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Momus
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
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Momus, Greek god of ridicule, and so by extension of
clowns, who appears in the ‘secular masque’ provided by
Dryden for a revival of
Fletcher's The Pilgrim in 1700. The name was later used frequently to denote a clown, as in
Grimaldi's reference to himself as ‘the once Merry Momus’, and became attached to one of the characters in the
harlequinade.
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Streetcar: Momus
Magazine article from: New Orleans Magazine; 2/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; Whenever there were double sevens in the year, Momus' parade seemed to create quite a stir. In 1877 the theme of Momus' march was "Hades, A Dream of Momus." The floats poked fun at the era of Reconstruction which then was...
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Scottish popster Momus goes Analog Baroque; Y2K goblin crawls into Momus' lyrics.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 10/9/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Meet Scotland's neo-genius pop gremlin Momus. Who else could turn the Y2K problem...invent a new one for each album," says Momus, who arrives Thursday at the Middle East...songs about the Y2K problem," explains Momus, born Nick Currie in 1961. "It probably...
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MOMUS "The Little Red Songbook" Le Grande Magistery; KAHIMI KARIE "Kahimi Karie" Minty Fresh
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/16/1998; ; 636 words
; ...on his new "The Little Red Songbook," Momus is a bad man. In "Old Friend, New Flame...selfishness (and silliness) of lust. When Momus (a k a Nick Currie) changes the subject...suit his new name, Wendy. As usual, Momus sets his puckish musings to bouncy cabaret...
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You Can't Stop The Online Music - Momus.
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 1/12/2001; 700+ words
; ...the mid-'80s under the nom de plume Momus. "It's like if I were to take someone...Scottish musician established the name Momus for his recording career in 1986, and...she complained of a song about her in a Momus album. Carlos won a $30,000 award in...
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Momus and the satirical three
Magazine article from: New Orleans Magazine; 2/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; So many folks were mad at Momus that even the governor had to get involved...Army band marched in parades, including Momus of that year, and both the Army and...greeted Rex when he arrived by river. But Momus, imp that he was, felt the need to...
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MOMUS: FOLK MUSIC WITH BYTE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/19/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...toting hipsters of Brooklyn that transformed Momus from wispy, sardonic Scot into a latter...reservation looking for primitive sounds," says Momus. "And this music, these revisionist...witness his "analog baroque" phase), Momus's latest project, "Folktronic," is...
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Momus, Taking Derisive Action; With 'Stars,' the Musical Satirist Puts His Fans on the Hot Seat
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/31/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...recorded satirical songs. Using the name Momus, he has written mockingly of himself...the name of the Greek god of ridicule. Momus needed a lawyer. Any details of the case...has vanished from subsequent editions of Momus's 1998 album, "The Little Red Songbook...
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CD REVIEW: Momus' 'Stars Forever'
News Wire article from: University Wire; 9/2/1999; ; 432 words
; ...close to the wonderful weirdness that is Momus, Britain's most bizarre export. Adopting...except it's all about people who wrote Momus, paid him $1,000 and asked him to write...money burning a hole in their CD players. Momus has already shown great skill at melding...
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Momus The Philosophy of Momus Cherry Red CD BRED 119
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/14/1995; 419 words
; ...fulfilling prophecy, or simply advocating androgyny, Nick "Momus" Currie's tone is urbane, witty and always perfectly measured...kind of thing The Pet Shop Boys are routinely praised for, but Momus goes beyond their basic observational mode to a more speculative...
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Over the top with Momus ; MOMUS
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 1/4/2007; ; 487 words
; ...garde in recent years - there's only one Momus. Nick Currie, a 46-year-old from...divorced but remain musicalpartners). Momus (the Greek god of mockery) is the perfect...that would make Sufjan Stevens proud. And Momus in his own words? "Voyager, timelord...
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Momus
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Momus a person likened to Momus, the Greek god of censure and ridicule, who for his censures upon...allusions to the story that when Hephaistos (or Zeus) had made a man, Momus blamed him for not having put a window in his breast.
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Thomas Lodge
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...a collection of amorous sonnets, is his chief volume of verse. He also wrote plays and a book of verse satires, A Fig for Momus (1595). Lodge pursued several careers in addition to his literary efforts. He sailed on a few expeditions, the most notable...
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Cornelius
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...another one of his favorite bands from the 1960s. Cornelius is what music critic Simon Reynolds and fellow postmodern artist Momus have casually referred to as an archist (or arkist) — an artist that expresses himself through archiving, distilling...
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Lodge, Thomas
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...Looking Glasse for London and England (1594, with R. Greene ). It is not clear whether he wrote any other plays. A Fig for Momus (1595) was a miscellaneous collection of satirical poems including epistles addressed to S. Daniel and M. Drayton . Wits...
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Battle of the Books, The
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...Temple commanding the allies; the moderns by Milton, Dryden, Descartes, Hobbes, Scotus, and others, with the support of Momus and the malignant deity Criticism. The fight is conducted with great spirit. Aristotle aims an arrow at Bacon but hits Descartes...
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