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Audre Lorde Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde 1934– Read more
litany litany
litany [Gr.,=prayer], solemn prayer characterized by varying petitions with set responses. The term is mainly used for Christian forms. Litanies were developed in Christendom for use in processions. In the West there were traditionally four days for these processional litanies, the Rogation Days .... Read more
Nicholas Ray Nicholas Ray
Nicholas Ray American-born film director Nicholas Ray (1911-1979) rose to prominence in the 1950s with such films as Johnny Guitar, They Live by Night, and his best-known work, Rebel Without a Cause, which transformed leading man James Dean into an American icon. He often portrayed the sensitive,... Read more
Bernardo Bertolucci Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci , 1940-, Italian film director and screenwriter, b. Parma. The son of poet Attilio Bertolucci and himself a published poet, he began his film career in 1961 as an assistant to director Pier Paolo Pasolini . Bertolucci made his first feature-length film the following year and... Read more
Papias Papias
Papias , fl. AD 130, early Christian theologian said to have been bishop of Hieropolis and a friend of St. Polycarp . Papias' five-volume work, Oracles; or, Explanations of the Sayings of the Lord, survives only in fragments quoted by Eusebius of Caesarea and St. Irenaeus. These are valuable... Read more
farce farce
farce light, comic theatrical piece in which the characters and events are greatly exaggerated to produce broad, absurd humor. Early examples of farce can be found in the comedies of Aristophanes, Plautus, and Terence. During the Middle Ages the term farce designated interpolations made in the... Read more
Peter Greenaway Peter Greenaway
GREENAWAY, Peter Nationality:British. Born:Newport, Gwent, Wales, 5 April 1942. Education:Studied painting. Career:had first exhibition of paintings, London, 1964; worked as a film editor for the Central Office of Information, 1965–76; directed his... Read more
Richard Carlile Richard Carlile
Richard Carlile , 1790-1843, English journalist, reformer, and freethinker. For his radical writings and efforts to secure the freedom of the press, he spent over nine years in prison. He republished suppressed works by Thomas Paine, William Hone, and others, brought out his own Political Litany ... Read more
Lord David Cecil Lord David Cecil
Lord David Cecil (Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne Cecil), 1902-86, English biographer. He was professor of English literature at Oxford (1948-70). Cecil's works are all distinguished for their artistry as well as for their sound scholarship. His masterpiece is his life of Lord Melbourne ,... Read more
Peter Jackson Peter Jackson
Jackson, Peter October 31, 1961 • Pukerua Bay, North Island, New Zealand Filmmaker Peter Jackson made a name for himself in the movie industry with a small collection of gory, low-budget horror films including Dead Aliveand The Frighteners.He worked from... Read more

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