628 research outputs found
Gustav Raaum, Billy Kidd, and Montana Governor Tom Judge at Big Sky Mountain Resort, Big Sky, Montana 1972.
No full textPhoto of Gustav Raaum, Billy Kidd, and Montana Governor Tom Judge at Big Sky Mountain Resort, Big Sky, Montana 197
Jere Nash Interview with Billy Powell
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with former Mississippi Republican Party chair Billy Powell in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Topics covered include Powell\u27s background; Billy Mounger; Mississippi Republican Party; involvement in a bond issue campaign for Rankin County in the early 1970s; working on Larry Swells for Rankin County supervisor; working on Kirk Fordice gubernatorial campaign and Phil Bryant\u27s state legislature campaign; organizing a county Republican precinct; the kitchen cabinet that meets regularly with Governor Fordice; Evelyn Gandy; Haley Barbour; Powell\u27s election as chair of the state Republican Party; getting politicians to switch to the Republican Party; battle over state party leadership; Eddie Briggs; Roger Wicker\u27s first congressional race; Chip Pickering\u27s first congressional race; Mike Parker switching parties; Ronnie Musgrove; various Republican candidates for state offices in the 1990s; and Amy Tuck and others switching parties
U.S. Ski Team, 1969-1970. Far left: Don Henderson; 3rd from left: Rick Chaffee; 6th from left: Billy Kidd; 8th from left: Hank Kashua; 9th from left: Jim (Moose) Barrows; far right: Bob Beattie
No full textPhoto of the 1969-1970 U.S. Ski Team. Far left: Don Henderson; 3rd from left: Rick Chaffee; 6th from left: Billy Kidd; 8th from left: Hank Kashua; 9th from left: Jim (Moose) Barrows; far right: Bob Beatti
Billy Gartin with Johnny of Philip Morris
No full textInscribed: To my friend, Billy Gartin, from Johnnyhttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/gartin_photo/1071/thumbnail.jp
Billy Collins
No full textBilly Collins visited The College at Brockport in March 2000. He is a critically-acclaimed poet and professor.Archived web contentSUNY BrockportWriters Forum Author Photo
A Riff on Billy the Kid
No full textIn this essay the author discusses Billy Joel’s recording of Billy the Kid and that song\u27s history
My Elvis Blackout and Neverland: Truth, Fiction and Celebrity in the Postmodernist Heterobiographical Composite Novel
No full textA PhD by publication comprising two of my books, My Elvis Blackout and Neverland, accompanied by a reflective and critical exegesis, which examines notions of truth, fiction and celebrity in the composite novel through a broadly analytical and practice-based methodology. The exegesis begins by exploring the links between the methodology of the fine artist and the new creative writer. It then demonstrates that My Elvis Blackout and Neverland represent an original contribution to knowledge in the way that they explore and develop literary form (the ‘composite’ novel), and, in their exploration of celebrity, myth-making and fictional hagiography, and that the two books function as performative critiques which probe the boundaries between fiction and the fabricated reality of celebrity culture. My exegesis analyses Linda Boldrini’s term ‘heterobiography’ (2012) with particular reference to Michael Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy The Kid (1981), which as a bricolage relies upon the reader’s pre-conceived recognition of the historicity of its protagonist and continually tests the boundaries between fact and fiction. In this section of the exegesis, I propose that what sets My Elvis Blackout and Neverland apart from Billy The Kid is that whilst Ondaatje’s book certainly does exploit the confusions between fact, fiction, autobiography and history, it remains firmly set within the timeframe that its historical protagonist inhabits. My Elvis Blackout and Neverland remain grounded within their readers’ expectations of American settings contemporary to their nominative protagonists, but both books also feature dilations in both historical and geographical setting. Through analysis I have come to perceive ‘the celebrity persona’ as an identikit image assembled by thousands of witnesses. A photo fit photomontage tiered with impressions of subjective provenance, each layered transparency filtered through the fears and desires of fans and critics. Whereas other historiographic metafictions use historical figures as singular characters, My Elvis Blackout and Neverland can be seen to be utilising an ‘identikit’ concept to present their respective protagonists as manyheaded Hydras, or multiple probability ‘versions’ from parallel universes. By a conflation of terms, Hutcheon’s ‘historiographic metafiction’ (1988) and Boldrini’s ‘heterobiography’ (2012), My Elvis Blackout and Neverland are in fact historiobiographic metafictions. The exegesis concludes by establishing my own works’ live impact on the overarching celebrity metanarratives, and their inevitable organic status
A self-conscious Kurt Vonnegut: an analysis of Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions
No full textThe works of Kurt Vonnegut stand as seminal in the American literary canon. Looking at three of his most influential novels, namely Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions, this study aims to better understand the mechanisms which inform his fiction. Working chronologically through the novels, the study examines historical context, narrative technique, theoretical underpinnings and the social critique of each novel. Guided by an idea of the postmodern novel the study examines how these elements interact, concluding that by way of what may be considered "simple" yet self-conscious metafiction and prose as well as variations in narrative technique, Vonnegut is able to more accurately convey his opinions on the American situation as well as demonstrate his stance on the role of fiction and the writer in contemporary society. The study also considers closely the role of the reader and the author/reader/text relationship
Birmingham News sleeve BN0040694
No full textScribblers pictures/ 3308 East Briarcliff Road / Birmingham Ballet / Birmingham Ballet Guild / John Kidd / Susan [Kidd] / Billy McDonald / Nancy [McDonald] / New member / Chuck Steiner / [Carol] Steiner / [Work order included
1964 Olympic Team
No full textPhoto of members of the U.S. Olympic Ski Team in Innsbruck. Top Row: Bob Beattle, Ni Orsi Jr., Chuck Ferris, Gordon Eaton, Bud Werner, Rip McMannas, Bill Marolt, Fred Casotti. Bottom Row: Jim Huega, Barbara Ferries, Margo Walters McDonald, Jean Saubert, Joan Hannah, Starr Walton, Billy Kidd. Medals: Jim Huega-Bronze in Slalom, Billy Kidd-Silver in Slalom (first American alpine to win an Olympic medal), Jean Saubert-Silver in Giant Slalom and Bronze in Slalom
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