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Silverchair
SilverchairAlternative rock group Unlike the teenage pop acts of yesteryear, Silverchair comes across sounding far more mature than their relative youth and inexperience might allow. Dismissed by some critics who considered them unviable, the band's 1995 debut, Frogstomp, nevertheless sold four... Read more |
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Billy Idol
Billy Idol Singer, songwriter A product of the late 1970s British punk movement, Billy Idol has become one of the most popular and successful vocalists in contemporary rock. His group, Generation X, was extremely popular in the United Kingdom, while his subsequent solo career has developed a... Read more |
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Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer (Norman Kingsley Mailer), 1923-2007, American writer, b. Long Branch, N.J., grad. Harvard, 1943. He grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., served in the army during World War II, and at the age of 25 published The Naked and the Dead (1948). A partially autobiographical bestseller, it was one of... Read more |
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Malcolm Forbes
Malcolm Forbes 1919-90, American publisher, b. Englewood, N.J. The third son of a Scottish immigrant who founded Forbes magazine in 1917, he graduated from Princeton Univ. (1941), and became publisher of the magazine on his father's death (1954). Under his leadership, the publication became one... Read more |
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Malcolm II
Malcolm II (d. 1034), king of ‘Scotland’ (1005–34). Son of Kenneth II, Malcolm was known to later generations as ‘the most victorious’, and at his death was described by an Irish chronicler as ‘the honour of all the west of Europe’. His career was not... Read more |
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motivation
motivation in psychology, the intention of achieving a goal, leading to goal-directed behavior. Some human activity seems to be best explained by postulating an inner directing drive. While a drive is often considered to be an innate biological mechanism that determines the organism's activity (see... Read more |
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