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200 | """...And Ladies of the Club""" | way of relieving the pressure of his past war memories and current responsibilities. Anne eventually finds out, and suspects that John has even fathered a child with his cousin Jessamine Stevens in New Orleans. Although deeply hurt by John's behavior, Anne, remembering her father's advice, chooses to overlook it and even welcomes Jessamine and her son when they later move to Waynesboro. Meanwhile, Ludwig becomes a successful industrialist and Sally a prominent local hostess, later taking over the presidency of the Club. Ludwig hires Eliza Ballard as his secretary after she is forced to leave her previous position in her |
201 | """...And Ladies of the Club""" | late father's former law firm due to gossiping about partner Doug Gardiner's romance with an Irish Catholic girl whom he later marries. Despite Eliza's gossip and sharp tongue occasionally causing trouble in the town, she shows a softer side by caring for Ariana McCune, a terminally ill young girl who ran away from her oppressively religious parents. Miss Pinney's laudanum addiction eventually becomes public knowledge after she appears increasingly disheveled and unable to control her primary school class. At the instigation of Louisa Deming, Miss Pinney is forced to retire on a small pension and her laudanum supply is cut |
202 | """...And Ladies of the Club""" | off. Embarrassed and suffering severe withdrawal, she dies of a heart attack while trying to burn herself to death. Elsa secretly loves her childhood friend Johnny, but Johnny falls in love with the Demings' daughter Julia, who like her mother is beautiful but cold. Julia is more affectionate towards Johnny's younger sister Binny, who is dazzled by Julia's beauty. Binny gathers violets on a cold damp morning to make Julia a May basket, and is rewarded by a kiss from Julia, but the dampness brings on an attack of rheumatic fever and Binny dies. Johnny and Julia marry and have |
203 | """...And Ladies of the Club""" | a son, Tucker, while Elsa marries Gib Evans and has a daughter, Jennifer, who becomes Tucker's close friend. Shortly after the turn of the century, Anne is widowed when John has an accident rushing to help a patient in bad weather, and subsequently dies of pneumonia. Julia's frigidity causes Johnny to have an affair with his Irish Catholic nurse, Norah O'Neill. Through Johnny, Norah's younger sister Ellen meets Ludwig and Sally's youngest son Paul. Ellen and Paul have a secret romance and Ellen becomes pregnant, resulting in Paul quietly marrying her with Ludwig's consent since he is underage. Although Paul |
204 | """...And Ladies of the Club""" | and Ellen are happy, Sally disapproves of the marriage, cuts ties with her son and, in response to a barbed remark by Julia's mother Louisa, informs her about Johnny's affair with Norah. As a result, Julia divorces Johnny, moves to California with Tucker, and later marries a wealthy older man who is past the age of having sex. Johnny, suffering from heart disease and the strain of the divorce, soon dies. Anne and the other members of the Club are unaware that Sally was the one who revealed Johnny's affair to Louisa, and instead think Eliza spread the story. Sally |
205 | """...And Ladies of the Club""" | eventually is reconciled with Paul after he and his family survive a devastating flood. Ludwig dies and his daughter Elsa takes over as president of the family-owned bank; she also succeeds her mother as president of the Club. Elsa's son Ludwig takes control of his grandfather's company after returning from his service in the Great War, where he was gassed. Tucker, separated from Jennifer by his parents' divorce, meets her again as an adult when they are both serving in France in the war, he as a medical corpsman and she as a nurse. After the war, they marry, and |
206 | """...And Ladies of the Club""" | Tucker becomes a doctor and returns to take up his practice in Waynesboro. By the 1930s, Sally is suffering from arteriosclerosis and asks Elsa to bring Anne so that she can confess to Anne that she was the one who revealed Johnny's affair. Elsa talks her out of doing so, noting that Anne is happy with the company of Tucker, Jennifer and their children. As a result, Sally has a farewell visit with Anne but does not mention the situation involving Johnny. Sally dies soon afterwards. In 1932, right after Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected President, Anne, the last surviving |
207 | """...And Ladies of the Club""" | "founding member of the Club, dies and the Club commemorates the end of an era. Due to the length of the book and its large number of characters, this list is selective. † denotes a minor character. From 1922–1930, Santmyer wrote three novels. The first two were published to little notice and the third was unpublished. She disliked Sinclair Lewis's negative portrayal of small town America in his novel, ""Main Street"", and conceived of ""Ladies"" as an antidote. However, since she worked full-time, she was unable to write very much before her retirement in 1959. A collection of her nostalgic" |
208 | """...And Ladies of the Club""" | "reminiscences of Xenia, Ohio was published as ""Ohio Town"" by Ohio State University Press in 1962. The director of the Press, Weldon Kefauver, encouraged her to write more. In 1976 she submitted eleven boxes containing bookkeeping ledgers, her manuscript of ""Ladies"" in longhand. Kefauver accepted the novel, but wanted it trimmed. By then, Santmyer was spending much of her time in a nursing home and she dictated changes to her friend Mildred Sandoe. The Press published the novel, printed 1500 copies and sold a few hundred, priced at $35, mostly to libraries. In 1983, Santmyer was forced for health reasons" |
209 | """...And Ladies of the Club""" | "to move permanently into a nursing home. ""Ladies"" was awarded the 1983 Ohioana Book Award in the category of fiction, but otherwise gained little attention at the time. One local library patron, in returning the book, told the librarian that it was the greatest novel she had ever read. Another patron, Grace Sindell, overheard this and checked the book out herself. After reading it, she agreed with the assessment and called her son Gerald in Hollywood. He was at first reluctant to look at the book, believing that anything that was that good would already be taken. Unable to find" |
210 | """...And Ladies of the Club""" | "a copy in California, he ordered one directly from the publisher and agreed that it had great potential. He convinced his Hollywood friend Stanley Corwin of the same and the two purchased movie, TV and republication rights. They then convinced Putnam to republish the book. Before republication, the Book-of-the-Month club chose ""Ladies"" as their main selection. Suddenly, Santmyer and her novel were a media sensation, including front-page coverage in the ""New York Times"". The paperback edition, published by Berkley in 1985, sold more than 2 million copies between June and September, making it the best-selling paperback in history at the" |
211 | """900"", Cahiers d'Italie et d'Europe" | """900"", Cahiers d'Italie et d'Europe was an Italian magazine published for the first time in November 1926, directed by Massimo Bontempelli with Curzio Malaparte as co-director. Beginning as an internationalist publication, after some numbers it dramatically changed its editorial line, rallying to the nationalist, strapaesani line of the magazine ""Il Selvaggio"". The magazine was named ""900"" as it was conceived as part of the Novecento Italiano artistic movement. On its launch in 1926, it was received by ""a storm of discussion, almost all hostile"" by the strapaesano and fascist environment, but it had very important editors like Ramón Gómez de" |
212 | """900"", Cahiers d'Italie et d'Europe" | "la Serna, James Joyce, Georg Kaiser, and Pierre Mac Orlan. The magazine was founded by Massimo Bontempelli and was based in Rome. Editorial officers were Corrado Alvaro, in Rome, and the Nino Frank from Paris. The first ""four preambles"", ""Giustification"", ""Basis"", ""Advices"", ""Analogies"" were published in French in the journals of autumn 1926, March and June 1927. (They were translated into Italian in 1938 by Bontempelli himself.) They set out the main principles of Novecentism, but later editions abandoned internationalism, were written exclusively in Italian, and switched to a patriotic, nationalist approach in line with Fascist policy. In three years" |
213 | """A"" Device" | "The ""A"" Device is a miniature bronze inch letter ""A"" which comes with and without serifs, that is authorized for wear by the United States Armed Forces as a medal and ribbon device for two military awards. It is added to overseas service ribbons to indicate the theatre of action. The Arctic ""A"" Device (with serifs), if authorized, may be attached to the center of the Air Force Overseas Ribbon - Short Tour, for service beginning February 10, 2002. If an oak leaf cluster is also authorized for wear on the ribbon, the ""A"" device is worn to the wearer's" |
214 | """A"" Device" | "right of any oak leaf clusters on the ribbon. The Atlantic ""A"" Device (without serifs), if authorized, may be attached to the center of the suspension and service ribbon of the American Defense Service Medal for service from June 22 to December 7, 1941. The ""A"" device is worn in lieu of any authorized inch bronze star that is worn on the medal and service ribbon. The ""A"" Device is only authorized for the currently in use Air Force Overseas Ribbon - Short Tour, and the American Defense Service Medal which is no longer in use. The two representations of" |
215 | """A"" Device" | "the ""A"" device are different. The Arctic Device has serifs while the Atlantic Device (""Axis Device"") does not have ""feet"" (sans-serif). The American Defense Service Medal was the first military award to use the ""A"" device which was named the ""Atlantic Device"" (sometimes was referred to as the ""Axis Device""). The ""A"" device was authorized for wear (in lieu of a inch bronze star that was worn in lieu of a service clasp on the award) on the medal and service ribbon by any member of the United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, or United States Coast Guard who" |
216 | """A"" Device" | "served on certain vessels in the Atlantic Ocean between June 22 and December 7, 1941 which engaged in armed conflict, or potential armed conflict, with Axis forces in the Atlantic (naval forces of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine). Such personnel were awarded the American Defense Service Medal with the ""Atlantic Device"" (Atlantic Fleet service), the intent being to recognize those who had participated in the ""undeclared war"" when the U.S. was assisting Britain with war convoys and German U-boat interdiction. The ""A"" device became obsolete after the Second World War and did not appear again until the year 2002 (authorized on February" |
217 | """A"" Device" | "10, 2002). At that time, the United States Air Force declared that the ""A"" device, now known as the ""Arctic Device"", would be authorized for wear for those who had received the Air Force Overseas Ribbon - Short Tour, for tours of duty north of the Arctic Circle. As of February 8, 2007, only those airmen (Air Force active, Reserve, or Guard) who were assigned to Thule Air Base (north-east Greenland) qualify for the ""A"" (Arctic) device. Although portions of Alaska are within the Arctic Circle, there are no American military bases within that region. The ""A"" is worn on" |
218 | """A"" Is for Alibi" | """A"" Is for Alibi is crime writer Sue Grafton's debut mystery novel in the Kinsey Millhone ""Alphabet mystery"" series, first published in 1982. The novel is set in the fictional southern California city of Santa Teresa, based on Santa Barbara. The choice of murder by substituting the contents of an antihistamine tablet with crushed oleander meant that an alibi held no value because the contents of the tablet could have been switched a considerable time earlier than the victim actually swallowed the tablet. Grafton says that she conceived aspects of the plot on her own ""fantasies"" of murdering her then-husband" |
219 | """A"" Is for Alibi" | while going through a divorce. Kinsey Millhone, 32, private detective investigates the death of prominent divorce lawyer Laurence Fife. His murder eight years earlier was blamed on his wife, Nikki Fife. Upon being released from prison, Nikki Fife hires Kinsey to find the real murderer. In the course of the investigation Kinsey becomes involved with Charlie Scorsoni, the late Mr. Fife's former law partner. She discovers Fife's death has been linked to that of a woman in Los Angeles, his law firm's accountant; both died after taking poisonous oleander capsules which had been substituted for allergy pills. Kinsey tracks down |
220 | """A"" Is for Alibi" | the accountant's parents and former boyfriend. She then goes to Las Vegas to interview Fife's former secretary, Sharon Napier, who is killed minutes before Kinsey arrives. Back in California, Kinsey is mystified that Nikki's son, Colin, recognizes Laurence's first wife, Gwen, in a photograph. Kinsey surmises that Gwen was having an affair with her ex-husband at the time of his death. She accuses Gwen, who confesses. Shortly afterwards, she too is dead, killed in a hit-and-run crash. Kinsey has solved the case she was hired to investigate, but in a plot twist, she discovers that her previous notions about the |
221 | """A"" Is for Alibi" | accountant's death were entirely wrong: in fact, it was Scorsoni who killed her when she discovered he was skimming dividend money from estate accounts under his management. Scorsoni used the same method that Gwen used to kill Fife, so it would be assumed the same person committed both murders. In a final confrontation, he chases Kinsey across the beach, armed with a knife. Kinsey hides in the shore line, and has to remove her shoes, and take off her pants. Before he can kill her, she shoots him dead. A secondary storyline involves Millhone’s surveillance of Marcia Threadgill, suspected of |
222 | """A"" Is for Alibi" | insurance fraud in a trip-and-fall case. Although Millhone believes she has successfully documented Threadgill’s deception, the insurance firm which contracted Millhone to investigate Threadgill moves to pay her claim anyway, citing potential legal costs and complications, including the risk of reprisal. The choice of murder by substituting the contents of an antihistamine tablet with crushed oleander meant that an alibi held no value because the contents of the tablet could have been switched a considerable time earlier than when the victim actually swallowed the tablet. The book is dedicated to Chip Grafton, the author’s father, “who set me on this |
223 | """A"" Is for Alibi" | "path”. The elder Grafton was a municipal bond attorney in Kentucky who pursued a secondary career as a crime novelist, winning minor acclaim for four novels. Chip Grafton died on January 1, 1982 at the age of 72, four months before ""’A’ is for Alibi"" was published. ""Kirkus Reviews"" said this was a ""shakily plotted but otherwise terrific start for a new detective series"", writing when the book was released. They look forward to the rest of the Alphabet Series, ""fine dialogue, a great eye for people and places"", if the author can tighten up her plots. Looking back at" |
224 | """A"" Is for Alibi" | "the series soon after the author's death, ""Library Journal Reviews"" remarked on the slow build up to successful reviews, including a quote from its own review: ""Critic Sarah Weinman notes that pseudonymous New York Times critic Newgate Callendar dismissed ""A Is for Alibi"" as “competent enough, but not particularly original.” Alas, LJ‘s reviewer was equally unenthusiastic in an April 1, 1982, review, waving the book aside as “nothing to take it out of the ordinary.”"" Before those less enthusiastic words, they had said, ""The female detective is well drawn and the plot moves at a fast clip"". Grafton relates that" |
225 | """All God's Children"" Campaign" | "The ""All God’s Children"" Campaign is an effort by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) to challenge religious opposition to the legalization of same-sex marriage and promote LGBT acceptance in the Southern United States. According to the HRC, the program was designed to ""change hearts and minds, improve the public perception and overall awareness of LGBT people, begin to reduce the painful stigma that many face in their daily lives, and help future efforts to enact pro-equality legislation."" The program specifically targeted Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas – all states that had no form of housing, employment, or marriage protections for LGBT" |
226 | """All God's Children"" Campaign" | "citizens. The United States south of the Mason-Dixon line was notoriously ""culturally conservative"" until approximately the early 2000s. In 2004, many southern states were passing laws banning same-sex marriage. However, southern support as a whole rose an entire 26 percentage points from 2003 to 2013, leaving the south currently split about evenly on the issue of same-sex marriage. Scholars suggest that some of the factors leading to this cultural change include generational differences, the “friends and family effect,” and a new appreciation for the separation of church and state. Approximately 64% of Southerners can say that they know someone who" |
227 | """All God's Children"" Campaign" | "is gay or lesbian, a factor that is considered crucial for support of legislation such as same-sex marriage. Even so, with a score of 55, the south holds the lowest regional social climate index score for the LGBT community in the United States. Same-sex couples with kids have a household income that averages about $11,000 lower than heterosexual couples Southern queer males hold higher HIV infection rates than those in other parts of the country; additionally, only ¾ of southern queer people are covered by health insurance. ""Discomfort"" with exposure to LGBT lifestyles, such as attending a same-sex wedding or" |
228 | """All God's Children"" Campaign" | "seeing pictures of a coworker with a same-sex partner, polls about 5-10 percentage points higher in the South than in northern states. Additionally, states like Mississippi are still deeply rooted in religion, with more than half of its residents being members of the southern Baptist church. Because of this, the Human Rights Campaign refers to Mississippi, their target audience for the early stages of the All God's Children campaign, as being ""the most religious state in America."" Mississippi also contributed to its anti-LGBT image with the passage of a ""license to discriminate"" bill in April, 2014. The ""All God's Children""" |
229 | """All God's Children"" Campaign" | "project included phone banking, TV commercials, banner ads, and ""direct-mail"" messages. The ad campaign featured testimonies from Christian parents of LGBT children, gay army veterans, and transgender students to appeal towards the religious community. The Mississippi campaign itself was expected to cost approximately $310,000, out of a total of $8.5 million including Alabama and Arkansas over the course of three years. The first television commercials aired in November 2014 in Mississippi, two days before a federal court hearing on a state law banning same-sex marriage. The American Family Association of Mississippi, however, issued a retaliatory statement in November [2014] arguing" |
230 | """And"" theory of conservatism" | "The ""And"" theory of conservatism is a political neologism that was coined in the 2000s conservatism for the notion of holistic policy, bringing together traditional conservativism with some aspects of liberalism (right-libertarianism) and combining policies like low taxation with traditionally liberal solutions to issues such as poverty and global warming. Examples of the politics of ""And"" include: The term originated in the United Kingdom and was first noted during Iain Duncan Smith's leadership of the Conservative Party from 2001 to 2003. It has been subsequently popularised by former Conservative Party aide Tim Montgomerie, the former editor of ConservativeHome, who has" |
231 | """And"" theory of conservatism" | "written on its usage. It has also been used in the United States where it has been picked up by publications such as ""The Weekly Standard"" that considered its implications for the Republican Party. The term has been defined in the United States by ""The Okklahoma Gazette"" as follows: The idea is that a center-right party needs not abandon its core issues - crime, taxes, family. Rather, the wise course is to hold fast on those issues and speak to concerns normally ceded to the left. The ""And"" theory has been embraced by several leading conservative politicians in the United" |
232 | """And"" theory of conservatism" | "Kingdom, including the former Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister David Cameron (although the term the ""And"" theory tends not to be expressly mentioned due to its clunky and potentially confusing name). When challenging for the leadership of the party, Cameron said: When we talk about foreign affairs, we don't just stand up for Gibraltar and Zimbabwe but for the people of Darfur and sub-Saharan Africa who are living on less than a dollar a day and getting poorer while we're getting richer. Cameron therefore encouraged Conservatives to be concerned with the former British Empire territory of Zimbabwe and the" |
233 | """And"" theory of conservatism" | "situation in Darfur. Former Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith has continued to promote ""And"" politics, most notably in his 2005 pamphlet ""Good for Me, Good for My Neighbour"", written with Danny Kruger: I have never believed that modernisation requires the jettisoning of Conservative Euroscepticism, or of our belief in low taxation, or of our tough approach to crime. These principles remain enduringly popular with the public. My proposal for the modernisation of the Party is not to subtract from these core principles – but to add to them. Duncan Smith has encouraged the party to embrace a social justice" |
234 | """Awaken, My Love!""" | """Awaken, My Love!"" is the third studio album by American rapper Donald Glover, under his stage name Childish Gambino. It was released by Glassnote Records on December 2, 2016. Consisting of tracks being sung rather than rapped, its fusion of psychedelic soul, funk and R&B influences was considered a bold departure from the predominantly hip hop style of his prior work. The album was produced by Glover and his longtime collaborator, Ludwig Göransson. """"Awaken, My Love!"""" received generally positive reviews from critics and debuted at number five on the US ""Billboard"" 200. It also debuted at number two on the" |
235 | """Awaken, My Love!""" | "US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. The album was supported by three singles, ""Me and Your Mama"", ""Redbone"" and ""Terrified"". It received Grammy Award nominations for Album of the Year and Best Urban Contemporary Album at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards. The single ""Redbone"" also earned nominations for Record of the Year, Best R&B Song, and won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance. On June 17, 2016, after a hiatus from social media, Glover tweeted ""pharos.earth"", a link to download his new app. The app itself placed the user in outer space looking at a small blue planet while" |
236 | """Awaken, My Love!""" | "a clock counted down to zero. The app then had the user crash down into space, placing them on a map that was located on Joshua Tree, California. The app then showed the dates of his upcoming performances in Joshua Tree, where the user could also purchase tickets. The concert festival was to debut the album and give the audience the ""full-album experience"". From September 3 to 5, nearly three months before the release of his album, Glover held three concert performances at Joshua Tree to debut the album. Glover wore glow-in-the-dark paint on his braids and a pink and" |
237 | """Awaken, My Love!""" | "yellow skirt, with his bandmates wearing similar attire. He performed eleven songs during the concert with minimal rapping, mainly featuring a funk / jazz vibe. Upon its release, Glover updated his Pharos app so users could watch the performance of his first lead single, ""Me and Your Mama"" at Joshua Tree through a virtual reality lens on the phone. The cover of """"Awaken, My Love!"""" features a photo by New York City-based creative director Ibra Ake, in which model Giannina Oteto wears a beaded headdress designed by Laura Wass of WXYZ Jewelry. Prior to the album's release, the cover artwork" |
238 | """Awaken, My Love!""" | "was included as an easter egg in the episode ""Juneteenth"" of Glover's FX series ""Atlanta"". ""Me and Your Mama"" was released as the album's lead single on Beats 1 radio and the iTunes Store on November 10, 2016, while ""Redbone"" was released a week later, premiering on Annie Mac's Hottest Record on BBC Radio 1. On September 19, 2017, ""Terrified"" was sent to urban contemporary radio as the album's third single. """"Awaken, My Love!"""" received generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album has received an" |
239 | """Awaken, My Love!""" | "average score of 77, based on 25 reviews. Mosi Reeves of ""Rolling Stone"" wrote that """"""Awaken, My Love!"""" is an enthralling trip into the land of funk,"" while Dan Bogosian from ""The A.V. Club"" wrote ""Is Childish Gambino suddenly the new Prince, a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist always ready to keep the world an arm’s length away from knowing what he's thinking? Is he D'Angelo, a soul god fighting against his first image with all-time great music? No. He is Donald Glover, a man who can perform and write comedy, act in drama, and drop a truly wonderful album on short notice" |
240 | """Awaken, My Love!""" | "with all the influences and instructions spelled out."" Perry Kostidakis of the ""FSView & Florida Flambeau"" wrote that ""with each successive album, Childish Gambino has exhibited phenomenal growth, but no more than on his latest release. Unflinchingly ambitious and boldly different, """"Awaken, My Love"""" calls back the sounds and themes of the 1970s funkadelic movement to provide a wholly original, emotional and immersive musical experience,"" with ""The Guardian""s Gwilym Mumford adding ""only the limitations of his voice occasionally let him down – he doesn't quite have the range to nail ""Awaken""s more ostentatious vocal lines. Still, it's a minor gripe" |
241 | """Awaken, My Love!""" | "when there's so much here to enjoy."" Jon Pareles of ""The New York Times"" said, ""It's at once a homage and a parody, equally aware of that era's excesses and its glories, of the way that the most memorable 1970s R&B merged sensuality, activism, humor, toughness, outlandishness, futurism, soul roots, wild eccentricity and utopian community spirit. That's an extremely high bar, but at its best, """"Awaken, My Love!"""" recalls many of those virtues."" Tim Sendra of AllMusic said, """"""Awaken, My Love!"""" is a stone-cold blast from beginning to end."" Matthew Strauss of ""Pitchfork"" said, ""There are times, however, when that" |
242 | """Awaken, My Love!""" | "nodding feels more like mimicry than anything else. Maybe he'll figure out how to smuggle Donald Glover's heart into Childish Gambino's brain eventually, but if he hasn't figured out what he wants out of Childish Gambino yet, it's increasingly rewarding watching him try."" Scott Glaysher of ""XXL"" said, ""Childish Gambino gets definite props for pushing the envelope and refusing to operate within any genre confinements on this refreshing 49-minute trip through the funkadelic 1970s. While these blurred lines make this album a little hard to follow, """"Awaken, My Love!"""" proves his versatility as a rapper turning over a new leaf.""" |
243 | """Awaken, My Love!""" | "Kitty Empire of ""The Observer"" said, ""Throughout, Glover's genre fluency is unimpeachable; the only minor drawback is the overmannered air of some of these period pieces, where there could be more straight-up abandon, as on the persuasive ""Me and Your Mama""."" Robert Christgau regarded the album as ""a seriously overrated piece of romantic P-Funk retro that owes its Grammy nomination to ""Atlanta"". """"Awaken, My Love!"""" debuted at number five on the US ""Billboard"" 200 with 101,000 album-equivalent units, marking the third highest debut of the week. It was the fourth best-selling album of the week, selling 72,000 copies according to" |
244 | """Awaken, My Love!""" | "Nielsen SoundScan. The album was also streamed 41.5 million times in the first week. It is Glover's highest-charting album. As of December 28, 2016, the album has sold 151,000 total album equivalents, with 100,000 in physical album sales. On September 27, 2018, the album was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales, streaming and track-sales equivalent of a million units. All lyrics written by Donald Glover, except ""Zombies"" by Glover and Ludwig Göransson; all music composed and produced by Glover and Göransson, except where noted. Sample credits Credits adapted from the album's liner notes" |
245 | """B"" Is for Burglar" | """B"" Is for Burglar is the second novel in Sue Grafton's ""Alphabet"" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. Private investigator Kinsey Millhone is hired by Beverly Danziger to locate her missing sister, Elaine Boldt, whose name is needed on some paperwork regarding an inheritance. Elaine was last seen getting into a cab with the intention of flying down to Boca Raton, Florida, where she spends her winters, but appears to have disappeared along the way. It seems a relatively straightforward matter, so much so that Millhone is not sure Beverly" |
246 | """B"" Is for Burglar" | needs a PI, but she agrees to take the case. Things are not as easy as they seem however, as Millhone can find no trace of Elaine anywhere in Florida, although she does find a woman called Pat Usher, who claims Elaine agreed to let her sublet the Boca Raton apartment where Elaine lived while she was off travelling. This claim rings false, since no one but Pat Usher has received a postcard from Elaine on her supposed trip. Millhone secures the able assistance of Elaine's elderly neighbour, Julia, to keep an eye on things in Florida while she goes |
247 | """B"" Is for Burglar" | back to California. Millhone suspects there is a link between Elaine's disappearance and the death of her Santa Teresa neighbour, Marty Grice, who was apparently killed by burglars who then set fire to the Grice home a week before Elaine left. Someone breaks into the home of Tillie, the supervisor of Elaine's Santa Teresa apartment complex, apparently on the track of some of Elaine's bills that Tillie was holding ready to forward to her. Someone also searches the detective's apartment, and Millhone realizes it is Elaine's passport which the thief is after. Gravely concerned for Elaine's safety, Millhone suggests to |
248 | """B"" Is for Burglar" | Beverly that Elaine's disappearance should be reported to the police, but Beverly objects so violently that Millhone terminates their relationship and starts working for Julia instead. Kinsey reports the disappearance and meets Jonah Robb, a recently separated cop working on missing persons. A visit from Beverly's husband, Aubrey, complicates matters further, as it turns out he was having an affair with Elaine, which Beverly had discovered. Could Beverly could have had a hand in Elaine's disappearance? Millhone is increasingly convinced that Elaine is dead, and that Pat Usher is involved. Pat disappears after totally trashing the Boca Raton apartment. Eventually, |
249 | """B"" Is for Burglar" | Millhone discovers that Pat Usher has applied for a driving licence in Elaine's name, thus proving Pat's involvement. Marty's nephew Mike, a teenage drug dealer, confesses that he was at the Grice home the night of the murder, and from the discrepancy in times between his account and what was told to the police, Kinsey realises that it was Elaine who died in the Grice fire, not Marty. Marty and her husband killed Elaine to steal her identity (which Marty assumed) and her money. They then passed Elaine's dead body off as Marty's by switching the dental records. Marty departed |
250 | """B"" Is for Burglar" | "for Florida as Elaine, and arrived as Pat Usher, with some cosmetic surgery to help. Unable to find Elaine's passport, she and her husband are forced to wait for a new one to come through before they can skip the country. Kinsey returns to the Grice home to look for the murder weapon, but while she is there, the Grices find her. Marty Grice is shot in the left arm during the fight that ensues, but Kinsey manages to detain the two criminals, and calls for help. """"B"" Is for Burglar"" was awarded the 1986 Anthony Award for Best Novel" |
251 | """Babbacombe"" Lee" | """Babbacombe"" Lee is the seventh album by English folk rock group Fairport Convention. Released in 1971, it tells the life story of John ""Babbacombe"" Lee, a Victorian-era alleged murderer who was condemned to death but reprieved after the gallows failed on three occasions to work properly. After the commercial and chart success of its predecessor, ""Angel Delight"", the album sold disappointingly, and although critically acclaimed, it has its place in musical history as the first ""folk rock opera"". The album is a concept album that follows John ""Babbacombe"" Lee's life story. The events of his life are described in song," |
252 | """Babbacombe"" Lee" | from his boyhood through his conviction for murder, sentence of death, and the failure to carry out the sentence. The songs describe his boyhood poverty, his time in the Royal Navy, and his being invalided out. The album then describes how Lee went to work in the service of a Miss Keyes. While Lee was in her service, she was murdered, and he was accused, tried and convicted of the crime, and sentenced to death; however, when authorities attempted to hang him, the gallows failed three times, resulting in his release. These events are all told in song, and all |
253 | """Babbacombe"" Lee" | "but one of those songs are originals. Dave Swarbrick has explained that he conceived the album after discovering a file of old newspaper clippings in a junk shop; this file contained John Lee's own copies of the newspaper articles and was bound by him, signed and dated 30 January 1908. Because of its relatively complete narrative structure, ""Babbacombe"" Lee has been called a rock opera, and because of the band's musical style, in particular the first folk rock opera. The original album listed tracks episodically rather than as discrete tracks, reflecting the structure of the narrative. Each of the five" |
254 | """Babbacombe"" Lee" | "sections is composed of a number of songs and fragments of songs that were not listed separately on the original album. The later release of the album abandoned the original five-part division of the album and lists the songs as separate tracks complete with songwriting credits, as follows: Two additional bonus tracks appear on some post-2004 CD releases: These tracks were recorded in late 1974 for the BBC 2 documentary about John Lee narrated by Melvyn Bragg. The programme was broadcast in the BBC 2 ""2nd House"" series as ""The Man They Couldn't Hang – John Lee"" on 1 February" |
255 | """Bassy"" Bob Brockmann" | """Bassy"" Bob Brockmann is a music mixer, producer, trumpet and bass player. He has also musically collaborated with many singers and bands, such as The Fugees, Notorious BIG, Craig Mack, Toni Braxton, Babyface, Cee Lo Green, Soulive, Surface, Brian McKnight, Christina Aguilera, Brandy and Mary J Blige, as well as with other artists such as Faith Hill, Bob Dylan, Sheryl Crow and the Dixie Chicks. Brockman owned New Media Studios on lower Broadway. Brockmann has been nominated for more than 30 Grammy Awards, and has won twice: for Christina Aguilera's 2000 album ""Mi Reflejo"" and for Kirk Franklin's 1999 album" |
256 | """Believing Women"" in Islam" | """Believing Women"" in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an is a 2002 book by Asma Barlas, published by the University of Texas Press. According to Barlas, the Qur'an does not support patriarchy and modern day Muslims were not properly interpreting the text. She argues that the Qur'an supports equal spousal and marital rights and does not differentiate among sex and gender. Barlas attributes incorrect interpretations of the Qur'an to the ""hadith"", ""shariah"", and ""sunnah"". Barlas stated that men were mostly the ones who had developed ""shariah"". As of 2002, Barlas was the head of the Ithaca College Department of" |
257 | """Believing Women"" in Islam" | "Politics, and the interim director of the college's Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity. She is a Muslim and believes the Qur'an is of divine origin. Kristin Zahra Sands of the New York University Department of Middle Eastern Studies described the book as a Quranic exigesis rather than being an eternal study of exigesis. Barlas criticizes the traditional use of the ""hadith"" (sayings of Muhammed, not in the Quran) and ""tafsir"" (interpretation of the Quran), texts she sees as important to the misogynistic customs and beliefs in contemporary Islam, in Part I; these texts are often used" |
258 | """Believing Women"" in Islam" | "together with the Qur'an in Islam. She advocates using ""itjihad"" (informed independent thought). The author has criticized some English translations of the Qur'an, and she argued that the document may be explored in any language. The main references used for the portions regarding the traditions of the Quran and tafsir are secondary sources and English translations. Sands described """"Believing Women"""" as ""Building particularly on the work of Fazlur Rahman and Farid Esack"". Sands argued that the book is ""an interesting contribution to contemporary Muslim thought that will be useful in teaching a broad range of undergraduate and graduate courses."" Sands" |
259 | """Believing Women"" in Islam" | "stated that due to the book's use of Islamic and feminist terminology, it would be best used ""selectively"" in introductory classes. Sands argued that the book should have been ""engaging more fully with the Arabic interpretative tradition"" and that the book should not criticize a translation if it accurately reflects the original Arabic. Jane I. Smith of the Hartford Seminary stated that the book was ""a well-constructed and thoughtfully written work, the arguments clearly developed and the prose a pleasure to read."" Carolyn M. Craft of Longwood University wrote that the book is important for larger public libraries and academic" |
260 | """Big Boy"" Teddy Edwards" | """Big Boy"" Teddy Edwards was an American blues musician, from the United States, who recorded 23 songs from 1930 to 1936. Edwards was active in the Chicago area of the United States. There is very little biographical information published on Edwards' life. Edwards played the tiple, a ten-stringed instrument, and was the only recorded blues tiple player during the period he was active. Edwards was also proficient on the guitar. Contemporary blues musician Big Bill Broonzy recalled working with Edwards, as well as Edwards working with Papa Charlie Jackson. Prolific session pianist Black Bob also recorded with Edwards on several" |
261 | """Big Boy"" Teddy Edwards" | "of his later records. Edwards' song ""Louise"", recorded in 1934, was covered by Broonzy as ""Louise Louise Blues"". Between 1930 and 1936, Edwards recorded 23 songs for the Vocalion, Melotone, Bluebird, Brunswick, and Decca record labels. Edwards was given several pseudonyms by the record companies that issued his recordings; these included ""Teddy Edwards"", """"Big Boy"" Teddy Edwards"", and ""Eddy Teddy"". Edwards' 1930 and 1931 records differ from his later output, singing with a simple tiple accompaniment. All of Edwards' sessions after this show him in a band setting with more of a pop music style, being accompanied by Big Bill" |
262 | """Big"" Donnie MacLeod" | "Donald Archie ""Big Donnie"" MacLeod (December 11, 1928 – January 3, 2003) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Cape Breton West in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1981 to 1988. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Born in 1928 at Marion Bridge, Nova Scotia, MacLeod served 23 years as a municipal councillor for Cape Breton County. MacLeod first attempted to enter provincial politics in the 1978 election, finishing third in the Cape Breton West riding. MacLeod ran again in the 1981 election, and defeated the incumbent David Muise" |
263 | """By"" Dunham" | "William D. ""By"" Dunham (May 2, 1910 – April 12, 2001) was an American songwriter and film producer. Born William Donaldson Dunham in New York City, Dunham wrote songs for the films of many major stars, including John Wayne (""McLintock!""), Randolph Scott (""Seven Men From Now""), and three Bob Hope films: ""Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!"", ""I'll Take Sweden,"" and ""Alias Jesse James"". He also wrote the lyrics to the theme song for the ""Flipper"" television series, and for the film, ""The New Adventures of Flipper"". His other films included ""The Young Swingers"", ""Surf Party"" and ""Wild on" |
264 | """C"" Is for (Please Insert Sophomoric Genitalia Reference Here)" | """C"" Is for (Please Insert Sophomoric Genitalia Reference Here) is an EP by the Maynard James Keenan side project Puscifer, which was released on November 10, 2009. It contains four previously unreleased songs as well as two tracks from """"V"" Is for Vagina"" recorded live on Puscifer's 2009 tour. """"C"" Is for (Please Insert Sophomoric Genitalia Reference Here)"" has sold 10,000 copies. Prior to the album's release, ""The Mission"" was released as a single. A video for the track was released in October, 2009. The track ""Polar Bear"" was streamed on the band's website and MySpace page in the weeks" |
265 | """C"" Is for Corpse" | """C"" Is for Corpse is the third novel in Sue Grafton's ""Alphabet"" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. The novel begins with Kinsey at the gym, rehabilitating herself from injuries sustained at the end of ""B is for Burglar"". There she meets Bobby Callahan, a twenty-three-year-old who was nearly killed when his car went off the road nine months before. Bobby is convinced that the car crash, which killed his friend Rick, was an attempt on his life. He suspects that he may still be in danger, so he hires" |
266 | """C"" Is for Corpse" | Kinsey to investigate. Having lost some of his memories and cognitive faculties as a result of the crash, he can only vaguely articulate why he thinks someone wants to kill him, referring to some information in a red address book which he can no longer locate. Kinsey takes the case despite little information, having taken a liking to Bobby. She meets his rich but dysfunctional family: Glen, his mother is an heiress on her third marriage to Derek Wenner, whose daughter Kitty is a 17-year-old drug-user and seriously ill with anorexia. Glen has spared no expense in seeking treatment and |
267 | """C"" Is for Corpse" | counselling for Bobby. He is depressed further due to Rick's death, his own injuries and the loss of his prospects at medical school. A few days later, Bobby dies in another car crash, which is attributed to a seizure while driving. Kinsey thinks this is the delayed result of the first crash and thus a successful murder. Kinsey investigates several people: Kitty stands to inherit 2 million dollars from Bobby's will; Derek insured Bobby's life for a large sum without Glen's knowledge; and Rick's parents blame Bobby for their son's death. However, Kinsey looks elsewhere for the solution: a friend |
268 | """C"" Is for Corpse" | of Bobby's gives her Bobby's address book, which shows Bobby searching for someone called Blackman. Bobby's former girlfriend thought Bobby ended their relationship because he was having an affair with someone else, and thinks Bobby was helping a woman who was being blackmailed. Kinsey eventually finds out that the woman with whom Bobby was involved was his mother's friend, Nola Fraker. She confesses to having accidentally shot her husband, a well-known architect called Dwight Costigan, during a supposed struggle with an intruder at their home years before. She has a blackmailer, who is in possession of the gun with Nola's |
269 | """C"" Is for Corpse" | fingerprints on it. Trying to investigate further, Kinsey realizes that 'Blackman' is code for an unidentified corpse in the morgue. She finds the gun concealed in the corpse. However, while she is at the hospital, she finds the recently murdered body of the morgue assistant, and realises the killer is at the hospital. It is Nola's current husband, Dr Fraker, a pathologist from the hospital, who is also the blackmailer. Bobby found out what Fraker was up to, but Fraker rigged the first car accident before he could do anything about it, leading Bobby to eventually put Kinsey on the |
270 | """C"" Is for Corpse" | trail. Soon after, Fraker cut Bobby's brake lines, leading to his fatal crash; and falsified the autopsy results to point to a seizure. Fraker traps Kinsey and gives her a disabling injection but she manages to cosh him and escapes to a phone to call the police. In the epilogue, she describes finally discharging the debt she feels she owes to Bobby, and concludes with a wish that he is at peace. In a side plot, Kinsey's landlord and friend Henry begins a personal and business relationship with Lila Sams, newly arrived in Santa Teresa. Kinsey, rubbed the wrong way |
271 | """Chūsotsu"" ""Chūkara""" | """Chūsotsu"": Ebichū no Ike Ike Best and ""Chūkara"": Ebichū no Waku Waku Best are two best-of albums by the Japanese girl idol group Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku. They were released in Japan simultaneously on November 16, 2016. This marks the final release featuring Rina Matsuno, who died on February 8, 2017. contains all the band's major-label hits to date (all the A-sides of the first ten major-label singles), one B-side and one album track. Some songs were re-recorded with the current line-up. The album contains songs of different genres, such as heavy metal, melocore and electro. The Japan-based music website ""CDJournal""" |
272 | """Civilized"" Sexual Morality and Modern Nervous Illness" | """Civilized"" Sexual Morality and Modern Nervous Illness () is an article published by Sigmund Freud in 1908, in the journal ""Sexual-Probleme"" (""Sexual Problems""). Referencing Christian von Ehrenfels' distinction between cultural and natural sexual morality, Freud explains the etiological significance of cultural sexual morality as a reason for neurosis. At the beginning, Freud states that cultural sexual mores impose constraints on the individual, which can cause damage to the person, which in turn threatens the culture as a whole. While von Ehrenfels argues primarily on the basis of Social Darwinism, saying social sexual morality may prevent male sexual selection in reproduction," |
273 | """Civilized"" Sexual Morality and Modern Nervous Illness" | Freud focuses on the consequences of socially-imposed repression of the sexual instinct as a cause of neurosis. Culture is based on renunciation of drives. There is therefore a tension between a person's body, which seeks fulfilment of drives, and the demands of culture to renounce desire. Those who cannot conform to these requirements imposed by society are either viewed as criminals and perverts - if they cannot fulfil society's demand for renunciation - or escape into neurosis when the drives are suppressed to such an extent that neurotic substitute pleasures are developed in their stead. Neurosis is thus the negative |
274 | """Civilized"" Sexual Morality and Modern Nervous Illness" | "counterpart of perversion, ""because they [neurotics] have the same appetites as the positive perverts in a 'repressed' state."" Freud said that the ""perverse"" part of the libido is caused by a disturbance in development. The libido was originally meant for deriving pleasure, not only at the genitals but also at other erogenous zones; but education has the purpose of limiting autoeroticism and directing love towards objects other than oneself, finally achieving the ""primacy of genitals put into the service of procreation"". Thus Freud was one of the first people who said that sexuality by itself does not generate any internal" |
275 | """Civilized"" Sexual Morality and Modern Nervous Illness" | conflict, and explained that the conflict arises only through interaction with the outside world, with its social norms and its expectation of repression of instincts, which leads to disease (repression thesis). The suppressed perverse drives are ideally channeled through sublimation and harnessed for cultural work. The sex drive in humans is aperiodic and is divorced from reproduction. Therefore, it can be metonymically shifted and applied to other areas. Thus, culture benefits to a great extent - and is even dependent - on sexual energy that is redirected through sublimation. Therefore, Freud concluded that a complete renunciation of the sex drive |
276 | """D"" Is for Deadbeat" | """D"" Is for Deadbeat is the fourth novel in Sue Grafton's ""Alphabet"" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. The novel follows the development of Kinsey's relationship with Jonah Robb, the police officer she met in ""B is for Burglar"". Kinsey Millhone receives a contract from ex-con Alvin Limardo to deliver a cashier's check for twenty-five thousand dollars to a fifteen-year-old boy named Tony Gahan. According to Limardo, Tony helped him through a tough time in his life, leaving Limardo indebted. However, when the retainer check Limardo made out to Kinsey" |
277 | """D"" Is for Deadbeat" | for four hundred dollars bounces, she learns that Alvin Limardo is actually John Daggett, a man known by all and liked by few, and recently released from a local prison. He is also a bigamist. His first wife Essie's fanatical religious views have kept her married to Daggett, while Daggett, in disregard of his marital status, underwent a second marriage to Lovella on his release from prison, whom he has subjected to domestic abuse. In her search to find Daggett and get her money back, she discovers that he was found dead on the beach only a few days after |
278 | """D"" Is for Deadbeat" | hiring her. Through Daggett's daughter Barbara, Kinsey learns that Tony Gahan was the sole survivor of a family killed in a car accident caused by Daggett, for which he received a conviction on charges of vehicular manslaughter. Tony's been a wreck since the death of his family, rarely sleeping and doing poorly in school. He now lives with his uncle and aunt, Ramona and Ferrin Westfall. Also killed in the accident was a friend of Tony's young sister, and a boy called Doug Polokowski, who had hitched a ride in the car. Kinsey tracks down an ex-con friend of Daggett's, |
279 | """D"" Is for Deadbeat" | Billy Polo, now living in a trailer park with his sister, Coral. Billy introduced Lovella to Daggett. Kinsey finds out that Doug Polokowski was Billy and Coral's brother. There's no shortage of people with a motive for Daggett's death, but the police are classifying it as an accident. Kinsey discovers that shortly before his death Daggett was staggering about drunk at the marina in the company of a blonde woman in a green outfit. She sets out to discover which of the numerous blonde women in the case might be the killer. She also suspects that Billy Polo is not |
280 | """D"" Is for Deadbeat" | giving her the full truth about his involvement with Daggett, a suspicion confirmed when Coral finally levels with Kinsey and reveals him to be blackmailing someone he suspects of Daggett's killing. The blackmailer murders Polo at the beach, using Kinsey's own gun, stolen from her car a few days earlier. Coral also admits to scheming with Billy and Lovella to rob Daggett of money he had come by illicitly in prison, not knowing that Daggett had given the money to Kinsey to pass on to Tony. The police investigating Billy's murder discover a home-made silencer used in the killing. Kinsey |
281 | """D"" Is for Deadbeat" | immediately recognises the towelling used as padding as coming from the Westfall household, and Ramona jumps to the top of her suspect list. This means confronting Tony, who has given Ramona an alibi for the time of Daggett's death. In pursuing Tony, Kinsey realises Tony himself, dressed as a woman in his aunt's wig, was actually the killer. He was also the one who stole her gun, and killed Billy Polo, who had recognized Tony at Daggett's funeral. Killing the man who killed his family has done nothing to ease Tony's torment, however, and he commits suicide by throwing himself |
282 | """Dragons"" armchair" | "The ""Dragons"" armchair (French: ""Fauteuil aux Dragons"") is a piece of furniture designed by the Irish architect and designer Eileen Gray between 1917 and 1919. ""Dragons"" armchair sold for €21,905,000 in 2009, establishing a new record for a piece of 20th century decorative art. The chair is a wooden upholstered armchair featuring two stylized lacquered dragons. It measures 61 by 91 cm. The chair was described by auctioneers Christie's as being: ""In the form of unfurling petals, upholstered in brown leather, the frame in sculpted wood, lacquered brownish orange and silver and modelled as the serpentine, intertwined bodies of two" |
283 | """Dragons"" armchair" | "dragons, their eyes in black lacquer on a white ground, their bodies decorated in low relief with stylised clouds."" Christie's additionally felt that the chair ""...distills all that was so personal and so magical in the first, intimately expressive phase of Miss Gray's career — surprising, imaginative, subtly sculpted and crafted, it is a masterpiece of invention and execution."" Jennifer Goff, the curator of the National Museum of Ireland's permanent exhibition of Gray's work, felt that the chair was the ""perfect example of the designer who created it – completely unique [and] rather eccentric"". The dragon imagery and clouds depicted" |
284 | """Dragons"" armchair" | "on the chair have been likened to those found in the iconography of traditional Chinese art, and the flowing nature of the ornately carved armrests have been compared to a ""sea monster"" and given the chair its ""Dragons"" moniker. Gray worked on the chair between 1917 and 1919, lacquering the piece by hand and letting the lacquer set in her humid bathroom before spending days polishing the piece. The chair's first owner was Gray's patron, Suzanne Talbot. It was acquired by Parisian art dealer Cheska Vallois in 1971 for $2,700 and then sold by Vallois to the French fashion designer" |
285 | """Dragons"" armchair" | "Yves Saint Laurent in 1973. The chair was put up for sale as part of the Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé collection in February 2009 at Christie's auction house in Paris. It sold for €21,905,000 against a pre-sale estimate of €2-3 million, establishing a new record for a piece of 20th century decorative art. The price beat the previous record by $22 million. The 2009 buyer of the chair was once again Cheska Vallois who later said that the cost of acquiring it was ""the price of desire"". The chair was bought by Vallois for an unknown third party" |
286 | """E"" Is for Evidence" | """E"" Is for Evidence is the fifth novel in Sue Grafton's ""Alphabet"" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. The novel's plot develops Kinsey's personal back-story, as it features her second ex-husband, jazz musician and drug-user, Daniel Wade, previously mentioned briefly in ""C is for Corpse"". Just after Christmas, Kinsey Millhone discovers that five thousand dollars has mysteriously been credited to her bank account, and flashes back a few days when she was asked to investigate a fire claim at a factory in Colgate as part of her informal office space" |
287 | """E"" Is for Evidence" | rental arrangement with California Fidelity Insurance. The business in question, Wood/Warren, is owned and operated by the Wood family, whom Kinsey has known on a personal level since high school. Company founder Linden Wood is dead, but his son Lance now runs the company, and his four other children, Ebony, Olive, Ash and Bass all have a stake. Ash is Kinsey's former schoolmate, and Bass was an acquaintance of her second ex-husband, Daniel Wade. Olive is married to Terry Kohler, Lance's second-in-command at the company. After a solitary Christmas, with Henry away visiting relatives, and Rosie's Tavern shut down till |
288 | """E"" Is for Evidence" | the new year, Kinsey writes off the fire as an industrial accident. Upon submitting her report to her boss, she finds that significant papers have been removed from the file and others substituted, giving an appearance that Lance Wood has bribed Kinsey not to label the fire as arson. In the middle of protesting her innocence, the five thousand dollar credit takes on a sinister significance. Temporarily suspended from California Fidelity, Kinsey takes up her own investigation to prove her innocence, aided (unwillingly at first) by CFI administrator Darcy. Darcy is united with Kinsey in her dislike of claims manager |
289 | """E"" Is for Evidence" | Andy Motycka, who is Kinsey's chief suspect in the set-up. She is at a loss who he could be working for. Kinsey reconnects with the Wood family, and learns some of their dark family secrets: that Ebony, the oldest sister, wants control of the business and that Lance was practically a criminal in high school. She also learns that a former Wood/Warren employee, Hugh Case, committed suicide two years before, but the suspicious disappearance of all the lab work on Hugh's body seems to support his widow Lyda's claim that it was murder rather than suicide. Kinsey remains unconvinced by |
290 | """E"" Is for Evidence" | Lyda's conviction that Lance was Hugh's killer but can't seem to find any other leads. Her spirits are at a low ebb and it's the worst possible moment for Daniel to show up, eight years after leaving without a word. Kinsey finds it hard it cope with but eventually agrees to store a guitar for him while he sorts himself out. On her way to a new year party at Olive and Terry's home, Kinsey is almost killed when a bomb, disguised as a gift left on the doorstep, explodes. Olive is killed and Terry is badly injured. Kinsey does |
291 | """E"" Is for Evidence" | her best to resist Daniel's attempts to nurse her, and her distrust is proved right when she finds out the guitar she has been storing for Daniel is bugged, and he has been reporting on her investigation to Ebony and Bass Wood. She discovers Daniel and Bass are lovers - Bass is the person Daniel left her for. Shortly afterwards, Kinsey finds Lyda Case's dead body in a car outside her apartment. Forcing answers from the Wood family, Kinsey learns an even darker family secret: that Lance had an incestuous affair with Olive when they were teenagers leaving Olive emotionally |
292 | """E"" Is for Evidence" | and sexually scarred for the rest of her life. Kinsey's suspicions immediately jump to Terry Kohler, and when the police identify fingerprints on the car Lyda was found in as belonging to an escaped convicted bomber called Chris Emms, she realises Terry and Emms are the same person. Unfortunately, Emms has anticipated her solving the case and is waiting at her apartment with another bomb. Before it explodes he explains he killed Hugh Case because Hugh had realised his true identity, and Lyda because she had belatedly found Hugh's records of that. He engineered the fire at Wood/Warren and set |
293 | """E"" Is for Evidence" | up Kinsey (with the aid of Andy Motycka) to get revenge on Lance, after Bass spilled the family incest secret to him. Kinsey manages to shoot Emms and disables him sufficiently to get out of the bathroom window just as the bomb explodes, killing Emms and destroying her garage apartment. After Daniel leaves with Bass, the only loose end is the five thousand dollars Emms put in her account, and on the advice of Lieutenant Dolan, Kinsey keeps it. In 2005, Grafton told an interviewer that she prefers to pick a title early in the writing process because that helps |
294 | """F"" Is for Fugitive" | """F"" Is for Fugitive is the sixth novel in Sue Grafton's ""Alphabet"" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. Henry Pitts is having Kinsey's garage apartment rebuilt after it was destroyed in the events of the previous novel. Royce Fowler wants the detective to exonerate his son of the murder of Jean Timberlake, seventeen years before, in Floral Beach, California. Bailey Fowler pleaded guilty to killing Jean, his sometime girlfriend, and escaped from prison soon afterwards. He has apparently been living the life of a model citizen under an assumed name." |
295 | """F"" Is for Fugitive" | He is recaptured and is claiming his innocence. Kinsey heads to Floral Beach, a tiny local community, to pursue the cold trail, and stays with the Fowler family at their motel. Royce is dying of cancer, his wife Oribelle is sick with diabetes and their daughter, Ann, Bailey's senior by five years, has taken leave of absence from her job as a counselor at the local high school to provide care for her parents. Bailey's lawyer, Jack Clemson, fills her in on the details of the case: Jean, 17 when she died, was a problem child who was doing badly |
296 | """F"" Is for Fugitive" | at school and engaged in numerous sexual encounters with the local boys at school - and some of the local men too. She was pregnant at the time of her death. Everyone knows everyone in Floral Beach and Kinsey acquaints herself with a number of the locals in pursuit of the truth: Pearl, the local bar-owner, whose son's evidence put Bailey on the spot at the time of Jean's death; Tap Granger, who was Bailey's accomplice in several robberies before the murder; the local pastor Reverend Haws and his wife; and Dr. Dunne, whose wife Elva has a violent objection |
297 | """F"" Is for Fugitive" | to being questioned. The high school principal at the time of the murder, Dwight Shales, offers some help. Jean's single mother, Shana, whose friendship with Dwight is causing raised eyebrows around Floral Beach. She is struggling with longstanding alcohol problems, is less co-operative, and refuses to identify Jean's father. Nobody seems convinced that the killer could be anyone but Bailey. At Bailey's arraignment, Tap Granger stages a hold-up, allowing Bailey to escape once more. Tap is himself killed in the escape. Kinsey gets confirmation from Tap's widow that Tap was paid to do it - for the first time providing |
298 | """F"" Is for Fugitive" | concrete evidence that someone wants to keep Bailey discredited. Someone breaks into Kinsey's motel room at the motel, and she receives threatening calls in the middle of the night as she pursues the case. Oribelle is murdered when her insulin is adulterated, which medication is administered regularly by Ann. Kinsey establishes that Dr Dunne is Jean's unknown father. Shana is murdered when she sets out to keep a rendezvous with him. Kinsey runs from the cops herself after she finds the body, and seeks refuge with Dwight Shales, who confesses that he, too, was having an affair with Jean, and |
299 | """F"" Is for Fugitive" | was probably the father of her child. Kinsey realizes that Ann Fowler is jealous of anyone who comes into contact with Dwight. She searches Ann's room, and finds evidence that Ann supplied Tap with the hold-up gun and made the anonymous phone calls. Unfortunately, she also finds Ann waiting for her, armed with a shotgun. Jean had confided in her, as school counselor, that Dwight was the father of her child. Motivated by jealousy, Ann killed her, and being equally jealous of her brother's position as favored child of their parents, Ann was happy to see him take the rap. |