Shock Value tells the unlikely story of how the much-disparaged horror film became an ambitious art form while also conquering the multiplex. By the late 1960s, horror was stuck in the past, confined mostly to drive-in theaters and exploitation houses, and shunned by critics. Based on unprecedented access to the genre's major players, The New York Times 's critic Jason Zinoman's Shock Value delivers the first definitive account of horror's golden age. Much has been written about the storied New Hollywood of the 1970s, but at the same time as Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola were making their first classic movies, a parallel universe of directors gave birth to the modern horror film-aggressive, raw, and utterly original. An enormously entertaining account of the gifted and eccentric directors who gave us the golden age of modern horror in the 1970s, bringing a new brand of politics and gritty realism to the genre.
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While he aids the prosecution in preparing the case against Jamie, who killed his terminally ill wife out of mercy, Cam finds himself betraying his own wife. Into this charged atmosphere drifts Mia, a new assistant at Allie's floral shop, for whom Cam feels an instant and inexplicable attraction. While she is devoted to her husband, she finds herself siding against Cam, seduced by the picture James paints of a man so in love with a woman that he'd grant all her wishes… even the one that meant taking her life. The situation isn't as clear to Cam's wife, Allie. It contained his prayer and blessing for the house. The next day he sent the following letter to his beloved wife Abigail in Quincy, Massachusetts. President John Adams arrived in the new Washington City on November 1, 1800, to spend his first night in the new President’s house. The letters of John and Abigail Adams number in the thousands, and because they wrote with such candor and in such vivid detail, it is possible to know them-to go beneath the surface of their lives-to an extent not possible with other protagonists of the time. Housed in the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston, the full collection of letters, diaries, and family papers of all kinds, ranges from the year 1639 to 1889. There is no comparable written record of a prominent American family. may be rightly described as a national treasure. Historian David McCullough writes in the acknowledgement notes of his Pulitzer Prize winning biography John Adams: Those letters are part of one of our nation’s most valuable historical collections, The Adams Papers. In Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out, children’s book author Jane Yolen based her delightful, witty poem “The White House First Residents” on the historical letters written by John and Abigail Adams. 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OL16361336W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.87 Pages 314 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1594486522 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:23:18.75287 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1156808 City New York Donor Unluckily for him – and the world – it couldn’t be taken aboard the ship originally chosen. Wells, like Sotheran’s before him, intended to have the masterpiece shipped to America. It was returned to England, where it was bought by Gabriel Wells at a Sotheby’s auction for £450 – less than half its reserve price of £1,000. Over 1000 precious and semi-precious stones – rubies, turquoises, emeralds, and others – were used in its making, as well as nearly 5000 pieces of leather, silver, ivory, and ebony inlays, and 600 sheets of 22-karat gold leaf.Īlthough intended to be shipped to New York by Sotheran’s, the booksellers declined to pay the heavy duty imposed on it at US customs. Gracing its gilded cover were three peacocks with bejewelled tails, surrounded by intricate patterns and floral sprays typical of medieval Persian manuscripts, while a Greek bouzouki could be seen on the back. Completed in 1911 after two years of intensive labour, the book – of Edward FitzGerald’s loose Victorian interpretations of Omar Khayyám’s poems, illustrated by Elihu Vedder – came to be known as ‘The Great Omar’, as well as ‘The Book Wonderful’, on account of its sheer splendour. Cost, according to Sotheran’s, was to be no object the bookbinders were given carte blanche to let their imagination go wild and conjure the most bedazzling book the world would ever behold. In this paper, we present the case for stronger federal privacy protections with proscriptive guardrails for the public and private sectors to mitigate the high risks that are associated with the development and procurement of surveillance technologies. Facial recognition and other surveillance technologies also enable more precise discrimination, especially as law enforcement agencies continue to make misinformed, predictive decisions around arrest and detainment that disproportionately impact marginalized populations. From the historical surveillance of civil rights leaders by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to the current misuse of facial recognition technologies, surveillance patterns often reflect existing societal biases and build upon harmful and virtuous cycles. |