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There is a really interesting blog called "Fluent Forever" that aids foreign language learners in tricks, tips and techniques to guide them to achieving fluency "quickly" and efficiently. One of the tricks is to learn these 625 vocab words in your target language, that way you have a basis to start delving into grammar with ease as you can understand a lot of vocab right off the bat. Plus this list of words are common across the world and will aid you in whatever language you are learning. Here is the list in thematic order
• Animal: dog, cat, fish, bird, cow, pig, mouse, horse, wing, animal
• Transportation: train, plane, car, truck, bicycle, bus, boat, ship, tire, gasoline, engine, (train) ticket, transportation
• Location: city, house, apartment, street/road, airport, train station, bridge hotel, restaurant, farm, court, school, office, room, town, university, club, bar, park, camp, store/shop, theater, library, hospital, church, market, country (USA,
France, etc.), building, ground, space (outer space), bank, location
• Clothing: hat, dress, suit, skirt, shirt, T-shirt, pants, shoes, pocket, coat, stain, clothing
• Color: red, green, blue (light/dark), yellow, brown, pink, orange, black, white, gray, color
• People: son, daughter, mother, father, parent (= mother/father), baby, man, woman, brother, sister, family, grandfather, grandmother, husband, wife, king, queen, president, neighbor, boy, girl, child (= boy/girl), adult (= man/woman), human (# animal), friend (Add a friend's name), victim, player, fan, crowd, person
• Job: Teacher, student, lawyer, doctor, patient, waiter, secretary, priest, police, army, soldier, artist, author, manager, reporter, actor, job
• Society: religion, heaven, hell, death, medicine, money, dollar, bill, marriage, wedding, team, race (ethnicity), sex (the act), sex (gender), murder, prison, technology, energy, war, peace, attack, election, magazine, newspaper, poison, gun, sport, race (sport), exercise, ball, game, price, contract, drug, sign, science, God
• Art. band, song, instrument (musical), music, movie, art
• Beverages: coffee, tea, wine, beer, juice, water, milk, beverage
• Food: egg, cheese, bread, soup, cake, chicken, pork, beef, apple, banana orange, lemon, corn, rice, oil, seed, knife, spoon, fork, plate, cup, breakfast, lunch, dinner, sugar, salt, bottle, food
• Home: table, chair, bed, dream, window, door, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, pencil, pen, photograph, soap, book, page, key, paint, letter, note, wall, paper, floor, ceiling, roof, pool, lock, telephone, garden, yard, needle, bag, box, gift, card, ring, tool
• Electronics: clock, lamp, fan, cell phone, network, computer, program (computer), laptop, screen, camera, television, radio
• Body: head, neck, face, beard, hair, eye, mouth, lip, nose, tooth, ear, tear (drop), tongue, back, toe, finger, foot, hand, leg, arm, shoulder, heart, blood, brain, knee, sweat, disease, bone, voice, skin, body
• Nature: sea, ocean, river, mountain, rain, snow, tree, sun, moon, world, Earth, forest, sky, plant, wind, soil/earth, flower, valley, root, lake, star, grass, leaf, air, sand, beach, wave, fire, ice, island, hill, heat, nature
• Materials: glass, metal, plastic, wood, stone, diamond, clay, dust, gold, copper, silver, material
• Math/Measurements: meter, centimeter, kilogram, inch, foot, pound, half, circle, square, temperature, date, weight, edge, corner
• Misc Nouns: map, dot, consonant, vowel, light, sound, yes, no, piece, pain, injury, hole, image, pattern, noun, verb, adjective
• Directions: top, bottom, side, front, back, outside, inside, up, down, left, right, straight, north, south, east, west, direction
• Seasons: Summer, Spring, Winter, Fall, season
• Numbers: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 21, 22, 30, 31, 32, 40, 41, 42, 50, 51, 52, 60, 61, 62, 70, 71, 72, 80, 81, 82, 90, 91, 92, 100, 101, 102, 110, 111, 1000, 1001, 10000, 100000, million, billion, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, number
• Months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
• Days of the week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
• Time: year, month, week, day, hour, minute, second, morning, afternoon, evening, night, time
• Verbs: work, play, walk, run, drive, fly, swim, go, stop, follow, think, speak/say, eat, drink, kill, die, smile, laugh, cry, buy, pay, sell, shoot(a gun), learn, jump, smell, hear (a sound), listen (music), taste, touch, see (a bird), watch (TV), kiss, burn, melt, dig, explode, sit, stand, love, pass by, cut, fight, lie down, dance, sleep, wake up, sing, count, marry, pray, win, lose, mix/stir, bend, wash, cook, open, close, write, call, turn, build, teach, grow, draw, feed, catch, throw, clean, find, fall, push, pull, carry, break, wear, hang, shake, sign, beat, lift
• Adjectives: long, short (long), tall, short (vs tall), wide, narrow, big/large, small/little, slow, fast, hot, cold, warm, cool, new, old (new), young, old (young), weak, dead, alive, heavy, light (heavy), dark, light (dark), nuclear, famous
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•  Animal: dog - pies, cat - kot, fish - ryba, bird - ptak, cow - krowa, pig - świnia, mouse - mysz, horse - koń, animal - zwierzę
 • Transportation: train - pociąg, plane - samolot, car - samochód, truck -  ciężarówka, bicycle - rower, bus - autobus, boat - łódź, łódka, ship - statek, tire - opona, gasoline - benzyna, engine - silnik,  ticket - bilet, transportation - transport,  tram/streetcar - tramwaj
• Location: city - miasto, house - dom, apartment - apartament, flat - mieszkanie, street/road - ulica, airport - lotnisko, train station - stacja kolejowa, bridge - most, hotel - hotel, restaurant - restauracja, farm - farma, court, school - szkoła, office - biuro, room - pokój, town - miasteczko, university - uniwersytet, club - klub, bar - bar, park - park, camp - obóz, store/shop - sklep, theater - teatr, library - biblioteka, hospital - szpital, church - kościół, market - supermarket, country (USA, France, etc.) - państwo, building - budynek, ground - ziemia, space (outer space) - przestrzeń kosmiczna, kosmos, bank - bank, location - położenie, police - policja, army - armia
 • Clothing: hat - czapka, dress - sukienka, suit - garnitur, skirt - spódnica, shirt - koszula, T-shirt - t-shirt, koszulka, pants - majtki, trousers - spodnie, shoes - buty, pocket - kieszeń, coat - płaszcz, stain - plama, clothing - ubrania
  • Color: red - czerwony/czerwona, green - zielony/zielona, blue - niebieski/niebieska, yellow - żółty/żółta, brown - brązowy/brązowa, pink - różowy/różowa, orange - pomarańczowy/pomarańczowa, black - czarny/czarna, white - biały/biała, gray - szary.szara, color - kolor
  • People: son - syn, daughter - córka, mother - matka, father - ojciec, parent (= mother/father) - rodzic, baby - niemowlę, man - mężczyzna, woman - kobieta, brother - brat, sister - siostra, family - rodzina, grandfather - dziadek, grandmother - babcia, husband - mąż, wife - żona, king - król, queen - królowa, president - prezydent, neighbor - sąsiad/sąsiadka, boy - chłopiec/chłopak, girl - dziewczynka/dziewczyna, child (= boy/girl) - dziecko, adult (= man/woman) - dorosły, human (≠ animal) - człowiek, friend - przyjaciel/przyjaciółka, victim - ofiara, player - zawodnik/zawodniczka, fan - fan/fanka, crowd - tłum, person - osoba
 • Job: Teacher - nauczyciel/nauczycielka, student - uczeń/uczennica, lawyer - prawnik/prawniczka, doctor - lekarz/lekarka, patient - pacjent/pacjentka, waiter - kelner/kelnerka, secretary - sekretarz/sekretarka, priest - ksiądz, policeman/policewoman - policjant/policjantka, soldier - żółnierz/żółnierka, artist - artysta/artystka, author - pisarz/pisarka, manager - menadżer/menadżerka, reporter - reporter/reporterka, actor - aktor/aktorka, job - praca
  • Society: religion - religia, heaven - niebo, hell - piekło, death - śmierć, medicine - medycyna, money - pieniądze, bill - rachunek, marriage - małżeństwo, wedding - ślub, team - zespół, race (ethnicity) - rasa (etniczność), sex (the act) - seks, sex (gender) - płeć, murder - morderstwo, prison - więzienie, technology - technologia, energy - energia, war - wojna, peace - pokój, attack - atak, napaść, election - wybory, magazine - magazyn, newspaper - gazeta, poison - trucizna, gun - broń, sport - sport, race (sport) - wyscig, exercise - ćwiczenia, ball - piłka, game - gra, mecz, price - cena, contract - umowa/kontrakt, drug - lekarstwo, narkotyk, sign - znak, science - nauka,
 • Art: band - zespół, song - piosenka, instrument (musical) - instrument, music - muzyka, movie - film, art - sztuka
  • Beverages: coffee - kawa, tea - herbata, wine - wino, beer - piwo, juice - sok, water - woda, milk - mleko, beverage - napój
  • Food: egg - jajko, cheese - ser, bread - chleb, soup - zupa, cake - ciasto, chicken - kurczak, pork - wieprzowina, beef - wołowina, apple - jabłko, banana - banan, orange - pomarańcz, lemon - cytryna, corn - kukurydza, rice - ryż, oil - olej, seed - ziarno, knife - nóż, spoon - łyżka, fork - widelec, plate - talerz, cup - filiżanka, mug - kubek, breakfast - śniadanie, lunch - lunch, dinner - kolacja,  sugar - cukier, salt - sól, bottle - butelka, food - jedzenie
 • Home: table - stół, chair - krzesło, bed - łóżko, dream - marzenie, window - okno, door - drzwi, bedroom - sypialnia, kitchen - kuchnia, bathroom - łazienka, pencil - ołówek, pen - długopis, photograph - zdjęcie/fotografia, soap - mydło, book - książka, page - strona, key - klucz, paint - farba, letter - list, note - notatka, wall - ściana, paper - papier, floor - podłoga, ceiling - sufit, roof - dach, pool - basen, lock - zamek, telephone - telefon, garden - ogród, needle - igła, bag - torba, box - pudełko, gift - prezent, card - karta, ring - pierścionek, tool - narzędzie
 • Electronics: clock - zegar, lamp - lampa, fan - wentylator, cell phone - telefon komórkowy, komórka, network - sieć, computer - komputer, program (computer) - program komputerowy, laptop - laptop, screen - ekran, camera - aparat fotograficzny, kamera, television - telewizja, radio - radio, tablet - tablet
  • Body: head - głowa, neck - szyja, face - twarz, beard - broda, hair - włosy, eye - oko, mouth - usta, lip - warga, nose - nos, tooth - ząb, ear - ucho, tear (drop) - łza, tongue - język, back - plecak, toe - palec, finger - palec, foot - stopa, hand - ręka, leg - noga, arm - ramię, shoulder - bark, heart - serce, blood - krew, brain - mózg, knee - kolano, sweat - pot, disease - choroba, bone - kość, voice - głos, skin - skóra, body - ciało, wrist - nadgarstek
 • Nature: sea - morze, ocean - ocean, river - rzeka, mountain - góra, rain - deszcz, snow - śnieg, tree - drzewo, sun - słońce, moon - księżyc, world - świat, Earth - Ziemia, forest - las, sky - niebo, plant - roślina, wind - wiatr, soil/earth - gleba/ziemia, flower - kwiat, valley - dolina, root - korzeń, lake - jezioro, star - gwiazda, grass - trawa, leaf - liść, air - powietrze, sand - piasek, beach - plaża, wave - fala, fire - ogień, ice - lód, island - wyspa, hill - wzgórze, heat - ciepło, nature - natura
  • Materials: glass - szkło, metal - metal, plastic - plastik, wood - drewno, stone - kamień, diamond - diament, clay - glina, dust - kurz, gold - złoto, copper - miedź, silver - srebro, material - materiał
  • Math/Measurements: meter - metr, centimeter - centrymetr,  kilogram - kilogram, inch - cal, foot - stopa, pound - funt, half - pół, circle - koło, square - kwadrat, temperature - temperatura,  weight - waga, edge - próg, corner - kąt
  • Misc Nouns: map - mapa, dot - kropka, consonant - spółgłoska, vowel - samogłoska, light - światło, sound - dźwięk, yes - tak, no - nie, piece - kawałek, pain - bół, injury - rana, hole - dziura, image - obraz, pattern - schemat/wzór, noun - rzeczownik, verb - czasownik, adjective - przymiotnik
  • Directions: top - góra, bottom - dół, side - bok/strona, front - przód, back - tył, outside na zewnątrz, inside wewnątrz, up - w góre, down - w dół, left - lewa/lewy, right - prawa/prawy, straight - na wprost, north - północ, south - południe, east - wschód, west - zachód, direction - kierunek
 • Seasons: Summer - lato, Spring - wiosna, Winter - ziemia, Fall - jesień, season - pora roku
  • Numbers: 0 - zero, 1 - jeden, 2 - dwa, 3 - trzy, 4 - cztery, 5 - pięć, 6 - sześć, 7 - siedem, 8 - osiem, 9 - dziewięć, 10 - dziesięć, 11 - jedenaście, 12 - dwanaście, 13 - trzynaście, 14 - czternaście, 15 - piętnaście, 16 - szesnaście, 17 - siedemnaście, 18 - osiemnaście, 19 - dziewiętnaście, 20 - dwadzieścia, 21 - dwadzieścia jeden, 22 - dwadzieścia dwa, 30 - trzydzieści, 31 - trzydzieści jeden , 32 trzydzieści dwa, 40 - czterdzieści, 41 - czterdzieści jeden, 42 - czterdzieści dwa, 50 - pięćdziesiąt, 51 - pięćdziesiąt jeden, 52 pięćdziesiąt dwa, 60 sześćdziesiąt, 61 - sześćdziesiąt jeden, 62 - sześćdziesiąt dwa, 70 - siedemdziesiąt, 71 - siedemdziesiąt jeden, 72 - siedemdziesiąt dwa, 80 osiemdziesiąt, 81 - osiemdziesiąt jeden, 82 - osiemdziesiąt dwa, 90 - dziewięćdziesiąt, 91 - dziewięćdziesiąt jeden, 92 - dziewięćdziesiąt dwa, 100 - sto, 101 - sto jeden,, 102 sto dwa, 110 sto dziesięć, 111 sto jedenaście, 1000 - tysiąc, 1001 tysiąc jeden, 10000 - dziesięć tysięcy, 100000 - sto tysięcy, million - milion, billion - miliard, 1st,- pierwszy  2nd,- drugi 3rd,trzeci 4th,czwarty 5th,- piąty number - numer
 • Months: January - Styczeń, February - Luty, March - Marzec, April - Kwiecień, May - Maj, June - Czerwiec, July - Lipiec, August - Sierpień, September - Wrzesień, October - Październik, November - Listopad, December - Grudzień
  • Days of the week: Monday - Poniedziałek, Tuesday - Wtorek, Wednesday - Środa, Thursday - Czwartek, Friday - Piątek, Saturday - Sobota, Sunday - Niedziela, week - tydzień,
  • Time: year - rok, month - miesiąc, week - tydzień, day - dzień, hour - godzina, minute - minuta, second - sekunda , morning - poranek/rano, afternoon - popołudnie, evening - wieczór, night - noc, time - czas, midnight - północ, midday - południe
  • Verbs: work - pracować, play - grać, walk - spacerować/chodzić, run - biegać, drive - jechać (samochodem), fly - latać, swim - pływać, go - iść, stop - zatrzymywać, follow - śledzić, podążać za kimś/za czymś, think - myśleć, speak - mówić, say - powiedzieć, eat - jeść, drink - pić, kill - zabić, die - umierać, smile - uśmiechać się, laugh - śmiać się, cry - płakać, buy - kupować, pay - płacić, sell - sprzedawać, shoot(a gun) - strzelać (z pistoletu), learn - uczyć się, jump - skakać, smell - wąhać, hear (a sound) - słyszeć, listen (music) - słuchać, taste - próbować/smakować, touch - dotykać, see (a bird) - widzieć, watch (TV) - oglądać, kiss - całować, burn - palić, melt - roztapiać, dig - kopać, explode - wybuchnąć/eksplodować, sit - siedzieć, stand - stać, love - kochać, pass by - mijać, cut - ciąć, fight - bić się/walczyć, lie down - leżeć, dance - tańczyć, sleep - spać, wake up - budzić się, sing - śpiewać, count - liczyć, marry - żenić się/wychodzić za mąż/brać ślub, pray - modlić się, win - wygrywać/wygrać, lose - przegrywać/przegrać, mix/stir - mieszać, bend - schylać się/schylić się, wash - myć, cook - gotować, open - otwierać, close - zamykać, write - pisać, call - dzwonić, turn - obrócić/obracać się, build - budować, teach - uczyć, nauczać, grow - rosnąć, draw - rysować, feed - karmić, catch - łapać/złapać, throw - rzucać/rzucić, clean - czyścić, find - znajdować, fall - upadać, push - pchać/popychać, pull - ciągnąć, carry - nieść, break - zbić/rozbijać, wear - ubierać, hang - wisieć, shake - potrząsać/wstrząsać, sign - podpisywać, beat - bić, lift - podnosić,
 • Adjectives: long - długi/długa/długie, short (vs long) - krótki/krótka/krótkie, tall - wysoki/wysoka/wysokie, short (vs tall) - niski/niska/niskie, wide - szeroki/szeroka/szerokie, narrow - wąski/wąska/wąskie, big/large - duży/duża/duże, small/little - mały/mała/małe, slow - wolny/wolna/wolne, fast - szybki/szybka/szybkie, hot - gorący/gorąca/gorące, cold - zimny/zimna/zimne, warm - ciepły/ciepła/ciepłe, cool - fajny/fajna/fajne, new - nowy/nowa/nowe, old (new) - stary/stara/stare, young - młody/młoda/młode, old (young) - stary/stara/stare, good - dobry/dobra/dobre, bad - zły/zła/złe, wet - mokry/mokra/mokre, dry - suchy/sucha/suche, sick - chory/chora/chore, healthy - zdrowy/zdrowa/zdrowe, loud - głośny/głośna/głośne, quiet - cichy/cicha/ciche, happy - szczęśliwy/szczęśliwa/szczęśliwe, sad - smutny/smutna/smutne, beautiful - piękny/piękna/piękne, ugly - brzydki/brzydka/brzydkie, deaf - głuchy/głucha/głuche, blind - ślepy/ślepa/ślepe, nice - miły/miła/miłe, mean - wredny/wredna/wredne, rich - bogaty/bogata/bogate, poor - biedny/biedna/biedne, thick - gruby/gruba/grube, thin - chudy/chuda/chude, expensive - drogi/droga/drogie, cheap - tani/tania/tanie, flat - płaski/płaska/płaskie, curved - krzywy/krzywa/krzywe, male - męski/męska/męskie, female - damski/damska/damskie, tight ciasny/ciasna/ciasne or obcisły/obcisła/obcisłe, loose - luźny/luźna/luźni, high - wysoki/wysoka/wysokie, low - niski/niska/niskie, soft - miękki/miękka/miękkie or delikatny/delikatna/delikatne, hard - twardy/twarda/twarde or trudny/trudna/trudne, deep - głęboki/głęboka/głębokie, shallow - płytki/płytka/płytkie, clean - czysty/czysta/czyste, dirty - brudny/brudna/brudne, strong - silny/silna/silne, weak - słaby/słaba/słabe, dead - martwy/martwa/martwe, alive - żywy/żywa/żywe, heavy - ciężki/ciężka/ciężkie, light (vs heavy) - lekki/lekka/lekkie, dark - ciemny/ciemna/ciemne, light (dark) - jasny/jasna/jasne, famous - sławny/sławna/sławne
  • Pronouns: I - ja, you (singular) - ty, he - on, she - ona, it - ono/to, we - my, you (plural, as in “y’all”) - wy, they. - oni, one
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Editor's note: Megan Rapinoe gave her brother, Brian, a birthday shout-out on national TV after winning the 2019 Women's World Cup, the Golden Boot as the tournament's top scorer and the Golden Ball as its top player. Here is the story behind their complicated relationship.
DAYS BEFORE THE first game of the 2019 Women's World Cup, Brian Rapinoe jokingly texted his sister, Megan Rapinoe -- co-captain and star midfielder for the U.S. women's national team: "Megs, breaks my heart that you couldn't fly me out for an all-expenses-paid trip to France." She shot back: "Oh yeah, so sad I couldn't pamper you for a month in France."
An hour before kickoff against Thailand on June 11, the rest of the Rapinoe family found their seats in the Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims; Brian charged his ankle monitor and rounded up the other guys in the dormitory at San Diego's Male Community Reentry Program, a rehabilitative program that allows an inmate to finish the final 12 months of his sentence taking classes or working jobs outside of prison.
The MCRP common room might not be France, but it's a vast improvement over solitary confinement, where Brian has watched Megan play in the previous two World Cups. He sat on a couch in his red USA jersey, watching on a 60-inch flat-screen, and felt "f---ing great." He had accomplished a major goal for himself: to get out of prison in time to watch his kid sister play in her third World Cup.
Every time the U.S. scored, the room full of men cheered loudly. Nobody there thought the U.S.'s 13 goals against Thailand and exuberant celebrations after each were done in poor taste. "This is what soccer should always be like," one man said.
"It's the World Cup: There's no f---ing holding back," 38-year-old Brian says. "This is every four years."
And his sister didn't hold back. When Megan scored goal No. 9 for the U.S., she sprinted to the sideline, spun around twice and then slid to the ground for a foot-kicking celebration. As the camera zoomed in on her, one of the guys yelled, "Holy s---, it's Brian!"
He has the same face as his sister.
The face, the charisma, the wit, the tendency to burst into song: In so many ways, Brian and Megan are alike. But they are also a study in contrasts: At 15 years old, Brian brought meth to school and has been in and out of incarceration ever since. At 15, Megan played with her first youth U.S. national team and started traveling the world. As a young inmate and gang member, Brian was inked with swastika tattoos -- an allegiance to white supremacy that he now disavows; as a professional soccer player, Megan was the first prominent white athlete to kneel to protest racial inequality.
Despite their different paths, the brother and sister have stayed close through letters, phone calls and texts. "I have so much respect for her. And not just because she's the s--- at soccer. It's her utter conviction in the things that she believes in and the stances she takes against injustices in the world," he says.
"I was her hero, but now -- there's no question -- she is mine."
Megan, right, "worshipped" Brian when they were children. Brian, who is five years older, introduced her to soccer early on.
GROWING UP, MEGAN and her twin sister, Rachael, adored Brian. He was their hero, the charismatic jokester who did Jim Carrey and Steve Urkel impressions and danced ridiculous dances. The girls had three other siblings, but he could make them laugh harder than anyone else could. He taught them how to catch crawfish in the creek, walked them to the patch of field across from the church and taught them soccer until his mother called them in with a two-finger whistle. In the side yard, he set up cones and showed his 4-year-old sisters how to dribble the ball -- with the inside of the foot only, with the outside of the foot only, left and then right. "And it wasn't like he drilled them. He let them do it their own way," says his mother, Denise Rapinoe, her voice cracking. "It was just the cutest thing, and we remember it so clearly."
In elementary school, like her brother, Megan was rough and tumble, and spoke her mind. Her second-grade teacher's aide pulled Denise aside to relay the following scene: Megan came in from the playground, walked into the classroom, stood with her arms on her hips and announced, "Brian Rapinoe is my brother, and I am just like him!"
"I worshipped him," Megan says. "He played left wing, so I played left wing. He wore No. 7; I wore No. 7. He got a bowl cut, so I did too."
So when Brian first started smoking marijuana as a 12-year-old, a 7-year-old Megan was confounded. Why was he doing that? Brian still doesn't know for sure. "Right from the start, I was hooked," he says. "One drug always led to the next." He was also attracted to the "fast life," he says, to getting high, to driving nice cars and to the "hype around this lifestyle." She wanted him to stop, and she was still young enough to think there was something she could do. Three years later, when her parents sat her and Rachael down and told them the police had arrested Brian for bringing meth to school, she cried. He was going to juvenile detention. She did not understand: What had happened to her big brother?
"For many years, Megan and Rachael were pissed as hell," Brian says. "They still loved me, they still let me know they were there for me, but they were like, 'What the f--- are you doing?'"
"My mother is the queen of the family," Brian, left, says of Denise Rapinoe, right. "I just love her so much. I'm such a baby when it comes to her."
BY 18 YEARS OLD, Brian had moved on to harder drugs -- heroin, specifically -- and he became more reckless. He was charged with car theft, evading arrest and a hit-and-run while driving under the influence of drugs -- and now, as an adult, his juvenile detention days were over. He was sent to prison. Within months, he aligned himself with the white prison gang and was inked with Nazi tattoos. A swastika on his palm; lightning bolts on his fingers, sides and calves
These tattoos devastated his family. "The prejudice, the racism -- it was so against the way he'd been raised," Denise says. "He wasn't that kind of kid. He was kind, his nature was so loving."
To Brian, the swastikas weren't about prejudice and racism at that point -- they were about heroin and survival. To support his addiction, he needed to be, in his words, "an active participant in prison culture." The California prison system was segregated. That meant Brian lived strictly among the white population. "You come in as a kid, and there are these older dudes you think you respect, spouting ideas, and you kind of listen," Brian says. "I developed a protect-your-own mentality."
He tried to explain that to his mother. The gang was a family, he said; it was a place to belong. "I told him, 'This is not who we are,'" Denise says. "'This is not who you are.'"
Megan was as heartbroken as her mother. "I thought [the tattoos] were horrible," she says. "I still think they're horrible. I could rationalize them: I understood that when he first got in there, he was searching for identity, trying to survive."
But the big brother she had worshipped? It felt like she had lost him.
As a young player on the U19 U.S. women's national team, Megan wore the No. 7 jersey. It was the number Brian wore when he played soccer.
BRIAN BECAME HEAVILY involved in gang life and racked up charges while doing time: possession of drugs, possession of a deadly weapon, three assaults on other white inmates. He spent eight of his 16 years in prison in solitary confinement for this behavior. By 2007 -- as he was turning 27 years old -- he was transferred to Pelican Bay State Prison in Northern California, the state's only super-max-security prison.
While general population is segregated, solitary confinement is not, and every inmate gets one hour out of his cell to walk the pod. Here, the protect-your-own thinking began to fall away for Brian. "You start relating to people beyond your hood, your area, your color," he says. "It doesn't take long before you start talking with each other, seeing how much you have in common. Back there, it's just you in the cell, and the man next to you is just a man himself."
There's no radio, no television in the individual cells in the hole. Sitting in a cement box, counting the number of holes in the perforated door is "hard; it's definitely hard," he says. "But you find a way to escape. You've got books, you've got writing, some guys draw. And you develop these relations with other people, these connections."
Three times a week, inmates also get three hours outside, albeit in his own cage. "In the yard, you start talking [to other guys] -- sports, music, my sister is always a big ice-breaking conversation. You say [to them], 'When we go back in from yard, you can look at my pictures,' or you say, 'Here's something I wrote.' Maybe you become good friends -- like me and Monster did."
Monster, also known as Sanyika Shakur, is a black nationalist and the author of the bestseller, Monster: Autobiography of an LA Gang Member. He and Brian were on the same pod for two years. Using a line and a weight, they'd send each other long letters from cell to cell, fishing for them beneath the doors. Brian shared the song lyrics he wrote; Monster let him read drafts of his articles and essays. For years, Brian had been a serious reader, consuming everything from the classics, to books about social issues. He'd read The New Jim Crow and learned about how police disproportionately search black men and arrest them for nonviolent drug offenses, and how the War on Drugs decimated communities of color.
"He taught me what it means to be racist," Brian says, "and he taught me what it means not to be racist."
By 2010, the now 30-year-old had a new understanding of what the white supremacist insignias represented. He had his face tattoos lasered off. The swastika on his palm became a spider web; the Nazi lightning bolts became skulls. He did not want any racial insignias on his skin. They did not reflect who he was. But he was still using heroin -- and the next year, he was arrested for selling it.
Brian was behind bars once again -- this time at Donovan State Prison in San Diego.
When Megan scored in the 2011 Women's World Cup against Colombia, she seized the moment and sang Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" -- something, people say, Brian would do.
IN JUNE 2011, Brian had something new to talk about during his hour walking the pod: His little sister was playing in her first World Cup -- and he was going to get everybody to watch.
The 15-inch television was at the other end of the hallway, some 50 yards away. He built a tower out of 60 books and tied them together with torn sheets. Sitting on top of it, he could just see the TV through the window in the door. In an early game against Colombia, Megan roped in a goal, then immediately sprinted to the corner flag, grabbed a cameraman's mic and sang Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA." The guys got a kick out of this because Brian was the singer on the pod, and this flamboyant corner-flag serenade was so like him.
Days later, ahead of the quarterfinals against Brazil, all 30 cells on top and all 30 cells on bottom were watching, everybody perched at their doors. Megan -- young and audacious with her signature short blonde hair -- subbed in at the end of the game, and in extra time, sure enough -- boom! -- she sent a 50-yard cross-field ball to U.S. forward Abby Wambach, who headed it home to tie the game. "We were going wild," Brian says. "We were yelling and pounding on the doors."
Later that night, on the prison pay phone, Brian talked with his mom. She described the end of the game, how Megan, having just experienced the craziest, most awesome moment of her life, walked to the stands and stood there, searching through the some 20,000 faces for her mom's. Denise put her two index fingers in her mouth and let out her trademark whistle -- the same whistle she had used when they were kids. She had to do it a second and then a third time before Megan could hear her. Megan tapped her ear. "She was letting me know she heard me," Denise told Brian at the time, choking up -- which made Brian choke up a little, too. He could imagine it.
"Not being there -- it hurt," Brian says.
Another four years passed. This time he was in solitary confinement because of his violent record at the Vista Detention Facility, a lower-security prison, in San Diego County -- and Megan was headed to Canada for her second World Cup. The women would end up winning it all, the first time the team had done so since 1999.
"That was the hardest," Brian says. "I was super happy for Megs and super sad for myself. I fricking love my family so much. They were all there. It was like, f---, man, I'm like not really even a part of this. Yeah, I got a lot of support for her in prison, but when the game is over and the ruckus has died down, I'm sitting in my cell. I'm not there to give her a hug, I'm not there to witness it, I'm not there to be a part of it. It's just another thing in their lives that I'm missing out on. What the f--- am I doing with my life?"
Brian was almost 35 years old. He had spent more than half of his adult life incarcerated.
After Megan kneeled during the anthem in 2016, a former prisonmate called Brian to commend her actions. "What your sister is doing -- it means so much," said Sanyika Shakur, a black nationalist. "She is standing up for people who don't have a voice."
ON SEPT. 1, 2016, when San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeled during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial profiling, Brian was briefly out of prison -- although he was still using heroin. Three days later, Megan kneeled in support while playing for her club team, the Seattle Reign. Then, while playing for the U.S., she did it again.
Brian saved the newspaper article with the picture of her solemn, angled-down face. He watched the YouTube videos of the coverage. He thought, Hell yeah. He also read the comments: "If she was on my team, I'd knock this idiot out. She should be banned from the national squad for life. Such disrespect." He understood that she would anger people, understood the impending fallout. He knew that enrollment in her summer camps and sales of her clothing brand, Be Your Best You, would go down. He thought, My sister is brave; my sister is bad ass.
Like every time before, Brian's freedom proved to be short-lived. By July 2017, he was back up north in Pelican Bay. Back to the regimented, day-to-day prison routine. Where tomorrow is the same as today. His whole life had been a habitual rut; Megan's anthem protest felt like the opposite of that. Her stance showed him there is a way to put a foot down on something in life, in spite of the fallout that will come.
Not long after, he had a breakthrough. His cellmate was helping him inject heroin into the back of his neck when the needle broke. "I freaked out on him, really lost it," Brian says. "And he said to me, 'Look at how you are acting right now.'" And for whatever reason, those words torpedoed into Brian and transformed into personal questions he asked himself. Your whole happiness and peace of mind is focused on this dirty-ass hypodermic needle: Is this what you want? Do you want this cell and this bulls--- powerful persona to be all you are?
He thought about the seven murders he'd witnessed out on the yard. He thought about his own knife fights -- about everything he'd done and been a part of -- just so he could continue to do heroin. He thought about Megan. Look at all she's done with her life -- look at what you've done with yours.
That's when he finally decided he was ready for change. He enrolled in the new self-improvement and rehabilitation classes the California prison system had begun to offer. Each completed class reduced time from his sentence.
Most importantly, after using and selling drugs for 24 years, Brian quit -- and he's been clean for 18 months.
"If I do drugs," he says, "I will go back to prison. I didn't believe that for a long time. Now, I believe that -- I don't ever want to go back."
Shortly before his first day of school at San Diego Community College, Brian met up with a friend from Pelican Bay, Cesar, who is also taking classes. "From the Bay to the books," Brian says. "I am so stoked to begin."
TODAY IS BRIAN'S first day at San Diego City College. As part of the Male Community Reentry Program, he's taking classes to finish up the final year of his sentence, and he has some butterflies. "It's been a long time since I've gone to school -- even when I was in school, it was juvenile hall -- I've never taken anything except regular math. I've never even taken algebra.
Plus, he says, it's a little unnerving to sit in a classroom with 18-year-olds whose experiences have been drastically different from his own. He's self-conscious about his tattoos -- particularly his neck tattoo, SHASTA, inscribed in large gothic letters, the name of the county in which he grew up. "These tattoos, I freaking hate them," Brian says.
But he also knows those tattoos could matter again in the future. He wants to get involved in the juvenile delinquency program, wants to talk to anybody who might be about to jump off the same ledge he did. "These tattoos, it's gonna get their attention," he says. "It's like, dude, you don't think I know what I'm talking about?
"I want to make a difference," he says. "I want to be like Megan."
He had "a really fricking deep conversation" with her about two months ago. They talked about racial profiling; they talked about police brutality; they talked about what Megan's kneeling meant to both of them. Megan saw that in spite of their very different paths, they'd arrived at similar conclusions.
"My brother is special," Megan says. "He has so much to offer. It would be such a shame if he left this world with nothing but prison sentences behind him. To be able to have him out, and to play for him, and to have him healthy, with this different perspective that he has now: This is like the best thing ever."
While Megan is in France, she and Brian text daily -- with game thoughts, encouragement and shared excitement.
"This is one of the most exciting things I can even remember ... just everything really, you, the school, the program," Brian texts.
She replies: "People always ask me what got me into soccer ... your wild ass of course."
"Luckily I played a cool sport. What if I'd been into arm-wrestling or something."
"Oh lawd, yea you really set me up."
"Get some sleep -- love you."
"Lovee you Bri! Let's f---ing go!"
-- Freelance writer Gwendolyn Oxenham is the author of Under the Lights and in the Dark: Untold Stories of Women's Soccer.
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625 words in korean
These are the 625 words to know in your target language in Korean. I excluded honorific/formal words, which you can find in my last post. Please feel free to correct me if there are any mistakes as I’m not a native speaker ^_^
A D J E C T I V E S  ||  형 용 사 to be long // 길다 to be short (vs. long) // 짧다 to be tall // 키가 크다 to be short (vs. tall) // 키가 작다 to be wide // 넓다 to be narrow // 좁다 to be big/large // 크다 to be small/little // 작다 to be slow // 느리다 to be fast // 빠르다 to be hot // 덥다; 뜨겁다 to be cold // 춥다; 차갑다 to be warm // 따뜻하다 to be cool // 시원하다 to be new // 새롭다 to be old (vs. new) // 오래되다 to be young // 젊다 to be old (vs. young) // 늙다 to be good // 좋다 to be bad // 나쁘다 to be wet // 축축하다 to be dry // 마르다 to be sick // 아프다 to be healthy // 건강하다 to be loud // 시끄럽다 to be quiet // 조용하다 to be happy // 행복하다 to be sad // 슬프다 to be beautiful // 아름답다 to be ugly // 못생겼다 to be deaf // 귀먹다 to be blind // 눈이 멀다 to be nice // 착하다 to be mean // 못되다 to be rich // 부유하다 to be poor // 가난하다 to be thick // 두껍다 to be thin // 얇다 to be expensive // 비싸다 to be cheap // 싸다 to be flat // 평평하다 to be curved // 둥글다 male // 남성 female // 여성 to be tight // 팽팽하다 to be loose // 헐겁다 to be high // 높다 to be low // 낮다 to be soft // 부드럽다 to be hard // 딱딱하다; 단단하다 to be deep // 깊다 to be shallow // 얕다 to be clean // 깨끗하다 to dirty // 더럽다 to be strong // 강하다 to be weak // 약하다 to be alive // 살아있다 to be heavy // 무겁다 to be light (vs. heavy) // 가볍다 to be dark // 어둡다 to be light (vs. dark) // 밝다 to be nuclear // 핵이다 to be famous // 유명하다
A N I M A L S  ||  동 물 dog // 개 cat // 고양이 fish // 물고기 bird // 새 cow // 소 pig // 돼지 mouse // 쥐 horse // 말 wing // 날개 animal // 동물
A R T  ||  예 술 band // 악단; 밴드 song // 노래 (musical) instrument // 악기 music // 음악 movie // 영화 art // 예술; 미술
B E V E R A G E S  ||  음 료 coffee // 커피 tea // 차 wine // 와인; 포도주 beer // 맥주 juice // 주스 water // 물 milk // 우유 beverage // 음료
B O D Y  ||  몸 head // 머리 neck // 목 face // 얼굴 beard // 수염 hair // 머리카락 eye // 눈 mouth // 입 lip // 입술 nose // 코 tooth // 이; 치아 ear // 귀 tear (drop) // 눈물 tongue // 혀 back // 등 toe // 발가락 finger // 손가락 foot // 발 hand // 손 leg // 다리 arm // 팔 shoulder // 어깨 heart // 심장 blood // 피 brain // 뇌 knee // 무릎 sweat // 땀 disease // 질병 bone // 뼈 voice // 목소리 skin // 피부 body // 몸
C L O T H I N G  ||  옷 hat // 모자 dress // 원피스; 드레스 suit // 양복 skirt // 치마 shirt // 셔츠 t-shirt // 티셔츠 pants // 바지 shoes // 신발 pocket // 주머니 coat // 코트 stain // 얼룩 clothing // 옷
C O L O R S  ||  색 깔 red // 빨간(색) green // 초록색 blue // 파란(색) yellow // 노란(색) brown // 갈색 pink // 분홍색; 핑크색 orange // 주황색 black // 검은(색) white // 하얀(색); 흰색 gray // 회색 color // 색깔
D A Y S  O F  T H E  W E E K  ||  요 일 monday // 월요일 tuesday // 화요일 wednesday // 수요일 thursday // 목요일 friday // 금요일 saturday // 토요일 sunday // 일요일
D I R E C T I O N S  ||  방 향 top // 위 bottom // 밑 side // 옆 front // 앞 back // 뒤 outside // 밖 inside // 안 up // 위 down // 아래 left // 왼쪽 right // 오른쪽 straight // 직진 north // 북쪽 south // 남쪽 east // 동쪽 west // 서쪽 direction // 방향
E L E C T R O N I C S  ||  전 자  제 품 clock // 시계 lamp // 전등 fan // 선풍기 cell phone // 휴대폰; 핸드폰 network // 네트워크 computer // 컴퓨터 (computer) program // 컴퓨터 프로그램 laptop // 노트북 screen // 컴퓨터 화면 camera // 카메라 television // 텔레비전; 티비 radio // 라디오
F O O D S  ||  음 식 egg // 달걀; 계란 cheese // 치즈 bread // 빵 soup // 국; 수프 cake // 케이크 chicken // 닭고기 pork // 돼지고기 beef // 소고기 apple // 사과 banana // 바나나 orange // 오렌지 lemon // 레몬 corn // 옥수수 rice // 쌀; 밥 oil // 기름 seed // 씨 knife // 칼 spoon // 숟가락 fork // 포크 plate // 접시 cup // 컵 breakfast // 아침 lunch // 점심 dinner // 저녁 sugar // 설탕 salt // 소금 bottle // 병 food // 음식
H O M E  ||  집 table // 식탁; 탁자 chair // 의자 bed // 침대 dream // 꿈 window // 창문 door // 문 bedroom // 침실 kitchen // 부엌; 주방 bathroom // 욕실; 화장실 pencil // 연필 pen // 펜 photograph // 사진 soap // 비누 book // 책 page // 페이지 key // 열쇠 paint // 물감 letter // 편지 note // 메모 wall // 벽 paper // 종이 floor // 바닥 ceiling // 천장 roof // 지붕 pool // 수영장 lock // 자물쇠 telephone // 전화 garden // 정원 yard // 마당 needle // 바늘 bag // 가방 box // 상자 gift // 선물 card // 카드 ring // 반지 tool // 도구
J O B S  ||  직 업 teacher // 선생님 student // 학생 lawyer // 변호사 doctor // 의사 patient // 환자 waiter // 웨이터; 종업원 secretary // 비서 priest // 성직자; 사제 police // 경찰 army // 군대 soldier // 군인 artist // 화가 author // 작가 manager // 부장님 reporter // 기자 actor // 배우 job // 직업
L O C A T I O N S  ||  위 치 city // 도시 house // 집 apartment // 아파트 street/road // 길; 거리 airport // 공항 train station // 기차역 bridge // 다리 hotel // 호텔 restaurant // 식당; 레스토랑 farm // 농장 court // 법원 school // 학교 office // 사무실 room // 방 town // 마을 university // 대학교 club // 클럽 bar // 술집; 바 park // 공원 camp // 야영지 store/shop // 가게 theatre // 극장; 영화관 library // 도서관 hospital // 병원 church // 교회 market // 시장 country (usa, france, etc.) // 국가; 나라 building // 건물 ground // 땅 (outer) space // 우주 공간 bank // 은행 location // 위치
M A T E R I A L S  ||  재 료 glass // 유리 metal // 금속 plastic // 플라스틱 wood // 나무 stone // 돌 diamond // 다이아몬드 clay // 점토 dust // 먼지 gold // 금 copper // 구리 silver // 은 material // 재료
M A T H / M E A S U R E M E N T S  ||  수 학 / 측 정 meter // 미터 centimeter // 센티미터 kilogram // 킬로그램 inch // 인치 foot // 풋 pound // 파운드 half // 반 circle // 원형 square // 정사각형 temperature // 온도 date // 날짜 weight // 중량 edge // 가장자리 corner // 모퉁이
M I S C E L L A N E O U S  ||  잡 동 사 니 map // 지도 dot // 점 consonant // 자음 vowel // 모음 light // 빛 sound // 소리 yes // 네 no // 아니요 piece // 조각 pain // 아픔; 통증 injury // 부상 hole // 구멍 image // 이미지 pattern // 양식; 패턴 noun // 명사 verb // 동사 adjective // 형용사
M O N T H S  ||  달 january // 1월 (일월) february // 2월 (이월) march // 3월 (삼월) april // 4월 (사월) may // 5월 (오월) june // 6월 (유월) july // 7월 (칠월) august // 8월 (팔월) september // 9월 (구월) october // 10월 (시월) november // 11월 (십일월) december // 12월 (십이월)
N A T U R E  ||  자 연 sea // 바다 ocean // 대양 river // 강 mountain // 산 rain // 비 snow // 눈 tree // 나무 sun // 태양 moon // 달 world // 세계 the earth // 지구 forest // 숲 sky // 하늘 plant // 식물 wind // 바람 soil/earth // 흙 flower // 꽃 valley // 계곡 root // 뿌리 lake // 호수 star // 별 grass // 풀 leaf // 잎 air // 공기 sand // 모래 beach // 해변 wave // 파도 fire // 불 ice // 얼음 island // 섬 hill // 언덕 heat // 열 nature // 자연
N U M B E R S  ||  숫 자 0 // 공; 영 1 // 하나; 일 2 // 둘; 이 3 // 셋; 삼 4 // 넷; 사 5 // 다섯; 오 6 // 여섯; 육 7 // 일곱; 칠 8 // 여덟; 팔 9 // 아홉; 구 10 // 열; 십 11 // 열하나; 십일 12 // 열둘; 십이 13 // 열셋; 십삼 14 // 열넷; 십사 15 // 열다섯; 십오 16 // 열여섯; 십육 17 // 열일곱; 십칠 18 // 열여덟; 십팔 19 // 열아홉; 십구 20 // 스물; 이십 21 // 스물하나; 이십일 22 // 스물둘; 이십이 30 // 서른; 삼십 31 // 서른하나; 삼십일서른 32 // 서른둘; 삼십이 40 // 마흔; 사십 41 // 마흔하나; 사십일 42 // 마흔둘; 사십이 50 // 쉰; 오십 51 // 쉰하나; 오십일 52 // 쉰둘; 오십이 60 // 예순; 육십 61 // 예순하나; 육십일 62 // 예순둘; 육십이 70 // 일흔; 칠십 71 // 일흔하나; 칠십일 72 // 일흔둘; 칠십이 80 // 여든; 팔십 81 // 여든하나; 팔십일 82 // 여든둘; 팔십이 90 // 아흔; 구십 91 // 아흔하나; 구십일 92 // 아흔둘; 구십이 100 // 백 101 // 백일 102 // 백이 110 // 백십 111 // 백십일 1000 // 천 1001 // 천일 10000 // 만 100000 // 십만 1 million // 백만 1 billion // 십억 1st // 첫 번째 2nd // 두 번째 3rd // 세 번째 4th // 네 번째 5th // 다섯 번째 number // 숫자; 수사
P E O P L E  ||  사 람 들 son // 아들 daughter // 딸 mother // 어머니 father // 아버지 parent // 부모 baby // 아기; 애기 man // 남자 woman // 여자 brother // 오빠; 형; 남동생 sister // 언니; 누나; 여동생 family // 가족 grandfather // 할아버지 grandmother // 할머니 husband // 남편 wife // 아내; 와이프 king // 왕 queen // 여왕; 왕비 president // 대통령 neighbor // 이웃 boy // 소년 girl // 소녀 child // 아이; 어린이; 애 adult // 성인 human // 인간 friend // 친구 victim // 피해자 player // 선수 fan // 팬 crowd // 군중 person // 사람
P R O N O U N S  ||  대 명 사 I // 저; 나 you (singular) // 당신; 자네; 너 he // 그 she // 그녀 it // 그것 we // 저희; 우리 you (plural) // 당신들; 너희들; 여러분 they // 그들
S E A S O N S  ||  계 절 summer // 여름 spring // 봄 winter // 겨울 fall/autumn // 가을 season // 계절
S O C I E T Y  ||  사 회 religion // 종교 heaven // 천국 hell // 지옥 death // 죽음 medicine // 약 money // 돈 dollar // 달러 bill // 계산서 marriage // 결혼 wedding // 결혼식 team // 팀 race (ethnicity) // 민족 sex (the act) // 섹스; 성교 sex (gender) // 성별 murder // 살인 prison // 감옥 technology // 기술 energy // 에너지; 정력 war // 전쟁 peace // 평화 attack // 공격 election // 선거 magazine // 잡지 newspaper // 신문 poison // 독 gun // 총 sport // 스포츠 race (sport) // 경주 exercise // 운동 ball // 공 game // 게임; 경기 price // 가격; 값 contract // 계약서 drug // 마약 sign // 신호 science // 과학 God // 하나님; 하느님; 신
T I M E  ||  시 간 year // 해 month // 달 week // 주 day // 하루; 날 hour // 시간 minute // 분 second // 초 morning // 아침 afternoon // 오후 evening // 저녁 night // 밤 time // 시간
T R A N S P O R T A T I O N  ||  교 통 수 단 train // 기차 plane // 비행기 car // (자동)차 truck // 트럭 bicycle // 자전거 bus // 버스 boat // 배 ship // 배 tire // 타이어 gasoline // 휘발유 engine // 엔진 (train) ticket // 표 transportation // 교통수단
V E R B S  ||  동 사 to work // 일하다 to play // 놀다 to run // 뛰다; 달리다 to drive // 운전하다 to fly // 날다 to swim // 수영하다 to go // 가다 to stop // 멈추다; 그만하다 to follow // 따르다 to think // 생각하다 to speak/say // 말하다 to eat // 먹다 to drink // 마시다 to kill // 죽이다 to die // 죽다 to smile // 웃다 to laugh // 웃다 to cry // 울다 to buy // 사다 to pay // 내다; 결제하다 to sell // 팔다 to shoot (a gun) // 쏘다 to learn // 배우다 to jump // 뛰다 to smell // 냄새를 맡다 to hear (a sound) // 듣다 to listen (to music) // 듣다 to taste // 맛보다 to touch // 만지다 to see (a bird) // 보다 to watch (tv) // 보다 to kiss // 뽀뽀하다; 키스하다 to burn // 타다 to melt // 녹다 to dig // 파다 to explode // 폭발하다 to sit // 앉다 to stand // 서다 to love // 사랑하다 to pass by // 지나가다 to cut // 자르다 to fight // 싸우다 to lie down // 눕다 to dance // 춤을 추다 to sleep // 자다 to wake up // 일어나다 to sing // 노래하다 to count // 세다 to marry // 결혼하다 to pray // 기도하다 to win // 이기다 to lose // 지다; 잃어버리다 to mix/stir // 섞다; 젓다 to bend // 구부리다 to wash // 씻다 to cook // 요리하다 to open // 열다 to close // 닫다 to write // 쓰다; 적다 to call // 부르다; 전화하다 to turn // 돌리다 to build // 짓다 to teach // 가르치다 to grow // 자라다 to draw // 그리다 to feed // 먹이다 to catch // 잡다 to throw // 던지다 to clean // 청소하다 to find // 찾다 to fall // 떨어지다 to push // 밀다 to pull // 당기다 to carry // 나르다 to break // 부서지다; 깨다 to wear // 입다; 신다; 쓰다; 매다; 끼다; 차다 to hang // 걸다; 매달다 to shake // 흔들다 to sign // 서명하다; 사인하다 to beat // 치다 to lift // 올리다
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The Motivation behind why Everybody Love Best Online Shopping.
The 14 best kitchen, home stylistic theme, and furniture bargains best online shopping at the present time
 This week, you can discover real investment funds on Amazon furniture, All-Clad cookware, thus considerably more. (Photograph: All-Clad/Amazon)
 — Our editors survey and prescribe items to enable you to purchase the stuff you need. On the off chance that you make a buy by clicking one of our connections, we may gain a little portion of the income. In any case, our picks and sentiments are autonomous from USA The present newsroom and any business motivating forces.
 The excellence of shopping on the web is that you can generally discover an arrangement on something. The trouble is that there are so cracking numerous retailers and things to purchase that notwithstanding finding a deal can be overpowering, not to mention finding that thing you need and ensuring it's very great arrangement.
 Increasingly: All the best back-to-class best online shopping arrangements and deals up until this point
 To enable you to begin your hunt out right, we scour all the top online retailers to perceive what they have going on. We observe these spots intently so we're sure that the spots in this rundown are really holding deals that merit perusing, regardless of whether you need to get another bed, substitute your worn out home stylistic layout for something more fall-centered, or overhaul your cooking apparatuses.
 1. All-Clad
 This exceptionally pined for cookware, which is made to work incredibly as well as endure forever, is regularly unattainable in light of the fact that it's so dang costly. Be that as it may, from time to time, Every single Clad ha deals on their "processing plant seconds" stock, and today is one of those time. This 48-hour streak deal is a stunning chance to get top-quality cookware for monstrous limits. Production line seconds does mean there might be some minor corrective harm, however no more regrettable that what will occur as you utilize these pots and container in any case, so why not exploit these profound limits?
 2. Heritage
 Alright, so this isn't actually an arrangement on things for your home, however we couldn't not make reference to that Family line is having a part of the bargain. You can get their DNA packs for just $59 now through August 26, which is $10 more than we saw on Prime Day and regularly observe on The shopping extravaganza following Thanksgiving and for the occasions. In any case, on the off chance that you have any birthday events or other present surrendering occasions coming, this could be an extraordinary present, particularly on the grounds that you are setting aside cash as well. Also, Attributes is simply $10 more to add on, rather than the typical $20.
 3. Bed Shower and Past
 BB&B consistently has a type of uncommon, and right presently they have a couple of worth investigating. In the first place, you can discover various types ofcollege bedding basics for 30% off. Also, in case you're not carrying on with that dormitory life, you can in any case shop reserve funds. They're offering $100 off select Dyson vacuums and fans (consistently a decent arrangement), 40% off select cutlery, and limits on Brita pitchers, shoreline towels, and the sky is the limit from there.
 4. Casper Sleeping pad
 In the event that you've constantly needed a Casper sleeping cushion, you should look at this deal, which finishes today. They're offering 10% off your request when you purchase the first Casper or the new Wave sleeping cushions, which is a similar markdown they regularly offer for all the real bedding deal occasions. Simply enter the code "SLEEPCOOL" at checkout to see your markdown.
 5. Costco
 You can locate some amazing arrangements in case you're a Costco part at this moment. You can spare $50 on Ring brilliant home security (cameras, video doorbells, and that's only the tip of the iceberg) and $70 on iPads. Furthermore, on the off chance that you have children preparing for the start on the school year, look at class kickoff reserve funds on mass bites, quarters basics, school supplies, and then some.
 6. Drop
 Football season is simply around he corner, and on the off chance that you need to observe each game on the best television conceivable, you might need to look at Drop's arrangement on the Samsung 65" Q900 QLED Savvy 8K UHD television. Indeed, that says 8K, a too top quality picture quality that is in all respects gradually turning into a thing. The 65-inch television is selling for $2,800. It ordinarily costs $4,000, so this $1,200 value plunge has us excessively energized.
 The arrangement is live for the following three days, and you should simply pursue a free record with Drop (once in the past Massdrop). Outsources it with white glove administration as well, so you don't need to stress over harm from travel. Also, on the off chance that you need something greater, the 75-and 88-inch models are at a bargain too.
 7. Dyson
 We as a whole know owning a Dyson vacuum is viewed as world class inside the cleaning network, yet really owning one is kind of a pipe dream on account of their high costs. Be that as it may, at this moment, Dyson is presenting to $170 off a huge amount of well known vacuums and devices including the V11 Torque, our preferred cordless vacuum. There are additionally a few cordless vacuums on this rundown just as air purifiers for your home.
 8. Home Terminal
 The Home Terminal is one of those retailers that reliably has in any event one noteworthy deal going on. This week, you can discover up to 35% on select machines, as much as 40% off shower and kitchen fundamentals, and class kickoff investment funds of us to 40% on furniture, stockpiling, and bedding. Indeed, Home Station sells bedding now.
 9. Houzz
 Fall is coming, and winter isn't a long ways behind. In the event that you've been pondering re-trying your stylistic theme before you're investing more energy inside, Houzz is having a middle of the season deal right now through August 18. You can spare as much as 75% on a portion of their most prominent items, and it's not all wallet-gouging pieces, either. There are some mind boggling pieces beginning underneath $199, including this adorable easy chair, huge amounts of lighting and bar stools, thus significantly more. In the case of nothing else, this is a deal worth perusing and staring off into space about.
 10. Macy's
 Macy's is having a huge same on furniture at this moment, with limits up to 60% on love seats, carpets, porch furniture, sleeping cushions, and that's only the tip of the iceberg. What's more, when you enter the code "HOME" at checkout, you'll get an extra 10% off. Nothing amiss with that!
 11. Nectar Rest
 In case you don't know a Casper is directly for you, we prescribe the Nectar. Truth be told, it's the best bedding we've tried up until now. I mulled over it for a month and a half and observed it to be the most agreeable (I'm a side sleeper) and the coolest (and I rest extremely hot) of the considerable number of beddings I've attempted. They began their Work Day deal all around right on time and are offering $100 off and two free cushions with the buy of one of their sleeping pads through September 9.
 12. Sur la Table
 There are not many things on the planet that I cherish in excess of a decent blowout deal, and right now Sur La Table is having a gigantic one. It's actuallythe last day of this deal, so on the off chance that you haven't looked at it yet, I'm so happy regardless you have time. Not exclusively are there limits as immense as 75% off, however they're offering an extra 20% off. You can discover everything from dinnerware to cookware to eating materials and preparing frill.
 13. Target
 Do you need a reason to go to Target today? What about, other than their school year kickoff deals, Target is additionally offering a huge amount of limits on furniture, lighting, covers, draperies, style, mats, and other home products for up to 25% off. This is flawless whether you need to spruce up your stylistic theme for fall or you're sending your children off to their dormitories or school condos.
 14. Wayfair
 With regards to Wayfair, the inquiry isn't On the off chance that they'll hold a deal, it's what it will be on. On the off chance that you're now preparing your patio for fall, at that point you're in karma. At the present time, you can prepare for the fall season with Wayfair's Prep for Fall deal, which offers up to 65% off outside stylistic theme and furniture. They've additionally got blaze deals on an assortment of things, including floor coverings and work areas and stylistic theme, just as limits on room furniture and territory mats under $150.
 The item specialists at Surveyed have all your best online shopping needs secured. Pursue Investigated on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for the most recent arrangements, surveys, and that's only the tip of the iceberg.
 Costs are exact at the time this article was distributed, however may change after some time.
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House in Beverly Hills: Laurel Way Residence
Beverly Hills House, Laurel Way Home, Los Angeles Residence, California Property Photos
House in Beverly Hills
Laurel Way Home, New California Residence, USA design by Whipple Russell Architects
post updated Sep 19, 2020 ; Dec 28, 2013
House in Beverly Hills
Design: Whipple Russell Architects
LAUREL WAY Beverly Hills, California
One aesthetic idea driving the creation of Laurel Way was that each room or space should be a jewel box, an individually conceived, precisely functional and dramatic sensory experience with its own depth of architecture.
Central to the composition are many of Marc Whipple’s signature elements, one being the use of texture; smooth next to rough stone, rich wooden panels against glass, and glass reflecting water. The immediate experience upon entering the house is its inherent weightlessness – the sense that the walls appear to float as panels and you are always connected to the outdoors. This is achieved with adherence to precise symmetry of beams, support panels, tiles, and sightlines, and also that walls do not meet the ceilings – a half-inch gap is left that helps achieve the effect.
These elements play up the horizontals and verticals of the house while movement and curves come from the three tiers of greenery and two water channels that surround the house giving it the look of an island floating against the blue California sky. The moat-like water surround is more than a successful artistic inspiration; it adds the feeling of a protective boundary without obstructing the views in any way. It also provided an innovative water feature visible from the interior while adding a highly dramatic dynamic to the entire design.
The front entry steps lead to a 14 ft. wood pivot door flanked entirely by glass, and then into the main floor foyer. To the left, a section of glass flooring reveals a wine room below with storage for 1000 bottles, and cantilevered wenge wood stairs float upward to the bedrooms.
The living and dining areas are a study in chocolate and creamy whites carried through to the exterior surfaces achieved with Texston’s Lime based plaster, offset by rough split-faced stone and dark wenge wood. Lift and Slide German made Schuco windows and doors are state of the art offering dependable operation and drainage as well as thermal efficiency summer and winter. Glossy kitchen cabinets were custom designed and imported from Italy.
“Zero edge” and “ floating” themes are echoed in the smallest details; kitchen cooktop venting is flush to ceiling. With no use of molding all lines are visible, every element must be perfectly square and aligned. Minotii, Maxalto and B&B Italia furniture was selected or custom made for each living space.
The main powder room’s motorized sliding glass door opens up to a vanity and white glass rectangular column – the sink. A wall of small, mirrored black tiles, reflect a single chrome vertical water pipe suspended over custom made sink.
The Master/Mistress Suite, secluded on the top floor, opens to an expansive terrace with a Jacuzzi tub, areas for sunning and relaxing and enjoying the night-lights of the city by the soft light of an18 foot fire feature. Inside, glass walls provide sunshine and views by day, along with a sleek yet warm low-rise Minotti Moore bed for nighttime.
Evening activities continue aided by a 60” glass fireplace, 65” television against coplanar lacquer doors which open to a wet bar. For the morning routine, the Master Bath provides a freestanding tub along with Antonio Lupi sinks and vanities, closets of Italian cabinetry with separate shoe storage.
This project emphasizes indoor / outdoor living throughout. The “moat” flows along to the entertainment area and ends at a zero edge Infinity Pool and Jacuzzi. PebbleFina, a finish laced with mica gives the pool its extra shimmer.
Rimless construction of the pool and spa pulls the gaze to the horizon…a perfect mirror imbedded in the landscape. Fire and water, Whipple Russell Architects staples, are here in abundance, with flame features throughout, near the pool, above on the master terrace, on the kitchen terrace and within the entry water feature.
Other specialty features include a roomy home theater with a fully equipped wet bar, hidden fabric covered sound panels, plush couches and leather chairs. Push of a button lights down, curtains open, it’s show time. Behind the screen is a window onto a Zen garden enclosure.
A home automation system is fully integrated into the entire property; heating and air, water and fire features, outdoor landscape lighting, and electronic window shades are activated with the touch of supplied iPads and iPods from anywhere in the house – or from your iPhone from anywhere in the world. It is the most up to date automation system using Basalte switches that take Creston systems to a whole new level.
With the use of glass walls, the 5-car garage takes on the look of a classic auto showroom. Above it, accessible either by a walkway off the main house or privately though a glass enclosed spiral staircase, the spacious 2 bedroom guest house includes surround sound, television, writing studio, gym, and bar. Guests can enjoy their private deck and fire-pit, a view of the putting green, and of course the Pacific Ocean.
Beverly Hills Residence – Building Information
Property completed: Oct 2013 Project size: 10,025 sqft
PROJECT TEAM Architect: Marc Whipple AIA Project Manager: Andrew Takabayashi Interior Designer: Michael Palumbo
Photographers: William MacCollum, Art Gray Photography
Link to Architects’ website page on this contemporary property: Laurel Way Beverly Hills House – external link
House in Beverly Hills images / information from Whipple Russell Architects
Location: Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Southern California, United States of America
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Hisense H9E VS H9F Reviews
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Hisense is a well-known manufacturer of television sets, and many other types of electronics like refrigerators, laundry equipment, cooking equipment, and dishwashers. Hisense not only makes a list of items I mentioned but also makes quality smartphones and other electrical accessories. We will be looking at reviews for Hisense h9e vs h9f differences, features, displays, connectivity, and much more. This company made a lot of smart TVs that have been in good demand since their date of manufacture. In this article, we will talk about the Hisense h9e and Hisense h9f. If you are on the market for a TV, making a choice from numerous brands on the market can be challenging. This is why we are comparing between buying the H9E model over the H9F model. Here, we will look at their detailed specifications, focusing on the display, audio, video as well as the connectivity features. After that, we have a list of the video, audio, and image formats that support smart TV choices. Also, check out the Best Soundbar Under 500. For further comparison, we will look at the advantages of having one model over the other, to help you choose the one that will suit your preferences. First of all, let us look at the overview of both TVs.
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First of all, we have to highlight a few characteristics that both of these TVs have before jumping into all the specifications, advantages, and features. The H9E and the H9F both have the same high resolution of 4K Ultra HD (3840 X 2160) on an LCD display. If you are not familiar with the meaning of resolution, it is the number of pixels on the horizontal and vertical sides of the screen, which, in this case, is 3840 and 2160. Try these complete reviews on Soundbars vs Surround Sound Systems. The concept is that the more pixels a TV has, the greater the resolution, and a larger resolution means the quality is increased, this implies that you are likely to see good quality images on that screen. On top of the resolution, the H9F model and image processor also known as the Hi-viewTM processor, which is probably one of the best features a smart TV can have. What does an image processor really do? More information on this will be looked at below so read on. Also, the TVs have HDR10 as well as HLG support. Both of these functions are geared towards providing a great quality image, just to give you that life-like TV experience to make you feel like you are part of what you are watching. Now that we have given you an idea of what information we will be covering, it is time to jump into the information. We will start with the basics. Check out our Best Budget Sound Bar Under 100.
Basic Information
Info TypesH9EH9FBrandHisenseHisenseSeriesH9EH9FModel55H9E55H9FMade InUSAUSAYear of Release20182019Size55inches55inchesTV TypeSmart TvSmart Tv Hands down to the USA for being one of the best flat-screen TV manufacturing countries, especially on brands like Hisense.  As we can see from their model number as well as their year of release, the Hisense H9E model was made in 2018 and the H9F was released a year later-possibly with additional features and updates from the 2018 model. Check our Best Wireless TV Speakers For Hard Of Hearing. From there, let us get into the detailed specifications on each of these TVs, providing a side to side comparison. Here are the display characteristics.
Display 
FeaturesH9EH9FResolution4K UHD (3840 X 2160)4K UHD (3840 X 2160)Actual Diagonal Size54.6”54.6”Display TechnologyLCDLCDLCD TechnologyULEDULEDBacklight DimmingFull Array Local DimmingFull Array Local Dimming Local Dimming Zones10132Backlight TypeLEDLEDLED TypeDirect LEDDirect LEDScreen DesignFlatFlatRefresh Rate120 Hz120 HzPanel TypeVAVAPanel Bit Depth8 bits + FRC8 bits + FRC Hisense introduced the Backlight Dimming feature in their TVs. As stated, the type of backlight dimming that is in both of these TVs is the Full Array Local Dimming. However, there is a difference in the number of local dimming zones.  The number of local dimming zones in the H9E model is 10 while the H9F model has 132 local dimming zones- this clearly came as an update of the H9E model.  On the color, both the H9E and H9F use a wide color Gamut feature. The color depth is 1.07 Billion in both TVs- no other smart TV can get much deeper than this.  Besides this, the TVs have a VA panel type as well as a Panel Bit Depth of 10 bits (or 8 bits plus a frame rate Control feature). The frame rate control allows the pixels to show more tones.  However, the TVs do not have a wide viewing angle so you will only have to sit directly facing the TV rather than sitting on the side. Sitting anywhere away from the center can result in viewing low-quality images with poor contrast and an irritating glow. 
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FeaturesH9EH9FHDR10YesYesHDR10+NoNoAdvanced HDR by TechnicolorNoNoAMD FreesyncNoNoDolby VisionYesNoIMAX EnhancedNoNoNoise ReductionYesYesFrame Interpolation TechniqueMotion RateUltra Smooth MotionFrame Interpolation Frequency480 Hz120 Hz Both of these TVs have a video Upscaling feature called a 4K Upscaler. But, what does an Upscaler do? It is responsible for scaling any video of a small scale to a higher scale of 4K, filling up your screen, and allowing you to watch it at a higher scale. Unfortunately, the TVs do not have an HDR10+ as well as an Advanced HDR by Technicolor so the quality on these screens can’t possibly be as good as those TVs that do have these features.  They do not have both the 4K HFR and the 2K HFR functions. On top of that, the H9E and the H9F cannot support 3D viewing.  
Audio Features
FeaturesH9EH9FSpeaker Power rating10W X 210W X 2Dolby AtmosNoNoWiSA readyNoNo As you can see from the list of Hisense h9e vs h9f audio features are the same, the speaker power rating for both TVs is 10W X 2. The two models have no Dolby atmos and WiSA ready features. Try these Top 10 Best Soundbars Under 200 and give your TV a boost.
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Hisense Tv Connectivity
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FeauturesH9EH9FWi-FiYesYesWi-Fi Frequency2.4 GHz, 5 GHz2.4 GHz, 5 GHzWi-Fi Protocol802.11 a/b/g/n/ac802.11 a/b/g/n/acEthernet InputYes YesHDMI ports44HDMI Version 2.0a 2.0aHDMI Audio Return ChannelYes YesHDMI-CECYesYesUSB Input (s)22USB 3.0 Input11ChromecastNoNoGoogle HomeNoNoVirtual AssistantNoYesWorks with AlexaYesYesComposite InputsYesYesRCA Audio OutputYesNo3.5mm Headphone Audio OutputYesYesOptical Audio OutputYesYesRF Inputs11HDCP Version2.22.2 For those who like to listen to music at very high volumes, the speakers on these TVs are not built for the job. As such, you might lose some quality sounds, to get the best out these Hisense TVs, add a good wireless surround sound speakers for tv. The advantage of these TVs is that they have a 3.5mm Headphone Audio output, which you can use to connect to separate speakers and listen to music just the way you like it.  As of movies, both TVs will be able to handle it as it is what they were built for.  These TVs also have Bluetooth capabilities. With this connectivity feature, you can connect your TV to your phone or your computer to transfer files. These cheap Soundbars Under 300 are ideal if you are under the budget.
Other Features
Operating SystemAndroidAndroidInternet BrowserNoYesParental Control (V-chip)YesYesTeletextNoNoClosed CaptionsYesYesOn-screen Display LanguagesEnglish/French/SpanishEnglish/French/Spanish The best part of using a smart TV that has an Android operating system is that you do not have to worry about not being able to master how to use it. You have probably used this operating system before in your phone.
Format Support
There are so many formats that your TV can support. It is very important to know what type of format your TV can support, to avoid unnecessary disappointments. We have categorized the formats into video, audio, and image formats. Supported Video Format FormatH9EH9F3GPP Yes YesYesYesAVIYesYesFlash VideoYesYesH.263YesYesH.264YesYesH.265YesYesMKVYesYesMP4NoNoQuicktimeYesYesTSYesYesVC-1, VP9YesYesVOBYesYesWebMYesYes
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Supported Audio Formats
FormatsH9EH9FAACYesYeseAAC+YesYesAC3NoNoFLACYesYesAPENoNoMIDIYesYesMP3YesYesWMAYesYes
Supported Image Formats
FormatsH9EH9FBMPNoNoGIFYesYesJPEGYesYesPNGYesYes
Power and Weight
FeaturesH9EH9FPower SupplyAC 120 V, 60 HzAC 100-240V, 50/60 HzPower Consumption in standby0.5 Watts0.5 WattsWeight without stand34.2 lbs31.5 lbsWeight with stand35.3 lbs33.3 lbs When it comes to dimensions, the H9E model measures at 48.5 X 28.3 X 2.6 inches (W X H X D) without the stand while the H9F measures at 48.5 X 27.8 X 2.8 inches without the stand. On the other hand, when each model stand is attached the dimensions measure at 48.5 X 30.6 X 9.1 inches and 48.5 X 30.7 X 9.5 inches of the H9E and H9F models respectively.
Final Verdict
Which one do you choose? Each TV has its advantages over the other. To make your choice, go for the one that has more characteristics based on your preferences.  As of the price, both of these flat-screen TVs are relatively cheap. SOURCES: https://hisense.co.uk/
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Homage to Diana Rigg
For those of you into the amazing television series Game of Thrones (I, being addicted to it as well from its inception) let me loan a bit of interesting ‘trivia’ to you about one of the actresses there in the show. She is so incredibly amazing, and yet she does not get the true coverage or tribute she deserves. That actress is none other than Dame Diana Rigg.
Back in the swinging and Mod sixties, meaning 1960 where yes, I was actually alive and there in person to receive the phenomenon known as the British Invasion. It began through music which was ignited by the arrival of the Beatles to our shores. England and all her country’s imports were a breath of fresh air to our stale American colonies. Perhaps we’d become creatively inbred and needed that injection of refreshing Anglo artistry. Well, along with the influx of fashion, music, and actors we gobbled it all up with fork and spoon in hand. Lo and behold, along came a little British television show called “The Avengers.” It was broadcast here in 1965 and rolled over our black and white tellies in the USA. It was an instant hit.
Do not worry, I am not going to bore you with all the bio statistics of the real-life of the amazingly talented Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, or drone on about the television show itself. That information you can look up on your own in Wikipedia and I implore you to do just that, because it makes for an interesting read. I would prefer to tell you of my personal first-hand impressions as a young teenager, living in an oppressed country where women at that time, and still are, considered mere commodities and not complete human beings. No dear fellows and gals, not a history lesson on feminism either, but a real old timers experience being female and existed through that time period. I would like to speak of the amazing impact on woman’s roles in film and television, their impact from a woman’s perspective. I would hope that the reason will become self-evident and why they are so important! Naturally, I will tell you why it was for me, but first just a wee bit of ‘60s nostalgia to pepper the palate. Those who lived it can grasp the political implications, but todays women can only guess. I think it’s nice for we of sage years (ahem!) can pass along the experience baton. 😊
Think of the British groups like The Who, The Stones, Herman’s Hermits…. the list is exhaustive of male imported groups, but only speckled with a few distinguished lady singers such as Petula Clarke and Dusty Springfield. Ladies who I absolutely adored and can warble their 60s hit tunes in a flash. And the British Actors, we saw Sean Connery (who I personally think he is still a stone silver fox), Richard Burton, Peter O’Toole, Richard Harris, Alan Bates…..  on and on, I think you’ve got the picture. There was a distinct imbalance of gender when it came to those who became important figures of the times.
Now although women were seeping into the music, movies and television media industries, it was still predominantly the same rule of thumb -- big tits, round ass, plop a shock of blonde on top of it, and if she could act, model, sing or breathe on cue, she was dubbed as the female lead in that venue presented! Basically, all the men in the films made back then, got to drool, grope, make bad and lecherous jokes, along with sexually biased comments to accompany their leers over her, and perhaps toss a few intelligent lines of dialogue. If the lady could convince the director and the public that she could actually think, or have a creative, original thought at the same time she was being ogled, better yet. She could breathe huskily at the male leads and say her lines whichever way her enormously molded boobs, in a torpedo bra pointed! That was it, a star was born!
That actress I used for example, was what is now affectionately known as the female sexual object. A woman to which most men would only consider worthy for a healthy romp in the back seat of a Chevy or Ford, and then offer her cab money to get home. Anything else in female form which could also include cooking, the darning of socks and the ability raise children and husband, was the other side of the coin. That optional image was called mother. So, we all pretty much can assume that was the steady diet and definition of the only real two role models represented to our young girls nationwide. We were all fed the notion of good girl-- bad girl prototypes, and please no matter what, you had better select the right one! That formula was especially doubled-downed to --we of the smaller boobs, short in stature, brunette of hair, and did not have a British accent! If we did not find our mate and learn how to keep him in order to survive…well, we could kiss our boring butts good luck on the road of life!
As a teenager in the States who was brought up in the era of Pat Boon, Mickey Mouse, and the Ed Sullivan Show, plagued with pimples and trapped within a training bra…watching anything remotely suggesting what we females were supposed to look like via the media roll out -- the future looked pretty grim! Point in fact, all the top television shows, recording artists, and every movie created in general throughout the 1960s period up until today; all dominant roles were slated for men. So, although the British invasion brought us a fresh new face, the atypical stereotype of tits and ass or blonde bombshell, was just as prominent with our cousins on the British Isles along with we here in the States. What was a girl to do?
Then along came The Avengers in the 1965-1968 series with the advent of starring an unknown (at least here in the USA) British actress named Diana Rigg. With a bit of research, you can find that she was indeed a talented thespian with the Royal Shakespeare Company. A beautiful woman, who also had many roles in film as well as stage at the time. However, she was a stranger in the woods to us on the other side of the pond.
When I first sat down in my tiny bedroom, laying on my side and too lazy to get up and change the channel of my 16 inch black and white television (no remote folks), or to adjust the antennae to obtain a clearer picture, I was all set. I was prepared to watch the brand-new show called The Avengers. The show actually ran in England much earlier, but we here did not savor those shows until the latter broadcasts. However, everything British was an instant success here, and I dare swear that along with The Saint, those two shows were my main staples. I could not exist without watching them! But little did I know what to anticipate, and wonder at my chagrin, when I first laid eyes on the character of Mrs. Emma Peel.
I tell you what I had not whispered to a single person in my life at that time--I loved every single thing about that woman’s character! It was not just a silly girl-on-girl childhood crush. I suppose today you might call it a girl crush that happened? But I did not want to possess Emma Peel in any sexual context …….not that simple. NO, I wanted to BE EMMA PEEL!!! LOL! I may have been a budding teenager, sexless, awkward, no boyfriend yet, and at the time when I truly grasped what Mrs. Peel was like, I could be found gaping at my tiny television in a catatonic state each week to admire her. I was wondering if I was a hopeless mental case and going to face a lifetime of psychiatric analysis………I wanted to BE a television character! I wanted to emulate everything about Mrs. Emma Peel.
Now I will tell you why.
Despite black and white television limitations, I could easily discern at a glance that Emma, or Mrs. Peel as Steed called her, was most definitely NOT a blonde! A rarity indeed in the 60s. The next feature of prominent notice, she did not have the torpedo tits, but had a svelte and sleek frame with all the normally padded spots we ladies have. Interesting, I thought. How many shows was it going to take to bleach her hair white and pad her bra with sewn in nipples? Shock of all shocks—it never happened. In fact, her Mod clothing of clean and crisp lines had transformed into a body hugging jumpsuit. Later on, with popularity of the show, it became affectionately known as the Emma Peeler. That was an item of clothing, which thank goodness, I never had the gumption to purchase. If I had been so brazen, I would have looked like a sausage tied in the middle and coming out of both ends wearing one of those! But, on Mrs. Emma Peel, it was perfection. It hugged her lady-like frame and showed off her womanly curves, without having boobs she could write her name with!
Her auburn hair (thanks to a new 18 inch color tv I got for Christmas-still no remote-and the event of the Avengers going to color) was coiffured into a manicured flip. During the first season, it was a bit too teased and starchy with hair spray, but later on transformed. It blossomed into these sumptuous waves of sexy dark hair. In fact, there was no woman on the face of this earth who could comb the nozzle of a gun through their hair the way Mrs. Peel did! She flicked her wrist and combed the gun through to sexily flip a tousled bit of hair askew from her eyes. Amazing.
Those wise eyes, of course were lined like cat eyes. It was the common phenomenon of female sexuality and style back then, and only just recently those luscious cat eyes have returned to us. She had sparkle and wit in those eyes too. Sexy, sophisticated……..and drumroll please, Emma Peel was SMART. Not just Oxford smart and book-wormish, but cheeky, sassy, witty, and dead clever. This was a smart brunette playing a lead role in a hit show, and she was intelligent! Not simply book smart and scientific, Emma was saucy, pert, ingenious, and she knew enough karate to beat the shit out of all the bad guys!! Unimaginable!
What the hell was I watching? I felt as if I had wandered into an altered state in another universe! This woman was married (I felt the only flaw) but she was self-sustained, intellectual, independent, lived alone, and could hold her own in a fight with a MAN. This was no ‘I Love Lucy,’ this was the 1960s and this sexy bitch ruled!! Is it any wonder I took a bag of henna to make my blonde hair auburn….a mistake that only Bozo the clown and I share in secret, but I worked hard at it! I forced myself to learn proper nutrition, spoke with wit and cunning, trained my mind with firm education, and watched people to be cleverly funny. Last of but not least, I was independent as hell both mentally and financially! Mrs. Emma Peel was my role model and damn it, I was going to pull it off or die doing it! I refused to be Wally Cleavers mother or a Donna Reed! BORING~~
Nobody in the show came right out and stated it, but for years alluded to the idea that Steed and Mrs. Peel were no doubt having it off in the back rooms. However, on screen and up front, their chemistry and sexual dalliances were electric and refined. Not some guy drooling over torpedo tits, but a man who desired this chic, classy lady who was also sexy and had panache. She did not have to parade about with tits up to the chin, play stupid, fend off a barrage of sexually debasing rhetoric, or she’d bash your face in! Wonderful! Sign me up for more of this!
As I sat there enthralled, week after week, watching Mrs. Emma Peel slink her way from one episode to the last, she was brilliant, beautiful, sexy, and fathomed how to best the bad guys with a presumptuously cheeky wink. I made a concise and determined decision, one that sculpted the remainder of my long life. I chose that year, that no matter what I had to do, learn, review, adopt, or steal from another…I was going to mold myself to be that sharp and vampy creature with a brain that was respected. I craved to be that type of woman.
There has never been a female role model in the media since the creation of Mrs. Emma Peel, except for the role Keira Knightly created to play Elizabeth Swann in the original Pirates of the Caribbean films. Only that characterization of a strong woman came very close. Elizabeth Swann was beautiful, smart, sexy, and yet she was fiercely independent, challenging, and idealistic. Sadly, Disney clipped her wings and reduced her into the usual cliché. She became a woman who was supposed to fall into the typical mother role men wanted; she had to behave a certain way living in a man’s world. By the third installment, that ideal of Elizabeth Swann being a true heroine and role model for today’s girls to follow, was swiftly kyboshed by Disney executives, writers, and producers. I feel sorry for that and for them.
What a shame our actresses are not given roles like that for young women to look up to. I did not have the ideal mother as a role model, and if it were not for revamping myself from watching that television character, deciding for myself that I was going to be different…who knows what would have become of me. But I became a strong leading lady of my own life, independent, formidable. Outspoken, clever, intelligent, classic and classy. Men have tried to rule me, but none could capture the phoenix. I reinvented my role as a woman in this male dominated world, as difficult as it was to choke on the ashes. And no matter how much men beat their chests, bragging how they rule this world of theirs, I am gravely disappointed over what they have done with their power. Another story altogether.
To my grave, I will always be thankful that I had the chance to peer into the other side of the mirror. I did not pander to the reflection I was told to model, I chose a different path. It was not always easy, and many times it came at a cost. But, I can only hope that for the young women of today WHO WANT THIS, take that step into a leadership role and become the stars of their own lives. Strive forward with a quest and desire to be your own powerful role models. Do not wait and remember to first do this for yourselves. Only then invite your friends, co-workers, family, and maybe someday include your own daughters on the charm! Give them the gift of independent thought, honor and self-respect! 😊
When in doubt, watch the television show The Avengers if it can be seen on Netflix, YouTube, or Hula. It would be worth your while to see a female character to cast your lot with! I never regretted my choice, and never found my own Steed, but I came pretty darn close to living an extraordinary life!
Thanks for taking the time to read, and my best to all!
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Fats Domino, the New Orleans rhythm-and-blues singer whose two-fisted boogie-woogie piano and nonchalant vocals, heard on dozens of hits, made him one of the biggest stars of the early rock ’n’ roll era, has died in Louisiana. He was 89.
His death was confirmed by his brother-in-law and former road manager Reggie Hall, who said he had no other details. Mr. Domino lived in Harvey, La., across the Mississippi River from New Orleans.
Mr. Domino had more than three dozen Top 40 pop hits through the 1950s and early ’60s, among them “Blueberry Hill,” “Ain’t It a Shame” (also known as “Ain’t That a Shame,” which is the actual lyric), “I’m Walkin’,” “Blue Monday” and “Walkin’ to New Orleans.” Throughout he displayed both the buoyant spirit of New Orleans, his hometown, and a droll resilience that reached listeners worldwide.
He sold 65 million singles in those years, with 23 gold records, making him second only to Elvis Presley as a commercial force. Presley acknowledged Mr. Domino as a predecessor.
“A lot of people seem to think I started this business,” Presley told Jet magazine in 1957. “But rock ’n’ roll was here a long time before I came along. Nobody can sing that music like colored people. Let’s face it: I can’t sing it like Fats Domino can. I know that.”
Rotund and standing 5 feet 5 inches — he would joke that he was as wide as he was tall — Mr. Domino had a big, infectious grin, a fondness for ornate, jewel-encrusted rings and an easygoing manner in performance; even in plaintive songs his voice had a smile in it. And he was a master of the wordless vocal, making hits out of songs full of “woo-woos” and “la-las.”
Working with the songwriter, producer and arranger David Bartholomew, Mr. Domino and his band carried New Orleans parade rhythms into rock ’n’ roll and put a local stamp on nearly everything they touched, even country tunes like “Jambalaya” or big-band songs like “My Blue Heaven” and “When My Dreamboat Comes Home.”
Antoine Dominique Domino Jr. was born on Feb. 26, 1928, the youngest of eight children in a family with Creole roots. He grew up in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, where he spent most of his life.
Music filled his life from the age of 10, when his family inherited an old piano. After his brother-in-law Harrison Verrett, a traditional-jazz musician, wrote down the notes on the keys and taught him a few chords, Antoine threw himself at the instrument — so enthusiastically that his parents moved it to the garage.
He was almost entirely self-taught, picking up ideas from boogie-woogie masters like Meade Lux Lewis, Pinetop Smith and Amos Milburn. “Back then I used to play everybody’s records; everybody’s records who made records,” he told the New Orleans music magazine Offbeat in 2004. “I used to hear ’em, listen at ’em five, six, seven, eight times and I could play it just like the record because I had a good ear for catchin’ notes and different things.”
He attended the Louis B. Macarty School but dropped out in the fourth grade to work as an iceman’s helper. “In the houses where people had a piano in their rooms, I’d stop and play,” he told USA Today in 2007. “That’s how I practiced.”
In his teens, he started working at a club called the Hideaway with a band led by the bassist Billy Diamond, who nicknamed him Fats. Mr. Domino soon became the band’s frontman and a local draw.
“Fats was breaking up the place, man,” Mr. Bartholomew told The Cleveland Plain Dealer in 2010. “He was singing and playing the piano and carrying on. Everyone was having a good time. When you saw Fats Domino, it was ‘Let’s have a party!’ ”
He added: “My first impression was a lasting impression. He was a great singer. He was a great artist. And whatever he was doing, nobody could beat him.”
In 1947 Mr. Domino married Rosemary Hall, and they had eight children, Antoine III, Anatole, Andre, Anonio, Antoinette, Andrea, Anola and Adonica. His wife died in 2008. A complete list of survivors was not immediately available.
In 1949 Mr. Bartholomew brought Lew Chudd, the owner of Imperial Records in Los Angeles, to the Hideaway. Mr. Chudd signed Mr. Domino on the spot, with a contract, unusual for the time, that paid royalties rather than a one-time purchase of songs.
Immediately, Mr. Domino and Mr. Bartholomew wrote “The Fat Man,” a cleaned-up version of a song about drug addiction called “Junkers Blues,” and recorded it with Mr. Bartholomew’s studio band. By 1951 it had sold a million copies.
Mr. Domino’s trademark triplets, picked up from “It’s Midnight,” a 1949 record by the boogie-woogie pianist and singer Little Willie Littlefield, appeared on his next rhythm-and-blues hit, “Every Night About This Time.” The technique spread like wildfire, becoming a virtual requirement for rock ’n’ roll ballads.
“Fats made it popular,” Mr. Bartholomew told Rick Coleman, the author of “Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock ’n’ Roll” (2006). “Then it was on every record.”
In 1952, on a chance visit to Cosimo Matassa’s recording studio in New Orleans, Mr. Domino was asked to help out on a recording by a nervous teenager named Lloyd Price. Sitting in with Mr. Bartholomew’s band, he came up with the memorable piano part for “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” one of the first rhythm-and-blues records to cross over into the pop charts.
Through the early 1950s Mr. Domino turned out a stream of hits, taking up what seemed like permanent residence in the upper reaches of the R&B charts. His records began reaching the pop charts as well.
In that racially segregated era, white performers used his hits to build their careers. In 1955, “Ain’t It a Shame” became a No. 1 hit for Pat Boone as “Ain’t That a Shame,” while Domino’s arrangement of a traditional song, “Bo Weevil,” was imitated by Teresa Brewer.
Mr. Domino’s appeal to white teenagers broadened as he embarked on national tours and appeared with mixed-race rock ’n’ roll revues like the Moondog Jubilee of Stars Under the Stars, presented by the disc jockey Alan Freed at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. Appearances on national television, on Steve Allen and Ed Sullivan’s shows, put him in millions of living rooms.
He did not flaunt his status as an innovator, or as an architect of a powerful cultural movement.
“Fats, how did this rock ’n’ roll all get started anyway?” an interviewer for a Hearst newsreel asked him in 1957. Mr. Domino answered: “Well, what they call rock ’n’ roll now is rhythm and blues. I’ve been playing it for 15 years in New Orleans.”
At a news conference in Las Vegas in 1969, after resuming his performing career, Elvis Presley interrupted a reporter who had called him “the king.” He pointed to Mr. Domino, who was in the room, and said, “There’s the real king of rock ’n’ roll.”
Mr. Domino had his biggest hit in 1956 with his version of “Blueberry Hill,” a song that had been recorded by Glenn Miller’s big band in 1940. It peaked at No. 2 on the pop charts and sold a reported three million copies.
“I liked that record ’cause I heard it by Louis Armstrong and I said, ‘That number gonna fit me,’ ” he told Offbeat. “We had to beg Lew Chudd for a while. I told him I wasn’t gonna make no more records till they put that record out. I could feel it, that it was a hit, a good record.”
He followed with two more Top Five pop hits: “Blue Monday” and “I’m Walkin’,” which outsold the version recorded by Ricky Nelson.
“I was lucky enough to write songs that carry a good beat and tell a real story that people could feel was their story, too — something that old people or the kids could both enjoy,” Mr. Domino told The Los Angeles Times in 1985.
Mr. Domino performed in 1950s movies like “Shake, Rattle and Rock,” “The Big Beat” (for which he and Mr. Bartholomew wrote the title song) and “The Girl Can’t Help It.” In 1957, he toured for three months with Chuck Berry, Clyde McPhatter, the Moonglows and others.
Well into the early 1960s, Mr. Domino continued to reach both the pop and rhythm-and-blues charts with songs like “Whole Lotta Lovin’,” “I’m Ready,” “I’m Gonna Be a Wheel Someday,” “Be My Guest,” “Walkin’ to New Orleans” and “My Girl Josephine.”
He toured Europe for the first time in 1962 and met the Beatles in Liverpool, before they were famous. His contract with Imperial ended in 1963, and he went on to record for ABC-Paramount, Mercury, Broadmoor, Reprise and other labels.
His last appearance in the pop Top 100 was in 1968, with a version of “Lady Madonna,” the Beatles song that had been inspired by Mr. Domino’s piano-pounding style. In 1982, he had a country hit with “Whiskey Heaven.”
Although he was no longer a pop sensation, Mr. Domino continued to perform worldwide and appeared for 10 months a year in Las Vegas in the mid-1960s. On tour, he would bring his own pots and pans so he could cook.
His life on the road ended in the early 1980s, when he decided that he did not want to leave New Orleans, saying it was the only place where he liked the food.
He went on to perform regularly at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, and in 1987 Jerry Lee Lewis and Ray Charles joined him for a Cinemax special, “Fats Domino and Friends.” He released a holiday album, “Christmas Is a Special Day,” in 1993.
Reclusive and notoriously resistant to interview requests, Mr. Domino stayed home even when he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 as one of its first members. He did the same when he received a lifetime achievement Grammy Award in 1987. In 1999, when he was awarded the National Medal of Arts,he sent his daughter Antoinette to the White House to pick up the prize.
He even refused to leave New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina devastated the city on Aug. 29, 2005, remaining at his flooded home — he was living in the Lower Ninth Ward then — until he was rescued by helicopter on Sept. 1.
“I wasn’t too nervous” about waiting to be saved, he told The New York Times in 2006. “I had my little wine and a couple of beers with me; I’m all right.”
His rescue was loosely the basis for “Saving Fats,” a tall tale in Sam Shepard’s 2010 short-story collection, “Day Out of Days.”
President George W. Bush visited Mr. Domino’s home in 2006 in recognition of New Orleans’s cultural resilience; that same year, Mr. Domino released “Alive and Kickin,’ ” his first album in more than a decade. The title song began, “All over the country, people want to know / Whatever happened to Fats Domino,” then continued, “I’m alive and kicking and I’m where I wanna be.”
He was often seen around New Orleans, emerging from his pink-roofed mansion driving a pink Cadillac. “I just drink my little beers, do some cookin’, anything I feel like ” he told The Daily Telegraph of London in 2007, describing his retirement.
In 1953, in Down Beat magazine, the Atlantic Records producer Jerry Wexler made a bold-sounding prediction that turned out to be, in retrospect, quite timid. “Can’t you envision a collector in 1993 discovering a Fats Domino record in a Salvation Army depot and rushing home to put it on the turntable?” he wrote. “We can. It’s good blues, it’s good jazz, and it’s the kind of good that never wears out.”
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Bo Nix = Legend in the making.
Raise your hand if you had doubt about two minutes into the game.
Raise your hand if you had doubt when Oregon ran that punt back.
Raise your hand if you had doubt when Auburn fell behind 21-6.
Me too. It looked bad. To say that Auburn was in midseason form tonight would’ve been a bold-faced lie. At times, every facet of the team played about as poorly as can be. Bo Nix threw two interceptions in the first half, the defense got gashed for 176 yards and 14 points in the first quarter, and the coverage units allowed multiple big returns while Anders Carlson missed what could have been a crucial field goal.
In the end, none of that mattered. Auburn persevered. Three second-half touchdowns later, and the Tigers walked out of Arlington with a 27-21 victory over #11 Oregon. Something clicked. The fourth quarter was Auburn’s, and we watched the beginning of what could be the legend of all legends in the trial by fire of Bo Nix. His touchdown pass to Seth Williams with just nine seconds to play gave Auburn its first and only lead of the night, and set off a wild celebration at AT&T Stadium
Less than 10 months ago, Bo Nix was playing in front of a couple thousand people on a high school field in Pinson Valley, Alabama. Tonight, Nix threw a game-winning TD pass in front of a capacity crowd on national television against the No. 11 ranked team. WHAT. A. MOMENT. pic.twitter.com/0sKYFdieNp
— CBS Sports HQ (@CBSSportsHQ) September 1, 2019
Down 21-20, Auburn stuffed Oregon on fourth down and then forced a punt on two straight drives in the fourth quarter. With one more chance, the Tigers faced a fourth down of their own, and Bo Nix converted by inches on a tough run. A sideline pass to Seth Williams put Auburn in field goal range at the 26-yard line, but Gus Malzahn dialed up one shot to the end zone instead of setting up for the field goal.
Nix delivered. One-on-one coverage on Williams turned into a mismatch, and Williams cradled the ball, came down at the two, and fell backward across the goal line for the game-winning touchdown. After a celebration penalty, Oregon’s last ditch Hail Mary was thrown too far and Auburn survived in Texas.
It was a tale of two halves for Nix, who went just 6-18 for 91 yards and 2 interceptions before halftime. The offensive line wasn’t giving him time, and we weren’t able to see him settle in to make the right plays and decisions. He was clearly a bit rattled, but he calmed down in the second half. His numbers weren’t insane (7-14 for 86 yards and 2 touchdowns) but he led three scoring drives and the Auburn offense started to wear down a tenacious Oregon defense.
However, it didn’t look good to start. Oregon was rolling on both sides of the ball to start. Just a few plays in, Justin Herbert hit a big play to get the Ducks down near the goal line, and they scored the game’s first points on their opening drive. The second drive nearly ended with another touchdown, but a dropped pass in the end zone led to a missed field goal. Auburn cut the lead to 7-3 with their first points on a 6-play, 56-yard drive capped by a 40-yard Anders Carlson field goal with 3:17 to go in the first quarter.
Oregon turned right around and made a statement with the ensuing drive, as they went 75 yards in just 3 plays and added a 20-yard Herbert touchdown toss to Spencer Webb, who dominated Javaris Davis in the end zone on the catch.
Auburn hung on and escaped disaster after that in the first half, as Jevon Holland returned a punt 81 yards, but Big Kat Bryant scooped up a Herbert fumble on the next play and took it to the Oregon 3-yard line. Auburn ended up with a field goal on that drive and the score stood at 14-6 at halftime.
After the intermission, both defenses settled in, and Oregon seemed to land a critical knockout blow late in the third quarter with a 9-play, 53-yard touchdown drive capped by a scoring run from third-string tailback Darrian Felix. Fortunately for Auburn, fatigue was catching up to the Ducks, and the Tigers got Eli Stove involved in the game plan. His long jet sweep moved the ball inside the red zone, and Auburn caught Oregon napping on the first touchdown of the season as Stove sneaked out to fool the Ducks and stroll into the end zone on a pass from Nix. After three quarters, the score stood at 21-13 Oregon.
In the end, the fourth quarter turned out to belong to the Tigers. Boobee Whitlow turned in a masterful performance, running for tough yardage and pacing Auburn on two fourth quarter touchdown drives. He rumbled for 110 yards on 24 carries, and got Auburn down to the goal line before Joey Gatewood came in to dive over the top. With that touchdown, the Tigers pulled within a point at 21-20.
Then we got the dramatic finish. Auburn’s defense stood tall on two straight fourth quarter drives, forcing a turnover on downs (after which the offense went three-and-out), before forcing a punt that set up the game-winning drive.
The Legend of Bo Nix has begun at Auburn. pic.twitter.com/3Ya2H8DjZE
— Emmanuel Acho (@thEMANacho) September 1, 2019
Auburn takes the opener and now sits at 1-0 on the year with the home opener against Tulane coming next Saturday night at 6:30 pm CST.
GAME STATISTICS
AUBURN
Total Yards: 383
Passing Yards: 177
Rushing Yards: 206
Penalties: 7-60
Turnovers: 2
Third Downs: 7-17
Bo Nix: 13-31, 177 yards, 2 touchdowns, 2 interceptions, 7 carries, 42 yards
Boobee Whitlow: 24 carries, 110 yards
Seth Williams: 4 catches, 41 yards, 1 touchdown
Will Hastings: 1 catch, 38 yards
Sal Cannella, 2 catches, 42 yards
Jeremiah Dinson: 13 tackles, 2 TFLs, 1 sack
K.J Britt: 7 tackles, 1.5 TFLs, 0.5 sacks
OREGON
Total Yards: 322
Passing Yards: 242
Rushing Yards: 90
Penalties: 7-58
Turnovers: 1
Third Downs: 4-14
Justin Herbert: 28-37, 242 yards, 1 TD
CJ Verdell: 14 carries, 76 yards, 1 TD
Jaylon Redd: 9 catches, 64 yards
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Mickey Thompson Hits 400, George Barris Builds an Air Car, and Flying Caduceus Launches Bonneville’s Jet Age in 1960
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With so much action occurring simultaneously in so many regional hotbeds this year, no single magazine staff could hope to be in all places at all times. Robert E. Petersen’s unique advantage was owning multiple titles, each employing specialists who overlapped into the print equivalent of an automotive internet. Moreover, “Pete” could test the potential of any emerging market quickly and relatively cheaply by utilizing in-house editorial and production people to either start a publication from scratch or spin one off from an established Petersen title, then heavily promote the new project in the others.
This year, go-kart-crazy Car Craft launched an offshoot called Kart, packed with ads. Similarly, Motor Trend soon spawned competition-oriented Sports Car Graphic. Immediate, widespread widespread distribution of anything new was assured by a North American dealer network already profiting from Pete’s established monthlies, plus a steady barrage of thicker, higher-priced, “special edition” Petersen annuals, how-to books, racing compilations, and other recyclings of previously published articles and photography.
As the go-kart craze took off, drag and lakes racer Charles Scott’s muffler and dyno shop diversified into manufacturing pintsized performance parts. Sons George (left) and Billy Scott respectively demonstrated the differences between a conventional quarter-midget roadster and a rebodied, dual-purpose kart. “Billy the Kid” advanced to fuel and gas dragsters as a young teen and, ultimately, to champ cars, finishing 23rd in the 1976 Indy 500.
We’re sharing this ancient history to illustrate how the vast Petersen Publishing Company photo archive came to acquire an incomparable range of subjects. This year’s vehicular variety foretold the unprecedented strangeness of the decade to come. Among other oddities, Pete’s road warriors documented beatniks and bubbletops, a fighter-jet engine on wheels, four V8s on wheels, and a show-winning custom “car” with no engine and no wheels. They covered the first 400-mph American car and driver, tested a new wave of “medium compacts” from all three of the Big Three, and chronicled sleepy Pontiac’s seemingly sudden emergence atop auto racing (the GM division’s reward for three years of discreetly circumventing Detroit’s 1957 agreement to stop sponsoring, supporting, or even promoting high performance).
While those lucky guys enjoyed virtually unrestricted access wherever they flashed a Petersen business card, only a tiny fraction of their photos were published at the time. Whereas anything in print had passed scrutiny from the editors, advertiser-conscious publishers, and all-powerful editorial director Wally Parks, the rest of the story often went unseen and untold due to political, business, personal, or space considerations. It’s these unpublished outtakes that deliver deeper, truer insight into scenes unfolding right in front of staffers’ lenses—but subsequently kept behind the curtain separating us mere mortals, the readers.
Norm Grabowski continued living every young male’s dream life, driving hot rods and acting in B-movies and television shows alongside Hollywood’s hottest honeys. Mamie Van Doren posed for HRM’s Eric Rickman in Norm’s ’25 T to promote a forgettable film with an unforgettable title, Sex Kittens Go to College. Still powered by a flathead here, the red touring soon acquired a hot Chevy V8, landed its own TV series (My Mother the Car), and found a new owner, studio-photographer Kaye Trapp. SoCal drag fans watched it push-start both the Zeuschel, Fuller & Moody AA/Fueler and the MagiCar that Trapp campaigned in partnership with Ron Winkel. (See Aug. 1960 HRM.)
Some of the artists’ faces appear here, frozen in time by mischievous colleagues always armed with cameras. Almost all of them are gone now, nearly six decades after so much of their best 1960 work was developed, dried, sleeved, labeled, filed, and forgotten, forever—or so it must have seemed to our frustrated editorial ancestors. It’s our pleasure to prove them wrong here in the next century.
Motor Trend magazine’s Aug. 1960 Indy 500 coverage bemoaned rain delays during both qualifying weekends that reduced attempts by 66 entries. Soggy fans were effectively repurposing handout copies of an Indianapolis daily when Petersen Publishing Co. (PPC) photo chief Bob D’Olivo happened by. (Kiddies, don’t try this with your smartphones or tablets.)
Imagine a Daytona International Speedway parking lot—or any parking lot, anywhere in America, today—without a single crew-cab pickup or so-called sport utility vehicle as far as the eye can see. Petersen editorial director Wally Parks, also NHRA president, shot the photo during Daytona’s Speed Week, undoubtedly envying NASCAR’s booming popularity. (See Apr. 1960 HRM; Apr. and June 1960 MT; Sept. 2016 HRD.)
Technical editor Barney Navarro helped make Motor Life a respected monthly both before and after parent Quinn Publications was acquired by rival publisher Robert E. Petersen. Navarro broke the story of GMC’s groundbreaking V6 in the May 1960 issue and offered a prescient prediction: “Granted, the new powerplant can be found at this time time only in a pickup truck, but such a unit certainly has possibilities for future passenger-car power.” The same article teased readers with a small factory photo of the 12-cylinder, 610-cubic-inch prototype that GM engineers created by aligning two of these engines inside of a single crankcase and oil pan.
Staff photographer Colin Creitz captured a scene that could have been Anywhere, USA, this season. A similar exposure from the top of this grandstand led off Barney Navarro’s tips for “Stock Car Drag Racing” in the June 1960 Motor Life. If the wall of hay bales seems familiar, the little track situated just over the hill from Hollywood provided a convenient midweek location for automotive-themed films, television shows, and commercials. We recognized the starter on this sunny Sunday as future world champ Jimmy Scott, a recovered street racer who had been unofficially “sentenced” to strip duty by the City of San Fernando’s Judge Morgan, who moonlighted as track manager in the 1950s.
Many of the negatives selected for this series were both composed and processed by the same PPC employee: Pat Brollier. Equally skilled as a photographer and a lab technician, he enjoyed a long career on photographic director Bob D’Olivo’s team.
It’s hard to believe that such great action and from such a rare angle wasn’t published at the time, somewhere, but what we cannot find in our incomplete collection of PPC magazines qualifies for Backstage Past consideration. The surprisingly stock Burkhardt, Brammer & Wilson ’29 on ’32 rails is boiling the biggest balonies like a dragster at Riverside because it ran like one, and then some. NHRA Museum curator Greg Sharp cited 1958 evidence that then-driver Howard Eichenhoffer’s 212.264 mph in the dirt was the best by any dry-lakes car, including streamliners and lakesters. Mike Burns and Don Rackemann also spent time in the seat. A Sept. 1959 HRM feature called it the world’s swiftest drag roadster at 9.81/156.79. Its front-blown, nitro-burning, 341ci DeSoto was backed by a ’39 Lincoln tranny using high gear only.
Alternate angles of this odd setup started appearing this year in Motor Life subscription ads ($3 per year) and also atop Motor Trend’s “Rumors” column. The unidentifiable executives and ad reps pretended to peek at what appears to be a Corvair sedan, wrapped in one of the first car covers we have found on film. The high angle reveals the close proximity of neighbors to the employee parking lot, where countless car features were shot for Petersen publications (at 5959 Hollywood Boulevard).
Bob Petersen’s hiring philosophy favored enthusiasm and wrenching expertise over writing ability. “Pete” got all three in Ray Brock, the HRM tech editor credited with designing and managing the first thrust-powered land-speed car—despite the reality that only wheel-driven vehicles were eligible then to set the unlimited LSR. Still under construction in this late-April photo, the Flying Caduceus would hit the salt in late summer for a series of disappointing shakedown runs. Collapsing air-intake ducts and a scary front-end shimmy restricted recorded speeds to less than half of owner Nathan Ostich’s 500-mph target. (See Apr. and Oct. 1960 HRM; Aug. 1960 R&C; July 1960 MT; Dec. 1960 ML; Jan. 1961 CC.)
Did he or didn’t he? From the empty starting line and serious looks on these faces, we suspect that some discussion ensued. All we know is that the rubber was burned during a big May meet at Inyokern, California, where entries included the pretty Kurtis sport special of record-setting City of Industry, California, councilman Sam Parriott (waiting to run).
A July ’60 MT editorial titled “The Vanishing Mechanic” expressed concern that new-vehicle production was outpacing young technicians entering “the field of auto mechanics.” One promising sign was the record number of schools and students participating in Plymouth’s annual Trouble-Shooting Contests. Since the concept was introduced with a single Los Angeles event in 1954, contests had spread to 16 locations nationwide, involving nearly 1,000 high school, vocational, and community college students in two-person teams. Factory mechanics planted various gremlins in the Plymouth engines (e.g., “Most-overlooked malady was cork in the intake manifold, causing engines to run on four cylinders.”).
HRM Editor Wally Parks commissioned what must have been the first-ever V8 swap into a Comet. This roll of film was processed on June 3, barely three months after the model’s March introduction. We wonder how FoMoCo executives reacted to subsequent articles explaining how modified ’40 Ford Hurst-Campbell mounts enabled a painless conversion (“no cutting needed”) from the weak Ford-Mercury inline-six to a Duntov-equipped 283 Chevy. (See Aug. 1960 HRM and MT.)
The guy running the Chrondeks at Pomona for NHRA’s regional meet couldn’t have imagined the advances coming to timing systems—and “timing towers”—over the next six decades. HRM’s Eric Rickman went backstage to get the shot.
Imagine the look on the face of an unsuspecting tow-truck driver instructed to “get the big spare out of the trunk.” Firestone’s development of 48-inch-diameter rubber specifically for unlimited-LSR attempts greatly enhanced both the safety and speed of “record racing” in the 1960s. This early tire rolled under the Flying Caduceus, mounted on a giant wheel also designed and manufactured by Firestone.
Ed Roth followed up 1959’s revolutionary Excaliber/Outlaw showstopper with the Beatnik Bandit. This time the entire body was one piece, mounted on a shortened ’50 Olds frame. Fritz Voigt, Mickey Thompson’s engine builder, hopped up the Rocket. Rod & Custom contributing artist Joe Henning’s initial illustrations called for a fixed roof, but Henning went back to the drawing board after Roth requested a bubbletop. Less than five months after Bud Lang stopped by the shop this August, the completed Bandit would steal the annual show in San Mateo, California. (See Mar. and May 1961 R&C; May 1961 CC.)
Newly outfitted with four 6-71 GMC blowers beneath two tall “blisters,” front-wheel skirts, and a narrowed tail section, Challenger I returned to the Bonneville Nationals in August and earned Mickey Thompson’s third-consecutive HOT ROD top speed trophy (365.330, one way). The first 400 and fastest single run by an American would wait for a private session on September 9, when M/T hit 406.600 before blowing one Pontiac early into the backup pass. (See Nov. 1960 HRM; Dec. 1960 ML; Jan. 1961 CC.)
Two Petersen-affiliated players who never avoided a spotlight were Car Craft editor Dick Day and frequent PPC contributor George Barris, whose photography and how-to articles were regularly seen by millions in HRM, CC, R&C, even Motor Life and Motor Trend. The customizer is shown accepting one of two awards earned by his XPAK 400 in Detroit during Labor Day weekend. NHRA staged this second National Custom Car Show in conjunction with its National Drag Championships.
After Ed Roth stole his thunder with the groundbreaking Excaliber/Outlaw, kustom king George Barris countered with the XPAK 400 Air Car of the Future. Dual 4hp jet-aircraft-starter motors, remotely controlled by a pushbutton box, spun a large fan that supposedly elevated the Jack Sutton aluminum body above a rippling parachute “on a five-inch cushion of air.” Critics maintained that hidden hydraulic jacks were doing the lifting, but we have seen no underside photos. Barris claimed the metalflake finish to be the first commercial application of a Dow Chemical process involving “a million particles of chromed aluminum.” (See Jan. and Mar. 1961 CC.)
Two youngsters who seemed as if they’d live forever were checked prior to October’s Los Angeles Times-Mirror Grand Prix for Sports Cars. Dan Gurney went on to smash the track record in a mid-engined Lotus and led the USAC event until he was sidelined by a blown head gasket. Carroll Shelby finished Fifth in a Maserati. American Hot Rod Foundation curator Jim Miller recognized the industrial surroundings as Riverside International Raceway’s newly constructed garages, and wonders why these checkups were not performed in the track’s medical center as usual.
Near the end of October, publisher Robert Petersen evidently commandeered a new ’61 Chevy wagon for a hunting expedition. Yes, that’s an unlucky eagle displayed in staffer Neal East’s photo.
We can’t say where or why the exotic CERV-I (Chevrolet Engineering Research Vehicle I) was parked amongst these late-model Chevys—outdoors, yet—in November, following rare exhibition runs during Riverside’s Grand Prix weekend. Designer Zora Arkus-Duntov, Stirling Moss, and Dan Gurney took turns behind the wheel. Then-exotic goodies included cast-magnesium injector stacks and an aluminum 283 block and cylinder heads (90 pounds lighter than iron), a four-speed case, a water pump, and a starter-motor case. Suspecting the location to be Bill Thomas Race Cars, GM’s southern California skunkworks, we shared the photo with Brian Brennan, who worked there in high school. The longtime Street Rodder editor ruled that out, but the building looked familiar. Brennan suggested that the absent exhaust system might indicate a stop at the nearby Orange County shop of Jess Tyree, a buddy of Bill’s who built headers for some of his projects.
PPC’s Christmas parties in the early years were legendary. This one evidently involved a Roaring ’20s theme for which editorial director Wally Parks, HRM photographer Eric Rickman, and three unidentified accomplices were properly attired.
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