A pinnacle (from Latinpinnaculum, a little feather, pinna, compare panache) is an architectural ornament originally forming the cap or crown of a buttress or small turret, but afterwards used on at the corners of and in many other situations. The pinnacle looks like a small spire. It was mainly used in Gothic architecture.
The complete three series of the 1970s spin-off from 'The Six Million Dollar Man' starring Lindsay Wagner as a woman who is fitted with bionic parts after a serious accident. Jaime Sommers (Wagner) a tennis professional is holidaying with her childhood s..
When two trash-picking boys from Rio’s slums find a wallet in amongst the daily detritus of their local dump little do they imagine that their lives are about to change forever. But when the local police show up offering a handsome reward for t..
When two trash-picking boys from Rio’s slums find a wallet in amongst the daily detritus of their local dump little do they imagine that their lives are about to change forever. But when the local police show up offering a handsome reward for t..
Designed as a companion volume to 2008s Inside the Ring, which focused on the four operas comprising Richard Wagners Der Ring des Nibelungen, this new volume features more than a dozen original essays focusing on all of Wagner''s non-Ring operas. Part One ..
It shows in most successful form Wagner's unsurpassed gift for using the instruments of the orchestra, and generations of students have worked with it to learn its technique.Tristan und Isolde also has a remarkable historical position. It was the opera tha..
To many in Israel, Richard Wagner is a symbol of the concentration camps, or at least of a fierce sociopolitical controversy. Although the cancellation of a performance of the prelude to Wagner's Mestersinger von Nuremberg in 1938 was simply an impetu..
This book also analyzes the ideas that are central to the philosophy of Nietzsche, demonstrating that the values on the basis of which he breaks with Wagner and repudiates their common mentor, Schopenhauer, are those fundamental to modernity. Brayton Polka..
Mary Ann Smart suspects that Nietzsche may have seen and heard more than he realized. In Mimomania she takes his accusation as an invitation to listen to Wagner's music—and that of several of his near-contemporaries—for the way it serves to intensify t..
Master illustrator P. Craig Russell's classic opera adaptations series continues with the Wagner's Parsifal, Ariane & Bluebeard, I Pagliacci, and two Mahler songs.From the Publisher:In this volume, Russell's classic adaptations of Richard Wagner's Parsifal..
After first working in films as a child, Wood became a successful Hollywood star as a young adult, receiving three Academy Award nominations before she was 25 years old.Wood began acting in movies at the age of four and at age eight was given a co-starring..
