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Pantaloon
Pantaloon a Venetian character in Italian commedia dell'arte, typically represented as a foolish old man wearing spectacles, pantaloons, and slippers; in harlequinade or pantomime, he is shown as an old man, alternately foolish and scheming, who abets the clown in his tricks and provides a butt for... Read more |
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hooligan
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bimbo
bimbo an attractive but unintelligent or frivolous young woman. The term came into English (from Italian, ‘little child, baby’) in the early 1920s as a derogatory term for a person of either sex. The sense of stupid or ‘loose’ woman was however developing, and in the... Read more |
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Tibetan Book of the Dead
T IBETANB OOK OF THED EAD Since its first English translation in 1927, the Tibetan guide to spiritual and mental liberation called the Bardo Thodolhas been known in the West as the Tibetan Book of the Dead.The book has reappeared in several ... Read more |
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Action Painting
Action Painting. A type of dynamic, impulsive painting, practised by certain Abstract Expressionists, in which the artist applies paint with energetic gestural movements—sometimes by dribbling or splashing—and with no preconceived idea of what the picture will look like. Sometimes the... Read more |
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Saint Ives School
St Ives School. A loosely structured group of artists, flourishing particularly from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, who concentrated their activities in the Cornish fishing port of St Ives. Like Newlyn, St Ives had been popular with artists long before this: in the winter of 1883–4... Read more |
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Henry Mackenzie
Henry Mackenzie 1745-1831, English author, b. Scotland. He had an active political and legal life, serving as comptroller of taxes for Scotland from 1804 until his death. His first and most famous novel, The Man of Feeling (1771), is a series of loosely joined episodes describing the adventures... Read more |
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Danes
Danes ETHNONYMS: Scandinavians (includes Faroese, Finns, Icelanders, Norwegians, and Swedes) Orientation Identification. The Danes live in the country of Denmark and Danish is their national language. The state-affiliated church is Protestant, historically a branch of the Lutheran... Read more |
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Goodbye to Clark, wayward history man of politics
...earned him a reputation as a loose cannon, yet his intellect and...of Baron Clark, a life peer, art historian and academic. After...Tory leaders." On football hooligans: "A compliment to the English martial spirit." His phrase... |
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Urban fairy tales that sicken; Mike Davies takes a look at the week's cinema...
...causes dimwitted Hibs hooligan Coco (Ewan Bremner...baby of middle class English twits Martin Clunes and...exactly, but this loose remake of 1934 comedy...just appears to be at a loose end. So he kills off...does he soak up the art that ... |
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'Polite and reserved.(News)
...associate the drunken hooligan - a part Grant has...encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and...sport, Britons 'let loose'. It seems that...For a successful English actress you might...portrayed by the English - remember ... |
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Down-to-earth and distinctive: Scotland as others see it; Foreign poll...
...as snobbish as the English. Scots are perceived...themselves than the English, according to studies...encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and...generalisations. "English people are snobs...nation's drunken hooligans when abroad. It...Britons ... |
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Small-Town Comrade Makes Good
...He fell in with "hooligans," with whom he...top, and I was the loose, rotten screw at...promise as a student of English, and offered to...subject. If he chose English as his major, he...the highest liberal arts scores in the ... |
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reviewed in brief.(SCENE)(Movie review)
...to the modernist art world as much as...creator of the Weisman Art Museum's sweeping...result is a film as loose as one of Gehry...in Spanish with English subtitles. Where...in Romanian with English subtitles. Where...revenge on the young ... |
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I feared for my wife and kids as yob fans rioted in the stands; Says Scotland...
...his family's lives as English yobs went to war. The...Saturday when all hell broke loose. The trouble erupted...don't want brainless hooligans going at it in the crowd...and he's a martial arts expert , so I wasn...it's a sad day for English ... |
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Crime and comedy do pay With `Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,' Guy...
...Academy of Film and Television Arts. It was also one of the few...This is the England of soccer hooligans, the Krays, and way too many...than your stereotypical English thespian. In America, you...it added to the film set's loose ambience. "Some people... |