Turned Out Nice Again
Turned Out Nice Again

Author: Richard Mabey

Publisher: Profile Books

Published: 2013-02-18

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1847658954

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In his trademark style, Richard Mabey weaves together science, art and memoirs (including his own) to show the weather's impact on our culture and national psyche. He rambles through the myths of Golden Summers and our persistent state of denial about the winter; the Impressionists' love affair with London smog, seasonal affective disorder (SAD - do we all get it?) and the mysteries of storm migraines; herrings falling like hail in Norfolk and Saharan dust reddening south-coast cars; moonbows, dog-suns, fog-mirages and Constable's clouds; the fact that English has more words for rain than Inuit has for snow; the curious eccentricity of country clothing and the mathematical behaviour of umbrella sales. We should never apologise for our obsession with the weather. It is one of the most profound influences on the way we live, and something we all experience in common. No wonder it's the natural subject for a greeting between total strangers: 'Turned out nice again.'

Turned Out Nice Again
Turned Out Nice Again

Author: Louis Barfe

Publisher: Atlantic Books

Published: 2009-07-01

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 1848877579

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With a cast of thousands, including Peter Cook, Ken Dodd, Dusty Springfield, Spike Milligan, Rolf Harris, Bruce Forsyth, and Reeves and Mortimer, this book reveals a world of comedians and cavorters, dancing girls, and crooners. From the early days of vaudeville, via the golden age of radio, live television spectaculars, the rise of the chat show, and alternative comedy, Louis Barfe pulls back the curtain of variety to reveal the world of light entertainment in all its glory.

England’s Green
England’s Green

Author: David Matless

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2024-08-12

Total Pages: 559

ISBN-13: 1789149711

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A sweeping history of how ecological challenges have shaped English society over the last sixty years. England’s Green explores how environmental concerns have shaped and reflected English national identity since the 1960s. From agriculture to leisure, climate change, folklore, archaeology, and religion, David Matless shows how national environmental debates connect to the local, regional, global, and postcolonial worlds. Moving across a breadth of material including government policy, popular music, ecological polemic, and television comedy, England’s Green shows the richness and complexity of English environmental culture. Along the way, Matless tracks how today’s debates over climate and nature, land, and culture, have been molded by events over the past sixty years.

Hollywood Gold: Films of the Forties and Fifties
Hollywood Gold: Films of the Forties and Fifties

Author: John Howard Reid

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1411635248

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Hollywood's Golden Era? I'd pick the period from 1939 through 1960. Here are 144 classic movies from this Golden Age of the Cinema, ranging (alphabetically) from "The Admiral Was a Lady" to "You Were Never Lovelier". Other films discussed in comprehensive detail (and with full background and release information) in this book include "The Adventures of Mark Twain", "The Chase", "Daisy Kenyon", "The Ghost of Frankenstein", "Humoresque", "In Old California", "Joan of Paris", "Letter from an Unknown Woman", "Magic Town", "Nightmare Alley", The Paradine Case", "Roughly Speaking", "The Scarlet Claw", "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and "You'll Never Get Rich".

It's Turned Out Nice Again!
It's Turned Out Nice Again!

Author: Sue Smart

Publisher: Melrose Book Company

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9781908645128

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They were Music Hall aristocracy. George Formby senior was the first Northern comedian to gain a national reputation. The great Marie Lloyd maintained there were only two performers she would turn out to see - and he was one of them.

The "genius"
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Author: Theodore Dreiser

Publisher:

Published: 1915

Total Pages: 746

ISBN-13:

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Semi-autobiographical novel about Eugene Witla, a talented painter of strong sexual desires who grapples with his commitment to his art and the force of his erotic needs. The book sold 8,000 copies in the months immediately following publication, but encountered legal difficulties when it was declared obscene shortly after.