Michael Lewis
64) Elton John: Fifty Years On: The Complete Guide to the Musical Genius of Elton John and Bernie Taupin
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We can count on one hand the musical legends equal to Elton John (Beatles and Rolling Stones each get a finger). Elton John: Fifty Years On looks at the impact songwriting partners Elton John and Bernie Taupin have had on popular music and culture, and also discusses every song on all thirty albums, plus his work on Broadway, in movies, and elsewhere. Part 1 is a look at every released song, complete with trivia, including musical insights-like Elton's...
65) 56 up
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"The latest instalment of ITV's landmark documentary series returns to visit the people whose lives have been followed since they were just seven-years-old. The original '7 Up' was broadcast in 1964 as a one-off World in Action Special featuring children chosen from different backgrounds to talk about their hopes and dreams for the future. The series was inspired by World in Action founder editor Tim Hewat's interest in both the saying: "Give me the...
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Political intrigue and treachery, heroism and brutal violence, victory and defeat - all this is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, an epic account of one of the pivotal episodes in English history embroidered on a strip of linen. Famously, it shows the stricken Anglo-Saxon king Harold dying on the battlefield of Hastings in 1066 amid a shower of arrows, as axes clash, spears fly and fallen warriors are trampled beneath charging hooves. However, there...
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Body cams and dashcams have fundamentally transformed law enforcement in recent years. These innovations can help prove someone committed a crime, or didn't. Real-life footage has cleared people initially accused of wrongdoing, and in certain instances even implicated officers. But that same type of footage can also be used to clear police falsely accused of misdeeds. From allegations of harassment or bias to false arrests or even criminal conduct,...
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"Part 1 is a bullet-pointed look at every released song, complete with insights, trivia, and meanings, including musical insights--like Elton's favorite chord progressions, or the most notable melodies in his discography. Part 2 is a collection of essays and interviews with musicians and music writers chatting about Elton and Bernie"--Back cover.
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This outrageous collection of inappropriate ads will have you turning the pages and shaking your head in disbelief. Outdated Advertising takes a look at print advertising from the mid-1850s through the 1980s with an eye toward ads that were notorious for their sexist, racist, politically-incorrect, or other wildly inappropriate content-or for just plain bad taste. Advertising has changed over the decades-that is a major understatement. Despite the...
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Life is a Sunday in the park for Aurelia, a dotty Parisian countess who looks as if she stepped out of a Georges Seurat painting. But sooner or later, Aurelia had to find out about the so-called sane world and its student unrest, the bomb, even its greedy scheme to transform the City of Light into a forest of oil derricks. If this is sanity, she'll do anything to stop it! This spirited and timelier than ever satire based on Jean Giradoux's famed play...
79) Theater of blood
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This dramatically delicious concoction is an equal mixture of horror, comedy, and Shakespeare that₂ll please just about everyone critics included! After years of suffering deadly reviews, hammy Shakespearean actor Edward Lionheart decides its curtains for his critics. Bumping off his detractors with executions inspired by the Bard, Lionheart stages a beheading in the manner of Cymbeline, a stabbing inspired by Julius Caesar, and even an untimely...
80) Theater of blood
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A demented actor and his daughter set about murdering each of London's nine prominent drama critics according to murders in Shakespeare's plays.