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  • It's always tempting to turn the first half of Sinatra's career into a morality play: a rake's progress and reformation.

    When Sinatra had the world on a string Louis Bayard 2010

  • It's always tempting to turn the first half of Sinatra's career into a morality play: a rake's progress and reformation.

    When Sinatra had the world on a string Louis Bayard 2010

  • Interview with Kathy Engel___(ragline)___Andrew Motion: The Guardian: The week in books___(ragline)___Jay Parini: The Guardian: The rake's progress___(ragline)___Jay Parini: The Guardian: W.D.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • Interview with Kathy Engel___(ragline)___Andrew Motion: The Guardian: The week in books___(ragline)___Jay Parini: The Guardian: The rake's progress___(ragline)___Jay Parini: The Guardian: W.D.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • That's followed by a pair of stories called "Le Jardin de la Sexualité," where a hyper-sexual Paris serves as the backdrop for a Moroccan rake's seduction of an Irish prude.

    Alex Remington: Thirst: A Terrific Debut Short Story Collection by a Peripatetic Quadrogenarian 2009

  • It appears the recent rain and wind has shifted the rake's position among the "CrashGard" that's how they spell it barrels.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008

  • Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (paintings by Victor Hartmen); Resphigi's Church Windows and Botticelli Trilogy; Henze's cantata after Gericault's Raft of the Frigate Medusa; Rachmaninoff's Isle of the Dead from Bocklin's famous painting; Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George (Seurat); Stravinski's The rake's Progress (after Hogarth); Benvenuto Cellini by Berlioz (statue of Perseus)--these are just off the top of my head.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Will 2008

  • Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (paintings by Victor Hartmen); Resphigi's Church Windows and Botticelli Trilogy; Henze's cantata after Gericault's Raft of the Frigate Medusa; Rachmaninoff's Isle of the Dead from Bocklin's famous painting; Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George (Seurat); Stravinski's The rake's Progress (after Hogarth); Benvenuto Cellini by Berlioz (statue of Perseus)--these are just off the top of my head.

    DesignerBlog Will 2008

  • Sansom and Henry VIII: Thriller charts a royal rake's progress.

    Today's Inquirer reviews ... Frank Wilson 2007

  • Something had hitched itself on to one of the rake's teeth.

    Calling A Dead Man Cross, Gillian 2001

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