![]() ![]() ![]() Carter Beats the Devil has a mustachioed villain, chase scenes, a lion, miraculous escapes, even pirates, for God's sake. Gold has written for movies and TV, so it's no surprise that he delivers snappy, fast-paced dialogue and action scenes as expertly scripted as anything that's come out of Hollywood in years. ![]() Farnsworth and self-made millionaire Francis "Borax" Smith, and you have old-fashioned entertainment executed with a decidedly modern sensibility. Throw in countless stunning (and historically accurate) illusions, some beautifully rendered period detail, and historical figures like young inventor Philo T. In the course of subsequent pages, Carter finds himself pursued by the most hapless of FBI agents falls in love with a beautiful, outspoken blind woman and confronts an old nemesis bent on destroying him. ![]() Or does he? It's only the first of many misdirections in a magical performance by Gold. Shortly afterwards, Harding dies mysteriously in his San Francisco hotel room, and Carter is forced to flee the country. Gold's debut novel opens with real-life magician Charles Carter executing a particularly grisly trick, using President Warren G. In Carter Beats the Devil, Glen David Gold subjects the past to the same wondrous transformations as the rabbit in a skilled illusionist's hat. ![]()
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That’s Neile Adams and her husband. “Tomboy Style” by Lizzie Garrett Mettler, published by Rizzoli And my question: What’s inspiring you right now? Here are some of my favourite images from the book. Or, even better: next to James’s wardrobe – as an explanation for why he never has any shirts to wear. Tomboy Style is a visual tour that chronicles those women who blur the line between masculinity and femininity. And the pictures, well, I could hang every single one of them next to my wardrobe with a note saying “That’s how it’s done!”. Lizzie Garrett Mettler (whose name I wouldn’t mind, by the way) texts are rather wonderful and warm. As the blog, the book is called “Tomboy Style” and it’s a love letter to those women who borrow from the boys’ wardrobes and make that style their own. I’ve been waiting for this book ever since I first discovered Lizzie Garrett Mettler’s blog. It’s been a bit quiet around here these last few weeks (work has a way of getting in the way of blogging…) But we’re back! And I’ll make the start with the new style column. ![]() ![]() ![]() The lecture, sponsored by the Council on Research and Creative Work, or CRCW, through the CU-Boulder Graduate School and Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, was free and open to the public.Īnderson’s research and teaching focus is on the colonial period, the era of the American Revolution and early national U.S. He delivered the 100th annual lecture, titled "War and Peace in American History," on Wednesday, February 20 at 4 p.m. "Fred has the reputation as being one of the great teachers on the Boulder campus he has inspired many students over many years." "The Distinguished Research Lectureship singles out someone who has done extraordinary and exceptional work over the course of a career, not just one book or one project," said John Stevenson, associate dean of the Graduate School. ![]() History Professor Fred Anderson of the University of Colorado at Boulder was awarded the 100th Distinguished Research Lectureship, the highest honor bestowed upon a faculty member by the CU faculty, recognizing an entire body of creative work and research. 101th Distinguished Research Lecture 2008 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They now speak of their owners pasts and emerge as testaments to the struggle, sacrifice, pain and belonging at an unparalleled moment in history. These objects absorbed the memory of a time and place, remaining latent and undisturbed for generations. Remnants of a Separation is a unique attempt to revisit the Partition through such objects carried across the border. This led her to search for the belongings of other migrants to discover the stories hidden in them. Despite being born into a family affected by the Divide, artist and oral historian Aanchal Malhotra too had thought little about the Partition until she encountered objects that had once belonged to her ancestors in an Undivided India.Ī gaz, a ghara, a maang-tikka, a pocketknife, a peacock-shaped bracelet, and a set of kitchen utensils: these were what accompanied her great-grandparents as they fled their homes, and through them she learnt of their migration and life before the Divide. ![]() Generations have grown up outside the shadow of the communal killings and mass displacement that shaped the contemporary history of the subcontinent. A well-researched and richly readable book RAMACHANDRA GUHA SEVENTY YEARS HAVE PASSED SINCE THE PARTITION, and a momentous event now recedes in memory. ![]() |