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Lucia
LUCIA Cuba, 1968 Director:Humberto Solás Production:Instituto Cubana del Arte e Industria Cinematograficos (ICAIC); black and white, 35mm; running time: 160 minutes. Released 1968. Filmed 1967 in Cuba. Producer:Raúl Canosa; screenplay:Humberto... Read more |
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Alex North
NORTH, Alex Composer. Nationality:American. Born:Chester, Pennsylvania, 10 December 1910. Education:Attended Curtis Institute; Juilliard School, New York; studied with Ernst Toch, Copland, and Revueltas. Family:Married Annemarie (North); two sons and one... Read more |
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Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes , 1928-, Mexican writer, editor, and diplomat. He was head of the department of cultural relations in Mexico's ministry of foreign affairs (1956-59) and Mexican ambassador to France (1975-77). Much of his fiction, which generally deals with themes of Mexican identity and history and... Read more |
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PRI
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Maria Luisa Bemberg
BEMBERG, Maria Luisa Nationality:Argentinian. Born:Buenos Aires, 1925. Family:Divorced, four children. Career:Established Argentina's Teatro del Globo theater company, 1950s; wrote her first screenplay, Cronica de una Senora (Chronicle of a Woman),... Read more |
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Giuseppe Pagano
PAGANO, GIUSEPPE(b. Palermo, Sicily, Italy, 21 September 1872; d. Palermo, 9 August 1959)physiology.Pagano studied medicine at the University of Palermo and, while still a student at the Institute of Physiology, published experimental works on the methods of hypodermic absorption and toxicity of... Read more |
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Italo Svevo
Italo Svevo , 1861-1928, Italian novelist, whose real name was Ettore Schmitz, b. Trieste. A businessman, he wrote several works of fiction, but remained practically unknown until discovered by James Joyce . His fiction is psychological and introspective, his characters mainly narcissistic, and his... Read more |
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Una
Una ♀ Anglicized form of Irish Úna. In Irish legend Úna is the mother of the hero Conn Cétchathach (Conn of the Hundred Battles). It was also the name of the beloved of the 17th-century poet Tomás Láidir Costello: banned by her parents from seeing him, Úna... Read more |
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waltz
waltz romantic dance in moderate triple time. It evolved from the German Ländler and became popular in the 18th cent. The dance is smooth, graceful, and vital in performance. The waltz in Vicente Martin's opera Una cosa rara, produced in Vienna (1776), is regarded as the first Viennese... Read more |
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Paulina Wright Davis
Paulina Wright Davis 1813-76, American lecturer and suffragist, b. Bloomfield, N.Y. Born Paulina Kellogg, she was married in 1833 to a merchant, Francis Wright, who died two years later. In 1849 she was married again, this time to Thomas Davis, who later became a congressman from Rhode Island. She... Read more |
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