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  A Walk in the Woods

  Lee Blessing

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  An idealistic American diplomat locks horns with a mercurial Soviet negotatior during a series of conversations in the woods outside Geneva. As their mutual friendship and understanding deepens, an awareness that their work may ulimately be pointless casts a shadow over their hopes to achieve a lasting peace.Includes a post-play discussion with playwright Lee Blessing and UCLA Political Science professor Richard Anderson.Lead funding for A Walk in the Woods is generously provided by The John Logan Foundation.Recorded before an audience at UCLA's James Bridges Theater in January 2019.Directed by Cameron WatsonProducing Director Susan Albert LoewenbergAlfred Molina as Andrey BotvinnikSteven Weber as John HoneymanAssociate Artistic Director, Anna Lyse Erikson. Recording Engineer, Sound Designer and Mixer, Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Senior Radio Producer, Ronn Lipkin. Production Manager, Rick V. Moreno. Editor, Julian Nicholson.

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  Abbott and Costello: Mexican...

  Bud Abbott, Lou Costello

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  Abbott and Costello talk about their movie Mexican Hayride. They say Saint Patricks day has been gone for a week. Talk about Uncle Mike and Aunt May.

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  Images from the Underworld - Naj...

  Andrea J. Stone

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  An in-depth look at Maya cave painting from Preconquest times to the Colonial period, plus a complete visual catalog of the cave art of Naj Tunich.In 1979, a Kekchi Maya Indian accidentally discovered the entrance to Naj Tunich, a deep cave in the Maya Mountains of El Peten, Guatemala. One of the world’s few deep caves that contain rock art, Naj Tunich features figural images and hieroglyphic inscriptions that have helped to revolutionize our understanding of ancient Maya art and ritual.In this book, Andrea Stone takes a comprehensive look at Maya cave painting from Preconquest times to the Colonial period. After surveying Mesoamerican cave and rock painting sites and discussing all twenty-five known painted caves in the Maya area, she focuses extensively on Naj Tunich. Her text analyzes the images and inscriptions, while photographs and line drawings provide a complete visual catalog of the cave art, some of which has been subsequently destroyed by vandals.This important new body of images and texts enlarges our understanding of the Maya view of sacred landscape and the role of caves in ritual. It will be important reading for all students of the Maya, as well as for others interested in cave art and in human relationships with the natural environment.“Not only an extraordinarily detailed and insightful analysis of the painted representations and texts found in Naj Tunich but also a complete survey of all known Maya painted caves. . . . A major monograph on a major Maya site. For completeness of presentation, for clarity of writing, and for depth and scope of analysis, [Images from the Underworld] is a model of what a final report should be.” —Journal of Anthropological Research

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  Lady Windermere's Fan (Version 2)

  Oscar Wilde

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  Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first produced 22 February 1892 at the St James's Theatre in London. The play was first published in 1893. Like many of Wilde's comedies, it bitingly satirizes the morals of Victorian society, particularly marriage.The story concerns Lady Windermere, who discovers that her husband may be having an affair with another woman. She confronts her husband but he instead invites the other woman, Mrs Erlynne, to his wife's birthday ball. Angered by her husband's unfaithfulness, Lady Windermere leaves her husband for another lover.   Or does she?  Is it really possible to trust delicious gossip?  Are all men really bad?  These and many other questions are raised and if not answered, then held up for public scrutiny in this biting satire of morals and proper behavior.    The best known line of the play sums up the central theme:We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.-Lord Darlington    (from Wikipedia and the reader)

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  All I Ever Wanted - A Rock 'n'...

  Kathy Valentine

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  “Recounts in vivid detail the gloriously debauched path of the Go-Gos through early rock success . . . and the darkness that such freedom can breed.” —Los Angeles Times  Runner-up, Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Non-Fiction   At twenty-one, Kathy Valentine was at the Whisky in Los Angeles when she met a guitarist from a fledgling band called the Go-Go’s and the band needed a bassist. The Go-Go’s became the first multi-platinum-selling, all-female band to play instruments themselves, write their own songs, and have a number one album. Their debut, Beauty and the Beat, spent six weeks at the top of the Billboard 200 and featured the hit songs “We Got the Beat” and “Our Lips Are Sealed.” The record’s success brought the pressures of a relentless workload and schedule culminating in a wild, hazy, substance-fueled tour that took the band from the club circuit to arenas, where fans, promoters, and crew were more than ready to keep the party going.  All I Ever Wanted traces the path that took Valentine from her childhood in Texas—where she all but raised herself—to the height of rock n’ roll stardom, devastation after the collapse of the band that had come to define her, and the quest to regain her sense of self after its end. Valentine also speaks candidly about the lasting effects of parental betrayal, abortion, rape, and her struggles with drugs and alcohol—and the music that saved her every step of the way.  “An epic tour of honest storytelling. All I Ever Wanted is a raw look at the highs and lows of being high and low. Long live the Go-Gos!” —Amy Poehler

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  Greatest Radio Shows Volume 10 -...

  Various Various

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  OASIS AUDIO CLASSIC RADIO SHOWCASE SERIES   Oasis Audio has gone into the vaults and dusted off the very earliest form of audio book, old time radio shows, for our listeners. Introduced episode by episode by Jim Engel, old time radio authority and board member of the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, this series of classic radio shows is sure to have something for everyone. Celebrity casts and top-notch writers made the 1920s through the early 1950s, the golden era of radio. The series features seven exciting themes with 100 episodes in each. That is 700 classic radio programs in all.   Greatest Radio Shows   New to Old-time Radio? Join Oasis Audio for 100 radio shows from across all genres. Thrill to detective stories and mysteries, Dig your spurs in for some dusty trail western adventures, laugh until you cry with the kings and queens of radio comedy, sit on the edge of your seat for the greatest radio dramas. Be filled with nostalgia as you enjoy this unique collection of 100 of the all-time best radio shows. Volume 10 Suspense 1950_11_16 On A Country RoadTales of the Texas Rangers 1951_05_13 Paid in FullThis Is Your FBI 1948_08_20 The Wrong Way ShakedownUnder Arrest 1948_08_The Spook of Sherwood MansionVic and Sade 1945_11_29 Uncle Fletchers Phone CallsThe Weird Circle 1944_12_24 The DollThe Whistler 1944_09_Practically FoolproofWhitehall 1212 1952_05_11 The Case of Margery TateX Minus One 1955_05_15 UniverseYou Bet Your Life 1957_04_13 Secret Word is Face Bonus Yours Truly Johnny Dollar 1956_07_20 The Star of Capetown Matter

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