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the hounds on fire again. miami guy wayne cochran and payday. (just added to my netflix cue)


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Many impresarios went bankrupt, some more than once, so that a mercantile background and a gambler's instincts were useful. Alessandro Lanari (1787 — 1852) began as the owner of a shop that produced costumes, eliminating the middleman in a series of successful seasons he produced for the Teatro La Pergola, Florence, which saw premieres of the first version of Verdi's Macbeth, two of Bellini's operas and five of Donizetti's, including Lucia di Lammermoor. Domenico Barbaia (1778 — 1841) began as a café waiter and made a fortune at La Scala. Milan, where he was also in charge of the gambling operation and introduced roulette.

The traditional term is still in use in the entertainment industry for a producer of concerts, tours and other events in music, opera, theatre[3] and even rodeo.[4] Significant modern impresarios in the traditional sense include Rudolf Bing, Sergei Diaghilev, Richard D'Oyly Carte, Fortune Gallo, Aaron Richmond, and Sol Hurok.

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Big Rig Feature Film |1:35:12 | From acclaimed director Doug Pray comes an award winning portrait of modern America as seen through the eyes of long-haul truck drivers, the people who know this country in unimaginable ways.


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Delta Urbanism and New Orleans: Before

Before: Environmental Manipulation

Initial analyses characterized the post-Katrina flooding as the result of a levee system overwhelmed by natural forces — a natural disaster. Only later did it become clear that the real cause of the flooding was the inadequacy of the system, which failed due to decades of underfunding, shoddiness, incompetence and/or outdated science. But what allowed the storm surge to get so close to the city in the first place? The answer lies in the relentless human manipulation of the deltaic environment starting in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but mostly occurring during the long twentieth century, from 1890 to 2005.

Modern levee construction and municipal drainage effectively ended the occasional flooding — from river, lake or sky — that frustrated New Orleanians in historical times. [2] These interventions also inadvertently eliminated incoming freshwater and sediment, removed the water component from the soil body, and allowed organic matter to decompose. Fine sand, silt and clay particles settled into the resultant air cavities, compacting the soil and lowering its elevation. The result: soil subsidence.

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magnuson kicked off facebook


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When Jerry Lewis or Tati “criticize” modern life, they don’t have the complacency, the vulgarity to show us ugly things. What they criticize and, they show as beautiful, as magnificent: they love what they criticize and give it a new beauty. Their critique is only the more forceful. In every modernity and every novelty, you find conformity and creativity; an insipid conformity, but also “a little new music”; something in conformity with the time, but also something untimely – separating the one from the other is the task of those who know how to love, the real destroyers and creators of our day. Good destruction requires love.”

“If you don’t admire something, if you don’t love it, you have no reason to write a word about it. Spinoza or Nietzsche are the philosophers whose critical and destructive powers are without equal, but this power always springs from affirmation, from joy, from a cult of affirmation and joy, from the exigency of life against those who would mutilate and mortify it. For me, that is philosophy itself."

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century gothic font cuts printing costs


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Mehrzeller, the Multicellular Caravan


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danish-furniture


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tony paul fireplace collection


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Wm. Rietveld Drafting Table shown with Friso Kramer Result Chair Wm. Rietveld consulted with Friso Kramer on the design of the Table top mechanism to hold the in Top Position. Both with Brown Enameled Frame.

Willem Rietveld "REPLY" Drafting Table with collaborative design by Friso Kramer for Ahrend de Cirkel 1958. These tables were produced in 1962


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wheeled fire pit


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Beretta70: Roaring Themes from Thrilling Italian Policefilms 1971-80

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Thirty feet in the air, held aloft by sturdy steel pillars, are some of Mr. Simpson’s pieces: a team of horses pulling a wagon, a metal man strumming a guitar and an airplane cum rocket ship that might have escaped from an old comic book. They are painted in a dozen colors and festooned with propellers that spin in the breeze. With every gust they creak and whir like some phantasmagoric junkyard band.

And down below, barely distinguishable in the shade of a barnlike building with “Simpson Repair Shop” painted on the front, is a gaunt man with big, gnarled hands bent over some scrap metal. It’s Mr. Simpson himself, a retired farm-equipment repairman who turned 91 in January, and who has hammered from discarded steel and aluminum a long second career as an artist.

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luther conover set 3 nesting stools


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rickyisms

not work safe
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treme


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bbc radio 4: my music!


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Did you hear the one about the guy who lived in the land of Uz, who was perfect and upright and feared God? His name was Job. In the new movie version, “A Serious Man,” some details have been changed. He’s called Larry Gopnik and he lives in Minnesota, where he teaches physics at a university. When we first meet Larry, in the spring of 1967, his tenure case is pending, his son’s bar mitzvah is approaching, and, as in the original, a lot of bad stuff is about to happen, for no apparent reason.

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many grades of moving blankets


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rambling hen house design

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Molded fiberglass Screen Room Divider by Don Harvey USA 1960 Incredible set of white fiberglass screens designed by Don Harvey mainly for public installations. This piece consists of two sections each measuring 50", framed in a steel structure that could be attached to the wall as individual sections or together to form a single dynamic element.

Sculptural Fiberglass Room Divider by Don Harvey United States 1960's A freestanding three-dimensional sculptural room divider comprised of overlapping cast fiberglass ovals that creates depth within the panel, the whole raised on a custom rectangular walnut base. By Don Harvey. American, circa 1960.


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MURIEL COLEMAN PACIFICA IRONWORKS Oxidized steel and solid redwood bookshelf, c. 1940 60" x 69 1/2" x 13" Auction Date: Sun, April 25, 12PM Estimate: $1,800 - $2,200

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from the new rago modern auction catalog


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volvo 240 wagon font


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