signature-tune
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signature-tune. A term which gained currency in the 1920s with the growing popularity of dance-bands, especially when broadcasting. As a means of quick identification, each band began and ended its perf. with a tune, known as the ‘signature tune’. Most bands used one tune, e.g. Jack Payne's
Say it with music, but some used one tune at the beginning and another ‘to sign off’, e.g. Henry Hall played
It's just the time for dancing at the start and
Here's to the next time at the end. Individual variety artists introduced their acts with a signature-tune; and if one wished to be facetious, one could say that the
leitmotiv of characters in Wagner's
Ring are their ‘signature-tunes’.
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Photos Show, Tell // Mickey Pallas' Images Reflect Different World
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 12/28/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...fiction movie. In one of Pallas' "Buicks and Their Owners...range from $500 to $1000. Pallas recorded "with good-natured glee the white, middle-class mythology of 1950s America," wrote...re Not in Kansas Anymore." Pallas never saw himself as a satirist...
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Christina Heroina: Mythological and Historical Exemplification in the Latin Panegyrics on Christina, Queen of Sweden.
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies; 6/22/1995; ; 658 words
; ...comparing the person praised with a famous figure of mythology or history,' thereby conveying "something of...for comparisons" (69). Exempla from classical mythology include Pallas Athena, Minerva, and Diana. Iiro Kajanto is thorough...
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O to dream of a lady lordship!
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...no less. In arguing for more women to sit on the bench, Shahrizat summoned the Greek gods. "In Greek mythology," she related "Pallas Athena was celebrated as the goddess of reason and justice. To end the cycle of violence that began with...
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THE BEAT.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 7/19/2002; ; 587 words
; ...also known as Etienne de Vignoles; King of Spades, King David; Queen of Spades, Pallas, also known as Athena in Greek mythology and Minerva in Roman mythology; Jack of Spades, Hogier the Dane, one of Charlemagne's paladins; King of Diamonds...
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Marguerite de France as Minerva: a sixteenth-century Limoges painted enamel by Jean de Court in the Wallace Collection.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 2/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...as the classical goddess Pallas/Minerva (Fig. 1) (2...with the deities of classical mythology was a device regularly employed...narratives drawn from classical mythology. The first two are dated 1555...developed. Described as 'une Pallas contre Ignorance armee...
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PARK SQUARE ARTS CENTER TO OPEN
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/2/1987; ; 700+ words
; A show of art that is funny. Another one on mythology. An exchange between black New York artists and black artists...of the CityPlace programming for its first year. Beck and Pallas Lombardi, CityPlace's artistic director, will program...
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The Gonne-Yeats Letters: 1893-1938.
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 1/25/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...verse, he identifies her with heroines of classical and Celtic mythology who inspired men to desperate acts--Leda, Helen of Troy...recalls, "Maud Gonne at Howth station waiting a train,/Pallas Athena in that straight back and arrogant head." With the...
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Ginsburg recounts women's history in law
News Wire article from: University Wire; 2/4/2004; ; 679 words
; ...law back quite a ways -- all the way back to ancient Greece, in fact. Pallas Athena, the goddess of reason and justice, established the rule of law in Greek mythology, Ginsburg said. And in the Bible's Book of Judges, Deborah was a prophet...
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Pallas
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Pallas in Greek mythology, one of the names (of unknown meaning) of Athene .
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Athena
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Athena , or Pallas Athena , in Greek religion and mythology, one of the most important Olympian deities...It was said that because she accidentally killed Pallas she set the name Pallas before her own. Although a virgin goddess, she...
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Nike
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Nike , in Greek religion and mythology, goddess of victory, daughter of Pallas and Styx. Often an attendant of Zeus or Athena, she also presided over all contests, athletic as well as military. She was...
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Callimachus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Apollo's honor in Cyrene; Artemis; Delos, including the story of Apollo's birth, mythology, and Ptolemy's Gallic encounter; the bath of Pallas and how Tiresias saw her bathing and was struck blind; and Demeter's search for her daughter...
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beauty
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
beauty In Greek mythology, Paris was called to judge who of three goddesses, Aphrodite, Hera, and Pallas Athene, was the fairest. Eris, the goddess of discord, started the trouble when she appeared at a wedding, and threw a golden...
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