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Iridescent blues flash in fiery sunset: swallows flying like crossbows.

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...mpare: the living are incomparable:’ ‘Like feminine silver, it’s forged here,’ ‘Hearing, hearing early ice’ ‘Gaps of the curved bays, jetsam, dark-blues,’ ‘Armed with a wasp’s narrow sight,’ ‘I’m sinking down, down, down,’ ‘I lift this greenness to my lips,’ ‘A Greek flute’s theta and iota –’ ‘Potters made its power, this azure isle – ’ Index by First Line...

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...Goes By 69 29) Some Say 72 30) She Is The Reason 74 31) If I Were American 76 32) I Feel So Happy 77 33) I’ve Seen The World 79 34) Oh Blues 82 35) Biggest And The Best 84 36) Poem- Return To Dust 86 37) Poem- Gather 88 38) Steady Job 92 40) Got The Blues 94 41) Take A Look 95 42) I Am A Dreamer 100 44) Seabirds 102 45) A Dream C...

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...radas impertinentes a la urbe; 219 MÚSICA Dr. John: maestro de ceremonias; Sobre Locked down, de Dr. John ; 224 De trenes, factorías y plegarias; Blues funeral; 228 NOVELA Un espíritu sensible; El asesino hipocondríaco; 216 Cell ; 241 El humanista insospechado; El Mapa y el territorio; 248 Fortunas y adversidades de un arribista cultural.Noches de Bocaccio; 269 ...

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...This article is an edited excerpt from his upcoming book, Hard Time Blues: How politics built a prison nation, published by St. Martin's Press in January, 2002. ...

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... Than Slavery is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the civil rights era—and beyond. Immortalized in blues songs and movies like Cool Hand Luke and The Defiant Ones, Mississippi’s infamous Parchman State Penitentiary was, in the pre-civil rights south, synonymous with cruelty. Now, noted historian David Oshinsky gives us the...

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...ELL?............................................................................................................................... 43 A CURE FOR THE BLUES ..................................................................................................................................... 61 THE CURIOUS BOOK ....................................................................

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.................................. ........................ 43 A CURE FOR THE BLUES ........................................................................ ... he whispered the decree. CHAPTER X Was it Heaven? Or Hell? A CURE FOR THE BLUES BY COURTESY OF M R. C ABLE I came into possession of a sin gular b...

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...ania Indonesian Style 50 Love, Marriage and a Wedding Reception 52 Rush Hour Blues 56 A very Naked Maid 58 A Nation of Millionaires 62 Chicken Harry 6... ...Buses from Hell 118 iv Kampung Paparazzi 120 The Stadium 123 Bills Barstool Blues 126 A Cart called Hope 128 Wild and Free 131 Dreams of Love 135 Glo...

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...lute song NOBODY knew where the man who sat on the corner where two main roads intersected had come from or why he played the blues. But came he d... ...ag, all the while mumbling words that didn’t make much sense. Soon after breakfast, he’d produce his flute and start playing the blues. I had a ve...

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....com/def/f106.htm http://3.1911encyclopedia.org/F/FE/FELO_DE_SE.htm The "winter blues" are supposed to cause suicidal ideation. There is even a ...

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...hanted umbrella belonging to Button Bright, a character who first appeared in The Road to Oz (1909). The trio is then captured by the Boolaroo of the Blues, a monarch who is both comical and dangerous, escape to the country of the “Pinks”, and eventually regain the magic umbrella and return back to earth. This is one of Baum’s best fantasy books and contains enough not-so-...

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... How would the great musical traditions of the twentieth century—jazz, soul, blues, rock—have developed under today’s copyright regime? Would they hav... ... musician, “his own sound” was the product of a number of musical traditions—blues and gospel particularly. It is out of those traditions that “I Got ... ...s Brown, and Aretha Franklin. If one can pin- point a moment when gospel and blues began to merge into a secular version of gospel song, it was in 195... ...own musical genre. Soul is a fusion of gospel on the one hand and rhythm and blues on the other. From gospel, soul takes the call-and-response pattern... ...d the wailing vocals of someone “testifying” to their faith. From rhythm and blues it takes the choice of instruments, some of the upbeat tempo, and t... ...ce further; R&B itself had roots in “jump music” and the vocal style of the “blues shouters” who performed with the big bands. It also has links to ja... ...ch, one can point to distinctive musical motifs—the chords of the twelve-bar blues, or the flattened fifth in bebop. But musical traditions are Chapter ... ...l to make “blue-eyed soul,” when Elvis took songs and styles from rhythm and blues and turned them into rockabilly, a process of racial cleansing went... ...ed by patterns of gleeful borrowing, formed as part of a musical commons—the blues of the Mississippi Delta, for example—were eventually commercialize...

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...e was Sasha tricking the night she disappeared?” “Not far from the House of Blues. Way I hear it. Sash had a thing for Blues men.” “That still doe... ...yed look for a second but a shake got him to spilling. “Down by the House of Blues. ‘Bout two streets over from there on Conti Street.” “Bingo!” F... ... to go cautiously and scout out the area first. If he is operating near the Blues, he wouldn’t be so stupid as to have his resting place so close to... ... “Before we chuck it in, I’d like to check out the area around the House of Blues.” Hell, yeah! I’d heard Etta James was in town playing a gig the... ...efore there’s a bloodbath.” I gestured toward a group of people leaving the Blues. His expression went stone cold. “Give me to the count of ten, t...

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...boom in Liqueur Stores, as Americans started to legally drink away depression blues. A lot has changed since then, our morals and perceptions have...

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...table. A twelve-by-twelve abstract painting hung on an unfinished brick wall. The blues, the blacks, would never be found at Jakova. Well, Sammie... ...ra Kate smiled indulgently because her mama never made eye contact unless her faded blues caught someone’s eyes by accident. Laura Kate gave her a p...

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... Will you talk to him?” “Okay,” he replied. “But it may just be retirement blues, you know . It’s probably hard for Dad to be on the sidelines, after ...

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...ge as she, Alex was thought feminine, very pretty and petite in Air force blues. With her superior remaining silent, Roxanne lowered her tone and co...

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...ival, Snakelex thought the child had given new meaning to the term, ‘baby blues’. He would definitely have to write a paper on this one. The demon p...

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...ine cloth, its floor strewn with opulent pillows in purple and gold, bright blues and greens, yellows and reds. A few patrons, still clothed, sat at...