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7. Juli 2020 · The band itself had their own reputation for rowdy, raucous, after-show debauchery, rivalling, according to Henley, even the intrepid Led Zeppelin. Desperado cast them in a bit of an outlaw light, though the album was more metaphorical than anything, as Henley said in 1980.
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However, it was Nicks' short-lived fling with Don Henley in...
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Nine-year-old Claudia and ten-year-old Frieda MacTeer live in Lorain, Ohio, with their parents. It is the end of the Great Depression, and the girls parents are more concerned with making ends meet than with lavishing attention upon their daughters, but there is an undercurrent of love and stability in their home. The MacTeers take in a boarder, He...
Pecola moves back in with her family, and her life is difficult. Her father drinks, her mother is distant, and the two of them often beat one another. Her brother, Sammy, frequently runs away. Pecola believes that if she had blue eyes, she would be loved and her life would be transformed. Meanwhile, she continually receives confirmation of her own ...
We learn that Pecolas parents have both had difficult lives. Pauline, her mother, has a lame foot and has always felt isolated. She loses herself in movies, which reaffirm her belief that she is ugly and that romantic love is reserved for the beautiful. She encourages her husbands violent behavior in order to reinforce her own role as a martyr. She...
Cholly returns home one day and finds Pecola washing dishes. With mixed motives of tenderness and hatred that are fueled by guilt, he rapes her. When Pecolas mother finds her unconscious on the floor, she disbelieves Pecolas story and beats her. Pecola goes to Soaphead Church, a sham mystic, and asks him for blue eyes. Instead of helping her, he us...
- Toni Morrison
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Donald Hugh „Don“ Henley ist ein US-amerikanischer Rockmusiker, der gemeinsam mit dem 2016 verstorbenen Glenn Frey als Bandleader und Sänger der Country-Rockband Eagles bekannt wurde. Seit Beginn der 1980er Jahre verfolgte er zudem eine erfolgreiche Solokarriere und erhielt insgesamt acht Grammy Awards. Als Mitglied der Eagles wurde er ...
This album was also the first to feature members other than Stewart on lead vocals: Gregg sang "El Dorado" and shared lead vocals with Stewart on both "Carved in Stone" and "The Bluest Eyes in Texas", while Dittrich sang "Calm Before the Storm".
The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison. The novel takes place in Lorain, Ohio (Morrison's hometown), and tells the story of a young African-American girl named Pecola who grew up following the Great Depression. Set in 1941, the story is about how she is consistently regarded as "ugly" due to ...
- Toni Morrison
- 1970
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The Bluest Eye, Morrison's first novel, focuses on Pecola (pea-coal-uh) Breedlove, a lonely, young black girl living in Ohio in the late 1940s.
