... . Francis Albert Sinatra was born December 12, 1915, the only child of working-class Italian American immigrants, Anthony Martin and Natalie Della. Born in a tenement at 415 Monroe St. in Hoboken, New Jersey. At birth he was thought to be stillborn until his grandmother revived him under cold water. At age 15, Sinatra dropped out of high School and decided tat he would follow ... in the footsteps of his idol, Bing Crosby. He then joined up with a singing and dancing trio called the "Three Flashes". He finally got his first real break when a Trumpet extraordinaire, Harry James stumbled .....

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... if he was to become someone found himself interested in painting after he saw how the surrealists equated the desire to express something new with the need to shock. Francis would secretly attempt to draw and water color, most of his early paintings having naked men in makeup. So towards the end of 1928, Francis returned to London with one goal set to mind: to disrupt all notices ... of what art was and what it could express. (Anatomy of An Enigma p.42) Indeed this is exactly what he did. Arriving at London and painting ... about horror. Pleasure is such a diverse thing. And horror is ...

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... who were the first wave off the transport boats had no chance of survival when those transport gates were opened. The images of men being shot, the explosions, men trying to escape fire only to die in the ocean under the weight of their packs and equipment, and the sight of men with limbs blown off searching for their missing body parts. Then there is the look of the ocean water, the blood changing the color to ... red. It is these vivid images of battle that one must realize that ... this is not just a movie, but an account of an actual real-life battle. The fact those men ... ...

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