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 New Price: $176.13 The Way West: Westward, The Course of Empire Takes Its Way, 1845-1864
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Reviews for the The Way West: Westward, The Course of Empire Takes Its Way, 1845-1864  New Price: $7.99 Thomas Hart Benton
ASIN : B00007KE4E Amazon.comThis hard-drinking "bantam rooster" of a painter was arguably as famous for his art-world politics as he was for his remarkable body of work, according to Ken Burns's dynamic documentary. Using the usual interviews with friends, family, critics, and historians combined with old newsreels, television interviews, and myriad paintings as backdrops, Burns has produced an unusually entertaining work. His subject matter helps: Benton embodied contradiction. A sophisticate who yearned to be simple, he observed and painted a world of factory work, saloon frequenting, and prizefighting. He mentored Jackson Pollack, but publicly lambasted abstract impressionism. In his 85 years he struggled, became the rage, and saw his oeuvre go out of style. Benton's outspokenness is augmented by Burn's unwillingness to coddle his subject. Students laud him, but critics get their say, too, calling him talentless and questioning his legacy. The DVD comes with two short "conversations" with Burns about his work. --Kimberly Heinrichs
Reviews for the Thomas Hart Benton New Price: $29.98 Film-Fest, Issue 3: Toronto
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Reviews for the Film-Fest, Issue 3: Toronto Price not listed for this item. A Brief History of Time
ASIN : B00003CX99 Amazon.com essential videoDocumentarian Errol Morris has a knack for finding the fascinating quirks of his subjects, and this brings Stephen Hawking's book A Brief History of Time to sparkling life. Through interviews with family and colleagues of the brilliant theoretical physicist, as well as Hawking's own synthesized readings and reminiscences, we learn of his early life, his struggle with the degenerative disease ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), and his wide-ranging contributions to our knowledge of time, black holes, and the origin of the universe. The science is never downplayed; between Hawking's prose and Morris's visual wizardry, important concepts such as entropy and singularities jump from the screen in memorable vignettes. (Hawking believes a truly universal theory of physics will be understood by "scientists, philosophers, and just ordinary people.") Philip Glass's music, subdued and minimal, balances the alternately somber and hilarious moods of the film. The viewer is left with a sense of awe at the joyous spirit of a man trapped in the world of the mind, occasionally letting the rest of us in on his discoveries. --Rob Lightner
Reviews for the A Brief History of Time Price not listed for this item. The Way West: The War for the Black Hills, 1870-1876
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Reviews for the The Way West: The War for the Black Hills, 1870-1876 New Price: $31.60 The Way West
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Reviews for the The Way West  New Price: $121.12 The Way West: The Approach of Civilization, 1865-1869
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Reviews for the The Way West: The Approach of Civilization, 1865-1869 New Price: $129.95 The Way West: Ghost Dance, 1877-1893
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Reviews for the The Way West: Ghost Dance, 1877-1893 ![Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gfcAAPrjL._SL160_.jpg) Price not listed for this item. Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit [Region 2]
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Reviews for the Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit [Region 2]  Price not listed for this item. First Person: One in a Million Trillion: An Interview with Rick Rosner
ASIN : B00028A66I DescriptionWhat do you do when things don't quite go your way? Give up? Try something new? Not if you're Rick Rosner. Obsessed with "getting it right," Rick went back to high school. Not once, not twice, not three times. Four separate times. In fact, he kept going back until he was 34 years old using a combination of fraudulent IDs, wigs, and prosthetics. You might consider him an expert, not on make-overs, but on do-overs. Now a bouncer, a nude model, and a cosmologist, Rick has taken that same committment to repetition to the television program, Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Rick was on the show, and he lost to a bad question. With his record-breaking IQ, he didn't take it too well. After two years of exhaustive statistical analysis, looking at every question in every version of the game, he has come close to ruining his life. Now on the edge of sanity, he is advancing a theory of cosmology in which the universe is seen as trillions of years old. "Why so old! ?" you might ask: To give the universe the opportunity to endlessly redo itself.
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