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Luis de Gongora y Argote
Luis de Góngora y Argote The Spanish poet Luis de Góngora y Argote (1561-1627) caused a furor with his use of complex metaphor, Latinized vocabulary, unconventional syntax, and metaphysical subtleties. His baroque style became known as Gongorism. Born in Cordova on July 11, 1561,... Read more |
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Luis Bunuel
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Luis of Granada
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San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo , city (1990 pop. 41,958), seat of San Luis Obispo co., S Calif., near San Luis Obispo Bay; inc. 1856. Printing and publishing, machinery, medical goods, electronic equipment, computers, and tourism are important to the economy. In 1846, John Frémont seized the city for the... Read more |
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Luis de Leon
Luis Ponce de León , 1527?-1591, Spanish mystic and poet, an Augustinian monk. Fray Luis held various theological chairs at the Univ. of Salamanca. A noted Hebraist, he translated the Song of Songs and the Book of Job. His theological disputes with leading Dominicans and his translations... Read more |
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Luis de Morales
Luis de Morales , c.1520-1586, Spanish mannerist painter. He lived and worked in Badajoz. Morales executed vivid portrayals of saints suffering and refined devotional images of the Virgin and Child. Influences of Leonardo da Vinci and of Netherlandish art may be seen in his delicate and precisely... Read more |
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Luis de Velasco
Luis de Velasco , d. 1564, Spanish administrator, second viceroy (1550-64) of New Spain (now Mexico), successor to Antonio de Mendoza . His rule was remarkably energetic, humanitarian, and free of corruption. He did much to improve the condition of the natives and thus aroused the opposition of... Read more |
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Luis Valdez
Luis Valdez: 1940 Read more |
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Luis Barragan
Luis Barragán A Mexican architect and landscape architect, Luis Barrag Read more |
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Luis Velez de Guevara
Luis Vélez de Guevara , 1579?-1644, Spanish playwright and novelist. He was a follower of Lope de Vega and wrote many popular plays noted for their poetic quality. Among these the most important are La luna de la sierra [the mountain moon] and Reinar después de morir [to reign... Read more |
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Henry Miller Theatre
...present legit productions in 1966, was turned into a movie house and soon reverted to a porno palace. In 1978 it became a disco club named Xenon, then a dance hall called Shout! While still in this nightclub configuration, the Henry Miller returned... |
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Hudson Theatre
...1930s and an NBC television studio in the 1950s, other times serving as a movie house, burlesque theatre, porn palace, and disco. A partial restoration was done on the interior in the 1980s, but the Hudson has yet to return to being a full‐fledged... |
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dance
...expanded recreational dancing everywhere, from Scottish reels to jazz-based dances without physical contact, rock 'n' roll, disco, and break-dancing. Ballet meantime had generally dissociated itself from opera, and begun to experiment with choreography... |
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hearing
...human listener, whereas sound levels of 100 dB or more are uncomfortably loud and may damage the ears. At pop concerts and in discos the sound level can be much higher than this!The design of the ear changed substantially between aquatic and terrestrial vertebrates... |
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NEOLOGISM
...affirmative action, biodegradable, bionics, brain drain, cable television, counter-productive, cryonics, cybernation, disco, Eurocrat, Eurodollar, fastfood, genetic engineering, jet lag, microelectronics, microwave oven, pleabargaining, pop... |
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disco
disco •tacho, taco, tobacco, wacko •blanco, Franco •churrasco, fiasco...Tampico •sicko, thicko, tricot, Vico •ginkgo, pinko, stinko •cisco, disco, Disko, Morisco, pisco, San Francisco •zydeco • magnifico • calico... |
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Musama Disco Christo
Musama Disco Christo (Fanti, ‘Army of the Cross of Christ’). An independent Ghanaian Church, founded by a highly charismatic Fanti... |
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African Instituted Churches
...GOD'S KINGDOM SOCIETY; HARRIS MOVEMENT; JAMAA; KIMBANGU; KITAWALA; LUMPA CHURCH; MAI CHAZA'S CHURCH; MARIO LEGIO; MUSAMA DISCO CRISTO; NAZARITE CHURCH; PROVIDENCE INDUSTRIAL MISSION; ZION CHRISTIAN CHURCH; ZIONIST CHURCHES. |
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churrasco
...Biko, Gromyko, pekoe, picot, Puerto Rico, Tampico •sicko, thicko, tricot, Vico •ginkgo, pinko, stinko •cisco, disco, Disko, Morisco, pisco, San Francisco •zydeco • magnifico • calico • Jellicoe •haricot • Jericho • Mexico • simpatico... |
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cisco
...Biko, Gromyko, pekoe, picot, Puerto Rico, Tampico •sicko, thicko, tricot, Vico •ginkgo, pinko, stinko •cisco, disco, Disko, Morisco, pisco, San Francisco •zydeco • magnifico • calico • Jellicoe •haricot • Jericho • Mexico • simpatico... |
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Disko
...Biko, Gromyko, pekoe, picot, Puerto Rico, Tampico •sicko, thicko, tricot, Vico •ginkgo, pinko, stinko •cisco, disco, Disko, Morisco, pisco, San Francisco •zydeco • magnifico • calico • Jellicoe •haricot • Jericho • Mexico • simpatico... |
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Draco
...Biko, Gromyko, pekoe, picot, Puerto Rico, Tampico •sicko, thicko, tricot, Vico •ginkgo, pinko, stinko •cisco, disco, Disko, Morisco, pisco, San Francisco •zydeco • magnifico • calico • Jellicoe •haricot • Jericho • Mexico • simpatico... |
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gecko
...Biko, Gromyko, pekoe, picot, Puerto Rico, Tampico •sicko, thicko, tricot, Vico •ginkgo, pinko, stinko •cisco, disco, Disko, Morisco, pisco, San Francisco •zydeco • magnifico • calico • Jellicoe •haricot • Jericho • Mexico • simpatico... |
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Mexico
...Biko, Gromyko, pekoe, picot, Puerto Rico, Tampico •sicko, thicko, tricot, Vico •ginkgo, pinko, stinko •cisco, disco, Disko, Morisco, pisco, San Francisco •zydeco • magnifico • calico • Jellicoe •haricot • Jericho • Mexico • simpatico... |
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Morocco
...Biko, Gromyko, pekoe, picot, Puerto Rico, Tampico •sicko, thicko, tricot, Vico •ginkgo, pinko, stinko •cisco, disco, Disko, Morisco, pisco, San Francisco •zydeco • magnifico • calico • Jellicoe •haricot • Jericho • Mexico • simpatico... |
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dance
...whirl, pirouette, gyrate; informal bop, disco, rock, boogie, shake a leg, hoof it...ball, masquerade, prom, hoedown, disco; dated hop, sock hop. See table. 2...cakewalk carioca cha-cha Charleston conga disco eightsome reel foxtrot freakfrug hand jive... |
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offshoot
...an offshoot of Cromwell's line synonyms: descendant, scion, relation. 3. rap music began as an underground offshoot of disco synonyms: outcome, result, (side) effect, corollary, consequence, upshot, product, by-product, spin-off, development... |
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club
...group, circle, band, body, ring, crew; alliance, league, union. 2. the city has great clubs synonyms: nightclub, disco, discotheque, bar. 3. the top club in the league synonyms: team, squad, side, lineup, franchise. |
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music
...barbershop barrelhouse bebop bluegrass blues boogie-woogie calypso chant choral country country and western dancehall death metal disco Dixieland easy listeningelectronicaemo flamenco folk funk gangsta gospel Goth grunge hard rock heavy metal hip hop industrial... |
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nightclub
nightclub • noun we hit all the hot nightclubssynonyms: club, nightspot, disco, discotheque, bar, lounge. See also bar noun sense 4. |
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cabaret
cabaret • noun 1. watching the hotel's cabaretsynonyms: entertainment, show, floorshow. 2. employed as a singer in a cabaretsynonyms: nightclub, club, nightspot, disco, discotheque. |
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bop
bop • verb informal bopping to the old tunes synonyms: dance; boogie, jive, groove, disco, rock, stomp; get down, hoof it, cut a/the rug. |
 "The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)")
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RETRO DISCO THE DANCE CROWD IS BACK IN THOSE POLYESTER THREADS
...People just got sick of disco and it was ridiculed...Marriott and soak in the disco atmosphere and music...here who used to go to discos are now in their 30s...old days I lived in the discos every Friday and Saturday...out and dance." The ... |
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Disco music - what were we thinking?(FEATURES)(ARTS)
...entertaining elements of a newly opened disco exhibition is a kiosk of recordings that...minority nightclubs makes the backlash against disco a bit more understandable. How society...trashed their records is made clear by "Disco: A Decade of Saturday Nights," which... |
 "Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)")
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DISCO KEEPS (AH, AH, AH, AH) STAYIN' ALIVE ...; A VITAL PART OF '70S...
...radio and in clubs across the country, the disco age was launched by the Hues Corporation...became the property of vinyl archeologists, disco - that thumping, syncopated, stylish...newcomers such as ``The Last Days of Disco,'' ``Slums of Beverly Hills'' and... |
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Disco's Mood Rings True // '90s Dance Fans Show Signs of Nostalgia Fever
Disco is the Freddy Krueger of music. No matter...Travolta's "Saturday Night Fever" made disco America's hottest craze and radio's Steve...Gloria Gaynor and Donna Summer with the Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park, disco... |
 "Sunday Tribune (South Africa)")
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disco.(News)
...being, to all intents and purposes, a disco record. Wasn't this the wedding-fodder...the late 1970s. Consumed by a virulent "disco sucks" campaign, that decade culminated...thousands of records at the so-called Disco Demolition Night in Chicago's Comiskey... |
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Disco still stayin' alive
...wanted to dance and do the hustle.The disco era marked a change in the music industry...electronica into clubs and discotheques. While disco never completely died, it's been mostly...levels since the 1970s, but it looks like disco-type electronica is resurfacing in large... |
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Disco's Dead. Long Live Disco!(Brief Article)
Disco may have died with the '70s, but its essence...theater-goers might have expected its disco-style dance music to seem somewhat quaint...out 22 years ago, after all, heralding disco's heyday. But even now, the old music... |
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Disco Rico Set to Boogie; Maryland Sprinter Will Run With the Best in...
...remembers the first time he laid eyes on Disco Rico. In from California this past May...the saddle cloth and says, 'There goes Disco Rico,' and I turned around and said...When the gate opened for the race, Disco Rico burst to the front alongside another... |
 "Chattanooga Times/Free Press (Chattanooga, TN)")
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Disco nostalgia.
...daughter recently about some disco-era fashions coming back and...favorite outfit for going to discos, she said, included a bias...I loved the music of the disco era," said Jim Myhan of Hixson...music still sounds great today. Disco music seemed to be fun." ... |
 "The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)")
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Disco: the longest night. (sexual freedom during the disco era)(Cover Story)
...wails the diva, "I got to boogie on the disco `r-o-o-ound!" Is it 1978? No...on the sound track to The Last Days of Disco, one of two current competing summer flicks...selling compilation CDs (two volumes of Pure Disco), highly rated disco-era reruns of... |
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