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I went to see this and had no idea what to expect. I walked out of the theatre thinking this was one of the best sci-fi movies I've ever seen. Alex Garland who is primarily a writer, is one talented guy. He wrote 28 Days Later which resurrected the Zombie genre. He has a real sense of how to tell a story well. It was refreshing to see suspense without people yelling and sticking guns at each other. Alicia Vikander performance as the robot was amazing and although the ending was somewhat predictable, I am pleased to finally give a movie a high rating. It's a rare occurrence.
|mechlin@ - 53 reviews
30.6.2015 - age: 36-49
If one doesn't know the story of the Battle of Gallipoli, a person can be fairly helpless insofar as trying to understand what in hell is going on from one scene to the next. Questions such as who are the enemy and who are the good guys and can willows or metal coat hangers used to find water in the parched desert lands of Australia really be used to find the dead buried in a war zone on the other side of the planet, or at least what is left of them? Wars are made up of good and bad guys or so we are told by politicians, historians and just about everybody else who has a stake in any particular war. In this story it seems to be the Australians who are the good or bad guys, depending on your point of view, at other times it's the Turks, other times the Greeks (?) or the Sufi Whirling Dervishes (didn't know they loved war) This is just strange strange stuff and difficult to follow, rather like what is going on in Iraq/Syria/Afghanistan/et al today, a free-for-all of sorts. Those people really love their wars, no doubt. Or perhaps the message I'm supposed to take home is that there are no good or bad guys in wars, only stupid little men going off to slaughter each other in the name of this or that cause, religion, or whatever. I mean, why not? Men are still doing idiotic things like that today and they'll never learn, sadly enough. The story, while noble, can run a little thin at times since you already know the plot which is fully spelled out in the Info section of this website's movie ads so you can't blame this reviewer for spoiling the story. I found myself hoping that Crowe'd find his children sooner rather than later and I could go home, with the message. To make the film a complete loss, some idiot was kicking the back of my chair. Where do Dumbo's like that get off and where are the ushers at times like this? Lol!
|youngman@ - 54 reviews
28.6.2015 - age: 50+
In my opinion, this movie is spectacular! I am a HUGE Jurassic Park fan and although was excited about this sequel, I knew it would be tough to live up to the original 1993 classic. I was skeptical of the casting choice at first after seeing the trailer, but overall think the casting was spot on! Chris Pratt is simply great and Bryce Dallas Howard and Ty Simpkins also gave very good and convincing performances. Critics can nit-pick this movie apart all they want, but the bottom line is that this was a great sequel to a great classic, a Steven Spielberg pretty-much-impossible-to-beat classic (as evidenced by the Jurassic Park 2 and 3) Once the action starts, it hardly lets up for a second, which makes for a very exciting movie than doesn't drag through 2 hours. Some fun easter eggs were also included, which just makes it all that much better especially for those who grew up with the original Jurassic park movies.
|cascanej@ - 62 reviews
29.6.2015 - age: 18-25
The theme is old. The world is coming to an end but a few people know that their exists a parallel world on the same planet earth. The "gate" to this world requires a key in the form of a badge. A young girl is given one by a humanoid and she enters the world. A man, played by George Clooney, has been in this world but world but was expelled. He teams up with the humanoid and the girl to gain access. The special effects are minimal, the best ones are views of the city in the second world. The script is uninspiring and Clooney's acting is limited to grinning and grimacing. The two young actresses that portray the android and the young girl, are a pleasure to watch. The film ends with inferring suggestions on how to save the world - all of which can be read in today's newspapers!
|frank@ - 49 reviews
20.6.2015 - age: 50+
It was pretty stupid considering there was no depth to the characters at all. Don't know anything about them and how they came to be. Can't even make an emotional connection because so much of the story is missing. The humor was so out of place it was stupid, so stupid, even the special effects didn't make up for it.
|ysilan@ - 45 reviews
17.6.2015 - age: 26-35
As a concept, the movie might have had the potential to work out well. Unfortunately, the narrative was a remarkably haphazard assortment in its portrayal of approaches to analyzing a child's life. I am surprised the whole thing was put to production.
|violbiol@ - 269 reviews
20.6.2015 - age: 26-35
Love this movie, fantabulous acting! Of course amazing Muzak! Must see if you like The Beach Boys! Brian Wilson's a Genius on the border line of CooCoo!!! Nice 60's Styling!
|cootiebaby8@ - 72 reviews
14.6.2015 - age: 50+
An intelligent, sensitive Palestinian youth is sent to the most prestigious school in Israel at his Arab father's behest in the hope that he will fulfill the dreams of a family and "become" someone. His handicapped best friend is Jewish as is the young woman he is interested in and soon he finds himself trapped between two cultures who feel only hatred and scorn for each other. The struggle to deal with the dichotomy in his life and his attempts to make sense of love and loss in both worlds eventually leads to his coming of age. A good story that doesn't follow Hollywood formulas, along with some sensitive, somewhat subtle, performances - I haven't enjoyed a movie as much in a long, long time. I do recommend it to others.
|markrichards@ - 30 reviews
10.6.2015 - age: 50+
Given the crowd reaction, I would call Insidious 3 a good horror movie. There were screams and nervous laughs throughout the screening. They must have done something right.
|raymond.erp@ - 78 reviews
9.6.2015 - age: 50+
What a bad movie with great CGI. There should be a warning prior to the viewing telling people with a functional brain to turn it off in order to be able to watch the whole thing without laughing. Let's start with the "good"... great CGI, spectacular effects, and the soundtrack matched perfectly with the events. It's already time for the bad parts (plural).. another stupid divorced family drama (I bet you can already figure out how it ends) The movie is supposed to be about earthquakes and yet what I saw was MULTIPLE close ups of bouncing female parts, Dodge and Aquafina advertisements. Another unbelievable love story amid the angry earth ravaging everithing on its' way. This is not even an average summer flick. It's an american propaganda fiasco. I read the bad reviews and knew what to expect. The last 3 word that were pronounced at the end literally made me burst out this maniacal laughter. Priceless...
|olivierstl@ - 143 reviews
11.6.2015 - age: 26-35
This was one "High Octane Over drive of a movie." I went in with high expectations having read all the critics' reviews, and left feeling exhausted and a bit disappointed. After the first hour my attention started to wane. Feeling I was on sensory over load. The stunts were great. Super visuals and loved the originality of seeing older women kicking butt... I found most of the dialogue lame and lacking depth. Tom basically mumbled his way through this. And Charlize Theron who always adds something special to a role was not convincing enough for me. However it had its moments of cinematic madness relevance.
|arlynamelia@ - 36 reviews
9.6.2015 - age: 50+
The best comedy I've seen in years, so funny. The plot was basic, a play on spy movies, but it worked totally. Jenny McCarthy has never been funnier, and with a solid cast the movie works on every level. Everything clicks, everyone gels so perfectly that it is an instant classic. Fifty Cents makes an appearance, which was cool. The laughs keep coming throughout, they hid lots from the trailers, so that was great. It's a perfect comedy, imo.
|stanlee@ - 192 reviews
6.6.2015 - age: 36-49
Special effects were great. Story line was very thin and credulity stretched to the max. Having said that, something big is going to happen sooner or later.
|trichard@ - 95 reviews
2.6.2015 - age: 50+
Amazing special effects. I like disaster movie and this one rates at the top for me. I alson like The Rock. Intense moments and really exiting action. A must see if you like those types of movies.
|casper999@ - 121 reviews
29.5.2015 - age: 50+
This is a very touching and funny picture. I laughed and cried over this story. The subject of the film - Giuseppe Marinoni - is a very interesting character and I enjoyed his relationship and interaction with the film-maker. The story is simple but it will hold your interest to the very end. There is both suspense and a heart warming end to the story. You do not have to be a cyclist or cycling fan to enjoy this picture but it certainly does help to understand Giuseppe's journey to the one-hour record.
|robbinemail@ - 149 reviews
31.5.2015 - age: 36-49
It was an OK film. The end is rather deceiving. However, the special effects are worth to see. Washington is very solid as usual. A movie to watch on a DVD for a good entertainment, especially if you like Washington.
|lepagef@ - 4 reviews
30.5.2015 - age: 50+
A Western that leaves you feeling deflated and elated at the end. A rarity in the world of film. Full of great acting and a fantastic debut for director John Maclean...
|kingjames0329@ - 114 reviews
22.5.2015 - age: 13-17
If there were 0.5 divisions in the ratings I would have voted 6.5. It took a bit to get into this movie and at the start I was wondering what I got myself into. That "Fast Forward" filming was a little over the edge, but after 30 minutes I got used to it and it wasn't that much of a distraction. If you like action, chase scenes, violence and NOISE... this is one for you. If you are looking for detailed plot and character development, then pass.
|drs@ - 291 reviews
21.5.2015 - age: 50+
A nice documentary. Exposes some of the fashion world and the real people behind it. The journey of the team with a new designer and an old house to a first show was perfectly shown.
|gaw@ - 107 reviews
18.5.2015 - age: 36-49
It's very refreshing to see two male leads who can make a movie funny without profanity or vulgarity, or constant talk about sports. The dialogue was witty & entertaining; the scenery = beauty beyond words - felt like I was there and the food dishes looked very unique & delightful. However, for someone who doesn't appreciate poetry, lyricism, comical reference to these things, and actor impersonations, you may get bored. The plot line would therefore seem thin to most, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
|knarf35@ - 72 reviews
14.5.2015 - age: 26-35
We can't get enough off this heart felt, meaningful and most inspiring feel good show. I cannot even explain how it feels every time I see an episode but a feeling of wonder, joy and being loved by God's love in time of need and despair. Extreme fulfillment and satisfaction. Roma Downey carries it very well like she was born to play this God sent role. You will be touched by an Angel after seeing this show, Guaranteed.
|shazjoao@ - 2176 reviews
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The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4by Robert A. Caro
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The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and most triumphant period of his career—1958 to 1964. An unparalleled account of the battle between Johnson and John Kennedy for the 1960 presidential nomination, of the machinations behind Kennedy's decision to offer Johnson the vice presidency, and of Johnson's powerlessness and humiliation in that role. With the superlative skills of a master storyteller, Caro exposes the savage animosity between Johnson and Robert Kennedy, portraying one of America's great political feuds.
In Caro's description of the Kennedy assassination, which The New York Times called "the most riveting ever," we see the events of November 22, 1963, for the first time through Lyndon Johnson's eyes. And we watch as his political genius enables him to grasp the reins of the presidency with total command, and, within weeks, make it wholly his own, surmounting unprecedented obstacles in order to fulfill the highest purpose of the office. It is an epic story, displaying all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led the Times of London to acclaim The Years of Lyndon Johnson as "one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age."
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—President Bill Clinton, The New York Times Book Review (front cover)
"By writing the best presidential biography the country has ever seen, Caro has forever changed the way we think, and read, American history . . . Although the amount of research Caro has done for these books is staggering, it's his immense talent as a writer that has made his biography of Johnson one of America's most amazing literary achievements . . . Caro's chronicle is as absorbing as a political thriller . . . There's not a wasted word, not a needless anecdote . . . Most impressively, Caro comes closer than any other historian could to explaining the famously complex LBJ . . . Caro's portrayal of the president is as scrupulously fair as it is passionate and deeply felt . . . The series is a masterpiece, unlike any other work of American history published in the past. It's true that there will never be another Lyndon B. Johnson, but there will never be another Robert A. Caro, either." —Michael Schaub, NPR
"A breathtakingly dramatic story about a pivotal moment in United States history [told] with consummate artistry and ardor . . . It showcases Mr. Caro's masterly gifts as a writer: his propulsive sense of narrative, his talent for enabling readers to see and feel history in the making and his ability to situate his subjects' actions within the context of their times . . . Caro manages to lend even much-chronicled events a punch of tactile immediacy . . . Johnson emerges as both a larger-than-life, Shakespearean personage—with epic ambition and epic flaws—and a more human-scale puzzle . . . Mr. Caro uses his storytelling gifts to turn seemingly arcane legislative maneuvers into action-movie suspense, and he gives us unparalleled understanding of how Johnson used a crisis and his own political acumen to implement his agenda with stunning speed. Taken together the installments of Mr. Caro's monumental life of Johnson form a revealing prism by which to view the better part of a century in American life and politics."
—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"A great work of history . . . A great biography . . . Caro has summoned Lyndon Johnson to vivid, intimate life." —Newsweek
"Making ordinary politics and policymaking riveting and revealing is what makes Caro a genius. Combined with his penetrating insight and fanatical research, Caro's Churchill-like prose elevates the life of a fairly influential president to stuff worthy of Shakespeare . . . Reading Caro's books can feel like encountering the life of an American president for the first time . . . Caro's judgment is solid, his prose inspiring, and his research breathtaking . . . Robert Caro stands alone as the unquestioned master of the contemporary American political biography."
—Jordan Michael Smith, The Boston Globe
"A meditation on power as profound as Machiavelli's." —Lara Marlowe, Irish Times
"One of the most compelling political narratives of the past half-century . . . A vivid picture of how political power worked in the US during the middle of the 20th century at local, state and national level. . . This extraordinary work will remain essential reading for decades to come." —Richard Lambert, Financial Times
"Unrivaled . . . Caro does not merely recount. He beckons. Single sentences turn into winding, brimming paragraphs, clauses upon clauses tugging at the reader, layering the scenery with character intrigue and the plot with historical import. The result is irresistible . . . Passage covers with all the artistry and intrigue of a great novel events that are seared in the nation's memory. In an era defined by fragmented media markets, instantaneous communication, gadflies and chattering suits, Caro stands not merely apart, but alone."
—William Howell, San Francisco Chronicle
"The greatest political biography ever written . . . The most sweeping historical tour de force since Gibbons's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . . . Caro has imprinted himself into history. His work is now the benchmark of political biography." —Paul Sheehan, Sydney Morning Herald
"Riveting . . . Masterful . . . An insightful account of what it means and what it takes to occupy the Oval Office." —Steve Paul, The Kansas City Star
"Robert Caro is the essential chronicler of these times: And these times should never be forgotten." —Joel Connelly, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Caro's masterpiece of biography . . . His strength as a biographer is his ability to probe Johnson's mind and motivations . . . Riveting . . . A roller-coaster tale."
—The Economist
"The latest in what is almost without question the greatest political biography in modern times . . . Nobody goes deeper, works harder or produces more penetrating insights than [Caro]." —Patrick Beach, Austin American-Statesman
"The politicians' political book of choice . . . An encyclopedia of dirty tricks that would make Machiavelli seem naïve." —Michael Burleigh, London Literary Review
"Majestic . . . The reporting is copious, the writing elegant and energetic, the sentences frequently rushing forward themselves like mighty rivers. Four books, and nearly four decades, into this vast project, Caro's commitment to excellence has not wavered or even slackened; the reader can feel the sheer force of his effort on every page." —Ronald Brownstein, Democracy
"By dramatizing the capacities and limitations of the most talented politician of the postwar era, Caro aims to make readers shrewder citizens . . . As a student of power, Caro is a Machiavelli for democrats, who instead of addressing the prince, addresses the people." —Thomas Meaney, The Nation
"Astonishing and unprecedented . . . a work of real literature, among the best nonfiction works ever . . . His books . . . argue that things happen because certain people with power want them to happen . . . It is not inconceivable to think that, without the presence of LBJ and the influence on him of his character and his experiences, none [of the civil rights bills] would have won Congressional approval . . . More than operatic, Caro's Johnson books deserve another adjective, one that matches his genius, his sensitivity and his ambition: Shakespearean."
—Patrick T. Reardon
"The best biography I've ever read . . . Incredibly well-written, with the tension and drama of a compulsive thriller, and the style of an elegant novel. Caro's books aren't just about politics, or just about Lyndon Johnson. His books are about America, its culture, its history, and its society. Above all, Caro's books are about power, how to achieve it and make it multiply; how to use power and how to lose it." —Michael Crick, UK Channel 4 News
"My book of the year, by a landslide majority, was The Passage of Power. The adjective 'Shakespearean' is overused and mostly undeserved but not in this case. LBJ emerges from this biography as a fully rounded tragic hero: cowardly and brave, petty and magnificent, vindictive and noble, a man of vaunting ambition and profound insecurities. Caro marries profound psychological insight with a brilliant eye for the drama of the times." —Robert Harris, The Guardian (London)
"Caro is a genius at delineating character, and not just that of the deliciously complicated LBJ. He investigates, among other larger-than-life figures, the Kennedy brothers, the powerful and unbending Harry Byrd of Virginia, and the clownlike but devoted Bobby Baker . . . Caro's use of strong image and repetition, almost hypnotic in combination, is breathtakingly effective. Caro is a great historian, but if the purpose of art is to stimulate thought and arouse emotion, he is also a great artist." —Rosemary Michaud, Charleston Post and Courier
"A portrait of executive leadership so evocative as to be tactile."
—Robert Draper, Wall Street Journal
"The only superstar biographer in the world . . . Caro's [books] transform biography into something new, a tour de force of structured political opinion writing . . . A single theme emerges: the insidious ways that clever politicians can gather and abuse power—sometimes for good, sometimes for evil—in a modern democratic society." —Levi Asher, Literary Kicks
"One of the greatest biographies in the history of American letters."
—Bob Hoover, Cleveland Plain Dealer
"As riveting as a thriller . . . The next book will crown an achievement in presidential biography unmatched among presidential histories."
—David Hendricks, Houston Chronicle
"Every page [of The Years of Lyndon Johnson] is compelling. For many politicians it is the finest book on politics . . . The ultimate political story."
—Daniel Finkelstein, London Times
"Long live Robert Caro . . . Truly epic political history and character study . . . Riveting . . . It elevates Caro's tale to Shakespearean drama, as the coldhearted, Machiavellian maneuvering and hot-blooded rivalries of supremely ambitious men play out with the fate of the free world at stake."
—Dan DeLuca, The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Brilliant . . . A masterclass in political management . . . Caro not only re-creates one of the giants of modern politics, he tells a giant tale about power and about life itself." —Andrew Adonis, New Statesman
"A masterly how-to manual, showing Johnson's knowledge of governing, his peerless congressional maneuvering and effective deal-making. The Years of Lyndon Johnson is a compact library: brilliant biography, gripping history, searing political drama and an incomparable study of power. It's also a great read . . . And, after thousands of pages spent with Lyndon Johnson, one of Caro's singular achievements is that you want more." —Peter Gianotti, Newsday
"The Years of Lyndon Johnson, when completed, will rank as America's most ambitiously conceived, assiduously researched and compulsively readable political biography . . . When Caro's fifth volume arrives, readers' gratitude will be exceeded only by their regret that there will not be a sixth." —George F. Will
"This book shows the mastery of Johnson in politics, and also the mastery of Caro in biography." —David M. Shribman, Bloomberg BusinessWeek
"Epic . . . A searing account of ambition derailed by personal demons . . . a triumphant drama of 'political genius in action' . . . Caro combines the skills of a historian, an investigative reporter and a novelist in this searching study of the transformative effect of power." —Wendy Smith, Los Angeles Times
"An addictive read, written in glorious prose that suggests the world's most diligent beat reporter channeling William Faulkner. Passage is an essential document of a turning point in American history. It's also an incisive portrait of one great, terrible, fascinating man suddenly given the chance to reinvent the country in his image." —Darren Franich, Entertainment Weekly
"Riveting . . . Shakespearean . . . It's a roller-coaster narrative as Johnson plummets from the powerful Senate majority leader post to vice-presidential irrelevance, hated and humiliated by the Kennedy brothers, then surges to presidential authority with the crack of Lee Harvey Oswald's rifle and forces a revolutionary civil rights act through a recalcitrant Congress . . . Caro's tormented, heroic Johnson makes an apt embodiment of an America struggling toward epochal change, one with a fascinating resonance in our era of gridlocked government." —Publishers Weekly (Boxed, Starred)
"The fourth volume of one of the most anticipated English-language biographies of the past 30 years . . . A compelling narrative . . . that will thrill those who care about American politics, the foundations of power, or both . . . Before beginning the Johnson biography, Caro published a life of Robert Moses, The Power Broker (1974), a book many scholars consider a watershed in contemporary biography. The Johnson project deserves equal praise." —KirkusReviews (Starred)
"A major event in biography, history, even publishing itself . . . Caro has once more combined prodigious research and a literary gift to mount a stage for his Shakespearean figures: LBJ, JFK, and LBJ's nemesis Robert F. Kennedy."
—Library Journal (Starred)
"Brilliant . . . Riveting reading from beginning to end . . . The real tour de force in this stunning mix of political and psychological analysis comes in the account of the transition between administrations, from November 23, 1963 to January 8, 1964 . . . An utterly fascinating character study, brimming with delicious insider stories . . . Political wonks, of course, will dive into this book with unbridled passion, but its focus on a larger-than-life, flawed but fascinating individual—the kind of character who drives epic fiction—should extend its reach much, much further. Unquestionably, one of the truly big books of the year." —Booklist (Starred)
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- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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- 05/01/2012
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- Years of Lyndon Johnson Series , #4
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Meet the Author
For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, has three times won the National Book Critics Circle Award, for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year and for Best Biography, and has also won virtually every other major literary honor, including the National Book Award, the Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that best "exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist." In 2010, he received the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama.
The Passage of Power, volume four, has been called "Shakespearean … A breathtakingly dramatic story [told] with consummate artistry and ardor" (The New York Times) and "as absorbing as a political thriller . . . By writing the best presidential biography the country has ever seen, Caro has forever changed the way we think about, and read, American history" (NPR). On the cover of The New York Times Book Review, President Bill Clinton praised it as "Brilliant . . . Important . . .Remarkable. With this fascinating and meticulous account Robert Caro has once again done America a great service."
"Caro has a unique place among American political biographers," according to The Boston Globe. "He has become, in many ways, the standard by which his fellows are measured." And Nicholas von Hoffman wrote: "Caro has changed the art of political biography."
Brief Biography
- Hometown:
- New York, New York
- Date of Birth:
- October 30, 1935
- Place of Birth:
- New York, New York
- Education:
- B.A., Princeton University, 1957; Nieman Fellow at Harvard University
- Website:
- http://www.robertacaro.com
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Read an Excerpt
Chapter 1
The Prediction
When he was young—seventeen and eighteen years old—Lyndon Johnson worked on a road gang that was building a highway (an unpaved highway: roads in the isolated, impoverished Texas Hill Country weren't paved in the 1920s) between Johnson City and Austin.
With little mechanical equipment available, the road was being built almost entirely by hand, and his job, when he wasn't half of a pick-and-shovel team with Ben Crider, a burly friend—six years older—from Johnson City, was "driving" a "fresno," a heavy two-handled metal scoop with a sharpened front edge, that was pulled by four mules. Standing behind the scoop, between its handles, as the mules strained forward to force the scoop through the hard Hill Country caliche soil, he would push as they pulled. Since he needed a hand for each handle, the reins were tied together and wrapped around his back, so for this work—hard even for older men; for a tall, skinny, awkward teenager, it was, the other men recall, "backbreaking labor," "too heavy" for Lyndon—Lyndon Johnson was, really, in harness with the mules. But at lunch hour each day, as the gang sat eating—in summer in whatever shade they could find as protection from the blazing Hill Country sun, in winter huddled around a fire (it would get so cold, Crider recalls, that "you had to build a fire to thaw your hands before you could handle a pick and shovel . . . build us a fire and thaw and work all day")—Lyndon would, in the words of another member of the gang, "talk big" to the older men. "He had big ideas. . . . He wanted to do something big with his life." And he was quite specific about what he wanted to do: "I'm going to be President of the United States one day," he predicted.
Poverty and backbreaking work—clearing cedar on other men's farms for two dollars a day, or chopping and picking cotton: on your hands and knees all day beneath that searing sun—were woven deep in the fabric of Lyndon Johnson's youth, as were humiliation and fear: he was coming home at night to a house to which other Johnson City families brought charity in the form of cooked dishes because there was no money in that house to buy food; to a house on which, moreover, his family was having such difficulty paying the taxes and mortgage that they were afraid it might not be theirs much longer. But woven into it also was that prediction.
In many ways, his whole life would be built around that prediction: around a climb toward that single, far-off goal. As a young congressman in Washington, he was careful not to mention that ambition to the rising young New Dealers with whom he was allying himself, but they were aware of it anyway. James H. Rowe Jr., Franklin Roosevelt's aide, who spent more time with Johnson than the others, says, "From the day he got here, he wanted to be President." When old friends from Texas visited him, sometimes his determination burst out of him despite himself, as if he could not contain it. "By God, I'll be President someday!" he exclaimed one evening when he was alone with Welly Hopkins. And an incident in 1940 showed the Texans how much he wanted the prize he sought, how much he was willing to sacrifice to attain it.
Lack of money had been the cause of so many of the insecurities of his youth, and his election to Congress, far from soothing those fears, had seemed only to intensify them: he talked incessantly about how his father, who had been an elected official himself—a six-term member of the Texas House of Representatives—had ended up as a state bus inspector, and had died penniless; he didn't want to end up like his father, he said. He talked about how he kept seeing around Washington former congressmen who had lost their seats—as, he said, he would inevitably one day lose his—and were working in low-paying, demeaning jobs; over and over again he related how once, while he was riding in an elevator in the Capitol, the elevator operator had told him that he had been a congressman. Hungry for money, he had already started accepting, indeed soliciting, financial favors from businessmen who wanted favors from him, and had been pleading with two important businessmen—George R. Brown of the Texas contracting firm of Brown & Root and the immensely wealthy Austin publisher, real estate magnate and oilman Charles Marsh—to "find" him a business in which he could make a little money of his own. So when, one autumn day in 1940, the three men—Johnson, Brown and Marsh—were vacationing together at the luxurious Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia, lying on a blanket in front of their adjoining cottages, and Marsh offered Lyndon Johnson a business in which he could make a lot of money, the two businessmen were sure the congressman would accept it. Marsh, who, in Brown's words, "loved Lyndon like a son," told him he could have his share in a lucrative oilfield partnership, a share worth three-quarters of a million dollars, without even putting up any money; he could "pay for it out of his profits each year." To the surprise of both men, however, Johnson said that he would have to think about the offer—and after a week he turned it down. "I can't be an oilman," he said; if the public knew he had oil interests, "it would kill me politically."
Believing they understood Johnson's political ambitions—Lyndon was always telling them about how he wanted to stay in the House until a Senate seat opened up, and then run for the Senate, about how the Senate seat was his ultimate goal in politics; never had he mentioned any other office, nor did he mention one during his week at the Greenbrier—Marsh and Brown were shocked by his refusal. Being known as an oilman couldn't hurt him in his congressional district, or in a Senate race in oil-dominated Texas. But then they realized that there was in fact one office for which he would be "killed" by being an "oilman." And then they understood that while Lyndon Johnson might hunger for money, that hunger was as nothing beside his hunger for something else.
And unlike others—the many, many others—in Washington who wanted the same thing he did, who had set their sights on the same goal, Lyndon Baines Johnson, born August 27, 1908, had mapped out a path to that goal, and he refused to be diverted from it.
The path ran only through Washington—it was paved with national, not state power—and it had only three steps: House of Representatives, Senate, presidency. And after he had fought his way onto it—winning a seat in the House in 1937 in a desperate, seemingly hopeless campaign—he could not be persuaded by anyone, not even Franklin Roosevelt, to turn off it. In 1939, the President offered to appoint him director of the New Deal's Rural Electrification Administration. The directorship of a nationwide agency, particularly one as fast-growing, and politically important, as the REA, was not the kind of job offered to many men only thirty years old, but Johnson turned the offer down; he was afraid, he said, of being "sidetracked." In 1946, he was urged by his party to run for the governorship of Texas. If he did, he knew, his election was all but assured, and at the time his path seemed to have reached a dead end in Washington: stuck in the House now for almost a decade, with little chance of any imminent advancement to its hierarchy, he seemed to have no chance of stepping into a Senate seat. In the 435-member House, he was still only one of the crowd of junior congressmen, and, as a woman who worked with him when he was young put it, he "couldn't stand not being somebody—just could not stand it." But he still wouldn't leave the road he had chosen as the best road to the prize he wanted so badly. The governorship, he explained to aides, could never be more than a "detour" on his "route," a detour that might turn into a "dead end." (Some years later, when his longtime assistant John Connally decided to run for the governorship, Johnson told him he was making a mistake in leaving Washington. "Here's where the power is," he said.) In 1948, still stuck in the House, he was about to turn forty, and a new assistant, Horace Busby, saw that "He believed, and he believed it really quite sincerely . . . that when a man reached forty, it was all over. And there was no bill ever passed by Congress that bore his name; he had done very little in his life." Hopeless though his ambition might seem, however, Lyndon Johnson still clung to it. Instructing Busby to refer to him in press releases as "LBJ," he explained: "FDR–LBJ, FDR–LBJ. Do you get it? What I want is for them to start thinking of me in terms of initials." It was only presidents whom headline writers and the American people referred to by their initials; "he was just so determined that someday he would be known as LBJ," Busby recalls.
That year, frantic to escape from the trap that the House had become for him, he entered a Senate race he seemed to have no chance of winning; during the campaign, and during post-campaign vote-counting, he went beyond even the notoriously elastic boundaries of Texas politics, and won.
But the Senate, into which he was sworn in January, 1949, was also only a step toward his goal, only the second rung on a three-rung ladder.
It was a rung on which he seemed very much at home. Lyndon Johnson was, as I have written, a reader of men. He had promulgated guidelines for such reading, which he tried to teach his young staff members. "Watch their hands, watch their eyes," he told them. "Read eyes. No matter what a man is saying to you, it's not as important as what you can read in his eyes." Teaching them to peruse men's weaknesses, he said that "the most important thing a man has to tell you is what he's not telling you; the most important thing he has to say is what he's trying not to say"—and therefore it was important not to let a conversation end until you learned what the man wasn't saying, until you "got it out of him." Johnson himself read with a genius that couldn't be taught, with a gift that was so instinctive that one aide, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, calls it a "sense." "He seemed to sense each man's individual price and the commodity he preferred as coin." And Johnson also had a gift for using what he read. His longtime lawyer and viceroy in Texas, Edward A. Clark, was to say, "I never saw anything like it. He would listen at them . . . and in five minutes he could get a man to think, 'I like you, young fellow. I'm going to help you.' " Watching Lyndon Johnson "play" older men, Thomas G. Corcoran, the New Deal insider and quite a player of older men himself, was to explain that "He was smiling and deferential, but, hell, lots of guys can be smiling and deferential. Lyndon had one of the most incredible capacities for dealing with older men. He could follow someone's mind around, and get where it was going before the other fellow knew where it was going." These gifts served Lyndon Johnson better in small groups—men marveled at his ability to "make liberals think he was one of them, conservatives think he was one of them"—since that tactic worked best when there was no member of the other side around to hear. It worked best of all when he was alone with one man. "Lyndon was the greatest salesman one on one who ever lived," George Brown was to say. These gifts had gone largely wasted in the House, whose 435 members "could be dealt with only in bodies and droves," but the first time Lyndon Johnson walked into the Senate Chamber after his election to that body, he muttered, in a voice so low that his aide Walter Jenkins, standing beside him, felt he was "speaking to himself," that the Senate was "the right size."
This assessment proved accurate with ninety-six men in that body, there were only a relatively small number of texts to be read, and because of senators' six-year terms, these texts were not constantly changing, as they were in the House, and therefore could be perused at length—some Senate subcommittees had only three members, so on these subcommittees it was literally necessary for the great salesman to sell only one man to obtain a majority for his views—and he rose to power in the Senate with unprecedented speed. In a body previously dominated by the strictures of seniority, he became Assistant Leader of his party in 1951, two years after he arrived there; in another two years, still in his first term, he became the party's Leader; two years later, in 1955, when the Demo-crats became the majority party in the Senate, Lyndon Johnson became the Majority Leader, the most powerful man in the Senate, after just a single term there, the youngest Majority Leader in history, the most powerful man in the Senate after just a single term there.
The youngest—and the greatest. By 1955, in the opinion of its journalistic chroniclers and a growing number of historians and political scientists, the Senate was the joke it had been for decades, only more so—so much an object of contempt that, increasingly frequently, a suggestion was being heard that perhaps the institution might be dispensed with entirely: its "obsolesence," said the era's most authoritative work on Capitol Hill, George B. Galloway's The Legislative Process in Congress, "may lead the American people in time to recognize that their second chamber is not indispensable." Revolutionizing the Senate, not only pushing long-stalled social welfare legislation through it but making it, for the first time in over a century, a center of governmental energy and creativity, Lyndon Johnson brought a nineteenth-century—in many ways an eighteenth-century—institution into the twentieth century. The role of Leader—legislative leader—was, furthermore, clearly a role he was born to play. As he stood at the Leader's commanding front-row center desk in the Senate Chamber directing the Senate's actions with the surest of hands, as he strode the aisles of the Chamber and Capitol with colleagues addressing him by title—"Good morning, Leader." "Could I have a minute of your time, Leader?" "Mr. Leader, I never thought you could pull that one off"—he was completely in charge, a man at home in his job. His twelve years in the Senate, his wife, Lady Bird, was to say, "were the happiest twelve years of our lives."
To him, however, the Senate remained only a rung on the ladder—as was demonstrated in 1956, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. He had stayed out of the primaries and other pre-convention maneuvering because he had concluded he had no chance to win the party's presidential nomination, but when at the very last moment, on the very eve of the convention, he suddenly came to feel that he did have a chance, he grabbed for the prize. Although his effort lasted only two days, the frenzied urgency with which, during these days, he grabbed ("Deep down, he understood the realities," Jim Rowe recalls, "but he wanted to be President so much." Adds Tommy Corcoran: "On most things, you could talk sense to Lyndon. But there was no talking to him about this") showed how desperately he wanted it. And when the two days were over, and with another two days still remaining before the actual balloting, it became clear that the ballot would be only a formality and that Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois was assured of an overwhelming victory, Johnson, in the past invariably the most pragmatic of politicians, nevertheless refused to withdraw his name—against all logic, in the face of every pragmatic consideration—his supporters felt they understood the reason. After explaining that Johnson's actions "made no sense to anyone, myself included," John Connally added that in politics "you can always have a dream," that "you always have hope"—and that Johnson had simply been unable to bring himself to give up his great dream. "He wanted it so much he wasn't thinking straight," Corcoran said. Resting up at Brown & Root's hunting lodge in Falfurrias, Texas, after the convention, Johnson spent hours talking to George Brown, who says, "He hadn't thought he would be so close . . . and then when all of a sudden, he felt he was close, he got carried away with the thought that he might get it, and he simply couldn't bear to just admit he didn't have a chance." That was the explanation, Tommy Corcoran agrees; Johnson hadn't withdrawn "Because he couldn't bear to." And these men knew he would try again—at the next convention, in 1960. Standing ankle-deep in discarded sand- wich wrappers, coffee containers and Johnson placards on the Convention floor after Stevenson had won (he received 905 votes, Johnson 80), Connally shouted defiantly, "Don't you worry, this was just a practice run. We'll be back four years from now!"
One obstacle made climbing to the next—the top, the ultimate—rung, reaching the prize of which he had so long dreamed, especially difficult for him. He was from the South, from one of the eleven states that had seceded from the Union and formed the rebel Confederacy, and that, despite America's Civil War almost a century before, still largely denied basic civil rights to their black citizens—to the indignation and anger of the heavily populated northern states, the states whose convention votes determined the Democratic nominee. With growing black protests focusing attention on southern injustice, northern anger against the South was mounting steadily during the late 1950s. No southerner had been elected President for more than a century,* and it was a bitter article of faith among southern politicians that no southerner would be elected President in any foreseeable future; when members of the House of Representatives gave their Speaker, Sam Rayburn, ruler of the House for more than two decades, a limousine as a present, attached to the back of the front seat was a plaque that read "To Our Beloved Sam Rayburn—Who Would Have Been President If He Had Come from Any Place but the South."
During his first twenty years in Congress, through 1956, Lyndon Johnson's 100 percent southern voting record on civil rights and his work as a southern strategist, a Richard Russell lieutenant, against rights bills—work that had won him the trust and respect of the "Georgia Giant" so completely that Russell anointed him to one day succeed him, and the Southern Bloc raised him to the Senate leadership—had put what one journalist called "the taint of magnolias" on Lyndon Johnson; in 1956, there had been no realistic possibility that the North would support him for the nomination, or that it would, should he be nom- inated, vote for him for President. He could never scrub off that taint completely, but during the year following the 1956 disappointment, he managed to remove part of it. Throughout his life, there had been hints that he possessed a true, deep compassion for the downtrodden, and particularly for poor people of color, along with a true, deep desire to raise them up. During his previous career, that compassion, subordinated always to ambition, had revealed itself only in brief flashes, quickly suppressed, but in 1957, compassion and ambition had finally come into alignment, pointing at last in the same direction. His allies in Washington told him bluntly what he already knew: that the crux of the North's animosity to him was its belief that he was opposed to civil rights, and that the only way to dilute that animosity was to pass a civil rights bill. "Consequential action . . . is essential for LBJ," warned a confidential memo he received from his supporter Philip Graham, publisher of the Washington Post. Otherwise, Graham told him, he might wind up his career as only another southern legislative leader, "only to be (another) Dick Russell." Corcoran, that ultimate Washington insider, was, as always, blunter; he was to recall telling Johnson flatly in 1957 that "If he didn't pass a civil rights bill, he could just forget [the] 1960 [nominawtion]." And these warnings were being given to a man who didn't need them. "If I failed to produce on this one," Lyndon Johnson himself said, "everything I had built up over the years would be completely undone." In 1957, he set out to pass a civil rights bill. And when, after months of effort, that attempt seemed to have failed, and he retreated to his ranch, as if to avoid being identified with another civil rights defeat, Rowe pursued him with a memo warning him that he had no choice but to come back and fight: "This is Armageddon for Lyndon Johnson. . . . I would not like to see the 1960 nomination go down the drain because of . . . 1957." It had been upon receipt of that memo at the ranch that Lyndon Johnson had returned to Washington, and, in a monumental feat of legislative maneuvering, of bullying, cajoling, threatening, of lightning tactical decisions on the Senate floor, and of parliamentary genius on a grand scale, including a strategic masterstroke that brought into line behind his efforts, in a single trans- action, a dozen western senators, had succeeded in persuading his twenty-one fellow southern senators—the mighty "Southern Caucus"—to allow the passage of the first civil rights bill since Reconstruction, eighty-two years earlier. It was not a strong bill. By the time Johnson had finished fashioning a compromise that the southerners would accept, provisions that would have enforced school desegregation and banned racial segregation in housing, hotels, restaurants and other public places—provisions liberals considered essential—had been removed; only a single civil right, voting, remained, and the provisions for enforcing that lone right proved largely useless. But the mere fact of the bill's passage—that after eighty-two years in which every civil rights bill that reached the Senate had died there, one had finally been passed—was of historic signifi- cance. "It opened a major branch of American government to a tenth of the pop- ulation for which all legislative doors had been slammed shut," Johnson's longtime press secretary, George Reedy, said. And Johnson argued—in a con- tention that would be vindicated by history—that although there was only one right remaining in the bill, that was the right that mattered: that it gave blacks the power to at least begin fighting for other rights. Furthermore, he pointed out, once a bill was passed, it could be amended to correct its deficiencies. "It's just a beginning," he said. "We'll do it again, in a couple of years. . . . Don't worry, it's only the first."
Although passage of the 1957 Civil Rights Act did not eliminate the distrust with which liberals viewed him—far from it; his previous record on civil rights was too long, and too southern, for that, the bill he had forced through too weak—his Washington allies felt that the sharpest edges of that distrust had been blunted. As for the southern senators, a key reason they had allowed the measure to pass was their hope that enactment of a bill with which Johnson was identified might, by lessening northern distrust of him, enable the South to get its first Pres- ident in a century; they were confident that as President, Johnson would keep civil rights reform to a minimum. He had, in years of private conversations, con- vinced the southerners that in his heart he was on their side. "We can never make him President unless the Senate first disposes of civil rights," Russell had explained to Reedy. So if he ran for the 1960 nomination, expectations were that the eleven southern states would be solidly behind him—a bloc of 352 votes out of the 761 needed for nomination in the Democratic convention. And he had a real chance, political observers said, to go into the convention with a large bloc of votes from the West as well. Now, at last, was the moment Lyndon Johnson had been waiting for all his life. While Adlai Stevenson was still the idol of many Democratic liberals, his two losses in presidential campaigns disqualified him in the eyes of party professionals, and anyway he had said quite definitively that he would not be a candidate. The party's perennial hopeful, Estes Kefauver of Ten- nessee (Adlai's running mate in 1956), was distrusted by these same profession- als because of his stubborn independence. And Kefauver, like the other potential candidates, John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and Stuart Symington of Missouri, was a senator, and he, Lyndon Johnson, was the Senate's Leader, their leader, the man they had to come to—and had been coming to, for years—for every large and small favor in the Senate pantry. As Lyndon Johnson surveyed the field in early 1958, none of these men seemed a particularly formidable opponent.
If he won the nomination, furthermore, he would not have to face Eisenhower, since the beloved President would have served the two terms the Constitution allowed. Neither of the two potential Republican nominees—William Knowland of California and Eisenhower's Vice President, Richard M. Nixon—would be nearly as formidable. Lyndon Johnson had positioned himself as well as was possible for a southern candidate. Now was the moment to strike.
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Point No. 7: A.J. Edds is a draft prospect that every NFL fan should admire.
There are a couple of draft prospects who jump out at me each year as authentic blue-collar players--guys who might not have elite, first-round athletic talent, but have a a true passion for the game, are highly coachable, are an asset in the locker room, possess a non-stop motor and a knack for always being around the ball.
In this year's draft class, Iowa linebacker A.J. Edds is one of those rare gems.
During Senior Bowl practices in January, I kept spotting Edds in my line of sight as I tracked the flow of plays. He wasn't necessarily making a bunch of big plays that were thrusting him into the spotlight, but he was fully engaged and around the ball more frequently than most of the other defensive players. He was shadowing receivers and hustling to the ball on every play.
"Ever since I was a little kid, when I played defense I had a knack for figuring out where the ball was going to be, and I've always taken pretty good angles," Edds told me this week. "A lot of it at Iowa came from film study, putting in time that other people might not be willing to do that can help you cue on things.
"You get to this level and there's a handful of guys who are better than everybody else based on athletic ability, but the guys who really succeed are the guys who study, who don't have to think on the field because they know what's going to happen based on the film."
Typical of Edds' dedication to ongoing improvement, he plans to do a full workout at Iowa's Pro Day on Monday, March 22 even though he put up solid numbers at the NFL Combine that included top-ten finishes in the forty-yard dash and the 20-yard shuttle.
"I've been looking forward to working out and going through the drills at 100 percent without the exhaustion that goes along with the Combine experience," he said. "I know I can run as well or better back here at school."
The 6-foot-4, 246-pound linebacker, who snagged five interceptions during his senior year, believes his three years of experience as a starter will serve him well as he makes the leap to the pro game.
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Rated 4.4 out of 5 by 29 reviewers.
Rated 4 out of 5 by Kondita Good Purchase I needed a larger barbecue for my son's next day"after the wedding barbecue" for family. My own was a bit small for 30 or so people and I wanted something larger but not huge as I probably wouldn't use it again in a hurry. The barbecue was not difficult to assemble but the instructions were not great as certain pieces had to go on a certain way round and this was not indicated and by definition I got it wrong first time! It is reasonably well built and the shelf is very useful. The ability to use only half is also good, with each side sufficient for up to 10-15 people depending on what you are cooking per person. I am happy with the purchase as it does the required job. 30 May 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by Nirana Good purchase but few hiccups The overall product was as expected.However one of the enamel cooking grill had a few bends and was chipped off in some places. I did not want to return the whole BBQ so I took the cooking grill to an ASDA where a colleague replaced it seamlessly. Good product and good after service. 13 April 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by hammo24 BBQ! We bought this product as we thought the price was great and with the weather hinting it may turn nice thought it was a perfect time to buy! However with the false glimpse of hope we got we haven't yet had chance to use our bbq! On another note it was easy to put together, is nice and sturdy and looks expensive. 25 April 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by simionb1 Very Impressed Used the new bbq for the first time yesterday and its perfect- better than any of the more expensive ones I looked at. Its a good height so no need to stoop , the double cooking area along with adjustable cooking heights gives you all the control you need to cook things perfectly and the versatility for cooking many different things at the same time. the fold out front shelf is very handy feature and along with it being around half the price of most others in its range has made me very happy indeed - I love it ! 05 May 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by DCinPE A Great Barbecue Needed a new barbecue to replace stone one, saw this in store and liked it. No Stock so ordered it on line. It arrived as promised and the instructions were easy to follow for the assembly. Easily to move around the garden. Does exactly what I wanted in barbecue. The shelf on the front is great. I highly recommend this barbecue . 08 May 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by RJohnson Buying another one! Let me make this point first... we BBQ a lot... writing this on Feb 25th and we have already had 15 BBQs so far this year. We have BBQ'd for 60 people as well as just for the two us us... and this suits our needs perfectly. The 3 height adjustable grilling levels are perfect - effectively giving you 6 x heights available (3 per side). Great storage space underneath as well. A few points of note - we keep the BBQ under a lean-too at the back of the house and 2 summers of wheeling it in and out resulted in the wheels falling off but as I said we use it a lot!!! Also I found an issue with the deep base where your coals sit - easily remedied by placing a line of bricks at the base below your charcoal grate. An excellent purchase of which we certainly have had our monies worth - so much so as I said in the title - we are buying a new one! 26 February 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by janedebbie Brilliant charcoal bbq Missed out of buying this bbq last year, so when i knew we were having a bbq for Friends & family, i purchased this bbq, read & re read the reviews, shall i buy this bbq or the bigger one, decided on this one and couldnt be more pleased, easy to put together, strong /sturdy ,we cooked for approx 40, we did have to add more charcoal only because we didnt know how many would turn up, but it coped well, cant praise it enough 06 June 2013
Rated 1 out of 5 by Jimmy152 Would have been good if condition was acceptable I would have been very happy with this purchase if it wasn't for the handle used for wheeling the barbecue around being in a totally unacceptable condition for a new product. On removing the handle from the wrapping prior to assembly, I could see that the paintwork on it was blistering and loose. The paint flaked off to reveal a heavily rusty and corroded handle underneath. The rest of the product had some "rust dust" on it which wiped off with a cloth, but still, it should not have been in that condition. It's a shame, as otherwise, it's a good product. 11 May 2015


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The George Hotel3
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"Great value for money, in a beautiful location. The hotel is clearly set up for coach parties, however was friendly and clean with good faci..."
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"Have stayed here a few times and enjoyed each time. Staff are great and can't fault the value for money the hotel offers. It is needing a bi..."
"First impressions of the hotel were very nice, clean and friendly. We walked to our room and were greeted by an odd smell which I can only t..."
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Priding itself on its warm and friendly 'Northern Hospitality', the George Hotel is set on the banks of the North Tyne in a beautiful setting overlooking Chesters Roman Bridge and Hadrian's Wall beyond. Surrounded by beautiful gardens and good walking, the Hotel boasts open fires, friendly staff and locally sourced and freshly prepared food. Five miles from Hexham, voted Britain's most picturesque market town by Country Life magazine, the Hotel is the perfect place to relax and enjoy a short break.
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Great value for money, in a beautiful location.
The hotel is clearly set up for coach parties, however was friendly and clean with good facilities. Whilst parts could do with a update, this is a throughly pleasant hotel to stay in. Highly recommended for a short break away, or a stop whilst seeing the sights of Northumberland
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We managed to get the last room available.
The bathroom is in need of refitting. Toilet flush falling off wall. Waste bin rusted. Bath dirty. Cob webs in room and window did not close easily. Room was best approached by a trek through the garden. Linen clean. Breakfast was acceptable, although the food had obviously been kept hot for some while.
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Carluccio's offer a fine selection of regional Italian foods including ready made dishes and fresh bread as well as fresh wild mushrooms and truffles. There is a delicatessen and food shop on the premises.
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I have To admit I'm a bit dissapointed, I love carluccio's Brooks and the cookig programs like "two greedy italians" so I really had great expectaions. Maybe too big. I had the fish stew which was good it had Manu types of fish in it and I enjoyed rating it. My mum had the risotto and I had a taste, in compairison To my stew this was really blend and I missed more chicken and more seasoning....more
went here last night for dinner after work. Been before and the service is always amazing. the food is really nice too, love it. the setting is really chilled. It's also reasonably priced too.more
Not a bad place to grab a quick lunch. They have a changing daily selection for lunch to go items. They also have a special for a pasta and drink.
Didn't get to have the sit-down experience.more
The Smithfield Carluccios never fails to make me happy. The food is always excellent and served relatively quickly, and the service is fantastic. I've had the same waiter the last few times I've been in and he's always friendly, quick, and recommends good wines and side dishes without being pushy. His pairings have not let me down yet, and I always leave with a full belly and a smile on my...more
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A really lovely, well lit shot Nik
I love the flags (especially the Union Flag) fluttering in the breeze.
Good luck in the contest.
Thanks Jethro, it's a nice enough building in the day but I think it really comes into its own when floodlit. With such a long exposure the tags are also bit fuzzy but like yourself I like them just fine that way.
Nice to hear from you, regards Nik
Wonderful place and nice night view Nik, liked, best wishes, Ahmet
Hi Ahmet, thank you so much for your visit and kind comments. It really is quite an impressive building and I am pleased that you think so too. Thank you or the like
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Love your gallery - this one is a great night shot Like & favourite, also added to my favourite photographers
Hello Frank, many thanks for your kind words anf for adding me to your favourite photographers!! So glad you liked this night shot of the old Bank of Scotland Building.
Regards, NikonWoman
Wow, looks like a very fancy building to have been the home of a bank. I love the night shot!
Hi Doerthe, It is rather a grand old building but I much prefer it at night when it is lit up like this. It makes quite an impression. I am so glad that you like it.
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Thank you again Drosoula, I think Edinburgh looks best at night and I am pleased you find this shot beautiful. Regards, Nikonwoman
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City of Berkeley Efforts to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions In 1998 the City adopted a goal of reducing community-wide GHG emissions by 15 percent by 2010. The City of Berkeley was one of the nation's first cities to adopt the goals of the Kyoto Protocol. This symbolic statement has been backed up by a concerted effort to be a national and international model in the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Green Buildings and Energy Efficiency Berkeley has taken the lead in reducing the energy use and environmental impacts through a series of green building efforts. • • Green City Buildings. The City adopted a requirement that all new/remodeled municipal buildings must be built to the LEED Silver standard. Sustainable Development Requirements. The City instituted a permit fee to fund sustainable development efforts and a green building coordinator. The City also requires all major projects to go through a green building review. Created Build It Green. 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Hosenparties were brought to college campuses by German students. They involve multiple people of both sexes pulling their pants of, throwing them around and then messing around in the mess of pants around them.
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Lowell Liebermann Cello Sheet Music: 1 items found
String Quartet No. 1
Composed by Lowell Liebermann. For String Quartet. Standard notation. Theodore Presser Company #114-40722M. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11440722M)
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