What Waiting Really Means
What Waiting Really Means is about emergencies that never reach the emergency room. It's about a woman named Mary with no last name who rides buses and smokes cigars and watches the wind blow her bedroom curtains into a frenzy. It's about cities, Detroit, New York, and Atlanta, About older men. The kind who will hold you. And killers, And the boundaries they look for. The narrator is sure of one thing; "Men who wear Brooks Brothers suits and pretend to read books are a step backward, and not far enough back, at that, "She's better off with her cigars at the Majestic Grill waiting while the rain beats on the windows.
The House in Good Taste
After ninety years, "The House in Good Taste" by America's "first lady of interior decoration," Elsie de Wolfe, still offers timeless design advice.
Compiled from her articles in newspapers and magazines and first published in 1914, "The House in Good Taste" is a seminal book on interior design with ideas that have lasted a century because they influenced not only the wealthy clients of Park Avenue and Palm Beach, but popular taste as well.
De Wolfe advised Americans to shun ostentation and clutter in favor of simplicity, to dismantle the draperies in order to let in the light, and to replace garish colors with beige and ivory. "I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint," she declared, "comfortable chairs with lights beside them, open fires on the hearth and flowers wherever they 'belong, ' mirrors and sunshine in all rooms." The rooms that Americans inhabited in the middle of the twentieth century still today owe much to de Wolfe's tastes.
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The Magic Curtain: The Mexican-American Border in Fiction, Film, and Song by Thomas Torrans, ISBN 0875652573
Borderlands -- especially the United States-Mexico borderland -- have long served as backgrounds for depicting social instability, according to Thomas Torrans. And borders -- or magic curtains -- have readily been fashioned into exotic backdrops for films, novels, ballads, and tales in which characters shift easily from one culture to another. The protagonists are equally at home in both societies, or, at worst, at home in neither.
True border novels form a literature that deserves a category all its own. There is an uneven quality -- a coarseness sometimes mixed with polish, running the gamut of emotion from the tragic to the comic.
One recent fictional attempt to exploit the border's historical aspects is Fandango by Ron McCoy (1984), while one of the older efforts is that of the early twentieth-century novelist Will Levington Comfort in Somewhere South in Sonora (1925). Border fiction is often just part of a larger whole and a number of books, whether fiction or nonfiction, seldom...
The Magic Curtain: The Mexican-American Border in Fiction, Film, and Song by Thomas Torrans, ISBN 0875652573
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Forgotten Horrors 4
Price and Wooley return for a fourth volume in the acclaimed series where they turn back the curtains of obscurity and peer into Hollywood's forgotten horrors.
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Design Ideas for Windows
"Design Ideas for Windows offers" hundreds of ways for dressing a window. In addition, the book provides important information regarding hardware and installation, measuring, maintenance and care, as well as solutions for problem windows. Included are the both hard (blinds and shutters) and soft (curtains, draperies, valances, and fabric shades) treatments.
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Shades of Desire: A Steamy, Controversial Novel That Explores the Struggles Interracial... by Monica White, ISBN 1885478062
Shades of Desire - Forbidden...Untouchable...Taboo...A clear description of the relationship between Jeremy and Jasmine. Jasmine, willowy, ravishing and lonely. Jeremy, tall, handsome and successful...and white. The impossible. Or is it? "I can't believe it", Danielle said. "Granted he's gorgeous, but I never thought you would go to the other side...no white man can satisfy a black woman". To the contrary, Jasmine, a successful bank executive, found that her first white lover, Jeremy, satisfied her...
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