Fry Bread by Kevin Noble Maillard7/8/2023 A particularly striking spread depicts a wall etched with the names of hundreds of Native American nations, explicitly countering perceptions about the extinction or invisibility of indigenous peoples. Smiling, round-faced children are shown playing together and learning from elders, and details include traditional Seminole textile designs, dollmaking, and pottery styles. Martinez-Neal’s ( Alma and How She Got Her Name, 2018) illustrations are meant to be relished, lingered over. Fry bread becomes a metaphor for resilience, born ironically, as Maillard explains, from the most basic of government-issued ingredients. The simplicity of the ingredients, readers learn, belies the quality of the cooking process, the proximity with people, the historical tradition, the geography-for “fry bread is everything.” Maillard and Martinez-Neal bring depth, detail, and whimsy to this Native American food story, with text and illustrations depicting the diversity of indigenous peoples, the role of continuity between generations, and the adaptation over time of people, place, and tradition. Fry Bread celebrates the thing itself and much, much more.
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Mcenroe you cannot be serious year7/8/2023 " (John McEnroe was always sure of the envy, not only of his competitors. "Everyone loves success, but everyone hates successful people. "Nick Kyrgios, if you don't want to be a professional tennis player, do something else." (Wise words, apparently spoken ahead of the 2022 Australian Open, where Kyrgios won the doubles match with Thanasi Kokkinakis.) "I think you can only write one autobiography." (Which is why McEnroe wrote two: You Cannot Be Serious and Seriously.) That's a huge step down." (Today we know: As a commentator for ESPN, John McEnroe is indispensable, especially at the US Open.) "When I was 25, if I was told I was going to be a TV commentator, it would have been like, 'Oh my God. Time to celebrate the US legend, who celebrates his 63rd birthday today, with some quotes. On JJohn McEnroe and his world famous temper created an iconic moment for the sport. Every day, Tennis Majors looks back at the biggest moments in tennis history. As well as a TV commentator for the last Grand Slam tournament of the year. June 22, 1981: The day John McEnroe wrote his name in history with his You cannot be serious outburst at Wimbledon. But especially in his role as team leader, John McEnroe keeps surpassing himself verbally. Fawkes nadine brandes7/8/2023 Please forgive my ignorance.įawkes is on one hand a coming of age story, where Thomas has to face the harsh world we call reality and find his own way, his own beliefs, his real identity despite the odds or what others want him to be. go figure - and because of my total lack of pop-culture knowledge. This another revelation made me embarrassed because I failed in my research the first time - and I have a historian degree. 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What red-blooded woman wouldn't enjoy a tumble in the bedsheets with a consummate lover-with no strings and no questions asked. all the more so when he invites her to become his mistress. Christine Derrick is intrigued by the handsome duke. But on this dazzling afternoon, one woman did catch the duke's eye-and she was the only female in the room who wasn't even trying. Others say he is so aloof and passionless that not even the greatest beauty could capture his attention. All of London is abuzz over the imminent arrival of Wulfric Bedwyn, the reclusive, cold-as-ice Duke of Bewcastle, at the most glittering social event of the season. Criminal ed brubaker sean phillips7/7/2023 It was intended as a follow-up to Frank Miller’s Batman: Year One and takes its name from the 1869 novel by Victor Hugo of the same title. Batman: The Man Who Laughs is a 2005 one-shot by Brubaker and artist Doug Mahnke. But some stand out more than others and these are the cream of the crop.Īs a writer most noted for his love of noir, it’s no surprise that Ed Brubaker has dipped his toe in the murky waters of Gotham on several occasions. In a long and varied career, Brubaker has covered a lot of ground and written a lot of comics. A true auteur steeped in the tropes of crime fiction. Alongside his creative partner, Sean Phillips, he has built a reputation as a legend of modern crime comics. He wrote Batman: The Man Who Laughs - an iconic piece of Batman and Joker history - and also created a character that became central to the Marvel Cinematic Universe by making Bucky Barnes into The Winter Soldier.īut his output is in no way defined by the spandex clad crimefighters we all know and love. 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Every drop of spilled blood only made him lighter, gave him the freedom to fly.Īs some of you might already know, I am a sucker for dark and twisted retellings, so I really didn’t have any choice but to read this retelling of the classic fairy tale ‘Peter Pan’. He brought fear and madness and death, trailing blood behind him, trailing all the corpses of all the boys behind him.Īnd yet it didn’t weigh him to the earth at all. He didn’t bring magic and fun and eternal youth. El banquete by Plato7/6/2023 Concerning the narrators, Apollodorus is recalling the report Aristodemus gave him to satisfy Glaucon’s demand. This polyphony manifests at two different levels: the narrators of the Symposium and the speakers during the Symposium. Now, even if the sense of koinōnia may thus seem very loose, be it a sharing of sensible things or a participation in the intelligible, a kind of harmony of contrary things or the communication between them, we can still find this very polysemy in the Symposium, because of the great polyphony of this dialogue constantly interweaving all these possible meanings. In his Lexicon of Plato’s philosophical and religious language, Édouard Des Places 1 distinguished four main meanings of the word koinōnia in Plato’s dialogues: (1) participation, in general or in an Idea, as the participation of beautiful things in Beauty itself in the Phaedo (ἡ ἐκείνου τοῦ καλοῦ εἴτε παρουσία εἴτε κοινωνία, 100d6) (2) community (of), as the common possession of women and children in the Republic (κοινωνίαν γυναικῶν τε καὶ παίδων, V 449d4) (3) community (between), as the association of sky and earth, gods and men in the Gorgias (καὶ οὐρανὸν καὶ γῆν καὶ θεοὺς καὶ ἀνθρώπους τὴν κοινωνίαν, 508a1) but also as the combination of the opposites in the Philebus (ἡ τούτων (sc. |