And Anxiety! Shit, if you get on the field and have a freeze attack, we all go down!"įinally you step in. "Enthusiasm, it just ain't natural to be that happy you gotta get real. "Are y'all crazy? If I lose this game, I'll never play in this town again." And then Fear starts picking on the other players. But, hey, I'm in!" As the coach, you're nodding, listening to each player intently, and assessing which players to put in the lead for your best chances of victory.įear stands up. Abandonment Issues says, "Look, if we don't score in the first quarter, we should take the ball and go home-end it before they do, you know. Anxiety is pacing at the back of the room, in his own world, and looks up briefly to say, "I'm so scared I could puke," and keep on pacing. "So how's everyone feeling about the game?" you shout.Įnthusiasm shouts back, "I am stoked! Can't wait to get on the field!" and pumps the air with his fists, smiling, looking to everyone to smile. Imagine that you're a team coach and you're giving your emotions a pep talk before the game.
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Ketzler’s record was apparently never broken, as he was included in Guinness books until the 1990 edition, published in 1989. In 1880, according to Guinness’s 1955 edition, Germany’s Johann Ketzler ate “one whole roast ox” in 42 days-reportedly the fastest time ever. You have to either donate it or divvy it up “for general consumption by humans.” Since you can’t do that after a traditional pie fight, Guinness has updated the category to “largest shaving cream pie fight.” The current record, set in 2016 at UK arts festival Another Fine Fest, involved 1180 people. These days, Guinness has pretty strict policies against food waste for record attempts that require large amounts of anything edible. A total of 434 staff members hit each other with 1200 chocolate, apple, and cherry pies “to demonstrate the stain resistance of a premium nylon carpet.” Guinness’s 2011 edition recognized flooring company Shaw Floors as organizer of the largest pie fight ever, which took place at a sales conference in Texas on January 7, 2010. Where she was calm facing down her jealous husband (Stephen McCole) and temperate placating her aggrieved sister-in-law (Jamie Marie Leary), now she is both imbalanced – heavy hints of Lady Macbeth – and free to speak her mind. Their arguments bounce across each other in a choreographed collision of ideas about love, fidelity and commitment, the themes of the novel finding theatrical form.īy this point, Campbell has gone from the pragmatic mother to a woman let loose from social constraints. While Anna (Lindsey Campbell) squares up to Vronsky (Robert Akodoto), whose allure is wearing off, Kitty (Tallulah Greive) loses patience with Levin (Ray Sesay), the husband who is too sensitive for his own good. The approach reaches its height in a circling conflict between the two central couples in an excellently acted production. Constant movement … Lesley Hart’s adaptation of Anna Karenina. On Sunday, Nov 19th the art intervention can be visited for a day, from 11 am – 7 pm! Therefore the exhibition will be closed on Friday Nov 17th from 2 pm and on Saturday, Nov 18th. SUNDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2017, 11 am – 7 pm Please note: the artists will start their work in Testino’s exhibition ‚Undressed‘ on Nov 11th. This presentation form is unique to both Testino’s work as well as the exhibition history of the Helmut Newton Foundation, filling the rooms with bodies and emotions to create an imposing human landscape. The work analyses the boundaries between fashion, eroticism, anatomy and art, as well as a metaphorical undressing of Mario Testino that delves deeper into his archive and his working practice. 50 larger-than-life images are affixed directly to the walls in three of the foundation’s exhibition halls, reaching into the corners of the room and up to the ceiling. It was conceived exclusively for the Helmut Newton Foundation. Mario Testino’s “Undressed” is a site-specific installation comprising fashion and nude photos. His wish continues to be fulfilled posthumously, now with two unique projects by two of Helmut Newton’s friends and colleagues: Mario Testino and Jean Pigozzi. Upon establishing his foundation in Berlin in 2003, Helmut Newton expressed his wish to provide a forum not only for his own works, but for that of other photographers as well. it’s Krivak’s gorgeous prose and deep grasp of the relationship between longing and loss that make this book such a stunner.” - Publishers Weekly, starred review “With studied language and a strong sense of place, Krivak elucidates how family structures and narratives fractured, maintained, and evolved between World Wars I and the Vietnam War.” - Library Journal, starred review His prose is spare, but his portrait of a little-known mountain region ‘rife with stones and rattlesnakes’ is compelling, beautiful, and ennobling.” - Booklist, starred review “Krivák’s story and characters are mythic. 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Mielke refers to as “moving encounters” between American Indians and American settlers and is therefore not as innocent or straightforward as it appears to be. However, it is important to understand that Sedgwick’s novel follows the tradition of writing about what Laura L. Unlike many writers of that time, Sedgwick gave a great amount of agency to her female characters and portrayed American Indians in a considerably favorable light. Magawisca, an American Indian woman whose loyalties are split between the Fletcher family and her tribe, is perhaps the most important character of the three and Sedgwick’s treatment of her is revealing of how the “ Indian Problem ” troubled many white Americans. The story focuses primarily on the actions of and the interactions between Everell Fletcher, Magawisca, and Hope Leslie. In her historical fiction novel Hope Leslie, Catharine Maria Sedgwick depicts the interactions and relationships between a small group of American Indians and the settlers of New England and Boston. Attack on the Fletcher family as Magawisca supplicates her father His mind shies away from the dreadful things he is capable of, and so - as a coping mechanism - his mind creates a second personality that can do these things. Partitioning his personality like this works for Logen, he gets to survive ( still alive, still alive) but doesn't have to take responsibility for his actions. Logen is capable of terrible deeds, but only when his personality switches to the truly ruthless version of himself. To me it reads like Logen suffers from Multiple Personality Disorder. all to tear the barrier between the two realms. If - given everything we know about demons - one took momentary possession of Logen, it would drop whatever it was doing and work to free itself from it's prison.Ĭonsider the constant whispers Ferro hears when she touches THAT artifact, telling her just to say these words and make this gesture. Remember that demons are locked away in a separate realm, and will work with whatever means they have to break out of there. I've read the first law books and the sequels many times, and I've seen no evidence of "Demonic possession" with Logen and The Bloody Nine. He couldn't let her slip through his fingers. The feelings and emotions that she had stirred up on first sight made David realize that love at first sight was real. He knew nothing about her and had never met her before. David had to thank Amanda for the way she had saved the children's concert. 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