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Lisa del Giocondo
MONA LISA UK, 1986 Director:Neil Jordan Production:A Palace Production for Handmade Films; Technicolor; running time: 104 minutes; length: 9,368 feet. Released 1986. Executive producers:George Harrison, Denis O'Brien; producers:Stephen Woolley, Patrick... Read more |
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kitsch
kitsch [Ger.,=trash], term most frequently applied since the early 20th cent. to works considered pretentious and tasteless. Exploitative commercial objects such as Mona Lisa scarves and abominable plaster reproductions of sculptural masterpieces are described as kitsch, as are works that claim... Read more |
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Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole 1919-65, American musician and composer, b. Montgomery, Ala., as Nathaniel Adams Coles. A jazz pianist, he played Los Angeles nightclubs and in 1938 formed the original King Cole Trio. Later he turned to singing and became internationally popular for his smooth, velvety voice and... Read more |
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Philip Bosco
Bosco, Philip 1930–PERSONALFull name, Philip Michael Bosco; born September 26, 1930, in Jersey City, NJ; son of Philip Lupo (a carnival worker) and Margaret Raymond (a policewoman; maiden name, Thek) Bosco; married Nancy Ann Dunkle, January 2, 1957; children: Diane, Philip, Chris, Jenny, Lisa,... Read more |
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Marc Aronson
Aronson, Marc 1950– (Marc Henry Aronson)PersonalBorn 1950; son of Lisa and Boris (both Broadway stage designers) Aronson; married Marina Budhos (an au-thor), September 14, 1997; children: Alexander, Raphael. Education: New York University, Ph.D.AddressesHome—Maplewood, NJ.... Read more |
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Lisa Gay Hamilton
Lisa Gay Hamilton1964— Actor Lisa Gay Hamilton is a classically trained actress whose work encompasses film, television, and theater. She made her movie debut in the 1985 cult favorite Krush Groove, appeared in a number of New York Shakespeare Festival productions during the 1990s, and won an Obie... Read more |
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Dada
Dada or Dadaism , international nihilistic movement among European artists and writers that lasted from 1916 to 1922. Born of the widespread disillusionment engendered by World War I, it originated in Zürich with the poetry of the Romanian Tristan Tzara . Dada attacked conventional... Read more |
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Louvre
Louvre , foremost French museum of art, located in Paris. The building was a royal fortress and palace built by Philip II in the late 12th cent. In 1546 Pierre Lescot was commissioned by Francis I to erect a new building on the site of the Louvre. During his reign, several paintings by Leonardo,... Read more |
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Lisa Jahn-Clough
Jahn-Clough, Lisa 1967–PersonalLast name pronounced "Yahn-Clow"; born March 3, 1967, in Wakefield, RI; daughter of Garrett C. Clough (a zoologist) and Elena Jahn (an artist). Education: Hampshire College, B.A., 1988; Emerson College, M.F. A., 1993.AddressesE-mail—jahnclough@aol.com.CareerWriter,... Read more |
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Eric Benet
Eric Benét 1970– Contemporary soul vocalist At a Glance… Selected discography Sources Quite a number of African American vocal performers in the last years of the twentieth century avoided the dominant urban genre of hip-hop, turning instead to the “old school”... Read more |
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