In 1981, the oil company BP, who enjoyed substantial revenue from Norwegian oilfields, offered to pay for a portrait of the king, by an artist of his choice, to hang in Balliol Hall. King Olav came to unveil it.
At a measured pace, Kaufman began: “Mr. Fisher, on Mount Wilson there is a telescope. A powerful telescope that has made it possible to magnify the distant stars to approximately twelve times the magnification of any previous telescope.
A plaque on the bottom step reading stan laurel and oliver hardy “the music box” reassures you you're in the right place. I assumed it had been put there by the Laurel & Hardy–adoring organization Sons of the Desert, but in fact seems ...
a title that demonstrated he had lost none of his wit. It was his typical response to a dissatisfied reader of National Review: "Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription." It would be one of his last books. He died on February 27, 2008.
Her energy is boundless; physically she works harder than anyone i know and even when exhausted participates in all of Bianca's extra curricular activities. she is a superb cook, decorator, party planner, computer whiz and accountant.
a dictionary of over 64,000 briefs and phrases for court reporters, students and scopists
The best of short literary memoirs, essays, and reflections, many of which were written expressly for this collection.
Davies, Hunter, The Teller of Tales: In Search of Robert Louis Stevenson, Sinclair Stevenson, UK, 1994 Ellison, Joseph W, ... Letter 2214 'beautiful places, green forever ... desire to go there', The Quest For Robert Louis Stevenson, ...
Brief Encounters
Collection of Gyles Brandreth's celebrated interveiws from the Sunday Telegraph, including politicians, actors, TV stars and royalty.
The best of short literary memoirs, essays, and reflections, many of which were written expressly for this collection.
Brief Encounter The opening title to this classic film drama says it all: “Noel Coward's Brief Encounter'. Though directed by David Lean, from a gay point of view, it is Coward, the film's producer and scenarist, who is the true auteur ...
A tourist in Paris falls for her handsome guide; a writer explores the ambiguities of his relationship with a Japanese woman; a lonely man readers graffiti for a sign that...
When the idea for Brief Encounters came to me, I knew it was a series romance, and I suspected it was a Blaze book. So I was delighted when my editor agreed and invited me to write not one, but three, Blaze books.
Through a close reading of mid-twentieth century British films, Brief Encounters explores a range of lesbian and gay screen images from such diverse films as Soldiers of the King, Pygmalion,...
Brief Encounters: How to Make the Most of Relationships that May Not Last Forever
Brief Encounters: Brief Psychotherapy
The book can serve as a useful resource for studying Korea’s early interactions with the outside world, and will give readers an idea of the criteria by which Westerners judged the foreign “other.”
Immerse yourself in these compelling stories and let them transport you to places both familiar and unknown—a collection that celebrates the extraordinary within the ordinary and reminds us of the beauty that lies within the brief ...
This collection of sixty short stories chronicles the adventures and memories of an Italian grandpa living in the twentieth century in Northern New Jersey.