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rodeo
rodeo , public exhibition of the skill of cowboys in various activities. Events include riding broncos, riding steers, "bulldogging" steers, roping and tying steers and calves, the use of the lasso, and other less closely related activities such as contests of marksmanship. The rodeo was... Read more |
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variorum
variorum an edition of an author's works having notes by various editors or commentators, and often including variant readings from manuscripts or earlier editions. The word is Latin, and comes (in the early 18th century) from editio cum notis variorum ‘edition with notes by various... Read more |
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Pierre Loti
Pierre Loti The French novelist Pierre Loti (1850-1923) is noted for his picturesque romances, abounding in descriptions of the exotic spots he visited in a lifetime of travel. Pierre Loti was born Julien Viaud at Rochefort on Jan. 14, 1850, to Protestant parents. Deeply religious as a... Read more |
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Hermitage Museum
Hermitage, St Petersburg. Russia's pre-eminent collection of art and antiquities, one of the world's greatest museums. It takes its name from a pleasure pavilion (now known as the Little Hermitage) created in the late 1760s for the Empress Catherine II ( Catherine the Great) (1729–96;... Read more |
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London Group
London Group. An exhibiting society of British artists formed in 1913 by an amalgamation of the Camden Town Group with several smaller groups and various individuals. The first president was Harold Gilman; apart from other ex-Camden Town Group artists, the strongest representation among the early... Read more |
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Post-Painterly Abstraction
Post-Painterly Abstraction. A term coined by the critic Clement Greenberg to characterize a broad trend in American painting, beginning in the 1950s, in which abstract painters reacted in various ways against the gestural ‘painterly’ qualities of Abstract Expressionism. Greenberg used... Read more |
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Eric Kennington
Kennington, Eric (1888–1960). British painter, sculptor, and draughtsman, born in London, son of the painter Thomas Benjamin Kennington (1856–1916). He studied at various art schools in London and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1908, first attracting attention with scenes of... Read more |
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Pantechnicon
Pantechnicon a building in Belgrave Square, London, constructed in the early 19th century to house an exhibition and sale of various arts and crafts, and later used as a furniture warehouse; it was destroyed by fire, with its contents, in 1874. From this the term was extended to mean any building... Read more |
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pastiche
pastiche , work of art that combines themes and styles from various sources in such a way as to appear obviously derivative. Pastiches are frequently passed off as works by the artists from whom the motifs and figures were taken.... Read more |
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Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley 1753?-1784, American poet, considered the first important black writer in the United States. Brought from Africa in 1761, she became a house slave for the Boston merchant John Wheatley and his wife Susanna, who, recognizing her intelligence and wit, educated her and encouraged her... Read more |
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Peter the Great
...education and developed his love of science, and his interest...Peter instituted shipbuilding in Russia around 1695 with the construction...Peter became the sole ruler of Russia and commenced a quarter of...Dockyard there.At that time Russia had no seagoing ... |
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Nabokov, Vladimir
...Invitation to a Beheading (Russia, 1938; U.S., 1959...the king himself; The Gift (Russia, 1937; U.S., 1963), a pseudo...deals with a man's lifelong love for his sister Ada; Mary...sketches of life in Imperial Russia. Strong Opinions (1973) prints... |
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McEwan, Geraldine
...Memorial Theatre, going with it to Russia and returning to Stratford in 1961...performance as Angelica in Congreve's Love for Love (1965). She remained with the...West End in Jerome Kilty's Dear Love (1973), in which she played Elizabeth... |
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Taylor, (James) Bayard
...Travel (1858), Travels in Greece and Russia (1859), and At Home and Abroad (1860...Hannah Thurston (1863), a conventional love story set in upstate New York, is peppered...that range from romantic depictions of Russia and realistic studies of Quaker life to... |
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American Friends Service Committee
...conscientious objectors to war to demonstrate patriotism and love of God by engaging in relief and reconstruction. During World...children and undertaken relief projects in Poland, Serbia, and Russia. In its first domestic program during the 1920s, the AFSC... |
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Leave It to Me!
...her husband, “Stinky” ( Victor Moore), ambassador to Russia. There his undiplomatic behavior, like kicking a Nazi and...Notable songs: Get Out of Town; Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love; My Heart Belongs to Daddy. Typical of the highly topical... |
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Lermontov, Mikhail Yurevich
...despotism of the Tsar; it was banned, not to be performed in Russia until after the Revolution in 1917. His next, written two years...Byron, it depicts the tragedy of a man who murders the wife he loves because he suspects her of infidelity. In deference to the... |
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Mercer, David
...hero of Cousin Vladimir (1978), a fugitive from Soviet Russia confronted by the moral degeneracy of modern England, perhaps mirrored Mercer's own perplexities; and No Limits to Love (1980) concerns the sexual and other relationships between... |
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Sinclair, Upton (Beall)
...he was disillusioned when the world did not meet him with the love and trust with which he approached it. After participating in...the series of ten novels, warns against the dangers of Soviet Russia's policies.Even in his eightieth year Sinclair published... |
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Eastman, Max (Forrester)
...1936); Marxism: Is It Science? (1940); Stalin's Russia (1940), showing his hostility to the orthodox Communist...friends, including Hemingway, Millay, and Santayana; and Love and Revolution (1965), an autobiography. |
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Prokofiev, Sergey (Sergeyevich)
...in Petrograd in 1918 he left Russia for USA, appearing in NY as...in his own works. His opera Love for Three Oranges was commissioned...W., Prokofiev re-visited Russia in 1927 and 1929 and returned there...opera on the largest scale and Love for Three ... |
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Szymanowski, Karol
...was destroyed in Warsaw in 1939). Left Russia 1920 for Warsaw, but visited Paris, London...Op.18 (1908, reorch. 1912); Love Songs of Hafiz, Op.26, v., orch...1907); 6 Songs, Op.20 (1909); Love Songs of Hafiz, 1st cycle of 6, Op... |
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Kollontai, Alexandra
...Alexandra (1872–1952) A leading feminist in revolutionary Russia. Her main concerns linked class and revolutionary activity...sociology for her free-thinking radical analyses of sex and love, which are usefully appraised in Beatrice Farnsworth 's Alexandra... |
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Lenya, Lotte
...Weill collaborations, especially in such songs as ‘Pirate Jenny’, ‘Surabaya Johnny’ and ‘Alabama Song’. With Weill, went to USA in 1933 and made new career in plays and films, incl. From Russia with Love. |
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move
...influence or prompt (someone) to do something: his deep love of music moved him to take lessons with Dr. Hill. ∎ [intr.] take action: hard-liners may yet move against him...on. ∎ (move on) progress: ballet has moved on, leaving Russia behind. move out (or move someone out) leave or cause ... |
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song
...popular songs. With 12th-cent. minstrels and troubadours, the love-song and ballad developed, to be followed in the 14th and 15th cents...the 19th and 20th cents., composers in Eng., Sp., USA, Russia, Hungary, etc. have added masterpieces to the world's treasury... |
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Eating with the enemy: why Russia loves Georgian food
...bitterness of relations between Russia and its small neighbour to...mineral water has been banned in Russia, ostensibly due to safety...has not stopped Russians' love for the country's cuisine...it. "Everybody in Moscow loves Georgian food," says Tina...a ... |
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Arts: Why Russia loves Pushkin The politics and bureaucratic chaos...
...display in shop windows - "Pushkin's loves", or "Pushkin's schooldays", both...birthday? This is the new free-enterprise Russia, so a big literary anniversary might...chocolate bars from Red October, Russia's biggest confectioner (the reference... |
 "Hindustan Times (New Delhi, India)")
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Operating Sukhois: A Malaysia-India-Russia love story
...aircraft is a Malaysia-India-Russia "love story", says a senior Malaysian...concerned. The assurance came from Russia's warranty team leader Vladimir...Malaysia's "love story" with Russia and India began in 1994 with the... |
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RUSSIA LOVES OUR IRN BRUSKI; Drink proves a hit.(News)
...Barr boss Roger White said: "Our partnership with Pepsi Bottling Group in Russia continues to develop strongly. "Irn-Bru is now firmly established as one...Nicol Stephen toasts Barrs' success with some of the Irn Bru bottled in Russia |
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UC RUSAL PRESENTS "FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE", A CAPTIVATING BOOK REVEALING THE...
...to announce the launch of "From Russia with Love," a book that offers a closer...strengthening the ties between Russia and Asia. Contributing to the preface of "From Russia of Love", Mr Oleg Deripaska wrote... |
 "New Statesman (1996)")
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To Russia with love
...true of the west's perception of Russia: we either love the country, or hate it, passing...emotionally acrobatic heroines. We hated Russia during the bloody flowering of...and we were in love with Mother Russia's fortitude in the battle ... |
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UC RUSAL Presents "From Russia with Love".
...to announce the launch of "From Russia with Love," a book that offers a closer...strengthening the ties between Russia and Asia. Contributing to the preface of "From Russia of Love", Mr Oleg Deripaska wrote... |
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From Russia with love.(The Providence Journal)
...that they wish to integrate Russia into the trans-Atlantic political...power and discretion to pull Russia out of its post-communist...sought to engage post-Soviet Russia by appeasement, and was rewarded...should try some version of tough love: happy to help ... |
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FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
...AAP General News (Australia) 02-02-1999 FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVEMoscow, February 1, 1999/PRNIHK-AsiaNet...regional and country portals in 1998. Orientation Russia (http://ru.orientation.com) is thenew gateway... |
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From Russia with love?
...Jerusalem Post 02-06-2012 From Russia with love?Byline: MICHAEL WIDLANSKIEdition...always help a beleaguered dictator: Russia and China. "The [United Nations...but the measure was blocked by Russia and China, which opposed what they... |
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