Going There by Katie Couric7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() (And, later, a tabloid target.) But, in a surprising move at the time, she left morning television to slide into the CBS Evening News anchor chair in the aughts and later helmed her own daytime talk show, both less successful ventures she examines self-critically in her memoir. Arguably, though, no one became as successful and synonymous with the genre as the Today show’s Katie Couric.Īs Couric puts it in her revealing new memoir, Going There, morning TV was the place where she could “comfortably converse with the Senate majority leader and the Teletubbies on the same morning.” Her willingness to share aspects of her personal life with viewers, from her two pregnancies progressing onscreen to allowing cameras into her colon after her husband’s death from cancer, helped her transcend simply being a news anchor: She became America’s morning show sweetheart in the ’90s. Even when the news business was less hospitable to women, the format helped launch the careers of broadcasters like Barbara Walters, Joan Lunden, and Jane Pauley. ![]() Morning shows have always been the crown jewels (and cash cows) of network television, bringing in massive advertising dollars with their high-low mix of sit-downs with world leaders and often wacky cooking segments. ![]()
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Dick Deadeye by Ronald Searle7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Mr Searle said of his own student days: “At the Cambridge School of Art it was drummed into us that we should not move, eat, drink or sleep without a sketchbook in the hand. His first professional work was published in the Cambridge Daily News, now Cambridge News. “He requested a private cremation with no fuss and no flowers.” Born in 1920, Searle was the son of a railwayman, and educated at the Boy’s Central School, Cambridge.He began his work as a solicitor’s clerk, and soon left to study art at the Cambridge Technical College and School of Art (1936-1939). The family stated “Ronald William Fordham Searle, born 3 March 1920, passed away peacefully in his sleep with his children, Kate and John, and his grandson, Daniel, beside him on 30 December 2011 in Draguignan, France, after a short illness. Searle,was a Cambridge native and passed away on 30th December aged 91 at a hospital near his home in Draguignan, in the south-eastern Var region of France. ![]() The artist is best remembered for his witty illustrations for the St Trinian’s series of books. ![]() Tributes have been pouring in for the British artist/cartoonist Ronald Searle who has died in the South of France. ![]() How to catch a star7/6/2023 ![]() That means the JWST, which was designed to see the universe in infrared wavelengths, is ideal for peering beyond these dusty veils to see deep into these galaxies. This is because these clouds are adept at absorbing visible light, but infrared light has a much easier time slipping through this star-forming matter. Star-forming galaxies are surrounded by dense clouds of dust and gas that collapse in over-dense patches to form stars these also make them difficult to investigate. ![]() Clumpy molecular gas surrounds the galaxy expanding out to a diameter of around 46,000 light-years, and this star-forming matter is flattened into a giant rotating disk. ![]() The early galaxy, which was seen as it was when the 13.8 billion-year-old universe was just around 1.8 billion years old, is forming stars at a rate of around 1,860 times the mass of the sun each year. ![]() ![]() While not ignoring a person’s past, NARM emphasizes working in the present moment to focus on clients’ strengths, resources, and resiliency in order to integrate the experience of connection that sustains our physiology, psychology, and capacity for relationship. ![]() Heller and LaPierre introduce the NeuroAffective Relational Model ® (NARM), a method that integrates bottom-up and top-down approaches to regulate the nervous system and resolve distortions of identity such as low self-esteem, shame, and chronic self-judgment that are the outcome of developmental and relational trauma. The Practical Guide for Healing Developmental Trauma: Using the NeuroAffective Relational Model to Address Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resolve Complex Trauma is written by Laurence Heller, Ph.D. They describe how early trauma impairs the capacity for connection to self and others and how the ensuing diminished aliveness is the hidden dimension that underlies most psychological and many physiological problems. An essential piece of trauma literature, this “well-organized, valuable book” draws from somatic-based psychotherapy and neuroscience to offer “clear guidance” for coping with complex PTSD (Peter Levine, author of Waking the Tiger)Īlthough it may seem that people suffer from an endless number of emotional problems and challenges, Laurence Heller and Aline LaPierre maintain that most of these can be traced to five biologically based organizing principles: the need for connection, attunement, trust, autonomy, and love-sexuality. ![]() Maggie for Hire by Kate Danley7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Snuffleupagus and performed the head of a 20-foot dinosaur on an NBC pilot. She learned on-camera puppetry from the man who played Mr. ![]() She wrote sketch for a weekly show in Hollywood and has performed her original stand-up at various clubs in LA. She has over 300+ film, television, and theatre credits to her name, and specializes in sketch, improv, and Shakespeare. Her works have been produced in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Canada, and the UK. ![]() Her play Building Madness won the prestigious Panowski Playwriting Award and her play Bureaucrazy was a semi-finalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. Since then, her books have been published by 47North, she spent five weeks on the USA Today bestseller list, and she has been honored with various awards, including the Garcia Award for Best Fiction Book of the Year (The Woodcutter), McDougall Previews Award for Best Fantasy Book of the Year (Queen Mab), Best of 2014 by Suspense Magazine (M&K Tracking), and the 2017 Utopia Award for Best Anthology of the Year (Once Upon A Kiss - "Galatea & Pygmalion"). Kate Danley began her writing career as an indie author in 2010. ![]() Jurnalul Annei Frank by Anne Frank7/6/2023 ![]() Piesa a fost transferată la Teatrul Ambassador în februarie 1957 și a avut acolo ultimul spectacol pe 22 iunie 1957, fiind jucată pe Broadway fără întrerupere în 717 spectacole. Distribuția a fost formată de Joseph Schildkraut ca Otto Frank, Susan Strasberg ca Anne Frank, David Levin ca Peter van Daan, Gusti Huber ca Edith Frank, Jack Gilford ca domnul Dussel, Dennie Moore ca doamna Van Daan și Lou Jacobi ca domnul Van Daan. Spectacolul a fost produs de Kermit Bloomgarden și regizat de Garson Kanin, cu decoruri scenice realizate de Boris Aronson și cu iluminat coordonat de Lee Watson. ![]() Piesa este o dramatizare realizată de Frances Goodrich și Albert Hackett și a fost reprezentată în premieră pe scena Teatrului Cort de pe Broadway în 5 octombrie 1955. Aceasta a avut premiera la Teatrul Cort din New York în 1955. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jurnalul Annei Frank este o adaptare teatrală a cărții Jurnalul Annei Frank care prezintă cei doi ani în care tânăra Anne Frank s-a ascuns de naziști împreună cu familia sa și cu alte patru persoane în anexa secretă a unei case din Amsterdam. ![]() First person singular paperback7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Although dark and moody, it's ultimately uplifting at the end, with a salute to all the loners of the world. With the caveat about the dated references, I'd highly recommend "First Person, Singular" to any marginalized teen. ![]() Without social media to either find connections or unfavorably compare ourselves with other’s carefully curated lives, we loners had to find coping methods including pets, nature and God forbid, parents. Like Pamela, who voices the novel, I felt isolated and generally out of it most of my middle school and high school years. ![]() Maybe I was in a particularly introspective mood, or especially sympathetic with the loners of the world following a couple recent school suicides, but I reconnected with the character and her experience. Naturally pretty and sensitive, she struggles to fit in at school, cope with her mother’s recovery from a nervous breakdown and her father’s self-absorption. Told by seventeen-year-old Pamela, “First Person, Singular” describes her lonely journey through middle and high school in a small, industrial Pennsylvania town. ![]() I'm rating this a 5 even though it's now a time capsule into the early 70's and has some rather "politically incorrect", although appropriate for the era, verbiage. I had to order it from a college library but I'm glad I did. First Person Singular: Stories (Paperback) Haruki Murakami. The iconic novel of my teens, it reappeared on my radar when it popped up in a random Amazon or Goodreads search. I had this 70's era YA book in my closet until my early 20's, finally giving it away in embarrassment. ![]() Belladonna by Daša Drndić7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Drndic’s books are always, in a sense, ‘timely’, tied as they are to uncomfortable truths about humanity, but with war raging in the Ukraine and refugees numbering in millions, Canzone di Guerra (‘war song’, here subtitled New Battle Songs) arrives at a point when understanding what it means to be a refugee is as important as ever.Ĭanzone di Guerra is narrated by Tea Radan, a writer, partly a surrogate for Drndic in the way Andreas Ban is in Belladonnaand E.E.G. Now we finally begin to see some of her earlier work with the translation by Celia Hawkesworth of Canzone di Guerra, originally published in 1998, and centring on the experiences of refugees from the former Yugoslavia in Canada. Dasa Drndic, who was first translated into English only ten years ago, is gradually being acknowledge as one of the most important voices of this century, although her focus often lay in the past – in Croatian and Serbian complicity in the Holocaust in the 1940s, and the conflicts which erupted in Yugoslavia in the 1990s, from where she drew lessons still unlearned. ![]() Imagine me tahereh mafi audiobook7/5/2023 ![]() But she may not get to choose what side she fights on. ![]() The day of reckoning for the Reestablishment is coming. And with old enemies looming, her destiny may not be her own to control. As she struggles to understand the past that haunts her and looks to a future more uncertain than ever, the lines between right and wrong-between Ella and Juliette-blur. ![]() Now that Ella knows who Juliette is and what she was created for, things have only become more complicated. Listen Free to Imagine Me audiobook by Tahereh Mafi with a 30 Day Free Trial Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet and iOS and Android devices. ![]() The explosive finale to the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Shatter Me series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Working in law enforcement too, he brings a great deal of authenticity to his work as well, allowing it to feel wholly genuine and real. ![]() ![]() There’s always another level to his writing, as he allows his stories to come alive, from the locations to the characters populating them.Ĭreating characters that really stand out too, Nania heavily draws from his own life, finding inspiration from people he’s previously met. This is something that he has excelled at over the years, from writing humorously to creating an air of tension and suspense. ![]() Knowing exactly where to take the reader, he writes in an extremely clear and direct manner that immediately gets to the point. Whether it’s fiction or his own pursuits, Nania’s writing has always been hugely accessible, drawing the reader in to his rich and inventive world. Knowing his audience and what they’re looking for, he really makes the most of each of his novels, pushing the premise to its limit every time. This has allowed him to write about exactly what it is that he wants to write about, building a brand that has seen him become a bestselling household name. These have translated well across the world, reaching readers from all over, as he’s made a name for himself through his far reaching international audience. The American author Jeff Nania is well known for his concise and taut mystery thrillers, filled with suspense and action. ![]() |