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1) War Paint
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Successful, suave, and artistic, Alfred Karanov is the leading dancer with Frederickstown Corps de Ballet. With his heart tired of casual flings, he steels himself for a life of professional solitude.
Handsome and sweet Brent Dixon, the starting wide receiver for the Frederickstown Vultures, hones his performance for his football expansion team. Solitary pursuit of perfection is all he can afford, because pro players don't come out of the closet.
His...
2) War Paint
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There's an art to love. Mural artist Ben has come from Tel Aviv to Atlanta to work on a commission. A successful artist, he's still lonely and isolated after his family's rejection. Ben is charmed and surprised when local soldier Eli mistakes him for homeless, and brings him a cup of coffee and a biscuit. This gesture opens the door. Eli is lost, trying to make sense of a future without the Army after a combat injury ends his career. Art gives them...
3) War Paint
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Her innocent good looks are just a cover for Last Comic Standing winner Iliza Shlesinger's acerbic, stream-of-conscious comedy that she unleashes on an unsuspecting audience in her hometown of Dallas in her stand-up special, War Paint .
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This is my story as an American Indian leaving the reservation, enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1967 and going to war in Vietnam as so many other American Indians did. The Indians came from all the nations. We enlisted to become warriors like so many of our ancestors. As a young Indian boy who had never left the reservation before. I saw many similarities to my home, in this strange and beautiful country in the trees, the creeks, and the rivers. These...
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Explores a little-known history of exchange between Anishinaabe and American writers, showing how literature has long been an important venue for debates over settler colonial policy and indigenous rights.
For the Anishinaabeg-the indigenous peoples of the Great Lakes-literary writing has long been an important means of asserting their continued existence as a nation, with its own culture, history, and sovereignty. At the same time, literature has...
16) Warpaint
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Silver Arrow Records/Angelus Entertainment
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p2008
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English
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Distributed by PBS Home Video
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c2007
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English
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Tells the story of two of the first highly successful women entrepreneurs in America, Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein. One hundred years ago these women immigrated to the United States and, starting with next to nothing, created what is today the $150 billion global health and beauty industry.
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In these deeply researched essays, a Paris Review contributor blends science, history, and memoir to explore human obsession with gorgeous things, exposing the fraught histories of makeup, silk, jewels, perfume, and other objects, helping readers to ethically partake in the beauty of the world around them.
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