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  Out Of This Universe

  Martin K. Ettington

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  Follow the life of Steven and his friends as he proceeds through innumerable ages of existence fighting forces which not even the Gods totally understand. 
  It’s a story of physical immortality, love, and evolution which transcends our Universe. 
  A journey through the ages of mankind and the Universe which leads to some startling decisions which affect all of creation and beyond. 
  Many spiritual powers are developed and used in confrontations as part of the evolution of the characters in this story. 
  A thoroughly enjoyable romp which will expand your mind and leaving you asking. How much more is there to existence? And what is beyond existence?

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  Halloween Spooktacular

  Carl Amari

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  Celebrate Halloween with Carl and company with the most famous radio broadcast of all time - War of the Worlds, starring Orson Welles.
  A Falcon Picture Group audio production.

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  The Wonders of Living Simply

  Toinette Lippe

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  Lippe, a natural ecologist, believes the whole earth is a cornucopia. "If you acknowledge that there is enough for everybody, then you don't have to hold on to everything in case you might need it, the way most of us do with things we haven't used for twenty years." She's author of Nothing Left Over: A Plain and Simple Life.

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  Gustave Courbet

  Georges Riat

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  Ornans, Courbet’s birthplace, is near the beautiful valley of the Doubs River, and it was here as a boy, and later as a man, that he absorbed the love of landscape.
  He was by nature a revolutionary, a man born to oppose existing order and to assert his independence; he had that quality of bluster and brutality which makes the revolutionary count in art as well as in politics. In both directions his spirit of revolt manifested itself. He went to Paris to study art, yet he did not attach himself to the studio of any of the prominent masters. Already in his country home he had had a little instruction in painting, and preferred to study the masterpieces of the Louvre. At first his pictures were not sufficiently distinctive to arouse any opposition, and were admitted to the Salon. Then followed the Funeral at Ornans, which the critics violently assailed: “A masquerade funeral, six metres long, in which there is more to laugh at than to weep over.” Indeed, the real offence of Courbet’s pictures was that they represented live flesh and blood. They depicted men and women as they really are and realistically doing the business in which they are engaged. His figures were not men and women deprived of personality and idealised into a type, posed in positions that will decorate the canvas. He advocated painting things as they are, and proclaimed that la vérité vraie must be the aim of the artist. So at the Universal Exposition of 1855 he withdrew his pictures from the exhibition grounds and set them in a wooden booth, just outside the entrance. Over the booth he posted a sign with large lettering. It read, simply: “Courbet – Realist.” Like every revolutionary, he was an extremist. He ignored the fact that to every artist the truth of nature appears under a different guise according to his way of seeing and experiencing. Instead, he adhered to the notion that art is only a copying of nature and not a matter also of selection and arrangement. In his contempt for prettiness Courbet often chose subjects which may fairly be called ugly. But that he also had a sense of beauty may be seen in his landscapes. That sense, mingled with his capacity for deep emotion, appears in his marines – these last being his most impressive work. Moreover, in all his works, whether attractive or not to the observer, he proved himself a powerful painter, painting in a broad, free manner, with a fine feeling for colour, and with a firmness of pigment that made all his representations very real and stirring.

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  The Sound of Healing

  Sharry Edwards

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  A remarkable discussion with a woman who hears "signature sounds" emitted from other people's bodies--it's "the sound missing from their voice," she says. These sounds, when sung back to them, seem to have miraculous, documented healing powers in a multitude of "hopeless" medical situations.

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  Baby Snooks: Why Daddy?

  Phil Rapp

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  Fanny Brice described Snooks as "my kind of youngster, the type I like. She has imagination. She's eager. She's alive. With all her deviltry, she still is a good kid, never vicious nor mean." Perhaps, but Daddy and Robespierre may beg to differ. Neither Daddy's time, pet projects, nor peace of mind are safe from Snooks' reliably relentless intrusions. As for how she treats her younger siblings and what she thinks of them…well, the fact that she tries to trade them for cats pretty much says it all! And, corporal punishment doesn't seem to have much effect on this cheeky child. These 28 elfish vignettes are digitally restored and remastered, starring Fanny Brice and Hanley Stafford as Baby Snooks and Daddy.  EPISODES INCLUDE: Flower Gardens 02-06-41, Taxes Again 02-13-41, Photographer 03-20-41, Buying Shoes 03-27-41, House Guest 01-15-42, Hiccups 01-22-42, Report Cards 01-29-42, Tent in the Living Room 02-12-42, Stealing Chickens 02-26-42, Fake Measles 03-19-42, The Red Cross Examiner 03-26-42, Easter Suit 04-02-42, Daddy's Birthday 04-09-42, Sore Back Poultice 04-16-42, A Fifty Dollar Raise 04-23-42, Quizzing Snooks 04-30-42, New Fishing Rod 05-07-42, 10th Wedding Anniversary 06-04-42, Birth of Twins 06-11-42, The Trade 06-18-42, Baby Buggy 07-02-42, The Camp Report 09-03-42, Baby Snooks Goes to a Movie 09-24-42, Gozinta 10-01-42, Christening a Ship 10-08-42, Getting Gas 12-03-42, School Play Cinderella 12-18-42, The Stolen Medal 01-14-43.

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