Hawaii movie locations
The perfect location for filming, Fantasy Island, George of the Jungle and Beverly Hills 90210 set up their cameras there. It has also been on the television series Lost many times. Back in the 1950s, the classic film From Here To Eternity was ... [... more]
Getaway |
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac's (1922-1969) On the Road was published in 1957, six years after its completion. It went on to become a bestseller and is considered the quintessential statement of the 1950's literary movement known as the Beat Generation. Born in ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Of Myths, Models and Intelligent Investing
Prior to the past several decades, earnings forecasts were not nearly so important a factor in assessing the value of corporations. In fact, I do not recall price-to-earnings ratios as a prominent statistic in the 1950s. Instead, investors tended ... [... more]
Leithner |
Peter Esterhazy
Péter Esterházy, a member of one of Europe's most prominent aristocratic families, was born in Budapest in 1950. His books, published mostly in Europe, are considered to be significant contributions to postwar literature. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Graham McLaren
Ceramics of the 1960s Ceramics of the 1950s Studio Glass 1960-2000 Graham McLaren [... more]
Random House |
Lionel Trilling
The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one ... [... more]
Random House |
V.S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. He has published more than twenty books ... [... more]
Random House |
Jesse Lamovsky
From star running back Bryon "Bam" Morris's interesting (and totally illegal) sideline career to the 1950s Kansas City A's sneaky relationship with the New York Yankees; from French golfer Jean Van de Velde's epic choke on 18 at the 1999 [... more]
Random House |
Charlie, DeMarco
From star running back Bryon "Bam" Morris's interesting (and totally illegal) sideline career to the 1950s Kansas City A's sneaky relationship with the New York Yankees; from French golfer Jean Van de Velde's epic choke on 18 at the 1999 [... more]
Random House |
Gillian Avery
Gillian Avery (1926- ) was born in Reigate, Surrey, where she started her writing career as a journalist on the Surrey Mirror. Deciding that the pace of book publishing was more congenial than that of newspapers, she went to Oxford in 1950 to ... [... more]
Random House |
A.N. Wilson
A. N. Wilson was born in 1950 and educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has held a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is an award winning biographer and a ... [... more]
Random House |
Daphne Marlatt
Daphne Marlatt is known for her formally innovative books of poetry, including So begins Daphne Marlatt's haunting and multi-layered long poem, which reads with all the urgency and depth of a novel. Set in present-day and 1950s Vancouver, A ... [... more]
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