turner to the white lawyer Thomas Ruffin Gray. Time Magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. It is based on The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia, a first-hand account of Turner's confessions published by a local lawyer, Thomas Ruffin Gray, in 1831. Presented as a first-person narrative by historical figure Nat Turner, the novel concerns Nat Turner's slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831, but does not always depict the events accurately. The Confessions of Nat Turner is a 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by American writer William Styron.
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Angelique serge golon5/28/2023 Her father, as Anne later recalled, “was crazy about the new motor planes and all kinds of machines which would increase the potential of the French army. She was christened Simone Changeux but the world would come to know her as Anne – actually the last and most famous of several pen names she has used during her career. The paths of the attractive Frenchwoman and the charming man who was born in Persia would finally cross in Africa, but both had already tasted adventure long before they met.Īnne was born in December 1921 in the southern France port of Toulon, where her father, a captain in the French navy, was posted. That two such remarkable people should be attracted to each other is not surprising, but the fact that they found each other is. And they have all the same elements that made Angélique’s story such a hit with readers. The real life adventures of Anne and Serge Golon are almost as exciting as those of their heroine – and could make a bestselling story in their own right. Librarians might have difficulty deciding whether the story should be filed under historical, romantic or pure adventure… but this time we are not talking about the fictional adventures of Angélique.
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I have no mouth but i must scream book5/28/2023 Not only does Harlan Ellison’s I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream make a stake for that territory, but they succeed in a hugely ambitious way. When was the last time that a video game really got in your head and made you question your every decision? Sure, there are plenty of survival horror games that succeed in frightening their audience with monsters and surprising jump scares, but how many horror games frighten the gamer because of the very decisions that they make and the sort of person that they’re becoming? Sure, zombies and ghosts are terrifying, but human nature and how twisted and evil people can become is even scarier and there are very few games that even attempt to examine that area in horror. We shine a light on the highly controversial, deeply ambitious Harlan Ellison video game adaptation that was decades ahead of its time. |