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Bob Dylan Framed Giant Print Poster

2009-02-07T16:23:00.000-08:00

Bob Dylan in Studio Framed Giant Print

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Bob Dylan in Studio - Black & White Guitar Performance Photo - Framed Giant Poster Print of Bob Dylan with Bass Guitar

Phuket Framed Giant Print Poster

2009-02-07T16:19:00.000-08:00

Phuket Framed Print

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Elvis Presley On Stage Giant Poster Black & White

2008-12-23T14:40:00.000-08:00

Elvis Presley Giant Poster

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Elvis Presley On Stage Giant Poster - Black & White, Autographed Elvis Poster

Orlando Bloom LOTR Giant Poster

2008-12-23T14:13:00.000-08:00

The Lord of the Rings - Return of the King Giant Poster

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Orlando Bloom in The Lord of the Rings - Return of the King Movie Giant Poster

I Trust Me Giant Poster Scarface Posters

2008-12-23T14:08:00.000-08:00

Scarface

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Who Do I Trust? I Trust Me. Scarface Movie Tony Montana Giant Poster.

Stadium Arcadium Giant Poster Red Hot Chili Peppers

2008-12-23T13:12:00.000-08:00

Red Hot Chili Peppers Giant Poster

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Stadium Arcadium CD Tracking List

Disc 1: Jupiter
Dani California
Snow Hey Oh
Charlie
Stadium Arcadium
Hump de Bump
She's Only 18
Slow Cheetah
Torture Me
Strip My Mind
Especially in Michigan
Warlocks
C'mon Girl
Wet Sand
Hey

Disc 2: Mars
Desecration Smile
Tell Me Baby
Hard to Concentrate
21st Century
She Looks to Me
Readymade
If
Make You Feel Better
Animal Bar
So Much I
Storm in a Teacup
We Believe
Turn It Again
Death of a Martian

Stairway To Heaven Giant Poster Led Zeppelin

2008-12-23T13:06:00.000-08:00

Led Zeppelin Giant Poster

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Phish Bittersweet Motel Giant Poster

2008-12-20T08:59:00.000-08:00

Phish Giant Poster

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Audrey Hepburn Tiffany's Giant Poster Black & White

2008-12-20T08:54:00.000-08:00

Breakfast At Tiffany's Giant Poster

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van Gogh Starry Night Giant Poster

2008-12-20T08:28:00.000-08:00

Starry Night Giant Poster

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Green Day Band Giant Poster

2008-12-20T08:06:00.000-08:00

Green Day Giant Poster

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Kiss Band Giant Poster

2008-12-20T07:51:00.000-08:00

Kiss Giant Poster

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Jimi Hendrix Blacklight Giant Poster

2008-12-20T07:47:00.000-08:00

Jimi Hendrix Giant Poster

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"I want what's coming to me" Giant Poster

2008-12-20T07:00:00.000-08:00

Scarface Giant Poster

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"Me, I want what's coming to me." Scarface Giant Poster

Billie Holiday Giant Poster

2008-12-20T06:12:00.000-08:00

Billie Holiday - Lady Day Giant Poster

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Billie Holiday Albums
Stay with Me
Billie Holiday
Lady in Satin
Blues Are Brewin'
Songs for Distingué Lovers
Body and Soul
Velvet Moods
Recital by Billie Holiday
Lady Sings the Blues
Jazz Recital
Music for Torching
Billie Holiday, Vol. 3
Evening with Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday, Vol. 2
Billie Holiday, Vol. 1
Billie Holiday Sings

Nirvana Kurt Cobain Giant Poster

2008-12-20T05:38:00.000-08:00

Kurt Cobain Giant Poster

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College White Stripes Giant Poster

2008-12-20T05:29:00.000-08:00

The White Stripes Giant Poster

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The White Stripes Albums
Icky Thump (2007)
Get Behind Me Satan (2005)
Elephant (2003)
White Blood Cells (2001)
De Stijl (2000)
The White Stripes (1999)

Giant Movie Posters Reservoir Dogs Giant Poster

2008-12-19T03:02:00.000-08:00

Reservoir Dogs Giant Poster

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Black & White Jimi Hendrix Giant Poster

2008-12-18T11:07:00.000-08:00

Jimi Hendrix Black & White Giant Poster

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Jimi Hendrix Autograph Giant Poster

Grindhouse Giant Poster

2008-12-18T11:03:00.000-08:00

Grindhouse Giant Poster

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Led Zeppelin Giant Poster

2008-12-18T11:00:00.000-08:00

Led Zeppelin Giant Poster

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Volkswagen Giant Poster VW Transporter

2008-12-18T10:56:00.000-08:00

Haynes- VW Transporter Giant Poster

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Jimi Hendrix Portrait Giant Poster

2008-12-18T09:12:00.000-08:00

Jimi Hendrix Giant Poster

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Metallica Masters of Puppets Giant Poster

2008-12-18T09:07:00.001-08:00

Metallica Giant Poster - Masters of Puppets

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Jimi Hendrix Motorcycle Giant Poster

2008-12-18T09:00:00.000-08:00

Jimi Hendrix Giant Poster

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LOTR The Fellowship of The Ring Giant Poster

2008-12-18T08:57:00.000-08:00

The Lord of The Rings - The Fellowship of The Ring Giant Poster

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Fantasy Art Vampire Girl Giant Poster

2008-12-18T08:49:00.000-08:00

Vampire Girl Giant Poster

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Scarface I Need Nobody Giant Poster

2008-12-18T08:44:00.000-08:00

Scarface Giant Poster

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I worked hard for this. I need nobody.

Scarface Giant Poster

2008-12-18T08:24:00.000-08:00

Scarface Giant Poster

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This Paradise, I'm Tellin Ya.

Jimi Hendrix with Guitar Giant Poster

2008-12-18T08:21:00.000-08:00

Jimi Hendrix Giant Poster

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Charlie Parker Giant Poster Jazz Posters

2008-12-18T08:17:00.000-08:00

Charlie Parker - Yard Bird Giant Poster

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International Jazz Festival Paris May 13, 1949

The Simpsons Giant Poster - Yellow Album

2008-12-18T08:14:00.000-08:00

The Simpsons - Yellow Album Giant Poster

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Staind Giant Poster Band Posters

2008-12-18T03:09:00.000-08:00

Staind Giant Poster

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Reservoir Dogs Film Movie Giant Poster

2008-12-18T03:06:00.000-08:00

Reservoir Dogs - Film Clips Giant Poster

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Scarface Tony Montana with Gun Giant Poster

2008-12-18T03:02:00.000-08:00

Scarface Giant Poster

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The Best of Pink Floyd Giant Poster Echoes

2008-12-18T02:55:00.000-08:00

Pink Floyd - Echoes Giant Poster

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Pink Floyd Giant Poster - Momentary Lapse of Reason

2008-12-18T02:49:00.000-08:00

Pink Floyd - Momentary Lapse of Reason Giant Poster

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Metallica Giant Poster - Rock Bands

2008-12-18T02:37:00.000-08:00

Metallica Giant Poster

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Quantum of Solace Giant Poster

2008-12-18T02:29:00.000-08:00

Quantum of Solace Giant Poster

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The Clash Giant Poster Rock Band

2008-12-18T02:25:00.000-08:00

The Clash Giant Poster

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Surfer Magazine- Traveler Giant Poster

2008-12-18T02:22:00.000-08:00

Surfer Magazine- Traveler Giant Poster

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My Chemical Romance Giant Poster

2008-12-18T02:17:00.000-08:00

My Chemical Romance Giant Poster

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James Dean Giant Poster - Black White

2008-12-18T01:52:00.000-08:00

James Dean Giant Poster

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James Dean Black & White Photo Giant Poster - 1950s Male Movie Star

Scarface Movie Giant Poster

2008-12-18T01:48:00.000-08:00

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I WORKED HARD FOR THIS. I NEED NOBODY.

Giant George Michael Poster Patience Album

2008-12-18T01:42:00.000-08:00

George Michael - Patience Album Release Giant Poster

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GEORGE MIHAEL - PATIENCE
HIS NEW ALBUM FEATURING 'AMAZING'
IN SORES MAY 18

Ja Rule Giant Poster The Last Temptation

2008-12-18T01:39:00.000-08:00

Ja Rule Giant Poster

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Giant Pink Floyd Poster - Large Live Posters

2008-12-18T01:28:00.000-08:00

Pink Floyd - Live Collage Giant Poster

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Fall Out Boy Giant Poster - Music Posters

2008-12-18T01:22:00.000-08:00

Fall Out Boy Giant Poster

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Classics: Breakfast At Tiffany's Giant Poster

2008-12-18T01:18:00.000-08:00

Breakfast At Tiffany's Giant Poster

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Kiss Giant Poster - Metal Rock Music Posters

2008-12-18T01:14:00.000-08:00

Kiss Giant Poster

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Rent Giant Poster - No Day But Today

2008-12-18T01:06:00.000-08:00

Rent Giant Poster

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Pearl Jam Live Giant Poster

2008-01-11T15:18:00.000-08:00

Pearl Jam - Live on Stage Giant Poster
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As is the case with the incorporation of a certain, always ineffectual, benign liberal politics in the alternative/college radio rock of Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and the like, these changing visual constitutions of commercial music mark an incorporation of the form of alternative music without its politics. As Fairchild correctly notes: "the often problematic politics of the underground, specifically the unresolved anger, negation, and confrontation, and the clearest statements of ideology ... have been conveniently discarded by the mainstream". It may be more accurate to say, however, that although they are far from singular, those explicit calls for political action in punk scenes across the country have been effectively incorporated by alternative rock bands and the promotional apparatus of their labels. What is, in fact, more insidious about the methods of mainstreaming the alternative is that the appearance of having some sort of politics, emotional depth, and populist commitments behind their music is still maintained.

Since the early 1990s, such prominent male alternative rockers as Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam and the late Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, among others, have joined their female counterparts in speaking openly and frequently about women's rights, performing at benefits for political movements with feminist agendas, and writing lyrics that espouse such egalitarianism. Openly influenced by feminism, many current alternative rock musicians tend to favor individual expression over macho posturing, and raw energy over the technical control of musical instruments (Powers 46).

Munch Scream Giant Poster

2008-01-11T15:11:00.000-08:00

The Scream, c.1893 Giant Poster

Munch, Edvard
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Edvard Munch came of an old Norwegian family of considerable distinction. Grandfather and greatgrandfather on his father's side had been churchmen of importance. His father's older brother, Peter Andreas Munch, was Norway's great historian of the nineteenth century. Munch was born at Engelhaug, a property near Løyten in southern Norway, on December 12, 1863. He was the second of five children. Soon after his birth the family moved to Christiania, the modern Oslo. When Munch was five his mother died of tuberculosis. Her place in the family was taken by her sister, Karen Bjølstad, a woman of great character and devotion. She lived until 1931 and it was to her and to his sister Inger that Munch addressed the letters that are the chief source of information about his life.

By the end of the 1880's Munch's originality and importance as a painter were recognized by a small but important group which included his immediate contemporaries and older members of literary and artistic circles. He had exhibited since 1883 with the progressive group of Norwegian painters in their autumn exhibitions. Yet conservative critics and most of the press were unfavorable. In a material sense he had achieved very little success; the years toward the end of the eighties were difficult. In 1889, with the backing of two older painters, Frits Thaulow and Erik Werenskiøld, Munch applied for a Government stipend to permit him to study in Paris.

The point Munch finally reached in this direction is beyond the limits of the first generation of Impressionists and includes innovations of Seurat's Neo-Impressionism. The painting in which this extreme is most evident is the Spring Day on the Karl Johan of 1891. The handling and the relations of colors, particularly in the foreground figures, the vertical accents, the horizontal shadows and the long perspective lines seem echoes of Seurat's paintings. It is clear, however, that Munch was not interested in the most subtle and radical aspect of Seurat's art, the structural function of lines, shapes and colors in creating two-dimensional and three-dimensional effects. The Seuratlike features in Munch by no means dominate or control the canvas by their inter-relationships; rather, these borrowings supplied only a few of the elements of which the painting consists. The 'pointillist' manner of painting in uniform touches is not followed. The touch of the brush varies with the texture of objects, the color is broken or not, depending on the light, and the definiteness of contour likewise changes; basically, Munch is faithful to the older Impressionism. His pleasing and successful canvas comes very close to the best French work, but to that of an Impressionist painter influenced by Seurat, such as Pissarro.

Absinthe Robette Giant Poster

2008-01-11T15:08:00.000-08:00

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I Trust Me Giant Poster Scarface

2008-01-11T15:01:00.000-08:00

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Who I Trust? I Trust Me Poster - Scarface Tony Montana

The movie industry's consciousness of the theme of narco-terrorism (and its attendant bankability) was raised by the tremendous success of the 1985 TV series, "Miami Vice." In vivid images every week, "Miami Vice" presented narco-terrorists as the new villains violently taking over the American landscape. There had been films about narco-terrorism, principally Scarface ( 1983), in production simultaneous to the development of "Miami Vice," but after that TV series became a hit, a plague of narcoterrorist villains descended upon the American action film genres. In reaction to this infestation of drug decade villains, Hollywood came up with a grotesque assortment of antidotes, ranging from Arnold Schwarzenegger as a Russian narc in Red Heat ( 1988) to Robocop ( 1987) in near future Detroit to Jim Belushi and a German shepherd playing narcotics cops in Chicago in K-9 ( 1989). Each of these films, however, presents the American urban reality of narco-terrorism. What they say is that it is no longer just a border problem but has made its way north to the streets of Chicago and Detroit in the Midwest as well as the established coastal drug centers. Three films in particular, Scarface ( 1983), Once Upon a Time in America ( 1984), and Colors ( 1988) are specifically about narco-terrorism's incursion upon the American dream.

Jimi Hendrix Giant Posters Hendrix

2008-01-11T14:52:00.000-08:00

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Born James Marshall on November 27, 1942, in Seattle, Washington, acid-rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix's father was a gardener, and his mother was a full-blooded Cherokee.

The advertisement for the August 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair promised the appearance of more than twenty performers, including Joan Baez, the Who, Arlo Guthrie, Canned Heat, Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, and Jimi Hendrix. As the personification of hippiedom, Woodstock--actually held at Bethel, New York--was the most successful counterculture event. In 1969, during the three-day rock festival at Woodstock, performers such as Arlo Guthrie pleaded with Customs agents not to confiscate his drugs, Jimi Hendrix rendered what the establishment probably regarded as a blasphemous interpretation of the "Star Spangled Banner" on his electric guitar, and Country Joe McDonald's cynical claim that he didn't give a damn about Vietnam, offended the patriotic silent majority.

Reservoir Dogs Giant Poster

2008-01-11T14:49:00.000-08:00

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What gives the movie its nihilism is as much its steady stream of pop culture allusions (suggesting a rather typical immersion in media culture, rather than a concern for authentic moral, social, and philosophical ideas) as its bloodletting. The audience is given a barrage of references to Madonna, Lee Marvin movies, and the old TV cop show "Baretta." The soundtrack is filled with the most banal 1970s pop-rock, good-humored rip-offs of Bob Dylan and the Beatles used, it seems, to underscore the filmmaker's disbelief in the efficacy of pop culture in representing the best aspirations of American life. This allusionistic cinema has less to do with underscoring the notion of the pervasive effects of media than with bolstering a particularly insulated, cynical moral vision.

At the same time, "Reservoir Dogs," coming as it does at the dawn of the multicultural, relatively progressive Clinton era, reads like a swan song for male-oriented action movies, a grotesque, postmodern--"Rio Bravo," a world of men without women where the romanticism of that conceit is stripped away. Ideas dear to such directors as Howard Hawks savagely are sent up here. The loyalty of the male group and "professionalism"--ideas central to the western, the crime film, and the war movie--are blown apart with an insightful, caustic humor that provides the impulse to see this unnerving picture a few times.

Jimi Hendrix Giant Poster

2008-01-11T13:48:00.000-08:00

Jimi Hendrix Giant Poster
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Given that Hendrix worked within blues traditions, the starting state and problem space for Little Wing can be imagined in blues terms. The starting state for Little Wing," as in so many blues-based compositions, is a core of predominantly pentatonic figures that we hear at the beginning of the song. Since blues pieces essentially conform to the principles of common-practice tonality, Hendrix's problem space can be defined by the rules of tonal harmony and counterpoint.

Bob Marley Mosaic Giant Poster

2008-01-11T13:44:00.000-08:00

Bob Marley Mosaic Giant Poster
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In the process of cofounding (with a host of other Jamaican musicians) and popularizing reggae, Marley became more than just the Third World's first musical superstar—a feat that was of course noteworthy in and of itself. In the second half of the 1970s he became widely recognized as one of the region's preeminent and most highly regarded spokesperson. firiting on Marley as a postcolonial figure, with a particular focus on Africa and a hint of hyperbole, Eusi Kwayama puts this aspect of the reggae star's status in perspective: “Bob Marley's music has done more to popularise the real issues in the African liberation movement than several decades of backbreaking work by Pan-Africanists and international revolutionaries.” It is appropriate that in a career filled with stirring shows, from his native Kingston to New York to London, the signal performance of Marley's life should have occurred in the Third World.

Miles Davis Giant Poster Kind of Blue Mood

2008-01-11T13:39:00.000-08:00

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue Mood Giant Poster
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When the album Bitches Brew was released in 1969, many musicians and critics were aghast by Mr. Davis's incorporation of elements of rock n' roll. Some were more tolerant. Trumpeter Clark Terry commented: "Miles has always wanted to stay abreast of the times"; Mr. Terry even spoke of bravery," although his remarks may have been more a response to the memory of the rough treatment he and other be-bop musicians had received when that style was new nearly half-a-century ago. Such praise as Bitches Brew did receive was often idolatrous, and indulged in such encomiums as "life rhythms," "cosmic marrow," and "mojo," none of which has anything to do with music. What one actually heard was the still-eloquent Davis trumpet overpowered by a whirlpool of gurgling synthesizers, overamplified rock guitars, and funky drumming better suited to a combo playing a fratemity-house party.

Hokusai Red Fuji Giant Poster

2008-01-11T13:29:00.000-08:00

Hokusai - Red Fuji Giant Poster
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In ancient documents it is difficult to discern whether the deities of Mount Fuji and Mount Tsukuba were gods or goddesses. Even though later documents of the medieval and subsequent periods indicate that Mount Fuji was occupied by a goddess named Konohanasakuya-hime, and that Mount Tsukuba was the dwelling place of a divine couple, I have deemed it best to refer to them only as anonymous deities.

Physical World Map Giant Poster

2008-01-07T00:07:00.000-08:00

Physical World Map Giant Poster
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Many people find maps difficult to understand and use. Anecdotal evidence to this effect is not hard to uncover. Even some experimental studies have confirmed the difficulty people have using maps as effective tools of spatial learning and performance.

One approach in addressing the difficulties of map use is that of studying the map-learning process itself. By understanding how map information is acquired, it may be possible to identify more precisely the points at which confusions or difficulties arise for the map learner and user. This information would be of potential value to a variety of professionals for whom maps are important, such as educators, cartographers, geographers, and cognitive psychologists.

Jimi Hendrix Giant Poster

2008-01-07T00:00:00.000-08:00

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Progressive rock, as composed and performed by Cream, Hendrix, and Pink Floyd, was constituted by specific musical features which show a sense of development and originality from a base style. Clapton, Baker and Bruce had all come out of the British rhythm and blues movement; Pink Floyd began as a rhythm and blues band and Hendrix was equally conversant with the style. Pink Floyd's interest in electronic feedback techniques is similar to that of Hendrix, but whereas the former moved increasingly to studio-based taped sounds and complex electronic equipment, the Jimi Hendrix sound was characterised more by individualised distortion of his own guitar through wah-wah pedal and fuzz tone. Electronics appear to reinforce his already personalised, physical feeling for the guitar sound itself. In contrast, Floyd mingled voices, guitars, organ, drums, timpani with electronic and stereophonic effects to create elaborate sound collages. Clapton initially shared Hendrix's interest in guitar electronics, using wah-wah pedal, fuzz and reverb on Disraeli Gears but on the whole he preferred to experiment with different guitars to obtain new sounds rather than distorting the sound of one or two. All three bands, however, focus on the development of musical ideas through extensive improvisations.

Breakfast At Tiffany's Giant Poster

2008-01-06T23:52:00.000-08:00

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Breakfast at Tiffany's got a much more favorable critical reception than The Grass Harp. Alfred Kazin ( Reporter, 13 Nov., 1958) calls the story "sentimental when it is no longer clever;" he cites Capote's "emphasis ... on Holly as a town character and Holly as a Southern waif--never as Holly as a woman." But "the purely external side of Holly's character ... is skillfully done. Capote has caught perfectly the professional accent of New York, the trigger-tenseness of a speech that is always excited, declamatory, on the make. Miss Golightly alone seems to keep cool." But Capote either presents social detail wittily, "or he collapses into tender and mawkish details that are really private symbols," and the novel loses "the tone of actuality."

Bitter Compari Giant Poster

2008-01-06T23:38:00.000-08:00

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Leonetto Cappiello, who earned his fame in Italy and France, produced hundreds of exuberant lithographic posters and blended both Art Nouveau and Art Deco in his style.

Advertising typography and layout acted as the primary communicators of the Art Deco graphic style. The official lettering on most signs and buildings at the 1925 exposition, Peignot, became one of the typographic emblems of the age. In addition, the elegant specimen sheets of Moderne display faces produced by type foundries served as paeans to the style. The French master advertising posterists, like A. M. Cassandre, Paul Colin, Jean Carlu, Charles Loupot, and Leonetto Cappiello, skillfully disseminated the Art Deco language to the public. In England, the American E. McKnight Kauffer imbued his advertisements and book jackets with Cubist and Futurist characteristics.

Radio City 1935 Giant Poster

2008-01-06T23:33:00.000-08:00

Men on Beam - Radio City 1935 Giant Poster
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The Rockettes have been around since 1925, when they started out as the Missouri Rockets. A New York City producer named Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel bought the production for his Roxy Theater and changed the name to the Roxyettes. When Radio City Music Hall opened in Rockefeller Center, they became the Rockettes. Today there are more than 175 women dancing as Rockettes, and the projection is that there will soon be more.

As a Rockette, you will work for Radio City Productions, a major company producing not just the Rockettes but sports spectaculars, movie debuts, and television specials. It promotes many other shows, including Barney, Lord of the Dance, Riverdance, and Disney on Ice.

Kiss Giant Poster Lesbians

2008-01-06T23:25:00.000-08:00

Women Kissing Art Print
Bak, Sunny
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Kiss by Tanya Chalkin Giant Poster
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Is the quality "lesbian" embodied in the art object, the sexuality of the artist or the viewer, or the viewing context? This question circulates around all discussions of lesbian art and refuses easy answers. It can be any or all of the above. It assumes and proposes difference, at least in some ways, from art by men and straight feminists. Lesbian art is not a stylistic movement but rather, in its simplest definition, art that comes out of a feminist consciousness and reflects the experience of having lesbian relationships or being lesbian in patriarchal culture. This consciousness may be implicitly or explicitly articulated. It may be expressed through an array of styles, imagery, materials used, concepts, or content, and may be figurative, symbolic, abstract, or conceptual.

Bob Dylan Giant Poster

2008-01-06T23:20:00.000-08:00

Bob Dylan Giant Poster
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Bob Dylan began his career with some quarrelsome rhetoric, forceful but single-minded utterances. Dylan's early lyrics are marked by fervor, righteous indignation, and a rigid dichotomy between them and us, villains and victims, haves and have-nots, treacherous women and betrayed men. To excoriate the wicked "Masters of War" (1962) and to affirm his own rectitude, Dylan presumptuously speaks for Christ: "Like Judas of old / You lie and deceive.... Even Jesus would never / Forgive what you do." Tentatively, the young Dylan began to explore more complex dualities and -- I will argue -- dramatize more compelling quarrels with himself.

Dylan's development indicates a seriously comic and self-ironic interrogation. In "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" (1963), his apocalyptic vision includes the cameo appearance of a clown: "Heard the sound of a poet who died in the gutter, / Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley." In this jejune jeremiad Dylan notices the crying clown without seriously regarding him as anything more than a fringe figure. Gradually, in other songs, Dylan gives more license to clowns and fools, gargoyles and grotesques. Unleashing his humor strengthened his prophetic songs. Envisioning the last day, "When the Ship Comes In" (1963) blends salty yarn, scriptural idiom, and comic gusto: Dylan was learning how to make disparate, even contradictory, elements cooperate and cross-pollinate.

Right Wing of Triptych Giant Poster

2008-01-06T23:02:00.000-08:00

The Garden of Earthly Delights: Hell, right wing of triptych, c.1500Giant Poster
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Hieronymus (or Jeroen) van Aken (Aeken, Aquen, or Acken) took the surname Bosch from the name of his birthplace,'s Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc). In the 16th and 17th centuries he was known in Spain as Geronimo Bosco or El Bosco; in Italy he was called Girolamo Boschi Fiamengo or Bosco di Balduc; in Flanders the form Bos prevailed.

Alongside his activities on behalf of the Brotherhood to which he belonged, Bosch must have produced a considerable body of painting in his small studio on the marketplace. For whom? For himself first of all, certainly (whatever other students of Bosch may think and say). He had so many dreams to give form and substance to, so many splendid fancies to delineate and celebrate, so rich an inner life to body forth, so many novel figures to portray, so many delectable liberties to take. Rare indeed were such ambitions, personal to a degree, in an age when, as a general rule, paintings were still made to order. Yet his work achieved success from the very start. Through what channels did these visions of a terra incognita explored by him alone come to the notice of the world at large? How was it that the name of Bosch became so well known in the homes of the aristocracy, in the castles and courts of Europe, while he himself seems never to have crossed the frontiers of his native province? One wonders whether Erasmus may not have been his ambassador abroad. In spite of his extreme youth (he was barely seventeen), the future author of the Praise of Folly was already a man of ripe understanding, as Johannes Agricola tells us, when he came to Bois-le-Duc to complete his education at the school of the Brothers of the Common Life.

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James Dean came from dirt- poor country in Indiana. His mother died of cancer when he was eight, his father dumped him with relatives and refused to see him when the boy sought him out.

He went to Hollywood and clawed his way into show business. Some say he used his sexuality and he was certainly at one stage homosexual, although Geraldine Page is only one of the women who report that he was straight, or also straight.

As with many great screen and pop icons, a most powerful element - perhaps the most powerful element - in the impact of James Dean was sex.

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The most popular Rastafarian group to American audiences is the musical high priest of them all, Bob Marley and the Wailers. Bob Marley performed with the typical hairstyle of the dreadlock, which gave him and his movement instant publicity. Reggae was first introduced to Americans by Johnny Nash, with the song "Stir It Up" written by Bob Marley, but since then, reggae in its original form has taken over Jamaica and has become an acceptable beat in England and America.

The growth of the Rastafarian movement from the late 1970s to 1981 was largely due to the charismatic personalaity of Robert Nesta Marley, who in 1975 released his world-famous album Natty Dread. He had been singing for over a decade before he came to world attention with this revolutionary album of songs. Along with the title song were "Revolution," "No Woman, No Cry," "Them Belly Full, But We Hungry," and "Rebel Music." All these songs were stinging commentaries on Jamaica's stifling social and economic conditions. In 1975 Bob Marley became the bard of Rastafarian social values--a prophet crying in the wilderness of the Caribbean; some have even called him the Charles Wesley of Rastafarianism. From 1975 to his death in 1981, his message could be heard from Europe to Africa and from Canada to Australia. He became the idol of the Third World, and his musical message became a rallying theme for the oppressed on many continents.

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Tarantino first won attention when he wrote and directed the cult hit Reservoir Dogs (1992), the blood-soaked story of a robbery gone wrong.

After writing True Romance (1993), a tale of two psychotic killers, he hit the big time when Tarantino wrote and directed Pulp Fiction (1994), the story of two low-life hitmen which treated violent death as stylish comedy. It resurrected the career of John Travolta.

Tarantino wrote the script for Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killer's (1995) and directed an episode of TV hospital soap E.R. (1995).

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Rosie the Riveter, Norman Rockwell's super-competent blue-collar heroine - All-American womanly ideal of World War II

Norman Rockwell's Rosie the Riveter stepped off the cover of the May 29, 1943, Saturday Evening Post, becoming the nation's sweetheart and a household word. Strong and maternally sensual, the "longlashed snub-nosed, rosy-mouthed buxom lass wearing coveralls with a blue bandanna on her head" quickly symbolized millions of American working women. Together with other popular symbols of wartime womanhood such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosie challenged the domestic ideal of the 1930s. In fashion, "welder chic" favored durability and safety over fragile glamor. Padded shoulders, straight skirts and comfortable shoes became wartime vogue.

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2008-01-06T21:57:00.000-08:00

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'The Rolling Stones are arguably the biggest rock'n'roll band in the world so to secure a performance from them is amazing. The Stones, who first formed in 1961, August 31, and played their first ever gig outside England in 1963 at the Royal Lido Ballroom in Prestatyn. And although the four remaining members - Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood - are now all around 60, they say they are still enjoying performing live.

'We do enjoy ourselves doing it. Everyone has been saying how can they enjoy themselves, they should be bored to death doing this,' Jagger said, in an interview from Dallas, Texas.

'If we were bored to death, we would not be doing it.'

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2008-01-06T21:42:00.000-08:00

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Endless Summer 1968 - The Search for the Perfect Wave

Director and Writer: Bruce Brown
Release Date: 17 August 1968
Genre: Documentary

Cast
Michael Hynson, Robert August, Lord 'Tally Ho' Blears, Bruce Brown, Terence, Wayne Miyata

Runtime: 95 min
Company: Bruce Brown Films

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2008-01-06T21:35:00.000-08:00

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During World War II, pilots and radar trackers on both sides reported seeing illuminated disks and globes that followed bombers to and from their drop sites, and warships at sea reported several instances of strange aerial craft that traversed the skies and sometimes entered the ocean. In the spirit of the war, each side suspected that the devices were the invention of the opposing side; the Allies called them “foo fighters. ”

Menzel and Taves observed that the foo fighters were probably light effects from the wing surfaces caused by a slight loss of aerodynamic trim because the wings were damaged and patched so often during the war.

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Towards the end of November in 1885, Van Gogh went to Antwerp for a few months. Theo thought he went to see Rubens, but Vincent, the connoisseur, wanted to see a few pictures by Jan Lys. If the truth were known he also longed for museums and art schools. He worked at the Academy in order to get cheap models. Once again he was so short of money that he had not enough even to buy dry bread, and he began to feel the effects of this monotonous diet together with acute mental exertion. The fear of an early grave, which never left him, increased his passion for work, and his furious labours only brought the danger nearer. After all it would be a pity to depart this life too soon, because you might, if you lived, see all kinds of excitements--a revolution for instance. Vincent's simplicity, which was not so simple, divined the 'end of Society'.

And in Paris there were larger possibilities than in Antwerp, and a few free spirits. There was the École Julian and Cormon. In Antwerp Vincent had of course made enemies of all the professors and students at the Academy. He longed to plunge deeper into the life of a city and to explore all the works the mind of man had created. He did not feel the longing for human intercourse, he had learnt to do without that, but he felt a desire to speed up the machine with which he could liberate himself. He might perhaps be able to learn many useful lessons from Manet, when all was said and done. Impressionism could not, after all, just be dismissed, and how much he could learn now from Delacroix!

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2008-01-06T21:18:00.000-08:00

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The Empire State Building rose serenely into the late afternoon sky. Although long since vanquished in the contest for the world's tallest building, this monument to American hubris in the Roaring Twenties still had the almost magical capacity to fill people with wonder and joy, even jaded Manhattanites long since deadened to the scale and brawn of the city. There was something enduring about the way the Empire State Building towered over the midtown skyline, a rock-solid sentinel that, when the late afternoon sun hung low, seemed to shimmer with power and glory. Its profile—the soaring limestone tower with its streamlined crown that glowed in the twilight like a dream—was etched into the mind's eye of nearly everyone who had ever laid eyes on it. Was there another structure in the world with more iconic heft? The Brooklyn Bridge, perhaps. The Eiffel Tower. The Great Wall of China.

Elvis Giant Poster

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"Man, when I was nine, I couldn't imagine anyone not wanting to be Elvis Presley," Springsteen remembers.

The first two Elvis Presley albums, both on RCA in 1956, neatly illustrate the basic dichotomy: Elvis Presley shows him onstage, eyes shut and mouth wide open, with his guitar thrust in the air, while Elvis has him seated in a staged pose, strumming his guitar. Here is the musician, they seem to say, and here are his musical instruments, his primary materials: his voice and his guitar.

In the 1960 songs in which women are part of the continuing love relationship, the male is clearly the dominant figure. Elvis Presley in "It's Now or Never" best exemplifies this theme:

It's now or never.
Come hold me tight.
Kiss me, my darling.
Be mine tonight.
Tomorrow will be too late.
It's now or never.
My love won't wait.

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2008-01-06T20:46:00.000-08:00

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Pink Floyd's 35 million-selling concept album, The Dark Side of the Moon
The group, famed for classic 70s album The Dark Side of the Moon, last played a gig in 1981 and broke up soon afterwards amid a bitter rift.

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2008-01-05T20:49:00.000-08:00

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Loosely based on Howard Hawks's Scarface (1932), the 1983 version updates the story by focusing on the violent rise and fall of a Cuban immigrant and cocaine kingpin named Tony Montana (Al Pacino). It begins in 1980 with the Mariel boat lift, in which Fidel Castro allowed thousands of Cuban citizens, including large numbers of prisoners, to sail to Florida. Montana, a small-time Cuban criminal, is one such émigré who, along with others, is held in a makeshift Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) detention center. After his release, Montana quickly (and violently) works his way up to the top of the local cocaine trade, marrying his former boss's mistress (Michelle Pfeiffer) and entering into a partnership with a Bolivian drug lord named Manuel Sosa. When Montana refuses to murder an investigative journalist and his family, however, Sosa sends a well-armed troop of mercenaries to murder him. In the film's final shootout, Montana wields an automatic machine gun and even a rocket launcher against his assailants before ultimately dying in a rain of bullets.

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2008-01-05T20:42:00.000-08:00

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Andy Warhol Marilyn Monroe Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas

Simpsons Giant Poster

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Over the years stars have queued up to appear on the show. Creator Matt Groening has managed to persuade stars such as Michael Jackson, Sting, Tom Jones, Glenn Close, Sir Paul McCartney and Mel Gibson to turn yellow. Even the reclusive Prince wanted to appear on the Simpsons, "but then he turned up with a script for the show written by his driver, and unfortunately we had to turn it and his chauffeur down," he recalls.

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One of the most striking differences between the 1932 Scarface and Brian De Palma's 1983 remake is between Tony Camonte, who makes a fortune by selling beer but is never shown drinking, and Marielito Tony Montana, shown at one point collapsing in a pile of his product, undone as much by consuming as by selling cocaine. The 1983 Scarface traded on the forbidden glamour of drug use as a token of the economic success that both confirmed the characters' arrival among the upper classes and prepared for their downfall.

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Born at Figueras ( Catalonia) March 11, 1904. From his early childhood he felt an intense need for making himself noticed, going so far as to throw himself down a flight of stairs in order to be admired by his comrades. At the age of ten he had already made two paintings: Joseph Greeting his Brothers and Portrait of Helen of Troy. Dali was drawn during his early period to the nineteenth-century Spanish painters of war scenes and also to the French Impressionists, but after spending time at the Escuela Especial de Pintura in Madrid in 1921, he is visibly influenced by the Italian Futurists. In 1924 he is expelled for insubordination and shortly afterwards sent to prison for his antigovernmental political activity. Hesitating on different styles, between 1925 and 1927, he is inspired by the Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, by Cubism, by abstract art as well as Neo-Classicism. From 1927 onwards dates Dali's obsession with the subconscious. In 1928 he leaves for Paris (in a taxi) with the purpose of meeting Picasso, and during a second trip he signs a contract with the Galerie Goemans where in 1929 he exhibits for the first time. He is then influenced by Chirico, Max Ernst, Tanguy.

He collaborates on the film Le Chien Andalou and begins to paint double images. In 1931 he collaborates on the film L'Age d'Or. In 1932 he paints pictures from the Freudian conception and from the legend of William Tell. In 1933 he has his first New York exhibition at the Julian Levy Gallery, followed in 1934 by his first visit to the United States. Towards 1937 he returns to his early admiration of Vermeer, and during a trip to Italy he becomes enthusiastic over the Renaissance and Baroque painters. In 1940 he settles in the United States and designs costumes and décors for several ballets for which he has also written the book ( Bacchanal, Labyrinth). But his triumph is in posters, and Walt Disney asks him to collaborate on his cartoons.

In 1941 he has two important exhibitions, one at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the other in Hollywood. He returns to Spain where he is well received in Falangist milieux, and paints religious pictures in the most academic style--pictures which, it seems, the Pope would have appreciated, but whose sincerity leaves one with a rather sceptical feeling. Gifted with the genius of publicity, he has published, among other books, a biography of more than 300 pages entitled The Secret Life of Salvador Dali ( 1942). A museum for his works is in preparation in Cleveland under the direction of Mr. A. Reynolds Morse, a passionate collector of Dali's work and who has brought together a considerable number of his paintings.

Jimi Hendrix Giant Poster

2008-01-05T20:07:00.000-08:00

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Jimi Hendrix, who came to Britain in 1966 at the behest of Animal Chas Chandler and formed a trio, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, fusing blues, rock 'n' roll, rhythm and blues, and the pyschedelic lyrics, drugs, and instrumental effects with which many British groups, among them Pink Floyd and the Beatles, had been experimenting. Hendrix also jammed with Cream and was an important influence on Clapton.

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"May I have a little kiss? I'm very lonely here." Highway patrolman (Gary Busey) to Hunter S. Thompson (Johnny Depp), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ...

Notebook Movie Giant Poster

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Notebook Movie

Starring: James Marsden, Sam Shepard, Meredith Zealy, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands

Directed by: Nick Cassavetes

Screenplay by: Jeremy Leven, Nick Cassavetes

Release Date: June 25, 2004

Running Time: 121 minutes

Box Office: $81,002,000 (US)

Studio: New Line Cinema

Audrey Hepburn Giant Poster

2008-01-05T19:41:00.000-08:00

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Her teeth were not straight, her feet were too big, her chest was slightly flat, yet she lit up the screen with her elegance, beauty, and pixieish charm, as aristocratic and stylish a presence as Hollywood ever tolerated. Audrey Hepburn won an Oscar for playing a princess in Roman Holiday, a role that came to her as naturally as any blueblood. Which she was. Her mother was a Dutch baroness, her father a British lawyer. She had a impossibly regal, elegant neck, large eyes that said it all, and the most melting of smiles. She could also play the waif, and when she did, teenage girls would cut their hair a la Audrey or, better yet, Holly Golightly, a part no one has ever dared play since.

Frank Sinatra Giant Poster

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With the passing of Frank Sinatra, we have lost one of popular music's greatest singers.

The skinny Hoboken kid who grew up to become an icon certainly did do it his way.

The Voice, as he was dubbed, proved that sometimes when you're down, the only way is up.

Ol' Blue Eyes has left us a rich legacy of albums, films and videos.

Political World Map Giant Poster

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The term 'geopolitics,' although invented in Sweden, fell into disrepute, since it was vigorously adopted in Nazi Germany as a pseudoscientific cloak to cover the geographical discussion of Nazi territorial claims and an expansionist foreign policy. The term can, however, be used, and is used here, conveniently to refer to the external geographical relationships of States and, more specifically, the geographical aspect of those external relationships and problems of States which affect the whole world.

Taittinger Giant Poster

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Champagne and its sparkling relatives offer dozens of choices as a holiday gift for aficionados of the bubbly and rank-and-file revelers. Here's a brief guide to making the appropriate selection for any occasion. Consider Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut, bottled in a model of an 18th-century antique bottle; Perrier-Jouet Fleur de Champagne, known by its signature flowers painted on the bottle; Dom Perignon; Laurent Perrier Grand Siecle; Roederer Cristal; and Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame.

Navaro Rapids Giant Poster Ando Hiroshige

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In a sense it was Hiroshige who really taught us to see the inherent poetry of nature, where the earlier Chinese and Japanese landscape masters had never quite succeeded in reaching the common heart with their more subtle and exalted essays upon the rhythms of nature.

Ando Hiroshige ( 1797-1858) was the son of a member of the official Tokyo Fire Brigade attached to Edo Castle -- a position entailing more ceremony than actual work. He inherited the hereditary post at his father's death in 1809, but passed it on to his own son as soon as he was able. Hiroshige had studied drawing from an early age, including brief periods under a minor Kano artist-friend, as well as painters of the Literati school and the naturalistic Shijo style. Attracted to ukiyo-e, Hiroshige, after failing in an attempt to enter the popular, crowded Toyokuni school, was accepted by Toyohiro in 1811, at the age of fourteen. Although Toyohiro had been Toyokuni's fellow student in the atelier of the landscape pioneer Toyoharu, as we have pointed out earlier he had never, despite his talent, achieved the renown of his colleague; this was doubtless due to his own retiring nature and lack of driving ambition.

Sunset Giant Poster

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Sunset Can Be Glorious

Cycles Gladiator Giant Poster

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Hahn Estates has created one of the most striking wine labels around for the Cycles Gladiator series. Until now, the wines themselves have lagged behind the packaging, but this PG is a superb example of just how luscious and refreshing this grape variety can be. Juicy, vaguely floral, and yet crisp and dry on the finish, this is a superb all-rounder style of white that not only looks a treat, but puts a smile on your face, too.

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Frank Sinatra joined Bacall and Bogart's Rat Pack in strongly supporting Stevenson in his losing bids for the Presidency against Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956. On October 27, 1952, at the height of public controversy over his stormy second marriage to the actress Ava Gardner, Sinatra sang and spoke for Stevenson at a large election-eve rally at the Hollywood Palladium. (Gardner introduced him to the audience, prompting "Frankie, Ava Kiss and Make Up" headlines that eclipsed Stevenson's speech and the rest of the rally [Kelley, His Way 184; Wilson 104].) In 1956, having regained his popularity as an actor and singer, Sinatra not only campaigned for Stevenson but was invited to sing the National Anthem at the opening session of the Democratic National Convention. According to Look magazine writer Bill Davidson, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, a Texan, slung his arm around Sinatra's shoulder as he stepped down from the microphone and burbled, "Aren't you going to sing `The Yellow Rose of Texas,' Frank?" Sinatra's alleged reply (both he and Rayburn denied the story but Davidson had an eyewitness) was, "Take the hand off the suit, creep".

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Sonny Lizton lost to Cassius Clay in 1964 and was defeated by the same boxer, now Muhammad Ali, in a 1965 rematch. Both fights were controversial. In the first bout, Liston failed to answer the bell in the seventh round; in the second match, Ali felled Liston with a punch ringside observers said did not land. After his loss to Ali he fought mostly undistinguished opponents, losing a North American Boxing Federation title fight to Leotis Martin by a knockout in 1969. He won fifty of fifty-four professional bouts, thirty-nine by knockout. His career was marred, however, by his criminal record and alleged connections with organized crime. Sadly, he died of a drug overdose.

Barbuba Giant Poster

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Al Capone Giant Poster

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By the end of the twenties Capone had become a monument on the Chicago scene. All criminal activity in town and in the surrounding suburbs was under his control. Whenever the pie was sliced in government or business in Illinois, Capone had to be taken care of. He enjoyed the status of a quasi-civic leader: the official welcoming party for Mussolini's goodwill ambassador in Chicago included the mayor's representative—and Al Capone.

Capone was colorful copy, so reporters sought him out. When a church group in Chicago complained that Capone got more newspaper space than it, an editor patiently explained that Capone was better copy than the average minister. Capone defended himself in the press by claiming that his activities may have been illegal, but they were not wrong; the law, the prohibition law anyway, was wrong, and he was only giving people what they wanted: "I'm a public benefactor.... Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business. They say I violate the prohibition law. Who doesn't?"

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2008-01-05T17:23:00.000-08:00

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Bob Marley's music has done more to popularise the real issues in the African liberation movement than several decades of backbreaking work by Pan-Africanists and international revolutionaries.

His choice of song was iconoclastic, but historically apropos. “War” and “Zimbabwe” compel us to examine closely the Marley performance at Rufaro Stadium in 1980. This event shows how Marley, as a radical reggae musician, is simultaneously a singularly empowered and disenfranchised cultural spokesperson in the postcolonial world. Precisely because he is venerated by the Zimbabwean leadership and its subjects, in crucial ideological moments, Marley is publicly “silenced” by his own status as postcolonial spokesperson.