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Sanford Meisner on Acting
Setting the Scene: Duse’s Blush Building a Foundation: The Reality of Doing The Pinch and the Ouch The Knock on the Door Beyond Repetition Preparation: “In the Harem of my Head” Improvisation More on Preparation: “Quick as Flame” The Magic As If: Particularization “Making the Part Your Own” Some Thoughts on Actors and on Acting …
Dark Age Ahead
The Hazard Families Rigged to Fail Credentialing Versus Educating Science Abandoned Dumbed-Down Taxes Self-Policing Subverted Unwinding Vicious Spirals Dark Age Patterns
London in the 18th Century
Illustrations List of maps Preface Introduction: London 1700-1708 Part One: City[rtoc] James Gibbs’s London, 1708-54 The Architect most in Vogue: James Gibbs ‘A Kind of Monster’: Growing London, 1720-54 Obstructions and Inconveniences: Changing London, 1700-54 Robert Adam’s London, 1754-99 ‘A Kind of Revolution’: Robert Adam ‘We Have Done Great Things’: Improving London, 1754-99 ‘An Epitome …
The Last Enemy
Introduction Sebastian Faulks Proem Book One Under the Munich Umbrella Before Dunkirk Spitfires The World of Peter Pease The Invaders Book Two Shall I Live for a Ghost? The Beauty Shop The Last of the Long-Haired Boys ‘I See They Got You Too’
London: The Biography
[rtoc] The city as body From prehistory to 1066 The sea! The stones Holy! Holy! Holy! The Early Middle Ages You be all law worthy London Contrasts Loud and everlasting Silence is golden The late medieval city This comapnye Onward and upward Rather dark and narrow Packed to blackness Maps and antiquarians Trading streets and …
His Excellency: George Washington
Preface: The Man in the Moon Interior Regions The Strenuous Squire First in War Destiny’s Child Introspective Interlude First in Peace Testament