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...ryone I have spoken to has his or her own vision of Erik, the Phantom of the Opera. My vision is an amalgam of persons known to and/or admired by me... ... had heard the commotion as the horse was brought back to the stables at the Opera Garnier, where I was an equestrienne trainer and performer. Horse... ...s an equestrienne trainer and performer. Horses were frequently used in the operas and Josephine was my gentlest mare, a beautiful Dutch Friesian. ... ...your own horses. You will find him in a stall on the fifth basement of the opera. Come alone, and do not dare to tell others of this mission. O.G... ... tub to my room. I undressed and settled into the bath, using rose-scented soap that I purchased in a small shop nearby. After bathing, I stepped ... ...oil into the water and undressed. I luxuriated in the tub before finding my soap and scrubbing my skin. I then washed my hair and rinsed it in the ... ...nted water. He made his way over to one side, where an alcove held mirror, soap and straight razor. He lathered chin and cheeks and shaved away th... ...hter. He wrapped his arms around me then and massaged the sandalwood-scented soap into my wet hair, kissing my forehead gently as he did so. “Lady’s ... ...d do anything for you. Now, lean back.” He supported my back and rinsed the soap from my hair in the steaming tub. The scent of sandalwood ... his ...

...When French equestrian Claire Delacroix loses her fiance in a tragic accident, she comes to live at the Paris Opera during its 1890s heyday. Whilst working at the opera, she meets a mysterious, masked stranger: Erik. Is it possible that the two of them will heal the pain of each other's past? Buy the the paper back at Turner Maxwell ...

...n Kansas City, faced unfair competition. The wife of a competing undertaker was an operator at the local (manual) telephone exchange. She re-routed... ...specialist removers of bladder stones). Scipione Mercurio (1540-1615) described the operation in his first text, published in 1596. Four strong assi... ...he Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) Its mission is to combine investigative and operational support functions, research, and training in order t... ...ces, the precursor of the CIA. As commander of the 30th Assault Unit, he sometimes operated behind the German lines, trying to secure important doc... ...important documents and files from destruction. But, mostly, he directed the Unit's operations from London. When the war was over, he built a house ... ...ing a game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies in July 1941. Soap operas followed in February 1947 (DuMont TV's A Woman to R...

..., in a bed still sweating of its former, now deceased, occupant. Or she would sprawl on an operating table, among blood spattered bandages and slab... ...!" My mother froze and then, bending towards me, she tousled my hair, her hand all wet and soapy. I shut my eyes and opened them repeatedly to repe... ...ent demise – "From tomorrow, find yourself another place!" A distant mannish voice trilled opera arias. It approached, bathing the room and us, and... ... come out of it." I suggest to him to address some his missives to the beauties on the TV soaps. He sign up to my charade enthusiastically and ins...

... 27 Representations of contemporary Turkey, the Ottoman Empire, Islam, and gender through the phenomenon of modern pop culture the case of Turkish soap operas in the Western Balkans Çağdaş Pop Kültürü Aracılığı ile Çağdaş Türkiye, Osmanlı Devleti, İslam ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet ile İlgili Temsiller Batı Balkanlarda Türk Dizi Filmleri Ana Frank 43 Socio-cultural impact ...

...is based upon the assumption that not only Energy: but Time and Space as well operate by the same Dynamic of Balanced Splitting or Splitness. This ... ...task requiring all focus of attention and awareness be concentrated upon this operation. Using a flint chip requires an equal degree of concentratio... ...e of Inner and Outer awareness. So... our Inner Universe-Awareness or self; operates reflectively independent of the Outer Universe: creating abst... ...re. The Inner-Observer shifted over mostly to one side of this Triality. It operates mostly in the conscious area of our Inner Awareness. We becam... .... The more obviously fake it is, the more ludicrous and grotesque the entire soap-opera posturing is; the more they love it. They are in love with... ...jobs like working for Niemen Marcus, or getting huge salaries as bit actors on soap THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Six A: Civilization The Effect ... ...me identical labyrinth-pattern design. Huh? You mean if you glue a bar of soap to a dog, or glue a piece of wood to your nose: it means the same ... ...ow you their true face. This is precisely the level of human corruption most Soap Operas mimic. This is precisely what most literature and fiction... ...come even more unhappy than the majority of consumers. The boring idiocy of soap operas is based upon an endless tearing away of secrets, and lies,...

...stions in psychology, anthropology and philosophy is whether humans have instincts. It is clear that animals have them. But if we are going to operat... ...she was totally a victim of her psychological drives and did not have free will, is she responsible? Then on the other hand what if the casino operat... ... unconscious psychological motivations against the casino owners‘ unconscious motivations? Is it her intellectual free will against the casino operat... ...‖ is generally a more positive and socially beneficial motivation. One may have the ambition to develop a business, to be an athlete, to be an opera ... ...ey shouldn‘t act adult-like, be overtly sexual or know-it- alls. When we look at your American television, we cringe. The things you do to sell soap a... ... may be stress producing. A doctor may feel a certain stress in having to manage a medical practice or deciding on the necessity of a serious operat...

...needed. But it is in a state of flux. Old maxims break down. New modes of operation emerge. Functions are amalgamated, outsourced, dispensed with... ... medium. Will it be able to support its content creation and distribution operations economically? If the Internet is a budding medium - then we sh... ... sector takes over the medium from "below" (makes offers to the owners or operators of the medium that they cannot possibly refuse) - or from "above... ...as legislated in 1996. It permitted "organized anarchy". It allowed media operators to invade each other's territories. Phone companies were allowed ... .... The number of browser types will settle on 2-3 (Netscape, Microsoft and Opera?). Networks will merge to form privately owned mega-networks. Server... ...y violent means; the fare served by the media now consists exclusively of soap operas and reality TV shows; Reading is on terminal decline; with few... ...The fare served by the electronic media everywhere now consists largely of soap operas, interminable sports events, and reality TV shows. True, niche...

...iplication of wherewithal falsified all apocalyptic Malthusian scenarios hitherto. Operations research, mathematical modeling, transparent decision... ...se of time lags in the dissemination of data and its assimilation in the prevailing operational model of the economy - prices tend to overshoot both... ...ars ago, cable television was dominated by a patchwork of thousands of tiny, family-operated companies. Today, a pending deal would leave three com... ...atly: "The story of America's export cartels suggests that when firms decide to co-operate, rather than compete, they do not always have price incr... ... lower customer care standards, or inhibit competition. Linux threatens Windows. Opera nibbles at Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Amazon drubbed t... ...gion's derelict economies and destitute people to the kitschy glamour of the tacky soap operas that flooded their television screens. Bedazzled by ...

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...IFE, a Puer Eternus¸ as other poets have called it. She liked to play with soap bubbles, just like little girls throughout all the ages have loved to... ...throughout all the ages have loved to do. LIFE blew on the wand dipped in soapy water and she was amazed to see infinite bubbles appear, that were ... ...actors and causes that contribute to the birth of a star. All these factors operate together towards a single common goal; they operate as a single l... ...rt} Ed. Sophia University of Rome (S.U.R.), Rome 1988 74 LA VITA COME OPERA D’ARTE E LA VITA COME DONO SPIEGATA IN 41 FILM {Life as a Work o...

...btedly he was not the first): his life became an admission that there was no operator's manual for any man's life; but when he saw couples with their ... ...ery, their small capitalistic ventures with large levels of greed, and their soap opera, small-life concerns; but she could not conceptualize why thei... ...their small capitalistic ventures with large levels of greed, and their soap opera, small-life concerns; but she could not conceptualize why their myt... ...d the two of them; and they sank into a soothing bubble bath. Gabriele made soap castles for her son, and smacked top stories off of them, which caus... ...New York State to have germless plates. Yours also have an extra coating of soap on them to kill any forthcoming germs that might land upon them. Tha... ...it, she knew better than to forsake it. She had her distasteful coffee in a soapy cup, and once it was drunk she was pleased that by her compassiona... ...alistic institution. How could she do functions that would keep it nice and operative looking? How could she empty its trash, and change its burnt o... .... "You thought you would put a smart one on me. Hide it behind the laundry soap when I'm not looking. Nothing gets by me." On their way home throug... ... if not benevolent influences to make him special. "There will be no battery operated cars for this boy," she often told herself, for they would lead...

...ed on in the warehouse of human trash, to take a shower and not steal the soap, or in more crass mandates, to show her Louisiana identification card ... ...when not having the answers? But then, if parents did not have answers, as operator manuals were not attached to the necks of babies, then man was no... ...not interested in arresting you either. You are free to go, but go is the operative word," said the officer. "Go as you please, and if I see you co... ...st food restaurant to swish hot water into her mouth and to spread liquid soap onto some of her body like a balm. In the toilet of the Jack In The B... ...ugly in her twisting spine that she is hidden away like the Phantom of the Opera. Let him philander. There was a time when I used to believe that m... ... Denuded; clothes washed diminutively in a plastic bucket with a bar of soap, a mop handle raising them to drip from the rod of the shower curtai... ... So did you. And you are the one who made the final choice to have those operations.” “I know. It is true. You aren’t to blame, Charles. And...

...lornness, the hes of many ages--was the background to advertisements about soap, beer, condoms, and cars. Repulsed by the foul language, she was trans... ...ing filth. He had married Noppawan for truth. Thinking this, with a bar of soap in his hands, he gloated in the marital bond and spoke to her. - No, n... ... was no different from any other sweet, diminishing thing. Rinsing off the soap it seemed to him that surely love sustained itself briefly on finite f... ...just the thing for its mental health. Also a good airing out is as good as soap and water. That's always been my theory." The Laotian grinned mischiev... ...trination this was the most frequently used program which, when lacking an operator's manual for one's life, even iconoclasts like him would switch on... ...htly (his playboy activities, the television commercials, and a month on a soap opera, which came about from his slight fame as a renowned artist and ... ...(his playboy activities, the television commercials, and a month on a soap opera, which came about from his slight fame as a renowned artist and an at... ...an walking together and it sickened him. Nawin got up and went to the coin operated telephone. He dialed his home telephone number numerous times and ...

...ent cre- ative force will not let them do otherwise. Where those motivations operate, we may not need a financial incentive to create. Thus the “proble... ...s two things. It saves consumers time. We have good reason to believe that a soap that says “Ivory” or a tub of ice cream that says “Häagen-Dazs” will... ...azs” will be made by the same manufacturer that made the last batch of Ivory soap or Häagen- Dazs ice cream. If we liked the good before and we see th... ...e the symbol again, we know what we are getting. I can work out what kind of soap, ice cream, or car I like, and then just look for the appropriate si... ...rely on the meaning and the stability of the logos that surround them. Ivory soap will always mean Ivory soap and Coke will mean Coke, at least until ... ...e analogy is to the history of the fashion industry in the United States. It operates largely without design protection but relies heavily on the trad... ...uperior communication tool—a really good command language for your cognitive operating system. There could be levels of access with corresponding pric... ...ine such a way of organizing languages. (To some extent, scribal conventions operated this way. The languages of the professions still do. One paid fo... ...e commodified and restricted our access to information, the less efficient the operation of the market, the more poorly it allocates resources in our so...

...cie C. McKeever 20 Kelly opened his eyes in time to see some young Latin—a soap-opera-hunk-looking motherfucker—lean forward from his bedside chair an... .... McKeever 20 Kelly opened his eyes in time to see some young Latin—a soap-opera-hunk-looking motherfucker—lean forward from his bedside chair and rea... ...k stare. He finally shrugged. "Anyway, you got caught up in a buy-and-bust operation." "With friends like that...." "I agree." "So, you're in the habi... ...acting. He knew the routine, was intimately acquainted with how the police operated. They wouldn't take any missing persons report serious until twent... ...own heart, squeezed her eyes shut and took a deep breath as if she were an opera singer preparing to belt out a thunderous note for her finale. Moment... ... couldn't argue with her there. It seemed obsession had been Dagny's modus operandi in most areas of her life. She seemed to have gotten off on the do...

...reaked. One morning I was on deck to witness the testing. Legs spread, soap on him, he rode the swells, while a sailor threw water over him, a se... ...ur times I have hidden (incognito?), in the wings of a theatre to hear an opera. Tales of Hoffman was performed last week, and I sat in a red leather... ... They bow over a map. Immediately, I sense that their secret codes are in operation. They guess that I am suspicious; I see that when a lieutenant t...

...s cast, the duskiest corner of a shop pervaded not a little, in winter, by the poison of perpetual gas, and at all times by the presence of hams, chee... ...at six. All Span- ish lace. Pearls. The full length.” That was the first; it had no signature. “Lady Agnes Orme, Hyde Park Place. Impossible to-night,... ...tions and revenges. She recognised quite as much those of her sex whom she would have liked to help, to warn, to rescue, to see more of; and that alte...

...iest corner of a shop pervaded not a little, in winter, by the poison of perpetual gas, and at all times by the presence of hams, cheese, dried fish, soap, varnish, paraffin and other solids and fluids that she came to know perfectly by their smells without consenting to know them by their names....

... removed his hat, and flung down beside him a little red guide-book and an opera-glass. The day was warm; he was heated with walking, and he repeatedl... ...ed, I can take up the cards again. I dare say that a twelvemonth hence the operation will be reversed. The pendulum will swing back again. I shall be ... ...!” and M. Nioche slapped his purse tenderly before he stowed it away. “The operation doesn’t take place every day.” “Well, your young men are very sha... ...ration for Parisian economies. His own economic genius was so entirely for operations on a larger scale, and, to move at his ease, he needed so impera... ...truth is that they made a fuss about her milliner’s bill or refused her an opera-box.” Newman looked from Tristram to his wife with a certain mistrust... .... “Leather? I don’t like that. Wash-tubs are better. I prefer the smell of soap. I hope at least they made your fortune.” She rattled this off with th... ... seen men who had done even more, men who had made not only wash-tubs, but soap—strong- smelling yellow soap, in great bars; and they never made me th...

...s beautiful moon-borne Madonna in profound enjoyment of his posture. He had removed his hat, and flung down beside him a little red guide-book and an opera-glass....

... story of the poor artist's model Trilby O'Ferrall, transformed into a diva under the spell of the evil musical genius Svengali, created a sensation. Soap, songs, dances, toothpaste, and Trilby, Florida were all named for the heroine, and a variety of soft felt hat with an indented crown (worn in the London stage production of a dramatization of the novel) came to be calle...