Anyway, let’s get back to music. I used to love watching Top of the Pops. I am pretty sure it was on BBC One every Thursday night at 7 pm. I distinctly remember watching Blondie for the first time on Top of the Pops. I was a teenage boy so you can imagine it had quite an...
Annie Thierl recalls moving into the homes in the mid-1970s. “Squatting was much easier then than now,” she says. “There were many empty properties across north London. We would choose local authority homes as they would give you at least six months and we maintained the...
In the process of awarding Omatsu with her black belt, Leka became herself the first woman to award a black belt (the grade was given in partnership withRigan Machado). Cursed with some bad injuries over the years, Leka’s career was stopped short, but even with a shorter career than mos...
“Before the 1970s women’s movement, nobody thought that pin-ups were objectifying.” But Phillips, a paper dealer who helped bring pin-ups back into fashion in the late 1980s and ’90s, says she believes the women were naturally better at painting women. In her piece, which was reprin...
Hey long time! Wow 9 years in China! must have been a long gig! Where are you in the world right now? China or back in NZ? Nice for you to make contact, I bet you’ve got stories to tell… Let’s talk on the net…
Melanie, the husky-voiced singer-songwriter who was one of the surprise stars of the Woodstock music festival in 1969 and two years later had a No. 1 single with the disarmingly childlike “Brand New Key,” died Tuesday. She was 76. ...
there was a very weak president. In this latter case, it is tempting to think in terms of quasi-experimental conditions. In the same historical, cultural, economic, and social context, there was an institutional treatment, namely the move to a weak presidency. The result has been much better...
There was no association between corticotropin-related payments and spending on prescriptions for synthetic corticosteroids. Conclusions and Relevance In this study, most nephrologists, neurologists, and rheumatologists who frequently prescribe corticotropin received corticotropin-related payments from Mallinckrodt....
How old did your children need to be, before they could dissemble in front of peers, teachers and spying informants among them? It was a matter of deep concern to Hungarian parents, as Michener related. (Parenthetically, as a teenager and young adult I had never been the least bit ...
In the wake of the visit, Public Safety Canada began listing “Sikh extremism” as a Canadian terrorist threat, spawning accusations even from within Trudeau’s own cabinet that the measure was a capitulation to overblown Indian government fears. Harper was in In...