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Dick o 'the Syke was the first witness examined for the defense.
A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Hall Caine 1892
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Crazy Lady, curated by art critic Jane Harris, and Det Syke, new paintings by Jordan Bunch, are on view at Schroeder Romero & Shredder, 531 West 26th Street, New York, 212 630-0722.
G. Roger Denson: "Old," "Crazy" and "Hysterical." Is That All There Is? G. Roger Denson 2011
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Lordan Bunch's "Det Syke," takes on the reprehensible signification of historical female hysteria in ink and oil renderings made after the photographs of women patients diagnosed with hysteria found in the publication Iconographie Photographique de la Salpetriere 1877-1880.
G. Roger Denson: "Old," "Crazy" and "Hysterical." Is That All There Is? G. Roger Denson 2011
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Even the renderings of immobile and catatonic 19th-century women hysterics in Lordan Bunch's Det Syke, are rendered in a realism that invites our empathy.
G. Roger Denson: "Old," "Crazy" and "Hysterical." Is That All There Is? G. Roger Denson 2011
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The song was my involuntary mind's commentary rising up in response to Martha Wilson's solo show, I have become my own worst fear, at P.P.O.W.; art critic Jane Harris' group selection, Crazy Lady, at Schroeder, Romero & Shredder; and Lordan Bunch's Det Syke, a series of paintings and studies in oil derived from 19th-century photographs documenting women diagnosed with hysteria, being shown at the same gallery.
G. Roger Denson: "Old," "Crazy" and "Hysterical." Is That All There Is? G. Roger Denson 2011
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Of course, when it comes to admonishment comedy, Syke ...
Rip Empson: HuffPost Review: Wanda Sykes's 'I'ma Be Me' (VIDEO) 2009
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Of course, when it comes to admonishment comedy, Syke ...
Rip Empson: HuffPost Review: Wanda Sykes's 'I'ma Be Me' (VIDEO) 2009
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The ominous name of Bloodmire-sink or Syke, marks a narrow hollow to the north-west of Douglas Castle, from which it is distant about the third of
Castle Dangerous 2008
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They landed after several trys on the Isle of Syke, from there he escaped first to Raasay and hence to France.
Archive 2008-01-13 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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They landed after several trys on the Isle of Syke, from there he escaped first to Raasay and hence to France.
Miss Flora MacDonald de Brantigny........................ 2008
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