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Book Whoops Dearie

Download or read book Whoops Dearie written by Peter Arno and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Homophobia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Byrne Fone
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2001-11-03
  • ISBN : 9780312420307
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book Homophobia written by Byrne Fone and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-11-03 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive treatment of the history of homophobia - from ancient Athens to the halls of Congress.

Book Book Notes Illustrated

Download or read book Book Notes Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Peter Arno

Download or read book Peter Arno written by Michael Maslin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible, wild life of Peter Arno, the fabled cartoonist whose racy satire and bold visuals became the unforgiving mirror of his times and the foundation of the New Yorker cartoon. In the summer of 1925, The New Yorker was struggling to survive its first year in print. They took a chance on a young, indecorous cartoonist who was about to give up his career as an artist. His name was Peter Arno, and his witty social commentary, blush-inducing content, and compositional mastery brought a cosmopolitan edge to the magazine’s pages—a vitality that would soon cement The New Yorker as one of the world’s most celebrated publications. Alongside New Yorker luminaries such as E.B. White, James Thurber, and founding editor Harold Ross, Arno is one of the select few who made the magazine the cultural touchstone it is today. In this intimate biography of one of The New Yorker’s first geniuses, Michael Maslin dives into Arno’s rocky relationship with the magazine, his fiery marriage to the columnist Lois Long, and his tabloid-cover altercations involving pistols, fists, and barely-legal debutantes. Maslin invites us inside the Roaring Twenties’ cultural swirl known as Café Society, in which Arno was an insider and observant outsider, both fascinated and repulsed by America’s swelling concept of “celebrity.” Through a nuanced constellation of Arno’s most defining experiences and escapades that inspired his work in the pages of The New Yorker, Maslin explores the formative years of the publication and its iconic cartoon tradition. In tandem, he traces the shifting gradations of Arno’s brushstrokes and characters over the decades—all in light of the cultural upheavals that informed Arno’s sardonic humor. In this first-ever portrait of America’s seminal cartoonist, we finally come eye-to-eye with the irreverent spirit at the core of theNew Yorker cartoon—a genre in itself—and leave with no doubt as to how and why this genre came to be embraced by the masses as a timeless reflection of ourselves.

Book Screened Out

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Barrios
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2005-02-16
  • ISBN : 1134001797
  • Pages : 417 pages

Download or read book Screened Out written by Richard Barrios and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-02-16 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapacious dykes, self-loathing closet cases, hustlers, ambiguous sophisticates, and sadomasochistic rich kids: most of what America thought it knew about gay people it learned at the movies. A fresh and revelatory look at sexuality in the Great Age of movie making, Screened Out shows how much gay and lesbian lives have shaped the Big Screen. Spanning popular American cinema from the 1900s until today, distinguished film historian Richard Barrios presents a rich, compulsively readable analysis of how Hollywood has used and depicted gays and the mixed signals it has given us: Marlene in a top hat, Cary Grant in a negligee, a pansy cowboy in The Dude Wrangler. Such iconoclastic images, Barrios argues, send powerful messages about tragedy and obsession, but also about freedom and compassion, even empowerment. Mining studio records, scripts, drafts (including cut scenes), censor notes, reviews, and recollections of viewers, Barrios paints our fullest picture yet of how gays and lesbians were portrayed by the dream factory, warning that we shouldn't congratulate ourselves quite so much on the progress movies - and the real world -- have made since Stonewall. Captivating, myth-breaking, and funny, Screened Out is for all film aficionados and for anyone who has sat in a dark movie theater and drawn strength and a sense of identity from what they saw on screen, no matter how fleeting or coded.

Book The Judge

Download or read book The Judge written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Love and Linda

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barbara Cartland
  • Publisher : Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
  • Release : 2022-11-01
  • ISBN : 1788676149
  • Pages : 197 pages

Download or read book Love and Linda written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rags to riches and romance tale of Linda Snell takes us on a rollercoaster ride of a life – from sleazy beginnings via a Convent school to the glamour of the West End stage and the London fashion scene. Pursued by all the wrong men and eluded by the right ones, Linda scales the dizzy heights where her passion for Harry, a world-famous aviator, is dashed by his sudden death. Marrying in desperation the wrong man for all the wrong reasons, humble is transformed into Lady Blaxly but still happiness is a distant dream… Until one unlikely man holds out the hope that Linda will finally find a true and lasting love.

Book New York Nights

Download or read book New York Nights written by Stephen Graham and published by New York, George H. Doran Company [c1927]. This book was released on 1927 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  New Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries New Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1928 with total page 2398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 24 : Nos. 1-148 (March, 1927 - March, 1928)

Book The Encyclopedia of New York City

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of New York City written by Kenneth T. Jackson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 4282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering an exhaustive range of information about the five boroughs, the first edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City was a success by every measure, earning worldwide acclaim and several awards for reference excellence, and selling out its first printing before it was officially published. But much has changed since the volume first appeared in 1995: the World Trade Center no longer dominates the skyline, a billionaire businessman has become an unlikely three-term mayor, and urban regeneration—Chelsea Piers, the High Line, DUMBO, Williamsburg, the South Bronx, the Lower East Side—has become commonplace. To reflect such innovation and change, this definitive, one-volume resource on the city has been completely revised and expanded. The revised edition includes 800 new entries that help complete the story of New York: from Air Train to E-ZPass, from September 11 to public order. The new material includes broader coverage of subject areas previously underserved as well as new maps and illustrations. Virtually all existing entries—spanning architecture, politics, business, sports, the arts, and more—have been updated to reflect the impact of the past two decades. The more than 5,000 alphabetical entries and 700 illustrations of the second edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City convey the richness and diversity of its subject in great breadth and detail, and will continue to serve as an indispensable tool for everyone who has even a passing interest in the American metropolis.

Book Collected Books

Download or read book Collected Books written by Allen Ahearn and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to and advice on book collecting with a glossary of terms and tips on how to identify first editions and estimated values for over 20,000 collectible books published in English (including translations) over the last three centuries-about half are literary titles in the broadest sense (novels, poetry, plays, mysteries, science fiction, and children's books); and the other half are non-fiction (Americana, travel and exploration, finance, cookbooks, color plate, medicine, science, photography, Mormonism, sports, et al).

Book Cheaper by the Dozen and Belles on Their Toes

Download or read book Cheaper by the Dozen and Belles on Their Toes written by Frank B. Gilbreth and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hilarious and heartwarming #1 New York Times bestseller and its beloved sequel about a larger-than-life family with twelve kids. Cheaper by the Dozen: Made into two classic movies—one starring Clifton Webb and the other starring Steve Martin—and translated into more than fifty languages, Cheaper by the Dozen is an amusing, endearing, and unforgettable memoir of the Gilbreth clan as told by siblings Frank Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth. Mother and Dad are world-renowned efficiency experts, helping factories fine-tune their assembly lines for maximum output at minimum cost. At home, the Gilbreths themselves have cranked out twelve kids, and Dad is out to prove that efficiency principles can apply to family as well as the workplace—with riotous results. “A touching family portrait that also happens to be very, very funny.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Belles on Their Toes: With twelve kids, life at the Gilbreth house has always been a big project. But after their father passes away, there are more challenges than ever. As their resourceful mother works to keep the family business running, the kids tackle the adventures of raising themselves and running a household. With the irrepressible blend of humor and good cheer characteristic of one of the most beloved families in America, the Gilbreths rise to every occasion and find a way to keep it all together. Belles on Their Toes was also made into a movie with Myrna Loy and Jeanne Crain reprising their roles. “There is a sincere and heartwarming atmosphere in this second volume that makes it almost better reading, if possible, than the first.” —Library Journal

Book Hawkeye s Roommate

Download or read book Hawkeye s Roommate written by Walter Prichard Eaton and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Three Complete Novels

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lilian Jackson Braun
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780399148132
  • Pages : 572 pages

Download or read book Three Complete Novels written by Lilian Jackson Braun and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "UFOs in Mooseville? In The Cat Who Saw Stars, rumors abound that a missing backpacker has been abducted, and it looks like Qwilleran's sedate summer may be interrupted by an investigation - with the help of his own little aliens, Koko and Yum Yum. When the backpacker's body turns up - and transplanted Floridian Owen Bowen is found dead soon after - the search for intelligent life turns into a close encounter with a killer."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Biographical Sketches of Cartoonists   Illustrators in the Swann Collection of the Library of Congress

Download or read book Biographical Sketches of Cartoonists Illustrators in the Swann Collection of the Library of Congress written by Sara Duke and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside this book are short biographical sketches about the many artists represented in the Library of Congress' Swann Collection compiled by Erwin Swann (1906-1973). In the early 1960s, Swann, a New York advertising executive started collecting original cartoon drawings of artistic and humorous interest. Included in the collection are political prints and drawings, satires, caricatures, cartoon strips and panels, and periodical illustrations by more than 500 artists, most of whom are American. The 2,085 items range from 1780-1977, with the bulk falling between 1890-1970. The Collection includes 1,922 drawings, 124 prints, 14 paintings, 13 animation cels, 9 collages, 1 album, 1 photographic print, and 1 scrapbook.

Book Ducky

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael W Dymond
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2015-03-12
  • ISBN : 1496974492
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book Ducky written by Michael W Dymond and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is about the life of two young people, Donald and Phyllis, which took root and survived through hundreds of love letters. Married in 1940, they spent four months together. For the remainder of their life, forty months, Donald spent training and guarding in Canada, preparing for the front in England and then in Europe till his death on April 30, 1945. Phyllis waited for his return while raising two children. This book contains, verbatim, many of the letters that became their life. Letters bursting with fears, hopes, and plans for how things may have been.

Book Blowing the Lid

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stuart Feather
  • Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
  • Release : 2016-02-26
  • ISBN : 1785351443
  • Pages : 554 pages

Download or read book Blowing the Lid written by Stuart Feather and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gay Liberation Front founded in 1970 urged gay men and gay women to unite around a simple set of demands among which were calls for an end to discrimination against homosexuals in employment, in sex education, in the age of consent and in being treated as sick by the medical establishment. GLF saw itself as a people’s movement for gays, socialist by virtue of its demand for social change, and revolutionary in recognizing the rights of other oppressed minorities to determine the fight for their own demands. All history is personal. The author of this political memoir is the first participant of the Front to write a history of the lesbians and gay men who joined Gay Liberation and through a process of Coming Out and radicalization initiated an anarchic campaign that permanently changed the face of this country.