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- A fine catalog of Red Grooms' graphic achievements
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Red Grooms: The Graphic Work
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Red Grooms: Limited Edition
ASIN: 0810967332 |
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Red Grooms is one of the most inventive and prolific artists working today. His antic humor, imaginative vision, and often raucous view of an extensive range of subjects are legendary. In this comprehensive collection of his graphic work from 1956 to 1999, his mastery of an array of printmaking techniques is revealed, whether in delicate, soft-ground etchings, spray-painted stencils, or an over six-foot-tall woodblock print.
Walter Knestrick, a boyhood classmate of the artist and owner of the definitive Grooms print archive, tells of their lifelong friendship. The 241 illustrations—171 in splendid color—are a testament to the witty and discerning sensibility of an artist who, as Vincent Katz notes in his essay, “keeps devising ways to refresh techniques, working at breakneck speed, molding and reshaping the world he sees.”
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A fine catalog of Red Grooms' graphic achievements.......2001-11-11
With its powerful introduction by Walter Knestric, childhood friend and owner of the definitive Grooms print archive, and an essay by critic Vincent Katz, this powerful collection both accompanies a traveling exhibition and stands alone as a fine catalog of Red Grooms' graphic achievements. Full-page color photos display print styles certain to be familiar to many.
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This digital document is an article from Arts & Activities, published by Publishers' Development Corporation on June 1, 2002. The length of the article is 879 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Learning from exhibitions: Red Grooms: selections from the graphic work. (Cover Story).(Brief Article)(Cover Story)
Author: Mark M. Johnson
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Arts & Activities (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2002
Publisher: Publishers' Development Corporation
Volume: 131
Issue: 5
Page: 22(3)
Article Type: Brief Article, Cover Story
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- Always funny
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Garfield Hogs the Spotlight: His 36th Book (Garfield (Numbered Paperback))
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Garfield Eats Crow: His 39th Book (Garfield)
ASIN: 0345439228 |
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GARFIELD IS READY FOR HIS CLOSE-UP!
The witty kitty is back in the spotlight with a rollicking one-cat show! And this portly performer has an ego as big as his legendary appetite. So whether he's practicing his Volleydog serve on Odie, pantsing the unsuspecting mailman, or trying to lure birds to his barbecue-grill-birdbath, GARFIELD always makes sure he's the center of attention!
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Always funny.......2003-04-22
There is no other way to say it. Garfield is always funny, no matter which book it is. I love them all. They are always good for a laugh.
Thanks!!!!.......2002-02-17
I'd like to say that Jim Davis is a great comic drawer it's the only comic i read!I even love this book Garfield hogs the spotlight!Thanks Jim Davis for these great comics!!!!
The Best Yet.......2000-07-26
I am a huge fan of Garfield now but I have only been so for a few years. I really liked this book because it was really funny. I especially liked the strips with Nermal, and they were really good in this book. I think this book is the best one I own.
a great garfield book........2000-07-24
This was a very funny book as are all the rest of the Garfield books. I like all of the characters. Jim Davis is the greatest cartoonist of all time! Congragulations Garfield Rules reviewer on writing all of those good reviews.
a great book.......2000-07-24
This Garfield book was great just liked all the rest of them. I think Garfield is just as funny now as he was 20 years ago. I don't like people like bret herholz who think he isn't funny anymore.
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- A nice contrast to the standard justice readings
- Thought-provoking collection of short stories
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Justice Follies: Parody from Planet Prison
Robert Johnson
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The Crying Wall
ASIN: 0741425920 |
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Justice is all too often an example of sheer, unadulterated folly. When satire rings true, you know you have a problem. As one reviewer of Justice Follies said, "Robert Johnson's scathing satire is so dead-on, I see Justice Follies as a work of non-fiction. Read it and weep." Justice Follies: Parody from Planet Prison is published by Infinity Publishing in partnership with WilloTrees Press and is a part of the SageWriters series.
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A nice contrast to the standard justice readings.......2006-05-03
In Justice Follies Robert Johnson does a wonderful job showing how absurdly our institutions of social control sometimes operate; and he nicely complements his commentary on the justice process with a cynical examination of how the "spectators" of justice (i.e., the public) often respond like a sports arena audience watching a roller derby. This book is a nice contrast to the typical criminal justice text that shows the CJ "funnel" -- a diagram of the paths accused offenders might take as they are sent through the process. In Justice Follies Johnson reminds us that by emphasizing the "criminal" part, we can easily forget about the "justice" part. I recommend this book to anyone looking for a supplementary reader on justice, and in particular, on the prison.
Thought-provoking collection of short stories.......2006-03-12
Justice Follies is a thought-provoking collection of satirical stories that is raw, provocative, and entertaining. There is something for everyone in this montage. For those with experience in dealing with the criminal justice system, the stories are both humorous and realistic. For those interested in learning more about the system, the works provide a rare glimpse into the inter workings of the labyrinth of agencies and institutions known as the American criminal justice system.
I highly recommend Justice Follies to students at both the high school and university level, as it provides an instructive and realistic portrayal of the justice system, including many of its absurdities and inefficiencies.
Couldn't Put It Down.......2005-10-05
Robert Johnson mixes his expertise in prisons with his clever writing ability to produce one amazing Justice Follies. Prison buff or not, you can't help but enjoy this witty but all too truthful book. From Mister Rogers singing "could ya', would ya', be my cellmate?" to the Pod People of 2020's Brave New Prison, you'll be laughing out loud while shaking your head at the true mockery of the contemporary American criminal justice system. Johnson's brilliant satire pokes fun of our incarceration nation while illustrating the profound evils it encompasses. Justice Follies is truly a great book that hilariously takes you through the wild ride that is our prison system.
What a Book!.......2005-08-23
Justice Follies is an edgy, provocative book that gives readers a look at prison from a comic point-of-view. Rob Johnson does an excellent job of using wit and the tongue-in-cheek approach to shed light on prison daily happenings that text books cannot convey. All professors who teach classes about criminal justice, particularly the prison system, should use Justice Follies as a way of stimulating discussion about a subject matter that all too often is shrugged off as less important or too controversial to touch. Bravo!
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Winner of Best Screenplay Award at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. In another family drama, after his internationally acclaimed Sense and Sensibility success, director Ang Lee takes his moving and comic sensibility to the American suburbs of the 1970s. 20 b/w photos.
The Newmarket Shooting Script(tm) Series features an attractive 7 x 9 1/4 inch format that includes a facsimile of the film's shooting script, as chosen by the writer and/or director, exclusive notes on the film's production and history, stills, and credits.
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The writing alone will keep you reading--but is that enough?.......2007-06-20
I was paying particular attention to how Moody developed the characters and laid the groundwork for plot while maintaining a sense of momentum.
The structure of the book is aided by the pending ice storm that offers a sense of time and place in the novel as well as a sense of movement. The reader knows that the storm will affect the characters and we suspect that it will play a role in the unfolding plot. The storm helps to pace to the novel and Moody moves back to it often as he introduces characters and their particular hang-ups.
The book needs the storm, mainly because the real movement of the book is not immediately obvious. Without the storm, the book would seem to dwell too long on disparate characters. Though the characters are related to one another and live in the same community, the real tension in their relationships and the pending resolution of that tension is not known until the final third of the novel.
Moody also keeps our interest by injecting the text with amusing trivia drawn from popular culture and sex.
And the way in which Moody writes helps to move the text along. Moody likes long sentences full of dependent clauses. He likes lists. He likes short, declarative sentences. Likes fragments.
In the first half of the book, I did not know why I should continue reading. The moral and spiritual bankruptcy of middle class America is well documented. I have no particular interest in the topic. If I were not on the plane, I might have put the book down. But once the characters reached their crisis, things started heating up. I like what Moody is doing and I am curious to read some of his other work, though I suspect (given his reputation) that "Ice Storm" is not his best.
Listmania.......2006-05-09
Glib. While I feel for the suburban "lives of quiet desperation" angle, however shopworn, here it feels trite and slightly exploitative. Moody makes lists in lieu of description. Maybe this is a comment on the consumerism of the culture he's limning. But it comes off as lazy, as if he did a lot of research to come up with all these pop culture references and instead of integrating them just ticks them off. Even if he lived in that place and time he would have been younger than any of his characters. I was Wendy Hood's age in '73, living in a town next door to New Canaan, and I well remember that ice storm, when we were without power for a week, when a sofa caught fire in our house after using the fireplace non-stop for days. It's not that Moody gets the details wrong exactly, but they feel researched rather than lived, like the over-obvious production design of a mediocre movie. I don't remember key parties, I can't imagine my parents or their friends being remotely that adventurous. And the kids seem if anything a shade naive sexually. I came to the book long after the movie, which somehow did manage to get a lot of idiosyncratic details right. Little things like the mesmerizing patterns of the electrical wires along the train lines or white collar suburbanites using well worn trails to cut through the woods to the neighbors'. The book was a disappointment.
Certainly not what the movie was! .......2005-11-14
I had seen the movie, well before reading this novel & I was very much a fan of the movie. The book however was a bit different to the movie & I found that I often got lost within the story of it. I guess it was just lucky that I knew it from watching the film. The movie was concideribly better & that doesn't happen very often, which is why I wanted so badly to read the book.
Overall I did enjoy this book, I love the style of writing Rick has & I did love the characters, they were real. I love the setting of it all as well. I could see the town, I could feel the tension.
A good read, but does jumble around a bit, I found.
sentences that make you swoon.......2004-12-25
i don't understand why exactly, but rick moody seems to make some readers angry. the characters are unlikeable, they say. the sentences are too long. does reading nabakov make the same readers angry? maybe they stumbled onto the ice storm expecting something else, something safe. ignore them.
rick moody gives us the kind of coming-of-age story we need, the weird kind. he's funny and he's sad and i would hang out in this book forever, because the ways the characters see things make me see more.
"Blundering into the kitchen, he felt sure that it would always be this way, this blunt little diorama of a life with its cessation of miracles would never change--except that it would get worse."
A well-written, not-nice story.......2004-09-07
In the late fall of 1973 I was a twenty-nine-year librarian in Dallas, cheering on the downfall of Richard Nixon and learning to write book reviews. As Moody says, it was a very, very different time -- so different I doubt anyone under thirty-five can even imagine it. No call waiting, no cable TV, no AIDS or HIV, no laser printers, no CDs, no Reagan Revolution. The names Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin still meant something. We knew who Rose Mary Woods was, too. But still, New Canaan, Connecticut, was a very different place from north Texas. That fall, Benjamin Hood and his wife, Elena, took the final step toward the break-up of their shaky, unhappy marriage. Wendy Hood, age fourteen, was becoming known as a slut, though she wasn't a bad kid and it wasn't entirely her fault. Her brother, Paul, wasn't having much fun as a seventeen-year-old preppie, either. It was the year the key party came to the upscale suburbs. None of the characters in this painful-to-read novel are particularly likable. You might feel sorry for them, at least some of the time, but you wouldn't particularly want to spend time with any of them, or at least I wouldn't. But Moody keeps you reading, wondering how they're going to screw themselves up next. Making an engrossing story out of unpleasant people and distasteful situations isn't easy, but he manages it.
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Companion to Music
Gerard Hoffnung
Manufacturer: Souvenir Press Ltd
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Synopsis.......2007-07-09
No book has exerted a greater impact on chess thought over the past 80 years. Variations may come and go, but Nimzowitsch was a seeker after eternal truths and the precepts outlined in this strategic manual have withstood the ravages of time. Breakthroughs in understanding often follow breakthroughs in verbal formulation - Nimzowitsch's skill at translating chess board operations into words was one of the secrets both of his personal success and of the longevity of his system.
Aron Nimzowitsch - grandmaster and strategic innovator - is one of the defining voices of modern chess. his classic books My System and Chess Praxis are immortal classics which taught and inspired generations of grandmasters and champions, such as Petrosian, Larsen, Karpov and Leko. As a player, Nimzowitsch won the important tournaments at Dresden 1926 and Carlsbad 1929, which made him a potential candidate for the world championship. His strategic formulations such as "first restrain, then blockade, finally destroy", "the mysterious rook move" and "the passed pawn's lust to expand" have passed into the very currency and lifeblood of chess usage.
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Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: Nelson Books (February 19, 2004) ISBN: 0785263225 Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches There are approximately 12.2 million salespeople in the United States?that?s about 1 out of every 23 people! Salespeople are everywhere, selling everything imaginable. Some are making a killing, but a greater percentage end up victims of the sales industry?and their own mistakes. Some are normal bumps in the road toward success. Others are more damaging. But many are fatal to a career. Duncan addresses these catastrophic mistakes with clarity and directness. Whether you?re a seasoned sales professional or someone considering sales as a career, Duncan?s wisdom can help you avoid errors in perception, practice, and performance that could not only kill a sale but also your career.
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Useful warning: how to avoid 10 sales pitfalls.......2007-02-09
Instead of writing a sales how-to book, sales guru Todd Duncan has taken a slightly different tack and written a what-not-to-do book. He identifies the 10 most common fatal mistakes salespeople make every day in every business. These oft-overlooked errors in approach and strategy can chase away sales and, in the worst cases, destroy careers. Duncan explains how common blunders such as asking for the sale before establishing a connection ("begging") or failing to ask questions to ascertain your client's needs ("arguing") often kill the sale. If you've read even a few books about sales techniques in the last decade, you are familiar with much of what Duncan preaches. In fact, he has addressed the topic in other ways in his previous books, but his sales advice is solid. We believe it will be helpful to the sales neophyte, and can serve as a handy refresher for experienced salespeople.
Rings true ... .......2005-02-16
This book is as funny as it is true. If you've spent any time selling, you'll find yourself giggling in one moment and slapping yourself on the forehead in the next. Duncan's anecdotes and admonitions ring true and his advice is generally simple to implement. Worth the read.
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