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Eric Rohmer
ROHMER, Eric Nationality:French. Born:Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer in Nancy, France, 4 April 1920. Career:Taught literature teacher at lycée, Nancy, 1942–50; was a film critic, from 1948; founder, with Godard and Rivette, of La Gazette du Cinéma, Paris,... Read more |
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Jacques Bellange
Bellange, Jacques (d Nancy, 1616). French painter, etcher, draughtsman, and designer, active in Nancy, where he worked for the dukes of Lorraine from 1602. Much of his work has perished, including murals and ephemeral decorative work, and only a handful of surviving paintings are confidently... Read more |
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Nancy Sinatra
Lee Hazlewood Singer, producer, songwriter While Lee Hazlewood isn't a particularly well known name in music, he is an iconoclastic renaissance man, influential for generations of other musicians from Phil Spector to Sonic Youth. He is perhaps best known for discovering guitar phenom... Read more |
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Nancy Wilson
Nancy Wilson 1937— Singer At a Glance Read more |
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Nancy Witcher Astor Viscountess Astor
Nancy Witcher (Langhorne) Astor Astor, Viscountess 1879-1964, British politician, b. Virginia. She was first married to Robert Gould Shaw, and after her divorce (1903) from him she went to England. There she was married (1906) to Waldorf Astor (see under Astor, William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount... Read more |
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Dee Dee Bridgewater
Dee Dee Bridgewater 1950– Jazz vocalist Idolized Nancy Wilson Frustrating Pop Career Returned to Jazz Selected discography Sources One of the many serious American jazz musicians who have found an environment hospitable for their talents in Europe, Dee Dee Bridgewater’s vocals,... Read more |
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Nancy
Nancy , city (1990 pop. 102,410), capital of Meurthe-et-Moselle dept., NE France, on the Meurthe River and the Marne-Rhine Canal. It is the administrative, economic, and educational center of Lorraine . Situated at the edge of the huge Lorraine iron fields, Nancy is an industrial city manufacturing... Read more |
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Nancy Patricia Pelosi
Nancy Patricia Pelosi , 1940-, U.S. congresswoman, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (2007-), b. Baltimore as Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro. The daughter of Thomas J. D'Alesandro, Jr., who served as Baltimore's mayor and a congressman, she moved to California, where she became active in the... Read more |
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Seascape
Seascape (1975), a play by Edward Albee. [Shubert Theatre, 65 perf.; Pulitzer Prize.] On a deserted stretch of beach, the late‐middle‐aged couple Charlie ( Barry Nelson) and Nancy ( Deborah Kerr) are discussing their “pleasant” marriage when two human‐sized... Read more |
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Howard Henry Baker Jr
Howard Henry Baker, Jr. 1925-, U.S. politician and public official, b. Huntsville, Tenn. As a moderate Republican senator (1966-87) from Tennessee, he gained (1973) national attention as a member of the Senate committee investigating the Watergate affair . He became (1977) Senate minority leader... Read more |
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