Barbara La Marr

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherri Snyder
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Film Studios ◽  
News Value ◽  
The Face ◽  
The City

In 1914 at age seventeen, strong-willed, infamous Reatha Watson was declared by juvenile authorities to be “too beautiful for the city” and banished from Los Angeles. She soon returned, became further mired in scandal, and was subsequently barred by the film studios from working as an actress. Reborn as Barbara La Marr, she achieved renown as a dancer in the foremost cabarets throughout the country and on Broadway, acted in headlining vaudeville skits, and became a highly paid screenwriter for the Fox Film Corporation in the same town that cast her out. Her exotic beauty, curvaceous form, and potent presence enticed film producers; she temporarily averted association with her increasingly turbulent past long enough to reign as a preeminent vamp of the silent screen in the 1920s. Through it all, her stormy private life striped the pages of newspapers and film magazines. “There was no reason to lie about Barbara La Marr,” her publicist confessed after her death at age twenty-nine in 1926. “Everything she said, everything she did was colored with news-value. A personality dangerous, vivid, attractive; a desire to live life at its maddest and fullest; a mixture of sentiment and hardness, a creature of weakness and strength—-that was Barbara La Marr.” Her life story is one of tempestuous passions and unbending perseverance in the face of inconceivable odds. It is of a woman’s fierce determination to forge her own destiny amid the constant threat of losing it all to scandal and, ultimately, death.

Prologue

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherri Snyder
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Film Studios ◽  
The World ◽  
Gossip Columns ◽  
Tremendous Impact

Providing an overview of the tumultuous life and stellar accomplishments of silent screen star Barbara La Marr, the Prologue begins with her emergence into newspaper headlines as notorious, teenaged Reatha Watson—-reported kidnapped at sixteen, banished from Los Angeles by juvenile authorities for being “too beautiful” at seventeen, and soon barred by film studios from working as an actress for her scandalous activities—-and ends with her death at twenty-nine. Barbara’s impressive careers as a dancer, in vaudeville, and as a screenwriter are touched upon. Her tremendous impact as a reigning silent screen actress is then spotlighted: how her volatile sex appeal, glamour, talent, meteoric film career, and predilection to live life on her own terms bewitched her peers and the world whilst her explosive private life continued playing out in gossip columns and newspaper headlines.

scholarly journals AB0659 THE LOCKDOWN REPERCUSSION ON THE RHEUMATOLOGIST’S LIFE

2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (Suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 1362.2-1362
Author(s):  
P. Lemesle ◽  
L. Poulain ◽  
X. Grapton ◽  
N. Bouhedja
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Delay ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Telephone Consultation ◽  
Wide Acceptance ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Media ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
Financial Arrangements ◽  
The City

Background:We have just experienced an exceptional period of time and it seemed interesting to know what this particular time of isolation in a population of rheumatologists has brought aboutObjectives:To analyze what the doctor felt in his personal and professional life as a result of the crisis. To determine the reactions, feelings and attitudes that may have emerged during these weeks of confinement.Methods:38 private practice rheumatologists from the Ile-de-France region, average age 63 yo, 58% male (M). 13 questions, 9 appendices, ranking of the most frequently cited reactionsResults:3 feelings stand out: anger 71-84%, fear of being contaminated and of transmitting M 91/F 69%, concern about an unknown pandemic M 86/F69%.Anger at the indifference to the exposure of doctors in the city 84%, the unpreparedness of the authorities M 95/F 62%, the mortality in EHPAD (Nursing homes) 81%, the media cacophony 79%, the hidden reality 71%.On a personal level, according to 61%, the Rh is not anxious about the world after, has no psychological repercussions (sleep, melancholy, etc.) 58% and his degree of commitment was guilt-free 55%.Professionally: perplexity in the face of the contradictions of experts and scientific journals 79%, wide acceptance of constraints in the practice (10h/d mask wearing, 92%, spaced reception of patients 95%, education of barrier gestures 97%), adaptation of the exercise (teleconsultation, telephone consultation) 78%, fear of abandoning treatment or diagnostic delay M82/F62%, financial arrangements necessary M86/F53%.For M: worries about the pandemic, anger and uncertainty about what will happen next predominate in this order. For F, anger (untruths and lack of means) is the main feeling. Anger, fear and uncertainty are the most frequently cited feelingsConclusion:The Rh at the end of this period of confinement is worried M>F and anger especially in front of the sanitary unpreparedness M>F. On a personal level the private life has been little affected F>M and he has been able to adapt professionally. Nevertheless, the de-confinement has not been a banal return to normal 63% M= F.Disclosure of Interests:None declared.

scholarly journals A RESISTÊNCIA DE BROMÉLIAS E VITÓRIAS-RÉGIAS: narrativas femininas frente à mineração

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (16) ◽  
pp. 10926
Author(s):  
Francisca Érica dos Santos Souza ◽  
Jondison Cardoso Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Family Environment ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Resistance State ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
The City

THE RESISTANCE OF BROMÉLIAS AND VICTORY-RÉGIAS: feminine narratives in front of the miningLA RESISTENCIA DE BROMÉLIAS Y VICTORIAS-RÉGIAS: narrativas femeninas frente a la mineríaRESUMOO artigo tem o objetivo de descrever e analisar as narrativas de resistência e de organização das mulheres face ao extrativismo mineral, das comunidades de São João do Burajuba e Sítio São João, cidade de Barcarena, nordeste do estado do Pará. Também se pretende “apresentar”, via narrativas, as transformações sociais decorrentes da atividade mineradora na vida dessas mulheres e as formas de organização por elas vivenciadas como forma de resistência ao extrativismo mineral (à mineração). Procurou-se expor relatos da realidade das lideranças femininas, os caminhos trilhados e o protagonismo político, além de questões em relação aos efeitos provocados pela mineração no ambiente familiar e nas suas comunidades. Nesse sentido, utilizou-se do processo de construção de relato de vida (narrativas) e da observação participante. Essa metodologia mostrou um panorama muito mais completo acerca dos impactos causados, direcionando a novas considerações em relação à realidade das mulheres e da autonomia na luta contra o modelo mineral introduzido em seus territórios. Assim, esta pesquisa é um processo de outras construções de realidades da ação das mulheres e da luta contra grandes empreendimentos que às “atingem”.Palavras-chave: Mulheres; Mineração; Resistência; Estado do Pará; Extrativismo Mineral.ABSTRACTThe purpose of this article is to describe and analyze the narratives of resistance and organization of women in the face of mineral extractivism from the communities of São João do Burajuba and Sítio São João in the city of Barcarena, northeast of the state of Pará. Also, this article aims to “present”, through narratives, the social transformations resulting from the mining activity in life of these women and the forms of organization experienced by them as a way of resistance to the mineral extractivism (mining). It was sought to expose narrations from the reality of the women's leaders, the pathways and political protagonism, as well as issues regarding the effects caused by mining in the family environment and in their communities. In this sense, the process of construction of life story (narratives) and participant observation was used. This methodology showed a much more complete view about the impacts caused, directing new considerations regarding the reality of women and the autonomy in the fight against the mineral model introduced in their territories. Therefore, this research is a process of other constructions of realities of the action of women and of the fight against big enterprises which "attain" them.Keywords: Women; Mining; Resistance; State of Pará; Mineral Extractivism.RESUMENEl artículo tiene el objetivo de describir y analizar las narrativas de resistencia y de organización de las mujeres frente al extractivismo mineral, de las comunidades de São João do Burajuba y del sitio São João, ciudad de Barcarena, nordeste del estado de Pará. También se pretende "presentar" ", a través de narrativas, las transformaciones sociales derivadas de la actividad minera en la vida de esas mujeres y las formas de organización por ellas vivenciadas como forma de resistencia al extractivismo mineral (a la minería). Se buscó exponer relatos de la realidad de los liderazgos femeninos, los caminos trillados y el protagonismo político, además de cuestiones en relación a los efectos provocados por la minería en el ambiente familiar y en sus comunidades. En ese sentido, se utilizó el proceso de construcción de relato de vida (narrativas) y de la observación participante. Esta metodología mostró un panorama mucho más completo acerca de los impactos causados, dirigiendo a nuevas consideraciones en relación a la realidad de las mujeres y de la autonomía en la lucha contra el modelo mineral introducido en sus territorios. Así, esta investigación es un proceso de otras construcciones de realidades de la acción de las mujeres y de la lucha contra grandes emprendimientos que a las "alcanzan".Palabras clave: Mujeres; La Minería; Resistencia; Estado de Pará; Extractivismo Mineral.

Retail Workers

2021 ◽  
pp. 164-263
Author(s):  
Scott L. Cummings
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Community Benefits ◽  
Public Subsidies ◽  
The Face ◽  
Bunker Hill ◽  
The City

This chapter charts the Los Angeles community benefits movement, launched at the turn of the millennium to strengthen low-income communities by transforming local redevelopment. The movement was built on an emergent partnership between community-based organizations promoting “equitable development” in the face of gentrification and labor movement groups, led by the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), challenging the city-sponsored proliferation of low-wage jobs, especially in the multifaceted retail industry. The legal instrument used to codify campaign victories was the community benefits agreement, or CBA—a contract under which a developer agreed to provide specific levels of living wage jobs, affordable housing, and other benefits in exchange for community support for project approvals and public subsidies. Because CBAs offered a proactive response to redress negative development externalities through contractual compromise, they rested on a distinctive model of community organizing—leveraging the power of broad-based coalitions to extract benefits through negotiation—and thus enlisted a particular role for lawyers focused on strategic counseling and contract drafting. This chapter traces the evolution and outcomes of Los Angeles’s seminal community benefits campaigns: from the nation’s first CBA with the developer of a transformational downtown sports and entertainment complex anchored around the Staples Center, through a $500 million CBA centered on environmental mitigation in connection with the expansion of the L.A. International Airport, to the Grand Avenue CBA, which focused on affordable housing production in a proposed upscale development on downtown’s Bunker Hill. Following this arc, the chapter shows how the CBA movement conferred significant benefits on low-income communities and institutionalized pro-labor policy in the city—while also revealing tensions in the community-labor alliance at the movement’s heart and the limits of contract-based solutions to inequality.

Utopian Visions in United States Urbanism

Moreana ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 42 (Number 164) (4) ◽  
pp. 157-186
Author(s):  
James M. McCutcheon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
New World ◽  
New Technology ◽  
World's Fair ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Central Park ◽  
Garden Cities ◽  
Oneida Community ◽  
The City

America’s appeal to Utopian visionaries is best illustrated by the Oneida Community, and by Etienne Cabet’s experiment (Moreana 31/215 f and 43/71 f). A Messianic spirit was a determinant in the Puritans’ crossing the Atlantic. The Edenic appeal of the vast lands in a New World to migrants in a crowded Europe is obvious. This article documents the ambition of urbanists to preserve that rural quality after the mushrooming of towns: the largest proved exemplary in bringing the country into the city. New York’s Central Park was emulated by the open spaces on the grounds of the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893. The garden-cities surrounding London also provided inspiration, as did the avenues by which Georges Haussmann made Paris into a tourist mecca, and Pierre L’Enfant’s designs for the nation’s capital. The author concentrates on two growing cities of the twentieth century, Los Angeles and Honolulu. His detailed analysis shows politicians often slow to implement the bold and costly plans of designers whose ambition was to use the new technology in order to vie with the splendor of the natural sites and create the “City Beautiful.” Some titles in the bibliography show the hopes of those dreamers to have been tempered by fears of “supersize” or similar drawbacks.

Russian Youth in Moscow in the System of Interethnic Relations

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 88-105
Author(s):  
Lyubov V. Ostapenko ◽  
Roman A. Starchenko ◽  
Irina A. Subbotina
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Russian Population ◽  
Interethnic Relations ◽  
The Face ◽  
Interethnic Interaction ◽  
Interethnic Marriages ◽  
The City

Young people’s participation in optimizing interethnic relations is becoming particularly important in the face of growing interethnic tension, a rise of distrust and suspicion between countries and nations. Based on the analysis of data from the survey carried out among Muscovites aged 16-29, the article is aimed at showing the scale and nature of interethnic interaction between the Russian population of the capital and representatives of other ethnic groups in Moscow, attitude towards such contacts in different spheres of life (including interethnic marriages), young people’s evaluation of the interethnic situation in the city and opinion on the reasons for its instability.

Los Angeles in the 1930sThe WPA Guide to the City of Angels

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federal Writers Project of the Works ◽  
David Kipen
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
The City

Review: Urban Latino Cultures: La Vida Latina en LA by Gustavo Leclerc, Raúl Villa, and Michael J. Dear (eds.)

1999 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-128
Author(s):  
Catherine S. Ramirez
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
History Of ◽  
Crime Wave ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
The City ◽  
History Of Los Angeles

Throughout the twentieth century (and now the twenty-first), the specter of a Latina/o past, present, and future has haunted the myth of Los Angeles as a sunny, bucolic paradise. At the same time it has loomed behind narratives of the city as a dystopic, urban nightmare. In the 1940s Carey McWilliams pointed to the fabrication of a “Spanish fantasy heritage” that made Los Angeles the bygone home of fair señoritas, genteel caballeros and benevolent mission padres. Meanwhile, the dominant Angeleno press invented a “zoot” (read Mexican-American) crime wave. Unlike the aristocratic, European Californias/os of lore, the Mexican/American “gangsters” of the 1940s were described as racial mongrels. What's more, the newspapers explicitly identified them as the sons and daughters of immigrants-thus eliding any link they may have had to the Californias/os of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries or to the history of Los Angeles in general.

Em transe-to

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-55
Author(s):  
Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha
Keyword(s):  
The Face ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The City

This text seeks to explore the Argentine films Castro (Alejo Moguillansky, 2009) and El asaltante (Pablo Fendrik, 2007) from within the displacement of their characters through the city. This transit configures the organising element of the plots, determining the direction and rhythm of events. The escape motto will structure the film analyses, which are also twinned by the sensory apprehension that comes from the spaces they travel through. The notion of escape, as explored by Esteban Dipaola in Argentine cinema of the 1990s, continues to throb in mid-to-late 2000s production, and in these films represents the means by which the protagonists deploy critical attitudes—sometimes radical and explosive, sometimes silent—in the face of fixed notions, suggesting some scepticism about the “stability” and “order” that they (dis)encounter in normality. RESUMEN Este texto busca explorar los largometrajes argentinos Castro (Alejo Moguillansky, 2009) y El asaltante (Pablo Fendrik, 2007) a partir del desplazamiento de sus personajes por la ciudad. El transitar se configura como elemento organizador de las tramas, determinando la dirección y el ritmo de los acontecimientos. El tema de la fuga irá estructurando los análisis de las películas, las cuales también están relacionadas por la aprehensión sensorial que hacen de los espacios que recorren. La noción de fuga, tal y como fue explorada por Esteban Dipaola en el cine argentino de los años 90, continúa vigente en la producción de mediados/fines de la primera década del siglo XXI, y en estas películas es el recurso por medio del cual los protagonistas despliegan actitudes críticas – a veces radicales y explosivas, y a veces silenciosas – frente a nociones convencionales, lo cual hace pensar que existe un cierto escepticismo con relación a la “estabilidad” y al “orden” que ellos (des)encuentran en la normalidad. RESUMO Este texto busca explorar os longas-metragens argentinos Castro (Alejo Moguillansky, 2009) e El asaltante (Pablo Fendrik, 2007) a partir do deslocamento de seus personagens pela cidade. O transitar configura-se como elemento organizador das tramas, determinando a direção e o ritmo dos acontecimentos. O mote da fuga estruturará as análises dos filmes, os quais também se irmanam pela apreensão sensorial que fazem dos espaços que percorrem. A noção de fuga, conforme explorada por Esteban Dipaola no cinema argentino da década de 1990, continua a pulsar na produção de meados/fins dos anos 2000, e é, nestes filmes, o recurso através do qual os protagonistas desdobram atitudes críticas – às vezes radicais e explosivas, às vezes silenciosas – diante de noções fixas, sugerindo certo ceticismo em relação à “estabilidade” e à “ordem” que eles (des)encontram na normalidade.

Városutópiák környezetpszichológiai és szimbolikai elemzése

2003 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edit Lippai ◽  
Andrea Dúll
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Jersey City ◽  
The City

A városépítészet egész történetét végigkísérik a „Jó város - jó társadalom” elképzelések, vagyis az utópiák. A jelen tanulmányban néhány, a szépirodalomban megjelent ideális, tökéletes, kívánt városelképzelést, vagyis eutópiát elemzünk környezetpszichológiai és szimbolikai szempontból. A városok tényleges téri-társadalmi szerkezetének és folyamatainak, valamint ezek mentális-érzelmi leképezodésének vizsgálata egyidos a környezetpszichológiával. A kutatást Kevin Lynch (1960) úttöro vizsgálatai alapozták meg, amelyeket „A város képe” (The Image of the City) címu klasszikus könyvében publikált. Lynch három amerikai város - Boston, Los Angeles és Jersey City - lakosságának reprezentatív mintáin végzett kutatásában a lakók mentális térképeit vizsgálta. Kutatásának eredményei szerint az emberek fejében él egy kép a városukról (image of the city), ami a városlakó orientációs bázisa és egyúttal esztétikai-formai struktúra. Összehasonlítva a három amerikai városról alkotott mentális térképeket, Lynch rájött, hogy bizonyos környezeti elemek általános térkép-jellegzetességnek tekinthetok: utak (paths), határok (edges), lakónegyedek (districts), csomópontok (nodes), iránypontok (landmarks). Az utópiák három csoportra oszthatók: idobeli (múlt- és a jövobeli), térbeli (négy világtáj irányában, illetve magasban vagy mélyben levo) és abszolút (képzeletbeli) utópiákra. Az általunk elemzett idobeli utópiák: Atlantisz, Mennyei Jeruzsálem, Minas Tirith és Diaspar, térbeli utópiák: Nekeresd, Napváros, Eldorado és abszolút utópia: Elefántcsonttorony. Ezeket a városutópiákat ebben a munkában kulturális városképeknek tekintettük, és ily módon elemeztük fizikai, észlelheto elemeiket. Vizsgálatunk során arra az érdekes felfedezésre bukkantunk - természetesen Lynch munkájáról nem is tudva -, hogy az utópiák megalkotói pontosan az általuk empirikusan feltárt fenti szempontok alapján írták le információikat az általuk tökéletesnek tartott városról. Elemzésünk eredménye szerint leírhatók a vágyott város ismérvei általában: 1. széles, jó alapanyagból készült sugárutak, 2. jól elkülönített határok és szélek, amelyek védenek, s tagolják a város szerkezetét és 3. a városon belül tágas tereket, kerületeket fognak közre, valamint 4. a csomópontokban a vizuális tájékozódást segíto jellegzetes és látványos tereptárgy van. A városok lakóit többek között közös szimbólumrendszer és a kommunikáció adott, megszokott módja kapcsolja egymáshoz. Az utópikus városok szimbolikus „kognitív térképeinek” funkciója - a valós városokéhoz hasonlóan - az lehet, hogy keretet és biztonságos kapaszkodót nyújtanak egy ideális világban, megteremtik az arról való közös kommunikáció lehetoségét, és ily módon kifejezik, létrehozzák és fenntartják az emberek vágyott tökéletes helykötodését és helyidentitását.

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