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Sep 02, 2009 08:16PM
I'm guessing D.H. Lawrence
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Person1. Writer
2. Shocked America
3. Banned in the UK
4. Two movies made from most controversial book.
5. Never learned to drive.
6. Collected butterflies.
7. Known for clever manipulation of the English language.
8. banned in France.
9. learned to speak English before his own native language
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Person 1. Writer
2. Shocked America
3. Banned in the UK
4. Two movies made from most controversial book.
5. Never learned to drive.
6. Collected butterflies.
7. Known for clever manipulation of the English language.
8. banned in France.
9. learned to speak English before his own native language
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12. mentioned in one of Sting's/Police most famous songs
Bravo BarbarossaDid clue #12 give it away to you?
Manuel wrote: "Bravo BarbarossaDid clue #12 give it away to you?"
Just up and had been listening to "Don't Stand So Close To Me" on the radio as I breakfasted, logged on and the syncronisity (wasn't that a Police album?) hit home...woooo, spooky!
Nabokov was on my mind because I finally saw Lolita over the weekend.I loved Peter Sellers in that movie,
OK, a thing.1) Finished mid 20th cent.
2) based on a 16th cent. drawing.
3) Attacked by critics.
4) Not what was expected from the artist.
5) Cost £8200.
6) Has been stabbed and shot.
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coincidentally, that was the last "album" I ever purchased. Summer 1982
7) Unusual perspective for the subject.
1) Finished mid 20th cent. 2) based on a 16th cent. drawing.
3) Attacked by critics.
4) Not what was expected from the artist.
5) Cost £8200.
6) Has been stabbed and shot.
7) Unusual perspective for the subject.
8) No nails.
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1) Finished mid 20th cent. 2) based on a 16th cent. drawing.
3) Attacked by critics.
4) Not what was expected from the artist.
5) Cost £8200.
6) Has been stabbed and shot. (OK, stabbed is local myth...actually attacked with a half brick. And only shot with an air-rifle.)
7) Unusual perspective for the subject.
8) No nails.
9) Model had been a double for Gene Kelly as well as, later, for Alan Ladd.
Painting:1) Finished mid 20th cent.
2) based on a 16th cent. drawing.
3) Attacked by critics.
4) Not what was expected from the artist.
5) Cost £8200.
6) Has been stabbed and shot. (OK, stabbed is local myth...actually attacked with a half brick. And only shot with an air-rifle.)
7) Unusual perspective for the subject.
8) No nails.
9) Model had been a double for Gene Kelly as well as, later, for Alan Ladd.
10) Can't see his face.
11) The landscape is the artist's home village.
You are so sneaky Barbarossa, I kept thinking sculpture.I just happened to pick up a book on Dali at the library and saw
St John on the Cross.
very beautiful image. I cant imagine why some people hate it so
Manuel wrote: "You are so sneaky Barbarossa, I kept thinking sculpture.I just happened to pick up a book on Dali at the library and saw
St John on the Cross.
very beautiful image. I cant imagine why some peopl..."
Yes! Well, actually "Christ of St John of the Cross", but yes the Dali one.
See: http://www.glasgowmuseums.com/venue/p...
1) Finished mid 20th cent. - 1951
2) based on a 16th cent. drawing. - By a Carmelite friar who became canonised as St John Of The Cross, hence the title.
3) Attacked by critics. - Seen as a step backwards in painting.
4) Not what was expected from the artist. - No melting clocks etc.
5) Cost £8200. - Haggled down from £1200, and managed to buy the copyright with it.
6) Has been stabbed and shot. (OK, stabbed is local myth...actually attacked with a half brick. And only shot with an air-rifle.)
7) Unusual perspective for the subject. - The view from above, this causing some to view it as blasphemous being a view that only god would have.
8) No nails. - Or crown of thorns, no dwelling on the torture or suffering.
9) Model had been a double for Gene Kelly as well as, later, for Alan Ladd. - Hollywood stuntman Russ Saunders (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0996183/), been in everything from Shane to The Goonies.
10) Can't see his face.
11) The landscape is the artist's home village. - Port Lligat
As to people hating it, it's in Glasgow, a city with a Hx of sectarion violence and bigotry...well, amongst an idiot minority, but it's there. Some see it as "Papist", some as iconoclastic due to the serenity of the scene (!?!?).Others though see it as symbolic of Glasgow in some ways and embrace it. For cultural context see this 3 parter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u45v8_...
I used to go see it as a wee boy...and the mummy and dinosaur stuff too.
I thought it was beautiful,perhaps indeed because Im Catholic, but more because its a wonderful painting, regardless of my religion
good choice of subject matter on this one Barbarossa.
Manuel wrote: "I thought it was beautiful,perhaps indeed because Im Catholic, but more because its a wonderful painting, regardless of my religion
good choice of subject matter on this one Barbarossa."
Thanks.
It was the first Dali I ever saw, it's now back in the Kelvingrove Museum and Gallery (art upstairs, stones and bones etc on the ground-floor). It's almost 3D when you see it...lot of depth.
All the museums etc are free too which helps.
Event1. 2:00 AM
2. Could be seen for miles
3. Great loss of life
4. Ignored by history
Event1. 2:00 AM
2. Could be seen for miles
3. Great loss of life
4. Ignored by history
5. War time tradgedy
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Sounds great Susanna, but according to Wikipedia, the ships collided at 8:40am, not 2:00am.
I'm guessing the sabotage and explosion of the paddleboat Sultana on the post-Civil War Mississippi."Seven miles out of Memphis, at 2:00 a.m. on April 27, 1865, the steamer Sultana chugged northward loaded with over twenty-three hundred people, most of them Union soldiers returning home from southern prison camps. Without warning, an explosion ripped through the boilers, scalding steam burst out, and a shower of flaming coal shot upward into the night, raining down on the crowded boat, which in moments was engulfed in flames. Over seventeen hundred people died, making the destruction of the Sultana a maritime disaster worse than the sinking of the Titanic."
- "The Sultana: A Case for Sabotage"
"This disaster received somewhat diminished attention as it took place soon after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and during the closing weeks of the Civil War." - Wikipedia
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Event.1. “Before I left (he) gave me £2, telling me to call at the Savoy Hotel in a week.“
2. “About £3 I think it was. He said he thought I must need some money to buy some things with.”
3. "He said, 'You have some letters I should like to get back,' and he gave me £30.”
4. “When I left, (he) gave me £3. I remember subsequently going with my brother to 13 Little College Street. “
something very familiar about this......
Manuel wrote: "something very familiar about this......"yes.. haha!
transcript from the 2nd trial of Oscar Wilde1. May 1975
2. Communist country
3. Rescue By U.S. Marines
4. 15 U.S. combat Deaths
Mayaguez incident/Cambodia I was in 6th grade and we were all still talking about the Fall of Saigon the month before.
Manuel wrote: "Mayaguez incident/Cambodia I was in 6th grade and we were all still talking about the Fall of Saigon the month before."Yup. I had never heard of it until a year ago when I was looking through a Newsweek from 1975
give me a while to come up with something new
I hope I haven't already used this.An Event
1. cost $35,000
2. social event of the century (20th)
3. anyone who was anyone was invited
4. guest of honor barely knew the host
An Event1. cost $35,000
2. social event of the century (20th)
3. anyone who was anyone was invited
4. guest of honor barely knew the host
5. invited 500 friends, made 15,000 enemies.
An Event1. cost $35,000
2. social event of the century (20th)
3. anyone who was anyone was invited
4. guest of honor barely knew the host
5. invited 500 friends, made 15,000 enemies.
6. heavily covered by mainstream media, in the days before the paparazzi.
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Bravo Susanna.I had never heard of it until I read a great article about it in Vanity Fair.
Ironically Katherine Graham the guest of honor couldnt get a hair appointment because all the hairdressers were booked. She had to tell the salon that she was the GUEST of HONOR and they quickly penciled her an appointment.
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1. Daughter of Edward Gibbon's girlfriend.
2. Marriage negotiations with the King of Sweden.
3. Many lovers.
4. According to Napoleon, she taught people how to think.
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1. Daughter of Edward Gibbon's girlfriend.
2. Marriage negotiations with the King of Sweden.
3. Many lovers.
4. According to Napoleon, she taught people how to think.
5. Admirer of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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1. Daughter of Edward Gibbon's girlfriend.
2. Marriage negotiations with the King of Sweden.
3. Many lovers.
4. According to Napoleon, she taught people how to think.
5. Admirer of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
6. Fled The Terror.
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