![]() ![]() Polychromy and gilding on wood, 45 x 33 x 28 inches (photo by the author) ![]() There’s an ease and beauty to the figure despite his bloody wounds, and his peaceful face is framed by intricately carved ringlets of hair. 1515-20) conflates bodily disfigurement and masculine beauty - the saint’s limbs hang limp with the same grace as the lush blue and gold fabrics draped over his body, landing gently just above the groin. 1420-30), unaffected and even serene as iron rods are hammered into his flesh. This is reflected in the face of Saint Quentin in the carved limestone sculpture “Saint Quentin being tormented” (c. For Catholic worshippers and theologians of that period (and for many into the present day), pain and torture provided a pathway to the divine. ![]()
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![]() The Hollywood hunk also confirmed that he has no plans to return as Michael Lane in the 'Magic Mike' franchise.Ĭhanning told People: "I am done. We could be spending the money on the thing that the viewer is actually going to get to see and now it's just who can create the most noise to break through the cataclysmic wave of content coming out every single day." ![]() "So, we're spending exponentially more money to sell a movie than actually make the thing for you. Tatum said: "We made 'Magic Mike 2' for $12 million and they spent $60-70 million dollars to sell it. The star explained that the rise of streaming has even impacted theatrical releases as his 2015 movie 'Magic Mike XXL' was forced to have a marketing budget that exceeded the production budget. I think there will be less good storytelling and a lot more product out there." ![]() I do fear a little for the storytelling of it all. It's a different era now and it's just getting crazier with the streamers. The 43-year-old actor has featured in movies released in the wake of the pandemic – such as 'Dog' and 'Magic Mike's Last Dance' – but is concerned about the effect streamers are going to have on the quality of storytelling.Ĭhanning told Forbes: "The movie industry is just changing so much. ![]() ![]() Channing Tatum is worried about streamingĬhanning Tatum fears the impact that streaming will have on the film industry. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you know ANYTHING about writing a book, then you know it’s a labor of love. With the success of my first book, Everyday Watercolor, my publisher immediately sent a contract for a second (and now I have a THIRD on the way). To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. My second book, Everyday Watercolor Flowers turns ONE If you don’t know already, I wrote two books. 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Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:15:39 Boxid IA183201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor ![]() ![]() ![]() On money provided by her father, Los Angeles businessman Ernest Mosk, the young couple went to Paris. ![]() He met his first wife, Lona Mosk (1905–1965), who was a student at the university. there, he worked as a teaching assistant in English. In 1923, Stone received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley. From then on, he believed that education was the only way to succeed in life. Stone said his mother instilled a passion for reading in him. He legally changed his last name to "Stone", his stepfather's surname. By the time he was a senior in high school, his mother had remarried. Among the best known are Lust for Life (1934), about the life of Vincent van Gogh, and The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961), about Michelangelo.īorn Irving Tennenbaum in San Francisco, he was seven when his parents divorced. Irving Stone (born Tennenbaum, J– August 26, 1989) was an American writer, chiefly known for his biographical novels of noted artists, politicians, and intellectuals. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Michael's first novel for children, Time Stops For No Mouse, was a worldwide success. They enjoy the company of nine big oak trees, six bigger fir trees, three fat squirrels, a noisy family of woodpeckers and a travelling circus of nuthatches, blue jays, crows, finches and robins. He and his wife, Martha, live in a stone cottage in Oregon with their cat, Lionel. Michael Hoeye has worked as a farmer, fashion photographer, stagehand and high-school teacher. ![]() They enjoy the company of nine big oak trees, six bigger fir trees, three fat squirrels, a noisy family of woodpeckers and a travelling circus of nuthatches, blue jays, crows, finches and robins. Watchmaker mouse Hermux Tantamoq finds himself hired to track down a blackmailer at the Varmint Theater, but the many distractions of show business threaten to divert Hermux from protecting his friends and saving the theater. ![]() ![]() ![]() And then I found out that, actually, it was about all these other things - which I think happens to most people in therapy. I was having a normal reaction to something that was very shocking. ![]() In terms of what I revealed, yes I revealed a lot, but I wasn’t a hot mess. That’s what makes us so effective as therapists.ĭid you struggle at all with what you chose to reveal about yourself? Because, as you say, this isn’t the typical space the therapist occupies in our culture. ![]() I don’t mean that we’ve experienced the same things, but that we’ve struggled with the daily problems of living. I don’t think anybody wants to go and talk to a brick wall. As I say in the book, despite my training and my credentials and all of those things that are important, I feel like my most important credential is that I’m a card-carrying member of the human race. ![]() Which of course we want: We want someone with expertise, that’s why we’re going to them. There’s this idea - which I think keeps a lot of people out of therapy, actually - that the therapist is this expert up on high. I think it’s a very new book for me and probably for the reader. For you, it’s obviously important you show the other side and how it affects the therapist. In the books I’ve read or know of that are written by therapists, the focus - insofar as the reader gets to go into the therapy room - is really on the patient and how it impacts the patient. ![]() ![]() Helen Hummer, a middle-aged virgin spinster who hates men, adopts a male infant from an orphanage, names him Henrietta, and raises him as a girl, beating him so severely that the child grows into an idiot youth whose only friend is a tree. Other aspects of the book however, are genuinely jarring in the context of Collier's relaxed prose style and overall light-touch. ![]() The chapter titles themselves highlight the book's lurid content, such as "A Man's Best Friend is His Whiskey Glass," "A Secret Sexual Pleasure," "Arthur Moore Improves on Beating One's Wife," and "Alice's Secret for Fondling." The book is oddly humorous at times, and to be sure, some of the narrative situations are about as sophisticated as a typical shaggy dog story. The primary occupations of the farmers and their wives are drinking and having illicit sex. Written in carefully crafted, matter-of-fact prose, Collier's novel is account of everyday life in the isolated rural community of Menham. "While not a horror novel per se, Collier's first novel is a bizarre, grotesque account of small-town life, calling it strange book is an understatement. ![]() ![]() ![]() And so, Rahma has no choice but to take on one final mission with her sister. ![]() Rahma al-Hud loyally followed her elder sister Zeena into the war over the Holy Land, but now that the Faranji invaders have gotten reinforcements from Richard the Lionheart, all she wants to do is get herself and her sister home alive.īut Zeena, a soldier of honor at heart, refuses to give up the fight while Jerusalem remains in danger of falling back into the hands of the false Queen Isabella. ![]() This thrilling female-led Robin Hood remix reframes the legend’s tales of the Third Crusade from a Muslim perspective, rewriting its origin’s male and overwhelmingly white Euro-centric narrative. In the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The inner freedom from the practical desire, I can only say, there we have been: but I cannot say where.Īnd I cannot say, how long, for that is to place it in time. There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. Neither from nor towards at the still point, there the dance is,īut neither arrest nor movement. Go, said the bird, for the leaves were full of children,Īt the still point of the turning world. Then a cloud passed, and the pool was empty. The surface glittered out of heart of light,Īnd they were behind us, reflected in the pool. So we moved, and they, in a formal pattern,Īlong the empty alley, into the box circle,Īnd the pool was filled with water out of sunlight, There they were as our guests, accepted and accepting. Had the look of flowers that are looked at. The unheard music hidden in the shrubbery,Īnd the unseen eyebeam crossed, for the roses In the autumn heat, through the vibrant air, Moving without pressure, over the dead leaves, The deception of the thrush? Into our first world. Quick, said the bird, find them, find them, Point to one end, which is always present.ĭisturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() |