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Sofia Coppola
Coppola, Sofia May 12, 1971 • New York, New York Director, screenwriter, producer, designer, photographer Sofia Coppola was born into Hollywood royalty, the daughter of one of the most applauded film directors of the twentieth century, Francis Ford Coppola... Read more |
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shadow
SHADOW (ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY) In Carl Gustav Jung's analytical psychology, the shadow as a concept comprises everything the conscious personality experiences as negative. In dreams and fantasies the shadow appears with the characteristics of a personality of the same sex as the ego, but in a very... Read more |
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Bankruptcy reorganization
I NTRODUCTION S ome psychologists have suggested that there is something within the human psyche that craves monsters and mysterious creatures. For some individuals, the very idea that vampires, werewolves,and chupacabrasare out there, lurking in... Read more |
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underpainting
underpainting. The preliminary blocking out of a composition on the painting surface in which the main shapes and tones of the picture are established before being built up by layers of glazes, scumbles, or solid paint. Until the late 19th century, when alla prima painting became general, most... Read more |
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Gabonese
Gabonese PRONUNICATION:gab-uh-NEEZ LOCATION:Gabon (western Central Africa) POPULATION:About 1.2 million LANGUAGE:French; 45 local Niger-Congo languages RELIGION:Roman Catholicism; Protestantism; Islam; animism 1 • INTRODUCTION Gabon's stability keeps it in the shadows.... Read more |
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Johnnie Johnson
Johnnie Johnson1924–2005 Musician Considered by Rolling Stone to be "the greatest sideman in rock & roll," pianist Johnnie Johnson spent most of his career in the shadow of his musical partner, Chuck Berry. Johnson played on most of Berry's hit records and co-wrote the music for several of... Read more |
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Thomas Harrison
Harrison, JimPERSONALCareer:Music editor.Awards, Honors:Golden Reel Award nomination, best sound editing in television, 2002, for Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows; Golden Reel Award nomination (with Richard Belgardt), best sound editing, 2002, for Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.CREDITSFilm Music... Read more |
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Rosanne Cash
Rosanne CashSinger, songwriter During the mid-1970s Rosanne Cash was one of country music's "New Women." An outspoken proponent of the progressive, rock-oriented country style, she paved the way for such non-traditional sounding artists as Shania Twain and Faith Hill. However, her much admired... Read more |
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groundhog
groundhog Another name for the woodchuck (see SCIURIDAE). In the USA, ‘Groundhog Day’ (2 February) is popularly supposed to be the day the groundhog emerges from his hole. If he sees his shadow he considers this an omen of more bad weather and returns to his hole for a further six... Read more |
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Alejo Carpentier
Alejo Carpentier , 1904-80, Cuban novelist and musicologist. As a political exile in Paris between 1928 and 1939, Carpentier was strongly influenced by Antonin Artaud, Jacques Prévert, and the surrealists. Reflecting his deep commitment to revolutionary politics, his novels explore the... Read more |
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JOHN LE CARRE OH, WHAT A CIRCUS; In 1979, 11 million viewers watched the...
...that's a very short step to the bed. How clean...show passes to go in and out of the building. Our...completely busted. I'd go out to shop at lunchtime...my desk and take them out in the evening. That...Home is where he sees the shadow of ... |
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Book Review: Burnt Shadows: Clashing civilisations
Burnt Shadows by Kamila...brilliantly. Burnt Shadows, her latest...burnt to a shadow. The atomic...upon link, step by inexorable...life - the shadow of geo...land of John Le Carre - deadpan...Raza. Burnt ... |
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Out of the shadows
...was about to fly out to the United States...The "man in the shadows," to quote the...memoirs, has stepped out of them. He...appallingly inadequate) steps taken to date by...Jakobovits, Halevy sets out on lengthy, complex...writers, John ... |
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Realism gets a grip under a ghostly shadow ; Theater; `The Farm' makes use of...
...playwright pushed it a step further with the creation...third character, who steps in and out of the spotlight...white Soviet guy" out of the pages of early John le Carre, McGough says. Nacer...overhaul it and figure ... |
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THE LAST PUZO FINAL SHOT IN `GODFATHER' SERIES HITS ITS MARK.(Books)(Review)
...lawyers, judges - out of the picture completely...gunned down on the steps of St. Patrick...in common with John le Carre's recent book...of the Cold War, Le Carre's clandestine world...has faded to a pale ... |
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THE GREAT GAMEBOOKS / Nonfiction
...more burnt-out cases have in...noir like John le Carre, Graham Greene...Maugham and le Carre hunger for are...Moscow (and le Carre's model for...the West only steps ahead of an ... |
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Grimy prose marks spy novel by Bill Granger
...successor to John le Carre's masterly creation...safeguard, a "shadow" November Man...Devereaux can find out more, control...is already one step ahead, fleeing...writers, like Le Carre and ... |
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PYONGYANG BOBBY IS THIS KIM JONG-IL'S MAN IN NEW JERSEY?
...Egan ushers me out into the lobby...espionage in the shadows that is as extraordinary...discreet, suave, Le Carre kind of character...got its message out. Bobby's freelancing...Ministry named Le Quang Khai who...Korean ... |
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`Blood of Victory' by Alan Furst; Random House.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
...ducking in and out of Parisian nightclub...trying to stay one step ahead of the Nazi...character of a John le Carre or the intellectual...Serebin _ then passes out in the chair...Kingdom of Shadows," in which the...to get in ... |
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`Blood of Victory' by Alan Furst; Random House ($24.95).
...ducking in and out of Parisian nightclub...trying to stay one step ahead of the Nazi...character of a John le Carre or the intellectual...Serebin _ then passes out in the chair...Kingdom of Shadows," in which the...to get in ... |
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