And unlike Helen, Betty represented the flesh-and-blood “girl back home,” patiently keeping the fires burning. Frank Powolny brought Betty to the troops by accident. A photographer for 20th Century Fox, he was taking publicity pictures of the actress for the 1943 film Sweet Rosie O’Grady ...
He is perhaps best known for his depictions of the deserts of the American west, and for his series documenting the changes brought to bear on the environment by various man-made factors such as urban sprawl, tourism, industrialization, floods, fires, petrochemical manufacturing, and the testing...
305. “Let’s kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy!”– Capt. Jimmy Wilder 306. “Isn’t it amazing how quickly everyone can turn against you?”– President Whitmore 307. “It’s the White House, for crying out loud. You can’t just go up and ring the doorbell.”– ...
Although not immediately evident,The Americansis constructed in four sections. Each begins with a picture of an American flag and proceeds with a rhythm based on the interplay between motion and stasis, the presence and absence of people, observers and those being observed. The book as a whole ...
From Neville Bonner to Evonne Goolagong to Queen Truganini, these eight famous Australian and Tasmanian Aboriginals have made a lasting impression on culture and history.
nuclear weapons. In the original 1954 film, it emits radiation, causing people to die in its vicinity. In addition, he exhales deadly vapors from his mouth that act like heat radiation from the A-bomb, causing fires and burns. In later films, these vapors were replaced by immense blue ...
Through its long history, the 12th-century Catholic cathedral has endured fires, angry mobs, and more. Despite this, the interior remains a bastion of serenity, the light filtering inside tinted by the cathedral’s trio of stained-glass rose windows. Following a catastrophic fire in April 2019...
On March 4, 1948, Sandford died, which prompted his body to be secretly buried by followers, and all of his belongings burned in various house fires. His absence retarded the growth of his small sect; but it survived, in attenuated form, into the 21st century with the creation of the ...
“Let’s kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy!”– Capt. Jimmy Wilder “Tina, you fat lard! Come get some dinner! Tina, eat. Food. Eat the food!”– Napoleon Dynamite, 2004 “I believe whatever doesn’t kill you, simply makes you…stranger.”– The Dark Knight, The Joker...
saying that the attacks did nothing to damage the American spirit. “Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts,” Bush said. “The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge struct...