Wide Open Spaces

Advantages: Great first album, good introduction to country
Disadvantages: None

...Wide Open Spaces If you?re looking for a great starter country album then look no further than Wide Open Spaces by The Dixie Chicks. It?s a great introduction if you have never really listened to country before and are not really a fan of the old classics yet, like Dolly Parton, etc, but want to experience a bit of the blue grass, country and that whole scene and get into the music. This album offers you upbeat, toe tapping, yee-hawing, classic story telling country with a new modern, sexy twist. The Dixie Chicks is made up of three females, Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines and Emily Robison. They are the highest grossing female band in the US, selling over 36 million albums as of March 2009! They actually formed in 1989 with a different formation but did not release their debut album, Wide Open Spaces, until 1998. They have...

Spottydog11 01.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of Wide Open Spaces - Dixie Chicks

Open wide for Wendy

Advantages: Novel design featuring a built in hand puppet to tell the story, bright images
Disadvantages: Pages can get caught on the puppet

...'Wendy the Wide-Mouthed Frog' is a children's book written by Sam Lloyd, author of 'Calm Down, Boris' and 'You're Not So Scary, Sid' amongst others. What all of these books have in common is a hand-puppet built in to the centre of the book, which forms the basis of the story. In this particular story, the star is Wendy a wide-mouthed frog. All that is required to bring Wendy to life is for the reader to pop their hand into the puppet and mimick Wendy's mouth movements. I haven't actually read any of the other books in the series so this was still quite a novelty for me to read and both my two year old and my six year old son thought so too. I first came across this book when it was read at the 'Baby Bounce & Rhyme' group that I go to with my youngest son. The sessions always start off with a story and when Wendy was read out...

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Review of Wendy the Wide-Mouthed Frog - Sam Lloyd

Open Wide

Advantages: Robust, fascinating, different...
Disadvantages: Wierd, unhelpful, demanding...

...I don?t want to offend anybody who was born and raised on the Isle of Sheppey, but well, it?s a rather odd place isn?t it? Due I?m sure, to the fact that there is only one road attaching Sheppey to the mainland there have been jokes in the Kentish area about gene pools and bottoms of barrels for as long as I can remember. Yet if you ever risk the journey into this most defensive of communities you might be surprised. The landscape is rather sparse, rather windswept, blasted and rather well, beautiful in a melancholy kind of way. I think it is singly the oddest, most interesting and most lonesome place in England. ***************************************************** Never underestimate the importance of the physical landscape of a novel. Nicola Barker chose to set her novel ?Wide Open? in Sheppey for good reason...

Kirsty1 01.09.2003 (07.09.2003) · Read review
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Review of Wide Open - Nicola Barker

Wild Wives in Wide Sargasso Sea

Advantages: atmospheric, fullydevelops Mr Rochester's mad Wife
Disadvantages: Difficult to read in parts,

...?s existing characters. I feel there is an issue with prequels and sequels to classic books written by other authors. I have read some pretty dire ones including the sequel to Gone with the Wind. In my opinion classic characters should be left well alone and not tampered with at all. However I was pleasantly surprised with Wide Sargasso Sea. The book does taker most of the major characters concerned with the mad wife such as Mr Rochester, Richard Mason (her brother) and the servant Grace Poole and uses some of the situations that have been referred to in Jane Eyre. However it never refers to Jane Eyre herself and thus does not refer to any of the events written about in detail in the original Bronte classic The book published in the 1960s itself is a slim volume and has only 156 pages. My copy is an old Penguin copy bought from a charity shop...

duskmaiden 09.03.2004 · Read review
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Open Mind about Wide Open Spaces

Advantages: Great harmony, great lyrics, feels great to move to.
Disadvantages: Can be considered "Chick Music"

...of more Dixie Chicks and bought their Wide Open Spaces CD without having heard any of the songs off of it. Daring, I know, but I felt it was a good risk. If I didn’t like it, I could sell it on Ebay for a profit. Upon first listening, I fell in love with it. I listened to it all the time. I took it on vacation to my best friend’s house and she fell in love with it too. I ended up leaving the CD with her and buying another copy of it for myself. I cleaned house to it, I got ready for work to it, I listened to it at work. It was great for everything. This has got to be one of my all time, top ten favorite CDs. For those of you who are still reading even after knowing this opinion is about a country music group, here is a breakdown of the songs: 1. I Can Love You Better One of their less deep songs, the lyrics are...

Shadowtwinchaos 14.09.2002 · Read review
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Review of Wide Open Spaces - Dixie Chicks

Wide angle fun with a capital F

Advantages: Solid build, great image quality, super-wide view
Disadvantages: f4 aperture doesn't give very deep bokeh

...Overview ------------- I bought the EF 17-40 f4 L about 3 years ago in order to take urban landcape pictures, as buildings often don't fit into a 28mm "frame". This optic is the widest in the f4 constant aperture series of zoom lenses in the trio that includes the 24-105 super-zoom and the 70-200 telephoto, all of which I now own. At the time, I owned a 20D body and the 17-40 was my first L Series purchase as the 1.6 crop factor on the sensor meant that you had to go for a super-wide angle lens to get even moderate wide angle shots (17mm becomes 27mm on an APS sensor). Now I own a 5D body and can make full use of the extraordinary wide angle of view this lens can provide. Being a standard EF mount (not EF-S), this lens can be used on all the Canon bodies. My friend had an EF-S 10-22mm but this became redundant when he upgraded...

buyer991 07.11.2007 · Read review
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Review of Canon EF L USM wide-angle zoom lens - 17 - 40mm F/4.0

Wide Eyed and Mystified

Advantages: Good tunes and harmonies
Disadvantages: not as good as previous albums

...Wide Eyed and Mystified is in my opinion not as good as downhere's previous albums. I loved their first album which was self titled, they also previousley released an independant album which has several of the same songs. The second album 'so much for subtitles' was slightly more rocky than the first, which seemed to have more of a folk influence and had more of an accustic sound. This third album was released after the band moved to america from canada. Song of the songs such as 1000 miles apart relate to their experiences of moving into a new place. There are several good songs on the album, such as 1000 miles apart, little is much and the more and i miss you here are great songs and more like what i love in downhere, however some of the other songs seem a little weak and the lyrics are not as inspiring or moving as in previous albums...

yatyit14 07.08.2007 · Read review
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Review of Wide Eyed And Mystified - Downhere

A super wide angle lens for panoramic photographs

Advantages: Excellent field of view
Disadvantages: none that I have found in months of use

...Sigma Wide Zoom Lens. If you want a panorama of a landscape then you should try this lens. Described as 12 - 24mm f5-5.6 EX DG Aspherical HSM Technical details first. To fit Sigma, Canon and Nikon (D) Lens construction Groups/elements 12 / 16 Angle of view (degrees) 122.0 - 84.1 Diaphragm blades 6 Minimum Aperture (wide) F22 Minimum Focus (cm/in) 28/11 Filter size (mm) Rear Mount gelatin filter Dimensions diameter x length 87/100mm / 3.4" x 3.9" Weight (g/oz) 615/21.6 Fitted with Hypersonic motor. Comes with its own carry case with a belt mounting attachment and template to make the gel filters. This is a lens designed for a digital camera. It is an ultra wide angle lens (122 degrees) at 12mm along the diagonal axis and is ideal for both indoor and landscape photography. The lens...

Coloneljohn 05.11.2004 · Read review
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Review of Sigma Zoom Super Wide Angle 12-24mm Lens

The best wide angle lens money can buy for a Canon

Advantages: Build quality is outstanding, quality is excellent.
Disadvantages: None

...focusing, making this lens brilliant for use with Polarizing filters or graduates. If you use a full frame body such as the Canon 5D, this lens gives a massive field of view. This is about the best lens money can buy for landscapes and wide angle shots. You simply can't go wrong with this lens. Highly Recommended....

jackmcintyre 02.08.2007 · Read review
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My Eyes Were Wide Open

Advantages: excellent film
Disadvantages: none really

...widescreen-only films, but since the film was originally shot in fullscreen, you're not missing anything. The Dolby soundtrack is of a high standard, especially during the spectacular masked party sequence. Extras-wise, Eyes Wide Shut is quite good value, there are very interesting interviews with Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman & Steven Spielberg, who talk much more openly about Kubrick & the film, than you usually find in interviews of this type. There are also some trailers & biographies. Overall, Eyes Wide Shut is not Kubrick's best work by any means, but still an excellent film, full of brilliant touches, and like all his films, it's original and thought-provoking....

LittleMissNaughty 15.02.2001 · Read review
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