The End: Narration and Closure in the Cinema (Contemporary Film and Television Series)

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Even as orchestras, performers, enthusiasts, and critics across the nation--and across the globe--celebrate the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth, George Gershwin (1898-1937) remains one of America's most popular yet least appreciated composers. True, he is loved and revered for his wonderful popular songs, a few instrumental works, and the majestic opera Porgy and Bess. But most of his music is virtually unknown; hundreds of compositions, Broadway show tunes, and even several large and important instrumental works are gradually disappearing with the generations that first heard them. The Gershwin Style: New Looks at the Music of George Gershwin is a bold new work that stands in opposition to this disappearance. It is also a fresh collection of essays that promises to make a key contribution to American music research. Editor Wayne Schneider has corralled some of the leading authorities of Gershwin's efforts--renowned experts and authors who have researched his music for years if not decades--and sets their work alongside articles by scholars who come to Gershwin for the first time from backgrounds in American music or popular music in general. The notable contributors include Wayne D. Shirley, Charles Hamm, Edward Jablonski, and Artis Wodehouse (who has transcribed nearly all of Gershwin's piano performances). No one who surveys the American musical landscape can doubt Gershwin's enduring popularity or profound influence, but his critical standing among today's serious music scholars is much less certain. As Schneider points out in his Introduction, there have been many biographies of Gershwin but comparatively few studies of his music in and of itself. Covering both the "popular" and "classical" extremes of Gershwin's output, as well as the many and subtle points in between, this book reevaluates the music of an American original from several enlightening perspectives. This is a book with much to offer any student or scholar of American music--while some essays explore new methods of measuring Gershwin's abilities as a composer, others draw on hitherto unavailable musical and archival sources to make arguments previously unthinkable. The essays gathered here, most of which were written especially for this volume, thus address a number of important research topics, among them biography, source studies, music analysis, performance practice, and questions of interpretation and reception. The contributions also reflect the wide diversity of contemporary thinking regarding the logic, legacy, and lure of Gershwin's music.

The Gershwin Style: New Looks at the Music of George Gershwin.(Review): An article from: Notes

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The Gershwin Style: New Looks at the Music of George Gershwin.(Review): An article from: Notes
Sandra Barnes
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Title: The Gershwin Style: New Looks at the Music of George Gershwin.(Review)
Author: Sandra Barnes
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2000
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: 56 Issue: 3 Page: 722

Article Type: Book Review

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THE GERSHWIN STYLE: NEW LOOKS AT THE MUSIC OF GEORGE GERSHWIN

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THE GERSHWIN STYLE: NEW LOOKS AT THE MUSIC OF GEORGE GERSHWIN
Wayne (ed.) Schneider
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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Binding: Hardcover
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GERSHWIN STYLE: NEW LOOKS AT THE MUSIC OF GEORGE GERSHWIN (HB)

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GERSHWIN STYLE: NEW LOOKS AT THE MUSIC OF GEORGE GERSHWIN (HB)
Schneider. W
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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ASIN: B000OKNFKS

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When vampire hunter Eden Faveau mistakes Laurent, a renegade vampire of Tribe Manticore, for her new partner, he's not about to correct her. He's stolen a laptop full of sensitive files from the Tribe leader, Justinian, and needs help cracking the encryption. At first he wants sexy and intelligent Eden only for her computer wizardry -- but soon he wants her for much, much more.

Working by night and growing closer every day, Laurent and Eden struggle with the passion that threatens to overwhelm them. But when Justinian captures Eden, and Laurent proves his loyalty to his Tribe in the most shocking of ways, Eden vows to kill Laurent for his deception. Can he find a way to prove his love for her before a full-on war breaks out between vampires and humans?

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"When vampire hunter Eden Faveau mistakes Laurent, a renegade vampire of Tribe Manticore, for her new partner, he's not about to correct her. He's stolen a laptop full of sensitive files from the Tribe leader, Justinian, and needs help cracking the encryption. At first he wants sexy and intelligent Eden only for her computer wizardry -- but soon he wants her for much, much more. Working by night and growing closer every day, Laurent and Eden struggle with the passion that threatens to overwhelm them. But when Justinian captures Eden, and Laurent proves his loyalty to his Tribe in the most shocking of ways, Eden vows to kill Laurent for his deception. Can he find a way to prove his love for her before a full-on war breaks out between vampires and humans?

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light vampire romance.......2007-08-18

Eden Faveau is a slayer from a long line of slayers. Laurent is a vampire from the worst and nastiest clan/tribe of vampires. They meet by mistake and develop a really interesting relationship.

For me, distinguishing between the many clans and tribes of vampires was a little confusing at first but got cleared toward the end of the book.

The vampire/paranormal world was mostly cliches in this book, but the repartee between the main characters was gripping and sexy and kept me turning the pages. The lead characters were lovable and interesting - not very deep, but fun and totally readable. The villains were not too much work to deal with, so that left a lot of room for the romance to develop.

I am more of a romance fan than a vampire fad - so this book was great for me. Don't expect edge-of-your-seat suspense or ground-breaking developments. Just a reasonably good romance with building sexual tension, good characters, and a satisfying conclusion.

Worth reading!

Erotic? YES. Scary? NO. Shallow characters? pretty much........2006-09-30

I'm in favor reading a good, sexy vampire story. I mean, that's what being a vampire is suppose to be about, right? Vamps are suppose to be irresistable, hypnotic, strong (both mentally & physically) and wise beyond all means. The heroine is suppose to come from a long generation of vampire hunters & we're suppose to believe that she's strong-willed, etc. She falls in lust (oops - love) for this vampire imposter with limited hesitation. I understand the breakdown of her defenses builds the connection between the two characters and is kind of expected in romance novels. Being that it's a romance novel with a vampire twist I didn't mind all the sappy lines referencing to recent movies and comic books and I didn't mind how the characters proved to be weak instead of stubborn (the heroine) & evil (the hero/vampire/traitor/villan). I liked the plot of the story but I just couldn't help giggling at some of the metaphors the author used in the heat of the lust/romance.

Honestly, reading this book seemed as if I started in the middle of a series of books from the author. I'm aware she's written a mass of books but there are so many different vampire "clans" and she vaguely explains how each clan plays a role (refering to how evil one clan is from another).

Lots of steamy scenes though. : ) VERY CUTE guy model on the cover - kind of makes you forgive the female character for giving in to her lust if this was really how the guy looked. **Did anyone notice the female model on the cover has long hair but the character in the book is suppose to have very short hair?**

Entertaining.......2006-08-14

I liked this one better than "Hunger" and "Thirst." It certainly wasn't the best or most indepth of the genre, but it was good for filling up a few hours when something heavy would not do.

Eden and Laurent are a likable couple. The basic premise of the story appeared to be "blood tells."

What Darkness???.......2006-05-08

I fully agree with one other reviewer: cardboard characters all the way around. Not much substance to any of the guys in the book either (well, maybe Joe the werewolf had the most characterization). Too bad. I love good vampire novels but this is the last book for me from this author.

Continues the "I Hunger for You" series...........2006-04-26

I wish I would have realized that before I sold the first 3 books. I prefer to keep my series together so if I get confused I can go back and check some things in previous books. BUT other than that, I really enjoyed it. I especially enjoyed that the poor guy/vampire who didn't feel he belonged anywhere and was shunned by all, found a place & a people to call home -- just love those happy endings!

Masters Of The Universe Volume 1: The Shards Of Darkness (Masters of the Universe)

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Masters Of The Universe Volume 1: The Shards Of Darkness (Masters of the Universe)
Val Staples , Emiliano Santalucia , and Marco Failla
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Orko has found a powerful magic crystal, and Eternia's most evil denizens will stop at nothing to get it. In their most desperate mission yet, He-Man, Man-at-Arms, and Orko face off against Evil-lyn, Trapjaw, Tri-Klops, and the master of evil, Skeletor! If they lose this battle, evil will dominate the world!

Darkness Shining Wild: An Odyssey to the Heart of Hell & Beyond: Meditations on Sanity, Suffering, Spirituality, and Liberation

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You Need The Right Frame Of Mind
Darkness means it's time for nighty-night.

Darkness Shining Wild: An Odyssey to the Heart of Hell & Beyond: Meditations on Sanity, Suffering, Spirituality, and Liberation
Robert Augustus Masters
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ASIN: 0973752602
Release Date: 2005-06-24

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DARKNESS SHINING WILD is an investigation of sanity, suffering, identity, death, and the far frontiers of spirituality, all constellated around the story of an extremely harrowing near-death experience. The hellish journey following that experience provides a jumping-off point for deep-diving reflections on topics ranging from the anatomy of dread to the relationship between madness and spirituality. The odyssey to the heart of hell and beyond that centers DARKNESS SHINING WILD provides not a consoling cartography of the transpersonal, but rather a reality-unlocking tour of the everwild Mystery of Being, in which revelation supplants explanation. DARKNESS SHINING WILD is especially suited for those who, having left the shores of the status quo, are discovering that the waters they are crossing have no obligation to remain benign or comfortable. It may also inspire those who, despite having done considerable psychospiritual work, nonetheless find themselves "sinking" into darkness. DARKNESS SHINING WILD is dedicated to those whose longing to be truly free is stronger than their longing to be distracted from their suffering.

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You Need The Right Frame Of Mind.......2007-08-09

It's a great read. Understand where the author is coming from. It has its place, knowing how profoundly one can sink into despair and also fly so high. Not for the fainthearted however.

Darkness means it's time for nighty-night........2007-06-30

This book absolutely put me to sleep. I love the writing of Masters, so rythmic and poetic. But I just couldn't stay awake to read this clump of angst. (In fact, I passed the book on to my young little neighbor, who loves drugs.) This is not bed-time reading. This is the kind of book to be read in rehab, before bath-time. O yea! This book is a about a bad drug experience, did I mention that? For Masters it resulted in a major - ? What? I didn't get that far, because I think people who use drugs recreationally are asking for it. Begging for it. I don't condone the use of drugs recreationally, spiritually, shamanistically. I think it's outright stupid. (Even Jim Morrison got bored with it. Read about Jim's life.) These days, it's a given that inducing a substance, however it is administered, is a huge risk and just plain ignorant. But people take drugs all the time, right? I think we have to be smarter than the drugs we use, even when they are legal and doled-out by doctors. Masters didn't regain mastery of his body for several years, it seems... Drugs are known to cause brain-damage. If you identify with what I'm describing, you might get some use out of this book. Read up on neurology. Find out more about the brain. I found this book irritating and disappointing. Let me put it another way: get real. Be honest. Work at finding integrity in your being. And then you won't have to worry about creating your own hell. (Because hell only happens when people lie.) Pick up some books by H.H. Dali Lama and learn the correct approach to meditating your way to sanity. Sincerely!

The Masters of Darkness (Lone Wolf, No 12)

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The Magnakai Climax!
Of all in this series, 'Masters' is most memorable
Absolute Success-Indubitable Masterpiece

The Masters of Darkness (Lone Wolf, No 12)
Joe Dever
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The Magnakai Climax!.......2001-06-04

This, being book 12 of the Lone Wolf series, and the final chapter in the plights of Lone Wolf in the discipline of the Magnakai, pits Lone Wolf once again against the Archlord of Darkness, one Lord Gnaag, supreme ruler of the Masters of Darkness. Lone Wolf returns from the Dazhiarn, an alternate world, only to find his enemies, the nemesis of the Sommlending, about to storm his very homeland! He must journey to infernal city of Heldgedad, the very stronghold and capital of the evil oppressors! Here chronicles one of the very best adventures Lone Wolf embarks upon, and you can bet it is one of the very best of the series, which curtails approximately 32 books long-and well worth reading every one!

Of all in this series, 'Masters' is most memorable.......2000-08-08

Lone Wolf Series fans will be delighted with #12 Masters of Darkness, as it supplies a much needed sense of closure to the "Magnakai" chapter in the series (noting that the series continues with at least 10 other books last I heard). I've followed the series from the start (Flight from the Dark)up to Legacy of Vashna and in my opinion, Masters of Darkness is the book I remember most vividly. Within it is the adventure in which Lone Wolf actually stops messing around and confronts all the major Darklords in a battle worthy of legend (even in terms of this series, it is a wonderful climax plot-wise). Highly recommendable, fun, and a must-have by fans for fans.

Absolute Success-Indubitable Masterpiece.......1997-04-11

It is hard to single out a Lone Wolf book in quality-they all share but one thing: their amazing breathtaking superbness. But one in particular does indeed rank superior to some of its predecessors and followers: The Masters of Darkness. The thrilling conclusion to the Magnakai and Kai adventures, The Masters of Darkness transports the reader from ship to beast to places that lurk in the nightmares of Lone Wolf. The reader must fight the terrors of the Kaltersee, the new city of Argazad, and finally, smuggle himself to the Black City and make a stand for the future of the entire world of Magnamund. Along the way the reader encounters, in incredible prose, the darkest and most infamous creatures in the Lone Wolf series: the Masters of Darkness. If you have read Lone Wolf books but not the Masters of Darkness, you haven't read Lone Wolf

Tales from the Flat Earth; The Lords of Darkness (Night's Master, Death's Master, Delusion's Master)

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Maxwell (Walter Gibson) Grant
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The Silent Death From the Shadow's Private Annals as Told to Maxwell Grant : The Shadow Master of Darkness #22

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Maxwell (Walter Gibson) Grant
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Master of Darkness[hardcover] (master, 2)

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another great read from susan sizemore!intensely sensual,a mysterious world of opposing clans,some sharp humor and you have one the best novels sizemore has written!

The Shadow Master of Darkness Double Z #5

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Super Reader

The Shadow Master of Darkness Double Z #5
Maxwell Grant
Manufacturer: Pyramid Publications, Inc.
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ASIN: 0515037001

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Super Reader.......2007-08-26

A mystery that hooks you right from the start. A worried man has an unexpected visitor, a newspaper columnist with a pseudonym, The White Owl. The worried man is a Judge in hiding.

He had been threated by a murdered named Double Z, when he wouldn't do what he wanted, and went on the run instead.

The journalist tracked him down, and calls his newspaper with a breaking story, the newsman on the other end hears shots!

Time for a new Wise Owl.

A lot of work for the Shadow's agents in this one, so much so he recruits another, Rutledge Mann.

Some very nervy work by Cliff and Harry lead The Shadow to stop Double Z's Chinese henchman, Loy Rook.

With the estimable Joe Cardona's help, The Shadow manages to set up a confrontation with the man he knows is Double Z.

The Puppet-Masters (World of Darkness, 3: Clan Brujah Trilogy)

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best of the trilogy
Pleasantly surprised and very impressed
The Final Nights are upon us ...

The Puppet-Masters (World of Darkness, 3: Clan Brujah Trilogy)
Tim Dedopulos
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best of the trilogy.......2004-02-11

The questions and characters revealed in the first two books of this trilogy further explored in this third entry. A good deal of the book is about fighting and finding allies. Like much of "Vampire: the Masquerade" it is also about using others to get ahead and the effects of doing that on the mind, the emotions and the soul. This time both the effects on Kindred and ghouls are explored. I have a fondness for ghouls and have several players playing these servants in my annual summer tabletop game. Dedopulos does a good job of looking at the newness and horror of newbie Kindred and ghouls both though I wish someone would write more about ghouls in general. I was very pleased to finish this third book. Maybe I'll have good on Theo show up this summer when our rpg group restarts up Vampire.

Pleasantly surprised and very impressed.......2004-01-16

I had always been put off by RPG fiction - usually because the writing was often less than good. But a friend handed me Slave Ring I was really impressed by the way it was written - it had a different feel to it. I then read The Overseer in a day - I really couldn't put it down - it delved more deeply into the story telling and really fleshed out the characters making them more vivid. So I was looking forward to getting my hands on The Puppet-Masters, and I certainly wasn't disappointed. I knew that it was going to be an important book with everything that's happening in the game world, and I thought it successfully tied up a few loose-ends while leaving a few open for later books. It also continued to bring the characters to life and again I couldn't put it down. I am really looking forward to reading more by this writer!

The Final Nights are upon us ..........2003-12-21

This final book to the Brujah (Slave) Trilogy is a good read. I may be wrong, but it's also a nice precursor to the Time of Judgement novel that will bring a close to the World of Darkness (Gehenna). Sorry, if this is a spoiler for some - but I doubt it is ;)

Elements that are hinted at in the previous 2 books are fleshed out and revealed in this one, while others are left unanswered. We meet some notable characters from WoD lore, as well as experience some interesting plot developments that will keep the reader engaged from start to finish.

The Final Nights are upon us ...

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Filled with pragmatic insights, proactive strategies, and best practices, The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual, Second Edition is destined to become your essential desktop companion. This thorough guidebook is essential reading for the CFO requiring an overview of strategies, measurement and control systems, financial analysis tools, funding sources, and management improvement tips.

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Caveat emptor.......2007-03-09

I browsed the book and found the table of contents to contain many interesting topics. With the "surprise me!" function, I happened upon the Sale and Leaseback discussion, a topic with which I am familiar professionally.

In my view, the author completely failed to grasp sale-leaseback decision analysis. Leasing is another form of debt financing (with some nuances), which can be very expensive and administrative. Rating agencies and competent creditors will simply capitalize your lease payments (at the cost of debt) and treat it as debt. It actually reduces your debt capacity, not increase it as the author suggests (in his excess cash example). Also, having idle excess cash to borrow against is expensive as the cost of debt exceeds the returns you can use on cash. And buying shares (i.e. returning capital) to "prop up" the share price is an irresponsible, simplistic and inaccurate view.

The treatment of the topic surprised me. God help the company with a CFO that would think as the author does.

Everything you need to know in finance - superb!.......2004-07-14

I found this book very complete and comprehensive as a reference source. It covers the strategic and operational perspectives of the finance function. This is one of the best "CFO" books, together with "CFO Architect" and "CFO Handbook". A little bit overpriced - I would have put it in the US$60 range. Reading this book is like taking an advanced course in preparing yourself for the CFO career. It is very didactic and straightforward. A recommendation for the author: in a future edition, you might consider expanding on the topics of international finance, value based management and corporate restructurings.

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