Russell Lynes
Russell Lynes (1910-1991) was an art historian, cultural critic, author, photographer, and managing editor of Harper's Magazine. His articles for Harper's and Life in 1949 made parsing American culture into highbrow, upper or lower middlebrow, ... [... more]
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Hollywood Highbrow: From Entertainment to Art
 Author: Shyon Baumann Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 791.430973 EAN: 9780691125275 ISBN: 0691125279 Number Of Pages: 242 Publication Date: 2007-09-24 [... more]
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Eternally Yours
From Amazon.com: Having kickstarted punk rock with 1977's seminal (I'm) Stranded, this runty, sardonic Brisbane foursome followed up their debut with an equally testy and snarling collection. This time, however, the Saints added horns to certain tracks, [... more]
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The House Next Door
From Amazon.com: Anne Rivers Siddons is a writer of literary fiction whose one foray into the horror genre is this remarkable 1978 novel, The House Next Door. The setting is a wealthy suburb in Atlanta where an ambitious young architect is building a [... more]
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Vladimir Ussachevsky: Film Music
A Ussachevsky Fan: This music makes me want to find the movies it was written for. There is something less alienated and alienating about this music than much produced by others (or is it just me?), or is it only that I knew the man, if only for a few [... more]
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Wilder Shores of Love
Seeking the adventure you never had?Make this book it's map!: God what a beautiful collection of real life stories and ones about women that way up most braggart adventures of men!(and I say that as a guy folks!). I was in a state of awe & envy [... more]
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Howling at the Moon: The Odyssey of a Monstrous Music ...
Walter Yetnikoff's amazing life story is one worth reading: Walter Yetnikoff's "Howling at the Moon" is a great read. The author is stone-cold honest about his history - morphing from a poor kid in Brooklyn to Columbia Law graduate to " [... more]
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Put Your Best Foot Forward: Make a Great Impression by ...
From Amazon.com: First impressions are always difficult to shake. So why not help influence how others view you in the first place, thereby affecting the way they think of you in the long run? Put Your Best Foot Forward, by Jo-Ellan Dimitrius (who [... more]
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Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in ...
The only book of non-fiction I've read twice: Really. This book is so fine, so well written, so fascinating, that I actually re-read it! Mr. Levine, please write more. I've recommended this book to many friends, including scientists who had never shown [... more]
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Snow
Ka's Konfusions: Novels like Pamuk's "Snow" can be understood at different levels. Consider it as pure entertainment; for the political intrigue and thrill; or as a virtual door into a foreign place, the lives of far away people, their time or [... more]
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Theory of Interaction the Simplest Explanation of Everything
Meaningless generalizations: Meaningless generalizations couched in fancy words. I expected a scientific treatise, but instead found strange rantings with little or no basis in fact or accepted theory. Some people have been padding the ratings with [... more]
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Wonder Boys
Wonderful "Boys": Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon deftly avoided the sophomore slump with "Wonder Boys," a followup to the unique "Mysteries of Pittsburgh." A wickedly funny and weirdly satirical novel, this is the [... more]
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