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4 days ago · The Big Shakedown is a 1934 American pre-Code crime drama film starring Charles Farrell and Bette Davis, and directed by John Francis Dillon. The screenplay is based on the story "Cut Rate" by Niven Busch and Samuel G. Engel .
2 days ago · The Good, Bad, and Ugly From IM Lake Placid. For the first time in five years, I took to the starting line of a triathlon this past weekend. And, well, a lot like my introduction to the sport over a decade ago, I went with the mindset of “go big or go home,” with the return coming at the 25th anniversary edition of IRONMAN Lake Placid ...
4 days ago · Nineteen Eighty-four, novel by English author George Orwell published in 1949 as a warning against totalitarianism. The novel’s chilling dystopia made a deep impression on readers, and Orwell’s ideas entered mainstream culture in a way achieved by very few books.
1 day ago · The Big Chill is a 1983 American comedy-drama film directed by Lawrence Kasdan, starring an ensemble cast consisting of Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, and JoBeth Williams. The plot focuses on a group of baby boomers who attended the University of Michigan, reuniting after 15 years ...
1 day ago · The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway 's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan .
1 day ago · But sometimes, it's OK to judge books a little more instantaneously. The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) have rolled out the finalists for this year's Book Design Awards, giving us express permission to - on this occasion - judge a book by its cover. “Across the more than 130 entries we had the pleasure of reviewing, we were ...
2 days ago · Planned for October 1968, the crew of Walter M. Schirra, Donn F. Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham would launch atop a Saturn IB rocket and conduct a shakedown flight of the Block II CSM in Earth orbit, including testing the Service Propulsion System engine, critical on later lunar missions for getting into and out of lunar orbit. The flight plan remained open-ended, but managers expected to ...
