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...dramas. Set in the early 1930s, the book follows the adventures of the 12-year-old Freddie Bloch, a working-class kid forced by circumstances to hit the railroad tracks of America, and enter the world of the destitute and homeless. Using convincing period detail and mixing it with fresh takes on the tropes of Depression-era dramas (breadlines, hobos, strikes, etc.) Kings in Disguise tells a coming-of-age story like none other in the medium...
...stories, like Clarke’s, are relatively interesting and Gilmour has a fresh wit about him that is matter-of-factly appropriate...
...digital led displays at a cost of $300,000 to $500,000 each. "Advertisers can change their messages almost instantaneously," says Sean Reilly, Lamar's president and coo. Reilly plans to put up 200 of those smart boards before the end of the year. That time-shift ability has fresh appeal for even the most familiar brands. McDonald's, for example, could advertise an Egg McMuffin in the morning and a Big Mac in the afternoon. "Selling day parts has never been an option for out-of-home advertisers before," says Jodi Senese, executive vice president of CBS Outdoor, which...
What, then, was Elizabeth's significance? It was no more-and no less-than the significance of a fresh young blossom on roots that had weathered many a season of wintry doubt. The British, as weary and discouraged as the rest of the world in 1952, saw in their new young Queen a reminder of a great past when they had carved out empires under Elizabeth I and Victoria, and dared to hope that she might be an omen of a great future. Her dramatic flight from a vacation in Kenya at George VI's death to take...
...cynical 1952, Britons and Americans alike were often too plagued by doubt to venture beyond the safeties of their past. In Elizabeth II, by God's grace Queen, Defender of the Faith, each might see a reminder of what was old and splendid, and also a fresh, imperative summons to make the present worthy of remembrance...