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  • Barbara Vine’s A Fatal Inversion is masterly – as a gripping page-turner with great psychological insights, no praise too high.

    Catching Up « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • "Inversion" is a factor of the greatest magnitude and has to be reckoned with; but I must content myself here with only indicating the general principle that the same power is capable of producing diametrically opposite effects if it be applied under opposite conditions, a truth which the so-called

    The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science 1881

  • "Inversion" juxtaposes two fanciful, near-identical cinder-block arrangements they look like little towns.

    The Seattle Times 2010

  • Bogner's M.O. is to take a few simple loops -- rumbling bass, water-y plops, chirping squalls, laser-like blasts -- and overlap them, producing songs so sweet they'll make you laugh (the elephant-march opener "Begleitung für Tuba"), so repetitive they'll hypnotize you (the swinging "Inversion"), and so inventive they sound alien (the robotic "2 Ton").

    Pitchfork: Latest News 2009

  • Thanks to Dan Havel and Dean Ruck of Art League Houston this structure named "Inversion" is up for your viewing pleasure.

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

  • Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., and "Inversion" at the Israel Museum in

    NYT > Home Page By HILARIE M. SHEETS 2010

  • Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., and "Inversion" at the Israel Museum in

    NYT > Home Page By HILARIE M. SHEETS 2010

  • According to the very slick, four-color promotional cards in his office, Schlesinger offers customers a complete line of services for sale including Medical Management, Full Service Office Injections, Pain Pumps and Stimulators, TENS Therapy, Pain Support Groups, Traction/Inversion Therapy, Massage Therapy, Yoga Therapy and Psychological care.

    Tom Alderman: Memo to Doctors: We're Not Just Patients, We Are Your Customers! Tom Alderman 2011

  • According to the very slick, four-color promotional cards in his office, Schlesinger offers customers a complete line of services for sale including Medical Management, Full Service Office Injections, Pain Pumps and Stimulators, TENS Therapy, Pain Support Groups, Traction/Inversion Therapy, Massage Therapy, Yoga Therapy and Psychological care.

    Tom Alderman: Memo to Doctors: We're Not Just Patients, We Are Your Customers! Tom Alderman 2011

  • I mean then to state what, according to my notion are bad ingredients in composition and first, Inversion of Sentences, which may be instanced by recurring to a line in the Rehearsal, by the Duke of Buckingham, 'And me her dear parthenope she calls' now when this is rendered into plain English it is — 'And she calls me her dear Parthenope'.

    Letter 94 2009

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