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This digital document is an article from St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 714 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and textual cross-references to related essays. ... Read more

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Chapters: Yale School of Drama Alumni, Elia Kazan, Paul Newman, Sigourney Weaver, Meryl Streep, Joanna Russ, Caitlin Clarke, Liev Schreiber, Paul Giamatti, Christopher Durang, Dick Cavett, Janet Burroway, Stacy Keach, David Henry Hwang, Lewis Black, Angela Bassett, Frances Mcdormand, Henry Winkler, David Alan Grier, Tony Shalhoub, Patricia Clarkson, Ron Whyte, Tom Mankiewicz, John Turturro, Richard Foreman, Polly Draper, Jp Miller, Sanaa Lathan, Ken Howard, Laila Robins, Wendy Wasserstein, Robert Cohen, John Shea, Chris Noth, Tad Mosel, Jenn Lindsay, Donald Vining, Julie Harris, John Guare, Joan Van Ark, Robert Kalfin, Gertrude Prokosch Kurath, Charles S. Dutton, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, A. J. Antoon, Enrico Colantoni, Robert Klein, James Naughton, Mark Linn-Baker, Kate Burton, Thomas Mccarthy, Chung King Fai, Malcolm Gets, Lynn Nottage, Courtney B. Vance, David Ives, Ola Rotimi, Jill Eikenberry, Rocco Landesman, Albert Innaurato, Eve Gordon, Martine Bartlett, Christian Clemenson, Andrew Paulson, Tony Converse, Steven Robman, Owen Dodson, Anna D. Shapiro, Jayne Atkinson, Ralph Bates, Mark Brokaw, Kathryn Hahn, William Snyder, Allan Havis, Richard Masur, Michael Stewart, Fred Coe, Earle R. Gister, Romulus Linney, Louise Shaffer, Adam Richman, Tarell Alvin Mccraney, Vincent J. Cardinal, Jonathan Frid, David Marshall Grant, Santo Loquasto, Boris Sagal, Maulik Pancholy, D. B. Woodside, George Morrison (Director, Acting Teacher), Ted Tally, Charles Evered, Joe Grifasi, A. R. Gurney, H. C. Potter, Milan Stitt, Jon Stone, Mac Wellman, William Marchant, Ulu Grosbard, Christine Estabrook, Brother Blue, Jeff Donnell, Anne Meacham, Sabrina le Beauf, Willie Garson, Abdur Rahman Slade Hopkinson, Christopher Akerlind, C.s. Lee, Tambi Larsen, Roger Guenveur Smith, Todd Rosenthal, Betty Shamieh, Rick Elice, Joseph Fuqua, Eugene Lee, Wendy Macleod, James Burrows, John Rothman, Dick Orkin, Harry Kondoleon, Ernest Ferlita, James Keach, John Lee ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=63390 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sophie's Choice is a novel by William Styron published in 1979. It concerns a young American Southerner, an aspiring writer, who befriends the Jewish Nathan Landau and his beautiful lover Sophie, a Polish (but non-Jewish) survivor of the Nazi concentration camps. An immediate bestseller and the basis of a successful film, the novel is often considered both Styron's best work and a major novel of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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Do One Green Thing!
This book fulfills its mission of offering simple, green choices that we can all make.Thanks to Mindy for doing the work for us by tirelessly investigating the multitude of choices we face everyday.This book is an easy to use, valuable resource.I highly recommend it!

Great to help keep you on track.
Alot of the suggestions in this book are hardcore, but if you just try to get close, I think your doing pretty good for the earth.

Should be on the shelves of any general lending library
DO ONE GREEN THING: SAVING THE EARTH THROUGH SIMPLE, EVERYDAY CHOICES is a concise, easy presentation of steps any individual can take towards green living choices, and it offers a fine chart showing which green behaviors can be swapped for a non-green counterpart. Much like exchanges in Weight Watchers used to be, this guide offers an easy 'diet for a greener planet' and should be on the shelves of any general lending library.

great book for reference and teaching
great book. can be used as easy reference. good teaching tool for children and adults.

A Simple and Concise Must-Read
I have been as green as possible for many years, but I always like to check out new books on the subject to get any new tips.

Do One Green Thing Saving the Earth Through Simple, Everyday Choice by Mindy Pennybacker, is a must read if you are interesting in making eco-friendly choices. We get bombarded from everyone lately on how we should make green choices in purchasing products...but it can be confusing to know what exactly to buy Pennybacker removes the mystery and guides us on how to make eco-friendly choices that are both good for the planet and our own health.

The book has lots of illustrations and "Choose It" "Lose It" charts to make decisions a snap. For instance, under storage containers, she has as a "lose it" #7 plastics (the numbers are always found on the bottom of products.) #7 plastics leech toxins and are not recyclable. Instead, opt for a #5 plastic, which is cleaner and won't leech chemicals into food. Even better is glass or stainless.

Throughout the book are guides that make becoming greener easy to do. Pennybacker's philosophy is to go green gradually, step by step. Do not worry that following her many tips will be expensive and will make your current world unrecognizable...on the contrary, may tips will save you money. Furthermore, you may be surprised at how "little" changes make a big, green impact.

Finally, I recommend Harmonious Environment as a companion to Do One Green Thing for great ways to decorate and design your home using green materials.

Highly recommend.
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Here are twelve magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates -- with unequaled grace and tenderness -- the deepest feelings we have.

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Tough Material in First Class Performance
Let nobody fool you with adjectives about Cheever's fictional voice -- elegant, supple, crisp, resonant.Yeah it's all that, but if you have not encountered him before, you will be thinking in other terms -- unsparing, discomforting, perhaps even unforgiving.But listen to all these discs through, arranged from early stories to later -- through a variety of fine professional voices ending with Cheever's own refined rasp, for the last two stories -- before you make any judgments.It ought to take you several sittings; one story at a time may be all you can take.But by the end, you will likely want to eventually hear them all through, again.

Cheever, along with the somewhat younger John Updike, was thought of as the basic social chronicler in the short story form of his generation in post World War 2 years.That is somewhat misleading; the background for both is Protestant, or post-Protestant, east coast, upper middle class and aspiring higher.The two of them became known for what was called "the New Yorker story," which in itself will tell you a lot.

In Dante's Hell upon entry, a demon named Minos winds his tail the precise number of times to figure exactly how deep to drop you down to your earned level of damnation.A similar process happens very early in a Cheever story.A character, or the narrative voice itself, pitilessly fixes all others, in their sphere of vision, based upon the smallest nuance of voice inflection, diction, style of car or dwelling, choice of school, favorite drink, clothes or shoes.They are thus immediately damned in this world, and in a Hell particularly Calvinist (according to Cheever himself), without appeal except, perhaps, eventually to the reader's sympathy.Which some will gain, some not.In any event, they will still be wearing the same shoes at the end, of which fact Cheever will be certain to remind you.

In the early pieces, Cheever is a little uncertain on paper, a little jokey or cute but always entertaining and fascinating.Then he cools out real fast, and delivers stuff as good as the best of his predecessors in this genre, John O'Hara and F. Scott Fitzgerald.From then on his batting average is about as consistent as Lou Gehrig, too; the human toll of his endeavor is discreetly kept from the reader but apparently sounded in his personal life.State of the art performances by a catlike Merle Streep, the great Ed Hermann, serious Peter Gallagher, jovial George Plimpton, witty Blythe Danner move you soundly and at an even pace through all this material.But for all the pain in his voice, it is tremendously beatutiful when Cheever's own voice finally breaks surface on the last disc, in a clearly angry yet unbelievably controlled fit of passion, reading The Death of Justina -- a full frontal assault on modern corporate nonsense and social pretense.I certainly had never heard anything like it.Finally, a shade or two cooled off, Cheever closes the set with a reading of hismythic standard, The Swimmer.

Not for the feint-hearted, this mature set is as good as audio books get.

Great stories beautifully read
This audio-set collects 12 of Cheever's finest stories and recruits wonderful readers, including Meryl Streep, who is fantastic.Cheever has a gift for ripping the cover off of everyday life and getting at the emotional core.Many of the stories pack an emotional punch at the end as the reader gains a sudden and almost blinding insight into the emotional core of the lead character.The first and last stories of the collection ("The Enormous Radio" and "The Swimmer") are especially good at this.Some stories are funny -- like the "Chaste Clarissa" -- but most would have to be classified as "downers."Perhaps it is this dark edge that keeps Cheever from achieving some of the heights that Chekhov scaled.

Still, Cheever is at the top of the hierarchy of great American short story writers, along with writers like Sherwood Anderson and Hemingway. He's a little bit better at the short-story craft that any of his contemporaries.

George Plimpton is probably the only reader in this collection who will grate on you.Everyone else is absolutely great.My hats off to the publisher. ... Read more

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Over-Sized Monthly Periodical on the Arts, Politics, Culture. DOUBLE ISSUE! ... Read more

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12 Issue Boxed Set (Box-Set) of 1987 - LIFE MAGAZINE ... Read more