Wanda
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
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| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | Look out! It's coming this way! |
| Interests | Literature, science, nature, history, art, playing the piano, keeping fit, hiking the high country, my family, my work, helping those with TBI, PCS and PTSD. Not a fan of the on-line world. |
| Favorite movies | Les enfants du paradis, L'Atalante, La Grande Illusion, À nous la liberté, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Un homme et une femme, The Apartment, Min and Bill, Anna Christie, Dead Poets Society, The Last Detail, The Last of the Mohicans, Bonnie and Clyde, American Graffiti, High Plains Drifter, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Daddy Longlegs, Dr. Zhivago, So Proudly We Hail, Portrait of Jenny, The Hired Hand, Sunset Boulevard, To Live and Die in LA,They Were Expendable, Three Came Home, Since You Went Away, The Third Man, Windwalker, City Lights,The Outlaw Josie Wales,The Train, The Great Escape, The High and the Mighty, Wake Island, The Asphalt Jungle, The Sand Pebbles, Easy Rider, Bullet, Chinatown, The French Connection, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Rocky, Patton, Mash, From Noon til Three, Brief Encounter, Love and Death, Young Frankenstein, The Best Years of Our Lives, Don't Look Now, Breaking Away, Being There, A Christmas Story, Brazil,The Right Stuff, Moonstruck, My Dinner with Andre, The Breakfast Club, Lost in Translation, WALL-E, Up, The Red Shoes, Empire of the Sun, |
| Favorite music | Clair de Lune, Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut, Pavane pour une infante defunte, Gaspard de la nuit, Sospiri, O mio babbino caro, Nessun dorma, Un bel di vedremo, Pohjola's Daughter, The lark Ascending, Piano Concerto in G Major, Violin Concerto, Op. 14 Allegro, Our Town Suite. My favorite composers are Albéniz, Barber (some), Borodin (some), Chaminade, Couperin, Delius (some), Grainger (some), Copland, Fauré, Satie, Debussy, Ravel, Saint-Saëns, von Williams, Elgar, and in general the Impressionist-era composers. Of these, Couperin, Fauré and Satie have a special place. I also like third-wave Romantic composers such as Sibelius and Grieg, as well as Holst and Williams. For a more contemporary composer, I like Arvo Pärt. |
| Favorite books | Le Grand Meaulnes, L'Homme qui rit, Madame Bovary, La Dame aux camélias, La Comédie Humaine esp.Le Père Goriot, L'éducation sentimentale, La Chartreuse de Parme, Une vie, Bel-Ami, Scènes de la vie de Bohème, La Chute, La Nausée, Les chemins de la liberté, Le Petit Prince, Terre des hommes, À la recherche du temps perdu, Manon Lescaut, Green Mansions, My Antonia, A High Wind in Jamaica, The Wind in the Willows, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Portraits and Observations, The Friendly Persuasion, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, The Outermost House, Out of My Life and Thought, Seventeen, Penrod, The Once and Future King, The Space Trilogy, Moby Dick, Winesburg Ohio, Angle of Repose, A River Runs Through It, Lost Island, USA, Manhattan Transfer, Raintree County, East of Eden, Guard of Honor, Revolutionary Road, On the Beach, Crime and Punishment, Fathers and Sons, Look Homeward Angel, Life on the Mississippi, The Beautiful and the Damned, Lolita, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Catherine Called Birdy, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Flowers for Algernon, A Canticle for Leibowitz, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Gone With the Wind, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Earth Abides, Looking for Alaska, The Things They Carried, The Magus, Little Women, Black Spring, The Razor's Edge, A Movable Feast, The Spirit of St. Louis, Listen! The Wind, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Jude the Obscure, 84 Charing Cross Road,The Gilded Age, The Magnificent Ambersons,The Dog Who Wouldn't Be, Pale Horse Pale Rider, The Late George Apley, Wanda:Countess von Szalras, Charlotte's Web, Rebecca, A Separate Peace, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Requiem for a Wren, Away All Boats, Ben Hur, Our Town, A Sand County Almanac, Night Country, The Invisible Pyramid. Favorite poets are Walt Whitman and Robinson Jeffers, Randall Jarrell , Richard Eberhart, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Alfred Tennyson. |
You've just inherited a manufacturing plant that specializes in plastics. What are you going to make?
A lot of money!