I'm Your Man is the eighth studio album by Leonard Cohen, released in 1988. The album marked Cohen's further move to a more modern sound.
"I'm Your Man" was recorded in Los Angeles and Montreal and employed four producers: Roscoe Beck, Jean-Michel Reusser, Michel Robidoux, and Cohen himself.
The album includes some of the singer's most popular songs and concert staples, including the single "Ain't No Cure for Love", "First We Take Manhattan", "Tower of Song", and "Everybody Knows", which was a collaboration with Cohen's backup singer Sharon Robinson.
First We Take Manhattan
"First We Take Manhattan" is a song written by Leonard Cohen. It was originally recorded by Jennifer Warnes on her 1986 Cohen tribute album "Famous Blue Raincoat", which consisted entirely of songs written or co-written by Cohen.
Ben Hewitt writing for "The Guardian" in 2015 drew attention to the lyric's apocalyptic nature, imagining Cohen "greedily eyeing world domination like a Bond villain".
Joe Cocker covered "First We Take Manhattan" on his 1999 album "No Ordinary World".
Cohen explained himself in a backstage interview: "I think it means exactly what it says. It is a terrorist song. I think it's a response to terrorism. There's something about terrorism that I've always admired. The fact that there are no alibis or no compromises. That position is always very attractive. I don't like it when it's manifested on the physical plane – I don't really enjoy the terrorist activities – but Psychic Terrorism. I remember there was a great poem by Irving Layton that I once read, I'll give you a paraphrase of it. It was 'well, you guys blow up an occasional airline and kill a few children here and there', he says. 'But our terrorists, Jesus, Freud, Marx, Einstein. The whole world is still quaking.'"
The Future (Leonard Cohen album)
The Future is the ninth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, released in 1992. Political events and history are found elsewhere on the album, with Cohen making references to Tiananmen Square, Stalin, World War II and Hiroshima.
The title track was originally called "If You Could See What's Coming Next", and underwent extensive rewrites, taking up almost sixty pages in Cohen's notebook, while "Closing Time" took two years with Cohen even starting over from scratch on the song as late as March 1992.
Suzanne (Leonard Cohen song)
"Suzanne" is a song written by Canadian poet and musician Leonard Cohen in the 1960s. First published as a poem in 1966, it was recorded as a song by Judy Collins in the same year. Cohen performed it as his debut single, from his 1967 album "Songs of Leonard Cohen".
In 2006, Pitchfork Media listed the song #41 on their list of "The Top Songs of the 1960s".
So Long, Marianne
"So Long, Marianne" is a 1967 song written by Canadian poet and musician Leonard Cohen. It was featured on his debut album, "Songs of Leonard Cohen". Pitchfork Media placed it at number 190 on their list of "The 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s."
Songs of Leonard Cohen
Songs of Leonard Cohen is the debut album by Canadian folk singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. It was released on December 27, 1967 on Columbia Records. The best known song from the album is "So Long, Marianne".
"Songs of Leonard Cohen" foreshadowed the kind of chart success Cohen would go on to achieve. It reached number 83 on the "Billboard" 200 and achieving gold status in the US only in 1989, but peaked at number 13 on the UK Albums Chart, and spent nearly a year and a half on it.
Take This Waltz (song)
"Take This Waltz" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. It was originally released as part of the 1986 Federico García Lorca tribute album "Poet in New York (Poeta en Nueva York)" and as a single.
The song was later included in Cohen's 1988 studio album "I'm Your Man". The song's lyrics are a loose translation, into English, of the poem "Pequeño vals vienés" (Little Viennese Waltz) by the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca (one of Cohen's favorite poets). The poem was first published in Lorca's seminal book "Poeta en Nueva York".
The song reached number one in Spain in 1986.
Bountiful, Utah
Bountiful is a city in Davis County, Utah, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 42,552, a three percent increase over the 2000 figure of 41,301.
Kundo Phooler Mala
Kundo Phooler Mala is an Indian Bengali television Soap Opera that premiered on 29 May 2017 at 6:00PM and aired on STAR Jalsha. Produced by Magic Moments Motion Pictures, It started Indrajit Chakraborty and Rukma Roy in lead roles, Debolina Dutta in a negative role and Laboni Sarkar, Sohini Sanyal, Bharat Kaul, Shankar Chakraborty in supporting roles. The Show Went Off Air on 18 March 2018.
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Pan-Africanism
Pan-Africanism is a political movement about improving the position of Africa, and people with ancestors from Africa in the world. Pan-Africanists believe the slave trade and colonialism have hurt African nations and people, and the solution is for Africans to unite politically.
Diomedes
Diomedes (, "Diomēdēs" - "God-like cunning, advised by Zeus") was an ancient Greek hero and one of the central figures of the "Iliad". Son of King Tydeus and Queen Deipyle, he was the leader of the Argive contingent during the Trojan War. Diomedes was, alongside Greater Ajax, regarded as one of the greatest of all the Achaean warriors, second only to Achilles in terms of prowess.
Hexadecagon
An hexadecagon or hekkaidecagon is a shape with 16 sides and 16 corners.
A "regular hexadecagon" is a hexadecagon in which all angles are equal and all sides are congruent. Its Schläfli symbol is {16} and can be constructed as a truncated octagon, t{8}, and a twice-truncated square tt{4}. A truncated hexadecagon, t{16}, is a triacontadigon, {32}.
The area of a regular hexadecagon with edge length "t" is
Because the hexadecagon has a number of sides that is a power of two, its area can be computed in terms of the circumradius "R" by truncating Viète's formula:
Since the area of the circumcircle is formula_3 the regular hexadecagon fills approximately 97.45% of its circumcircle.
Coxeter states that every parallel-sided 2"m"-gon can be divided into m(m-1)/2 rhombs. For the "regular hexadecagon", "m"=8, and it can be divided into 28: 4 squares and 3 sets of 8 rhombs. This decomposition is based on a Petrie polygon projection of a 8-cube, with 28 of 1792 faces. The list A006245 enumerates the number of solutions as 1232944, including up to 16-fold rotations and chiral forms in reflection.
A skew hexadecagon is a skew polygon with 24 vertices and edges but not existing on the same plane. The interior of such an hexadecagon is not generally defined. A "skew zig-zag hexadecagon" has vertices alternating between two parallel planes.
A regular skew hexadecagon is vertex-transitive with equal edge lengths. In 3-dimensions it will be a zig-zag skew hexadecagon and can be seen in the vertices and side edges of a octagonal antiprism with the same D, [2,16] symmetry, order 32. The octagrammic antiprism, s{2,16/3} and octagrammic crossed-antiprism, s{2,16/5} also have regular skew octagons.
In the early 16th century, Raphael was the first to construct a perspective image of a regular hexadecagon: the tower in his painting "The Marriage of the Virgin" has 16 sides, elaborating on an eight-sided tower in a previous painting by Pietro Perugino.
Hexadecagrams (16-sided star polygons) are included in the Girih patterns in the Alhambra.
An octagonal star can be seen as a concave hexadecagon:
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