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Steve Biko
Steve Biko (Steven Biko) , 1946-77, South African political leader. A medical student, he founded (1969) a black student organization and developed a national "black consciousness" movement to combat racism and apartheid policies. Arrested in 1977, he died in police custody, prompting intern...
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Steven Paul Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs , 1955-, American businessman, b. San Francisco. Working with Stephen Wozniak, Jobs helped launch the personal-computer revolution by introducing the first Apple computer in 1976. Jobs later successfully established Apple's line as a user-friendly, graphically oriented alternative t...
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Voyager
Voyager the first airplane to circumnavigate the earth nonstop on a single load of fuel. Designed by Burt Rutan and flown by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, Voyager took off from California on Dec. 14, 1986, and, after a 25,012 mi (40,269 km) flight, landed in the same place nine days later. The p...
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Steve Martin
Steve Martin 1945-, American comedian, actor, and writer, b. Waco, Tex. An Emmy-winning television comedy writer in the late 1960s, he began performing stand-up comedy in the early 70s and became a recurrent guest host on Saturday Night Live beginning in the late 70s. His catchphrases, e.g., "I...
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Steve Reich
Steve Reich (Stephen Michael Reich), 1936-, American composer, b. New York City. A well-known exponent of minimalism , he attended Cornell (B.A., 1957), the Julliard School of Music (1958-61), and Mills College (M.A., 1963), where he studied with Darius Milhaud and Luciano Berio . Also influenc...
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balloon
balloon lighter-than-air craft without a propulsion system, lifted by inflation of one or more containers with a gas lighter than air or with heated air. During flight, altitude may be gained by discarding ballast (e.g., bags of sand) and may be lost by releasing some of the lifting gas from its co...
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minimalism
minimalism schools of contemporary art and music, with their origins in the 1960s, that have emphasized simplicity and objectivity.
Minimalism in the Visual Arts
Reacting against the formal excesses and raw emotionalism of abstract expressionism , the practitioners of minimal art (also s...
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comic strip
comic strip combination of cartoon with a story line, laid out in a series of pictorial panels across a page and concerning a continuous character or set of characters, whose thoughts and dialogues are indicated by means of "balloons" containing written speech. The comic strip form can be emplo...
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modern dance
modern dance serious theatrical dance forms that are distinct from both ballet and the show dancing of the musical comedy or variety stage.
The Beginnings of Modern Dance
Developed in the 20th cent., primarily in the United States and Germany, modern dance resembles modern art and music...
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Kentucky
Kentucky , one of the so-called border states of the S central United States. It is bordered by West Virginia and Virginia (E); Tennessee (S); the Mississippi R., across which lies Missouri (SW); and Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, all across the Ohio R. (W, N).
Facts and Figures
Area, 40,3...
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