Thornton is also known for an explicit style focusing on sexual themes, which Thornton has referred to as " pornocore ".

Ross has also worked with John Lee Hooker, Lightnin ' Hopkins, Brownie McGhee, Memphis Slim, Sunnyland Slim, Otis Rush, Dr. John, Bobby Lewis, Pinetop Perkins, Charles Neville, Cyril Neville, Big Mama Thornton, Louisiana Red, J. B. Hutto, Eddie Kirkland, Floyd Jones, Homesick James, and many other blues greats.

In 2010 Sinclair married Angie Bowness who has an only son, Marcus Thornton.

Thornton has been released from a Yuma prison to help track down his former comrades in return for a full pardon.

One of the book's early champions was Thornton Wilder, who wrote to Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas in August 1939, a few months after the book's publication: " One of my absorptions [...] has been James Joyce's new novel, digging out its buried keys and resolving that unbroken chain of erudite puzzles and finally coming on lots of wit, and lots of beautiful things has been my midnight recuperation.

Cited by numerous successful artists as an important influence in their development, Asher's teaching has been described by British journalist Sarah Thornton as his " most influential " work.

Lauper has been married to David Thornton since 1991.

* The Press Thornton Future Masters junior golf tournament has been held annually since 1950 in early July.

As of the 2010 Census, Thornton has a population of 2, 338.

Vian has three highways running through it: SH 82, or Thornton Street ; U. S. 64, or Schley Street ; and I-40.

Karl Childers ( Billy Bob Thornton ) is a mentally disabled Arkansas man who has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for having killed his mother and her lover.

Over & Over, an adaptation of the Thornton Wilder play The Skin of Our Teeth, was performed at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia in 1999 and has been revamped for a 2007 staging by the Westport Country Playhouse under the title All of Us.

Thornton has a son named Michael.

Nakamura has referred to Dr. Octagon as a three-person group rather than an alias of Thornton, and these claims were reported by the press.

Because Britain did not abolish wager by battle until Parliament's 1819 response to Ashford v Thornton ( 1818 ), and because no court in post-independence United States has addressed the issue, the question of whether trial by combat remains a valid American alternative to civil action remains open, at least in theory.

The PSNI also has an education organisation named ' B safe ', created by Dympna Thornton in 2006.

Houston has had sizable folk-country and blues scenes dating back to the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, which included many now famous performers such as Nancy Griffith, Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Lyle Lovett, Robert Earl Keen and Lightnin ' Hopkins, Albert Collins, Big Mama Thornton, and Johnny Copeland who were signed with the hometown Peacock Records.

The image of Doherty and Barât entwined, Barât looking up protectively as his friend leans into his shoulder, on the front of their second album, has been called by Anthony Thornton " one of the most iconic rock images of the last decade ".

They would later go on, alongside Bill Lancaster ( the original screenwriter ; although he has since died, he is still credited ), to write the screenplay for the 2005 remake of The Bad News Bears, also starring Billy Bob Thornton.

And mother Mary C. Thornton has won many accolades, most recently with The Toastmasters as woman of the year.

Since making his professional debut, Thornton ’ s performance has been consistent, if unspectacular, and he has consistently featured in the top 10 of the British Jumps Jockey Championship.

Robert Thornton shies away from the spotlight most notably and correctly he will not talk to the television cameras until he has spoken to his owners and trainer.

( Thornton ) where he had been driven by a companion.

On 13 August, 2012, this project was officially announced to be The Zero Theorem, set to start shooting in Bucharest on October 22, produced by Dean Zanuck ( son to the late Richard D. Zanuck who was to originally produce in 2009 ), worldwide sales handled by Voltage Pictures, Toronto and starring Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz in the lead, replacing Billy Bob Thornton who had been attached to the project in 2009.

Former U. S. President Bill Clinton, his half-brother Roger, and Billy Bob Thornton, all Hot Springs natives, have been known to frequent Oaklawn Park in the past.

In 2010 the mayor of Washington Park, John Thornton, was found to have been fatally shot ; he was discovered in his car injured on the morning of April 1, 2010, and he died at the hospital at 6 AM.

Various shorts are also known to have been made about the Baron's life, including the silent films Les Aventures de baron de Munchhausen ( 1911 ) by the French pioneer Georges Méliès and The New Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1915 ) by the prolific British director Floyd Martin Thornton.

Many buildings designed by Thornton have been added to the National Register of Historic Places including:

Thornton had been recommended to the assistant secretary of War, Robert A. Lovett, by a mutual acquaintance who thought Lovett would find use for the ambitious and energetic Thornton.

She had been attending a party in Erdington on the evening of 26 May 1817, and had left with Abraham Thornton and her friend Hannah Cox, who left Mary and Abraham.

continued a very busy tour schedule and during the supporting tour for BTO II, Tim was replaced by Blair Thornton, who had been in the Vancouver-based band Crosstown Bus.

The mission had originally been planned for a crew of four, with Thornton added to the crew as a third mission specialist in December 1982, eight months after the crew was originally named.

Some players who have been described as power forwards are Clark Gillies, Jarome Iginla, Kevin Stevens, Mark Messier, Joe Thornton Ryan Getzlaf, and Milan Lucic

A National Medal of Arts recipient ( 2007 ), he was composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale ( 1994 – 2001 ) and has been a professor of composition at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music for more than 40 years.

In his book The Big Shift, about changing Australian demographics and culture, Bernard Salt coined the term the " Sigrid factor " amusingly pointing out that Australian towns in which movies had been made featuring Thornton had prospered since that time.

Thornton has won, and been nominated, for several Logie Awards in her acting career.

As described above under Architecture, Thornton Heath gained a new state-of-the-art leisure centre in May 2004.

In 1995, Sarah Thornton, drawing on Pierre Bourdieu, described " subcultural capital " as the cultural knowledge and commodities acquired by members of a subculture, raising their status and helping differentiate themselves from members of other groups.

Cato also appears in Thornton Wilder's highly-fictionalized " fantasia " Ides of March, where Cato is described by Caesar as one of " four men whom I most respect in Rome " but who " regard me with mortal enmity ".

A successful merchant banker, as a monetary theorist Thornton has been described as the father of the modern central bank.

He underwent what he described as a conversion experience and soon came to know Babington ’ s associates, among whom were William Wilberforce and Henry Thornton.

Thornton has described his opinions as opposed to the dominant, mainstream historical tradition about the Enlightenment.

After false reports that he had signed for FC Metalist Kharkiv, Thornton signed for Aberystwyth Town on a short term contract on 13 September 2011, in a move that was described by the club as ' arguably the biggest signing in Welsh Premier League history '.

Thornton has also written on economic bubbles, including the United States housing bubble, which he first described in February 2004.

The Gest of Arthure, also called Gest Historyalle and described by Wyntoun, has been more tentatively identified as the well-known Alliterative Morte Arthure ( found in the Thornton manuscript of Lincoln Cathedral ).

Thornton and Arrowood ( 1996 ) recognized two separate motivations for social comparison: Self-evaluation as described by Festinger ( 1954 ) and self-enhancement which they proposed could be gained by identifying with a superior other.