14 Results for : silhouetted
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Tales of the Old West, Songs & Stories: Land Rushes, Legends & Lyrics of the American Frontier , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 160min
The American cowboy came to the West to begin again after a bloody civil war had ended. He worked long hours in lonely cow camps and his pay was meager, but he had grit and determination. He faced constant danger; he fought Indians and rustlers and braved swollen rivers and stampedes. And, finally, when the days of the open range were over, he rode off into the sunset. But his legacy lives on. He had created a new West, a West that would endure forever in books, songs, movies, and television. In your mind's eye, you can still see him astride his horse, silhouetted on a hill, looking resolute, wild and free. There were others, though, who wanted to claim a homestead and live forever in the West. On September 16, 1893, they had their chance. One hundred and fifty thousand men and women waited at the edges of a vasttract of government land they called the Cherokee Strip, waiting for a signal that would open 40,000 homesteads for settlement. They had come from every state and abroad. Among them were doctors and lawyers, housewives, farmers, cowboys, and drifters. But for every person who would claim a homestead, two would be disappointed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Donnie Blanz, Joe Loesch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/read/000002/bk_read_000002_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Grand Scale Symphony: Anselm Kiefer at White Cube : Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 241 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 13min
A review of Anselm Kiefer exhibition at White Cube Bermonday tours room by room, with analytic descriptions of the large scale works on view. Superstrings, the Norms, Gordian Knot One enters the massive White Cube Gallery in Bermondsey and finds oneself in a darkened avenue bordered by large vertical paintings. Vitrines framed with broad metal casing contain accumulations of mixed media, the Superstrings. On closer attention, scrawed on the glass formulas for the scientific specialist, e.g. in Vitrine number 1 to the left reads Vu+xqa i/2 kud(lodk)ekx, whatever that means. Behind this a confusion of coiled cord, tangled loops of white and black lengths, suspended against a bleached-out suggestion of industrial landscape, silhouetted shapes of buildings and chimneys. Another formula scrawled on the glass. V(Nkov):xeinx encased. Are these scientific string theory? (1) In this panel the bunched confusion of cords lies on a silvered textured ground, which may be canvas but resembles parchment. In the fourth vitrine is a mesh of wire squared grid imposed over an absolute forest of black cord, fused and gutted, with white cord disposed at the base. The message seems to be the toppled towers of science, corrupted by the sensual intuitive surge of the artwork. The formulae are reduced to a scrawled nonsense. Vitrine number 6 is a chaotic tangle of elements.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Selbie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/184401/bk_acx0_184401_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Park of Darkness: Where the Dreams Become Nightmares , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 201min
The theme park was protected by a high security fence, rusty with age and topped with razor wire. Behind this was a row of thorny rose bushes and trees as an extra deterrent. Over the tops you could see the arching skeletons of the roller coaster and chair-O-planes, the spiky turrets of the Royal Palace. At night, you could imagine a twisted world of nightmares silhouetted in the moonlight. A dark roller-coaster of a story about a team of people who dress up as costumed characters as the employees of a theme-park. Marco the protagonist has been working there for many years and the novelty of the fantasy world they create has worn off. Howard Hitchman is one of many obsessed fans who delights in the escape this fantasy world provides. He becomes sexually obsessed with the girls who dress up as princesses to entertain the children and rains his terror and vengeance out on the employees of the park when his fantasy world comes to an end. Marco who is assisted by a giant rat, Rico, the star character have to save the park and the Princesses. This was after all their world and they where its inhabitants. Give a man a mask, and he'll tell ya the truth! The fantasy kingdom, a playground for adults that became popular with adolescents: A strange fantasy world with characters from disturbing cartoons, violent and creepy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alex Pollard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/133487/bk_acx0_133487_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Rain of Terror: A Blacklick Valley Mystery, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 549min
The child ran through the dark forest, sobbing, breathless, oblivious to the driving rain that soaked his matted hair and plastered the flimsy shirt against his skin. Jagged streaks of lightning cut across the night sky, creating a stark backdrop for the swaying black oaks silhouetted above him. He ran, stumbled, fell, and ran again, heart pounding in his thin chest, the sound of his own blood roaring in his ears...driven not by reason or logic, but by basic primal instinct - the instinct to survive. A child vanishes on his way home from school as thunder rumbles in the western horizon. Another is abducted from his bedroom on a dark and storm-filled night. A young mother is murdered in her bed as lightning flashes across the Valley. Who will be next? And why? When the tranquil community of Blacklick Valley, tucked into the dark, pine-forested mountains of western Pennsylvania, explodes in murder and missing children and terror sweeps across the Valley, Sheriff Jed Tyler is faced with the most challenging case of his career. Who would steal away innocent children as if they never existed? Why do the violent thunderstorms that rip across these Pennsylvania mountains ignite a fury in the mind of the killer that fuels his madness? And...why target Blacklick Valley? In his quest, will Tyler discover the answer to a dark secret hidden deep in his past? Will newcomer Jenny McConnell capture his free-spirited heart or plunge him into greater danger? With time running out, will Tyler unmask the identity of this madman, untangle the web of mystery, before another victim is taken, another murdered? From fear-ridden Blacklick Valley to a diabolical satanic cult in the distant Sierra Nevadas, Tyler is swept across the country in his relentless determination to learn the fate of the kidnapped children as well as find resolution to the black abyss in his own soul. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tony Vatsula. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/043404/bk_acx0_043404_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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