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LITERAL | PRODUCER | artist | As a result, Cardwell decided to answer an ad in the Village Voice that read, "Epic recording artist looking for a background singer for a live tour." | Career 1988–1993: Beginnings Her close affiliation with Kashif led to an album deal with Arista Records in 1988 for her pop R&B girl-group, The Promise. | Since the market in the 1980s was already saturated with sweet-sounding, bubbly R&B groups, it was difficult for The Promise to stand. | The recording artist turned out to be house-music innovator Lil Louis. | She recorded two songs; "Club Lonely" and "Saved My Life" for Lil Louis' album Journey with the Lonely, which both peaked at number 1 on Billboard's Dance Club Songs chart. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joi%20Cardwell | Joi Cardwell |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | novelist | As an adult, Bill is a successful mystery novelist in Los Angeles whose works are often criticized for having the same lame endings. | Bill was primarily motivated by vengeance, because It killed and ate his younger brother, Georgie.) | He swore that he and the other Losers would return to Derry if It resurfaced. | Jaeden Martell as Young Bill Denbrough Bill Hader as Richard "Richie" Tozier: Bill's bespectacled best friend and fellow member of the Losers Club, whose loud mouth and foul language often get him into trouble, who also has secret romantic feelings for Eddie. | As an adult, Richie becomes a successful stand-up comic in Chicago. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%20Chapter%20Two | It Chapter Two |
METONYMIC | PRODUCER | orchestra | As Bray is only 12 miles from Dublin, Harty was able go into the city to hear an orchestra for the first time in his life. | He took further posts in his teenage years as a church organist in Belfast and Bray. | While in the latter, he came under the influence of Michele Esposito, professor of piano at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, who encouraged him to pursue a career as a piano accompanist. | Accompanist, composer and conductor In 1900 or 1901, Harty moved to London to further his career. | The biographer Michael Kennedy wrote that Harty quickly became known both as "a promising composer and as an outstanding accompanist." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton%20Harty | Hamilton Harty |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | band | As of 2015, Constanten is a member of Alphonso Johnson's Jazz Is Dead, an instrumental Grateful Dead cover band that interprets classic Dead songs with jazz influences. | He has also played with the reconstituted lineup of Jefferson Starship as a touring member, most notably during the Heroes of Woodstock tour; several of his performances with the group are showcased in the Mick's Picks series of live albums. | He has also sat in with a variety of Grateful Dead tribute bands, including Dark Star Orchestra and Terrapin Flyer. | After meeting Grateful Dead sound engineer Bob Bralove at Jerry Garcia's memorial service, the duo formed Dose Hermanos, a showcase for their improvisational keyboard work; since 1998, they have toured irregularly and released five albums. | Philosophy In 2002, Tom Constanten stated in an interview: Personal life Constanten currently resides in Charlotte, North Carolina. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Constanten | Tom Constanten |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | poet | As Rodin's fame grew, he attracted many followers, including the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and authors Octave Mirbeau, Joris-Karl Huysmans, and Oscar Wilde. | Gaining exposure from a pavilion of his artwork set up near the 1900 World's Fair (Exposition Universelle) in Paris, he received requests to make busts of prominent people internationally, while his assistants at the atelier produced duplicates of his works. | His income from portrait commissions alone totaled probably 200,000 francs a year. | Rilke stayed with Rodin in 1905 and 1906, and did administrative work for him; he would later write a laudatory monograph on the sculptor. | Rodin and Beuret's modest country estate in Meudon, purchased in 1897, was a host to such guests as King Edward, dancer Isadora Duncan, and harpsichordist Wanda Landowska. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste%20Rodin | Auguste Rodin |
METONYMIC | PRODUCER | journalist | As the forerunner of today's popular advice columnists, Dix was America's highest paid and most widely read female journalist at the time of her death. | NONE | Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (November 18, 1861 – December 16, 1951), widely known by the pen name Dorothy Dix, was an American journalist and columnist. | Her advice on marriage was syndicated in newspapers around the world. | With an estimated audience of 60 million readers, she became a popular and recognized figure on her travels abroad. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%20Dix | Dorothy Dix |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | orchestra | As well as playing in the orchestra he studied conducting in Leipzig with Prof. Rohde from 1994 to 1998. | At the age of six he began playing the violin and changed to viola when he was 14. | After his studies in Essen and Freiburg with Prof. Grahe, Prof. Koch, Prof. Kashkashian and Prof. Luethy, he became the then youngest member of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 22. | After his first smaller projects as a conductor he led the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for the first time in 1999 for the MusikBox project of Sony music (Ludwig van Beethoven's symphony no. | 5, Robert Schumann's symphony no. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik%20Schaefer | Henrik Schaefer |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | designer | Asmita Marwa is an Indian fashion designer, rated by Vogue as one of nine top up-and-coming international designers. | NONE | NONE | Asmita Marwa believes in fusing the traditional with the global. | Her eclectic and vibrant avatar of Kalamkari took the fashion world by storm. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmita%20Marwa | Asmita Marwa |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | drummer | At a campus festival, a jazz drummer heard Toku play Miles Davis' version of If I Were a Bell. | During junior high school Toku began to learn to play the cornet, and in the following years he picked up the trumpet and flugel horn as well. | In high school, Toku was in a cover band, playing mainly rock and pop songs, which he continued to be a part of into college. | He was later invited to a jam session with the drummer where he became inspired to pursue jazz. | In his junior year of college, he moved to the United States to learn English at Tokyo International University in Oregon. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toku%20%28musician%29 | Toku (musician) |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | poet | At the same time, the poet José de Espronceda published The Student of Salamanca (1837-1840), a narrative poem which presents a horrid variation on the Don Juan legend. | After them, Wilhelm Meinhold wrote The Amber Witch (1838) and Sidonia von Bork (1847). | In Spain, the priest Pascual Pérez Rodríguez was the most assidous novelist in the Gothic way, closed aligned to the supernatural explained by Ann Radcliffe. | In Russia, authors of romanticism's era include: Antony Pogorelsky (penname of Alexey Alexeyevich Perovsky), Orest Somov, Oleksa Storozhenko, Alexandr Pushkin, Nikolai Alekseevich Polevoy, Mikhail Lermontov (for his work Stuss), and Alexander Bestuzhev-Marlinsky. | Pushkin is particularly important, as his 1833 short story "The Queen of Spades" was so popular, it was adapted into operas and later, films by both Russian and foreign artists. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic%20fiction | Gothic fiction |
METONYMIC | PRODUCER | poet | At the time of his death, Cummings was recognized as the "second most widely read poet in the United States, after Robert Frost". | He died of a stroke on September 3, 1962, at the age of 67 at Memorial Hospital in North Conway, New Hampshire. | Cummings was buried at Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts. | Cummings's papers are held at the Houghton Library at Harvard University and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. | Personal life Marriages Cummings was married briefly twice, first to Elaine Thayer, then to Anne Minnerly Barton. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.%20E.%20Cummings | E. E. Cummings |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | mathematician | Augustin Banyaga (born March 31, 1947) is a Rwandan-born American mathematician whose research fields include symplectic topology and contact geometry. | NONE | NONE | He is currently a Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University. | Biography He earned his Ph.D. degree in 1976 at the University of Geneva under the supervision of André Haefliger. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin%20Banyaga | Augustin Banyaga |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | journalist | Australian journalist Greg Sheridan praised Singh "as one of the greatest statesmen in Asian history." | Manmohan Singh was ranked 18 on the 2010 Forbes list of the World's Most Powerful People. | Forbes magazine described Singh as being "universally praised as India's best prime minister since Nehru". | Singh was later ranked 19 and 28 in 2012 and 2013 in the Forbes list. | Conversely, Time magazine's Asia edition for 10–17 July 2012, on its cover remarked that Singh was an "underachiever". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manmohan%20Singh | Manmohan Singh |
METONYMIC | PRODUCER | philosopher | Avicenna's commentaries on Aristotle often criticized the philosopher, encouraging a lively debate in the spirit of ijtihad. | Most of his works were written in Arabic—then the language of science in the Middle East—and some in Persian. | Of linguistic significance even to this day are a few books that he wrote in nearly pure Persian language (particularly the Danishnamah-yi 'Ala', Philosophy for Ala' ad-Dawla'). | Avicenna's Neoplatonic scheme of "emanations" became fundamental in the Kalam (school of theological discourse) in the 12th century. | His Book of Healing became available in Europe in partial Latin translation some fifty years after its composition, under the title Sufficientia, and some authors have identified a "Latin Avicennism" as flourishing for some time, paralleling the more influential Latin Averroism, but suppressed by the Parisian decrees o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avicenna | Avicenna |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | composer | Awilda M. Villarini-Garcia (born 6 February 1940) is a Puerto Rican composer and pianist who publishes and performs under the name "Awilda Villarini." | NONE | NONE | Villarini was born in Patillas. | Her first piano teacher was her mother, who was a church organist. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awilda%20Villarini | Awilda Villarini |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | writer | Béatrice Hammer (born Paris, 4 February 1963) is a French writer who publishes novels and short stories for adults (since 1994) and novels for children (since 2005). | NONE | NONE | Hammer is also the author of a drama, Aristides based on the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese Government consul in Bordeaux, France in 1940. | Bibliography Her work has not been translated into English. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice%20Hammer | Beatrice Hammer |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | poet | Back in his native Ossetia, he became a prominent poet, whose poems composed in Ossetic quickly spread throughout Ossetian towns and villages in an oral form. | He is often known by the Russian version of his name, Kosta [Levanovich] Khetagurov () Khetagurov was born in the village of Nar in what is now Alagirsky District in the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania. | He studied at the Stavropol Gymnasium from 1871 to 1881, and entered the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1881, but had to abandon his studies due to financial constraint in 1885. | He also published a number of poems, stories and articles in the Russian-language newspapers Severny Kavkaz (edited by himself, 1893–1902), and Kazbek. | His paintings also gained in notable popularity, one of them depicting Saint Nino, a 4th-century Christian baptizer of the Georgians, was particularly welcomed by the Georgian society. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosta%20Khetagurov | Kosta Khetagurov |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | orchestra | Backed by a small orchestra that mostly interprets Gil Goldstein arrangements, Roney is the main soloist throughout this interesting ballad-dominated set". | Mistérios is an album by American jazz trumpeter Wallace Roney which was recorded in 1994 and released on the Warner Bros. label. | Reception The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated, "Trumpeter Wallace Roney avoids the standard repertoire altogether on this CD, ... but, try as hard as he may, he still sounds like Miles Davis every time he hits a long tone or plays a doubletime passage. | In The Washington Post Geoffrey Himes wrote "Not only was this recording supervised by Davis's old producer, Teo Macero, but it features Evans-like orchestral arrangements by Gil Goldstein, who had transcribed and adapted Evans's charts for Miles Davis & Quincy Jones Live at Montreux ... Because Roney emphasizes feelin... | In JazzTimes David R. Adler noted "Misterios, his debut for the label, is in many respects a marvelous piece of work—with jazz ensemble and strings interpreting works by Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Egberto Gismonti and, bizarrely enough, Dolly Parton. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mist%C3%A9rios | Mistérios |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | singer | BackgroundThe song has the singer questioning about how entertainers express themselves through music and how one can live as a "dark recluse" or "recluso" as the song depicts. | "The Entertainer" is a 1983 song by English pop/new wave band The Belle Stars. | It was the band's tenth single overall and fourth and final to fail to chart. | It turned out to be the fourth and final single of the band to fail to chart, which caused tension in the band, making four members quit in 1984, after the release of 80's Romance. | Music video The music video begins with the band members dancing terribly with men. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Entertainer%20%28The%20Belle%20Stars%20song%29 | The Entertainer (The Belle Stars song) |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | guitarist | Barden was discovered by Schenker upon the guitarist's hearing a demo of Barden's previous band, Fraser Nash. | NONE | Gary John Barden (born 27 August 1955, Royal Tunbridge Wells, England) is an English singer-songwriter, best known for his work with Michael Schenker Group. | Barden proceeded to appear on The Michael Schenker Group (1980), MSG (1981) and One Night at Budokan (1981) albums. | He was asked to leave the group and was replaced briefly by former Rainbow frontman Graham Bonnet. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Barden | Gary Barden |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | mathematician | Basilides of Tyre () was a mathematician, mentioned by Hypsicles in his prefatory letter of Euclid's Elements, Book XIV. | NONE | NONE | Barnes and Brunschwig suggested that Basilides of Tyre and Basilides the Epicurean could be the same Basilides. | Life From Hypsicles letter it appears plausible that a Basilides of Tyre has met Hypsicles and his father, perhaps in Alexandria, a central point for mathematicians at the times. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilides%20of%20Tyre | Basilides of Tyre |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | musician | Bassist Kira Roessler (Black Flag and Dos) spoke about Doom's contribution: "...she was an under-rated musician and, in my mind, quite a presence on the instrument. | When the movie What We Do Is Secret came out in 2007, Doom was played by Bijou Phillips. | Death and legacy Doom died of breast cancer on January 16, 2019. | The Germs were a band that influenced far more people than ever heard them live, and I think Lorna's contribution lives on in that way." | Guitarist Greg Hetson (Circle Jerks and Bad Religion) recalled seeing her in the 1970s and says she proved "You can rock hard and you don't have to be a guy." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorna%20Doom | Lorna Doom |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | mathematician | Bears were also seen as divine mothers, evidenced by Porphyrius' Life of Pythagoras, which quotes the ancient mathematician as saying that the she-bear constellation was "the hand of Rhea" [pyth. | Aristotle quotes the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras as viewing hands as the source of intelligence. | The fact that bears were observed to share these traits with humans somewhat, meant that in the ancient Greek psyche, they were viewed differently to other animals. | NONE | Modern historians interpreting how bears were viewed in antiquity have commented the following:"The bear and the she-bear mark distinctively the rites of passage through which maidens become women." - | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bears%20in%20antiquity | Bears in antiquity |
METONYMIC | PRODUCER | writer | Because literary tastes change so much over time, it seems reasonable to the historicist to evaluate each writer according to the standards of his own age. | The book was written in reaction to a prominent stream of literary criticism: the historicist/biographical. | This interprets each poetic work within the context of the historical period from which it emerged. | Brooks vehemently rejected this historical relativism, believing it amounts to "giving up our criteria of good and bad" and thus repudiating "our concept of poetry itself". | Brooks opts instead to offer "universal judgments" of poems and treat them as self-contained entities, able to be interpreted without recourse to historical or biographical information. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Well%20Wrought%20Urn | The Well Wrought Urn |
METONYMIC | PRODUCER | orchestra | Beethoven is nominally conducting, but is unable to hear the orchestra, and Kurt, acting as a second conductor, discreetly directs the musicians from the side. | Later, Beethoven apologizes to Sophie for his behavior and gives her the tickets to give to Christoph and his mother. | The concert is a great success. | When the orchestra finishes, Beethoven is behind and still "conducting", so Kurt and one of the sopranos turn him around so he can see the audience giving him a wild standing ovation. | Several years later, after Beethoven's death, Christoph reflects on his experiences with Beethoven, saying that although Beethoven is gone, "his music will never die", and how Beethoven "thought he could change the world with his music – maybe he will... bit by bit." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beethoven%20Lives%20Upstairs | Beethoven Lives Upstairs |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | composer | Beginning in 2014, the concept changed by highlighting a specific composer for each year. | In 2010 the motto was Poland in Pulse featuring music from Poland. | The regional focus was in 2011 Turkey, in 2012 China, and in 2013 Baltic states. | The composer retrospectives were devoted in 2014 to Felix Mendelssohn, in 2015 to Peter Tchaikovsky, in 2016 to Joseph Haydn, in 2017 to Maurice Ravel, in 2018 to Robert Schumann, in 2019 Johann Sebastian Bach, and in 2020 Carl Nielsen. | Awards and Leonard Bernstein Award Concerts The festival concerts and recitals are organized in collaboration with the cities of Lübeck, Kiel, Flensburg and smaller towns within the state such as Eutin or Plön, as well as in the countryside in castles, manors, old barns or little Brick Gothic village churches. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schleswig-Holstein%20Musik%20Festival | Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival |
METONYMIC | PRODUCER | philosopher | Being in Time: The Nature of Time in Light of McTaggart's Paradox Following and analyzing the philosopher John McTaggart, this book discusses two views or conceptions of time. | It begins by quoting Dwight Waldo's claim that "administrative thought must establish a working relationship with every major province in the realm of human learning." | Dr. Breena Coates (California State University, San Bernardino) writes about Public Administration in Perspective that the "author provides unique and, hitherto, unexplored perspectives from which to view the multiple faces of public administration… The book's scholarship is compelling and hard to resist… Today in our ... | One corresponds to the 'ordinary' position, and the other to the 'received wisdom' position of Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein. | Avoiding such prejudicial titles, the two views are called the tensed (the A-theory) and the tenseless (the B-theory) conceptions of time. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20John%20Farmer | David John Farmer |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | author | Benjamin Sommer saw in and a case in which one Biblical author explicitly interpreted another Biblical text. | and 27 link the word "Passover" (Pesach, ) to God's act to "pass over" (pasach, ) the Israelites' houses in the plague of the firstborn. | In the Torah, the consolidated Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread thus commemorate the Israelites' liberation from Egypt. | Both texts provide regulations concerning the Passover sacrifice, but the regulations differ. | instructed the Israelites to boil the Passover sacrifice. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%20%28parashah%29 | Bo (parashah) |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | mathematician | Besides Green himself, the first mathematician to quote his 1828 work was the Briton Robert Murphy (1806–1843) in his 1833 work. | There are rumours that at Cambridge, Green had "succumbed to alcohol", and some of his earlier supporters, such as Sir Edward Bromhead, tried to distance themselves from him. | Green's work was not well known in the mathematical community during his lifetime. | In 1845, four years after Green's death, Green's work was rediscovered by the young William Thomson (then aged 21), later known as Lord Kelvin, who popularised it for future mathematicians. | According to the book "George Green" by D.M. Cannell, William Thomson noticed Murphy's citation of Green's 1828 essay but found it difficult to locate Green's 1828 work; he finally got some copies of Green's 1828 work from William Hopkins in 1845. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Green%20%28mathematician%29 | George Green (mathematician) |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | author | Beyond describing the physical layout of the Chinatown, the author recalls some of the commercial and gambling activities in the community. | Though many Chinese left Winnemucca after the Central Pacific Railroad was completed in 1869, around four hundred Chinese had formed a community in the town by the 1890s. | Among the prominent buildings was the Joss House, a place of worship and celebration that was visited by Chinese president Sun Yat-Sen in 1911. | Ki Longfellow, China Blues, Eio Books 2012, , San Francisco's Chinatown during the 1906 earthquake and in the early 1920s. ( | Eio Books) "Chinatown: Conflicting Images, Contested Terrain", K. Scott Wong, Melus (Vol. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown | Chinatown |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | editor | BiographyBorn in Sheffield, the son of a journalist who eventually became editor of the Methodist Recorder, Burnett studied at the London School of Economics. | NONE | Richard Hugh Burnett (21 July 1924 – 25 November 2011) was a British television producer and cartoonist. | After finishing his National Service serving in India with the Intelligence Corps, Burnett joined the BBC's Far Eastern Service at Bush House in 1949. | Personal Call, a radio series in which Burnett visited public figures of the day, was later developed into the series he produced for television, Face to Face, which consisted of interviews by John Freeman with prominent people from around the world. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Burnett%20%28producer%29 | Hugh Burnett (producer) |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | composer | BiographyHe was born in Split, Yugoslavia, and acquired a music grounding from his grandfather, the composer Josip Hatze. | NONE | Ruben Radica (19 May 1931 – 28 July 2021) was a Croatian composer. | At the Zagreb Academy he graduated from the conducting class of Slavko Zlatić (1957) and from the composition class of Milko Kelemen (1958). | In addition he attended classes in Siena, Paris and Darmstadt, given by Vito Frazzi, René Leibowitz, Olivier Messiaen, György Ligeti, Pierre Boulez and Henri Pousseur. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruben%20Radica | Ruben Radica |
METONYMIC | PRODUCER | philosopher | Bohr read the 19th-century Danish Christian existentialist philosopher, Søren Kierkegaard. | In the meantime, Bohr and Wheeler developed a theoretical treatment which they published in a September 1939 paper on "The Mechanism of Nuclear Fission". | Philosophy Heisenberg said of Bohr that he was "primarily a philosopher, not a physicist". | Richard Rhodes argued in The Making of the Atomic Bomb that Bohr was influenced by Kierkegaard through Høffding. | In 1909, Bohr sent his brother Kierkegaard's Stages on Life's Way as a birthday gift. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels%20Bohr | Niels Bohr |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | singer | Bomber, the third album of the rock group Motörhead, was named after the novel, as the band's singer, Lemmy, was reading it at the time. | That's a marvellous thing to be told". | Deighton's 1970 novel Bomber was listed in Anthony Burgess's work Ninety-nine Novels, as one of the 99 best novels in English since 1939. | Notes and references Notes References Books Broadcast media Journals News media Websites External links The Deighton Dossier – website about Len Deighton 1929 births 20th-century English novelists Alumni of Saint Martin's School of Art Alumni of the Royal College of Art British alternative history writer... | NONE | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len%20Deighton | Len Deighton |
METONYMIC | PRODUCER | designer | Books on Kempe Charles Eamer Kempe remains a widely studied designer and artist. | He is buried in the churchyard at St Wulfran's Church, Ovingdean. | Most of Kempe's records were disposed of after the firm shut in 1934. | Author Adrian Barlow produced two books in 2018 and 2019 which discuss Kempe's life and the artists that surrounded him: Kempe: The Life, Art and Legacy of Charles Eamer Kempe published by The Lutterworth Press in August 2018 and Espying Heaven: The Stained Glass of Charles Eamer Kempe and his Artists in January 2019. | Locations of Kempe's stained-glass windows Gallery See also British and Irish stained glass (1811–1918) Victorian Era Gothic Revival References Notes External links 'Kempe' by Adrian Barlow, published by The Lutterworth Press 'Espying Heaven' by Adrian Barlow, published by The Lutterworth Press The Kempe S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Eamer%20Kempe | Charles Eamer Kempe |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | director | Both are available in a rated and unrated director's cut format. | Josh then gets up and says "Come out, come out, wherever you are," before Brooke's cell phone begins ringing. | Home media The Grudge 2 was released on DVD and UMD video for the PlayStation Portable on February 6, 2007. | The unrated format is 6 minutes longer than the rated version, clocking in at 108 minutes as opposed to the theatrical cut which is 102 minutes. | Both DVD formats include the following extras: Tales from the Grudge webisodes (Region 1 only) Cast and crew reel change montage Four featurettes: Holding a Grudge: Kayako & Toshio East Meets West Grudge 2 Storyline Development Ready When You Are Mr Shimizu Deleted scenes The movie was also made available on iTunes in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Grudge%202 | The Grudge 2 |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | guitarist | Boyes was described by Grammy Award winner and Blues Hall of Fame pianist, Pinetop Perkins, as "the best gal guitarist I heard since Memphis Minnie." | Boyes has also received 15 national recording and performance awards in Australia. | Boyes has toured and recorded with many, including Hubert Sumlin and Bob Margolin. | She plays both acoustic and electric, covering pre-war Delta slide, laments, single chord Mississippi Hills grooves, Piedmont finger picking, New Orleans barrelhouse, Memphis soul, classic Chicago, Texas swing, and the uptown sound of the West Coast. | Discography 1990: The Mojos (The Mojos) 1991: Hardheaded Woman (The Mojos) 1992: Real Australian Blues (compilation album) 1995: Sassy Mama (The Mojos) 1996: Mumbo Gumbo (The Mojos) 1999: Swing O'Clock Blues (The Mojos) 2001: Blues in my Heart (Fiona Boyes) 2001: Live at Bruthen (compilation) 2002: The Muster Collectio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona%20Boyes | Fiona Boyes |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | artist | Brödel's underlying artistic philosophy is best described in his own words: "The artist must first fully comprehend the subject matter from every standpoint: anatomical, topographical, histological, pathological, medical, and surgical. | Brödel also noticed an avascular area and suggested cutting along this line when looking for kidney stones. | He developed what is referred today as Brödel's suture, which can be used to repair a prolapsed kidney. | From this accumulated knowledge grows a mental picture from which again crystallizes the plan for the future drawing. | A clear and vivid mental picture must always precede the actual picture on paper. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Br%C3%B6del | Max Brödel |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | playwright | Bronnen may refer to Arnolt Bronnen (1895-1959), Austrian playwright and director Bronnen (Achstetten), a village in Upper Swabia, Germany | NONE | NONE | NONE | NONE | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronnen | Bronnen |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | editor | But an editor at Houghton Mifflin read the manuscript and decided that this was worth pursuing." | I didn't have a representative. | I didn't know anything about publishing. | Americana was followed in rapid succession by the American college football / nuclear war black comedy End Zone (1972)—written under the working titles "The Self-Erasing Word" and "Modes of Disaster Technology"—and the rock and roll satire Great Jones Street (1973), which DeLillo later felt was "one of the books I wish... | It should be tighter, and probably a little funnier." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20DeLillo | Don DeLillo |
METONYMIC | PRODUCER | pianist | But I must say that I have never heard such a pianist before...First, he does not play at all in the style you and I strive for. | In a 1935 letter to Otto Klemperer, Arnold Schoenberg called Nyiregyházi: a pianist who appears to be something really quite extraordinary. | I had to overcome great resistance in order to go at all, for the description I'd heard from Dr. Hoffmann and from Maurice Zam had made me very skeptical. | And just as I did not judge him on that basis, I imagine that when you hear him, you too will be compelled to ignore all matters of principle, and probably will end up doing just as I did. | For your principles would not be the proper standard to apply. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ervin%20Nyiregyh%C3%A1zi | Ervin Nyiregyházi |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | historian | But the historian Ludovico Antonio Muratori reproduces the account made by one of Thomas's friends, and this version of the story gives no hint of foul play. | In the Divine Comedy, Dante sees the glorified soul of Thomas in the Heaven of the Sun with the other great exemplars of religious wisdom. | Dante asserts that Thomas died by poisoning, on the order of Charles of Anjou; Villani cites this belief, and the Anonimo Fiorentino describes the crime and its motive. | Thomas's theology had begun its rise to prestige. | Two centuries later, in 1567, Pope Pius V proclaimed St. Thomas Aquinas a Doctor of the Church and ranked his feast with those of the four great Latin fathers: Ambrose, Augustine of Hippo, Jerome and Gregory. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Aquinas | Thomas Aquinas |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | poet | by Howell Chickering, 1977):The Beowulf poet is clearly referring to the legends about Theoderic the Great. | Attestations Beowulf Brísingamen is referred to in the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf as Brosinga mene. | The brief mention in Beowulf is as follows (trans. | The Þiðrekssaga tells that the warrior Heime (Háma in Old English) takes sides against Ermanaric ("Eormanric"), king of the Goths, and has to flee his kingdom after robbing him; later in life, Hama enters a monastery and gives them all his stolen treasure. | However, this saga makes no mention of the great necklace. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C3%ADsingamen | Brísingamen |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | director | By now however, the highly rated technical director had already been placed on gardening leave by his French employers pending a move to Toyota F1 for an undisclosed financial settlement. | Benetton/Renault F1 Shortly before the start of the 2001 season he moved to Benetton, whose results had been in serious decline since the mid-1990s. | Gascoyne's two-and-a-half seasons with Benetton, and later Renault, saw a marked improvement in the team's fortunes, culminating in victory at the 2003 Hungarian Grand Prix. | Toyota In December 2003 Gascoyne made his move to the Cologne base of Toyota and began working on the 2004 car. | With Formula One design timelines stretching back many months before the start of the season, he was unable to have full influence over many early decisions and the season proved to be a disappointment. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Gascoyne | Mike Gascoyne |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | historian | By topic Art and Science Arrian, Greek historian and writer, publishes Indica, a work on India and its people. | The denomination 162 AD for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. | Events By place Roman Empire Lucius Verus begins a war with the Parthians, due to the invasion of Syria and Armenia by King Vologases IV of Parthia. | Births Marcus Annius Verus Caesar, one of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius's thirteen children (d. 169) Deaths Marcus Annius Libo, the second child and first son to Roman consul Marcus Annius Verus and Rupilia Faustina References Indica in Greek at the Perseus Digital Library, http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn... | NONE | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/162 | 162 |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | playwright | Canadian historian Frank Underhill, quoting Canadian playwright Merrill Denison summed it up: "Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, whereas Canadians are malevolently informed about the United States." | However Kim Nossal points out that the Canadian variety is much milder than anti-Americanism in some other countries. | By contrast Americans show very little knowledge or interest one way or the other regarding Canadian affairs. | Canadian public opinion on U.S. presidents United States President George W. Bush was "deeply disliked" by a majority of Canadians according to the Arizona Daily Sun. | A 2004 poll found that more than two thirds of Canadians favoured Democrat John Kerry over Bush in the 2004 presidential election, with Bush's lowest approval ratings in Canada being in the province of Quebec where just 11% of the population supported him. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93United%20States%20relations | Canada–United States relations |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | journalist | Canadian journalist praised the album's variety and the "profusion of good songs", with the musical styles ranging from prog to sophisticated balladry to pop metal. | All of the songs on the album vanished from the band's live setlist after 1979 and two ("Spaceman" and "Here We Are") have never been performed live. | Reception Retrospectively, AllMusic Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that "without a forceful lead vocalist like Steve Perry, the group lacks focus and a pop sensibility and its attempts at straight-ahead pop/rock suffer considerably as a result." | Track listing Personnel Band members Gregg Rolie – keyboards, lead vocals Neal Schon – electric and acoustic guitars, lead vocals on "I Would Find You" and "Karma" Ross Valory – bass guitar, backing vocals Aynsley Dunbar – drums, percussion Additional personnel Smiggy – engineer, mixing Bruce Botnick – masteri... | NONE | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next%20%28Journey%20album%29 | Next (Journey album) |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | musician | CareerBritish experimental musician David Tibet of Current 93 heard a demo and offered to release Anohni's music through his Durtro label. | NONE | Antony and the Johnsons is an American music group presenting the work of Anohni and her collaborators. | Anohni started the band, its name inspired by trans activist Marsha P. Johnson. | The debut album, Antony and the Johnsons, was released in 1998. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony%20and%20the%20Johnsons | Antony and the Johnsons |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | scientist | Carlos Afonso Nobre (born March 27, 1951) is a Brazilian scientist and meteorologist who is mainly highlighted in global warming-related studies. | NONE | NONE | Education Nobre graduated in Electronic Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica in 1974, and began working in Manaus at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) the following year. | He earned a Ph.D. in Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and studied Dynamic Meteorology of the Tropical Region with Jules Charney and Jagadish Shukla, pioneers in the construction of climate models, until 1982. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Nobre%20%28scientist%29 | Carlos Nobre (scientist) |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | writer | Carlos Cumpián, a Chicano writer who examines American realities absent from mainstream poetry. | NONE | NONE | Originally from San Antonio, Texas, Cumpián has planted firm roots in the Midwest. | Cumpián was named among the Chicago Public Library's "Top Ten" requested poets and his poetry has been published in small press magazines as well as numerous anthologies. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Cumpi%C3%A1n | Carlos Cumpián |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | artist | Carmelo Borg Pisani (10 August 1915 – 28 November 1942) was a Maltese artist and Italian Fascist spy, condemned to death for treason in 1942. | NONE | NONE | Early life Born into a Maltese Nationalist family in Senglea on 10 August 1915, Borg Pisani enrolled as a student at the pro-Italian Umberto I art lyceum in Valletta. | In his teens he attended the network of pro-Italian and pro-fascist organisations in Malta: Valletta's Casa del Fascio (headed by professor Umberto Biscottini) and OGIE (Organizzazioni Giovanili Italiane all'Estero), through which he attended youth camps in Italy, such as Campo Dux in Viareggio in 1930 and another camp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmelo%20Borg%20Pisani | Carmelo Borg Pisani |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | guitarist | Catalan composer and critic Jaime Pahissa described Rey as the most complete guitarist he had heard. | On May 9, 1934, Llobet presented him in a concert at the Academia Marshall together with a pianist and then shortly after in a solo recital. | Both received rave reviews from the tough Barcelona critics. | Another critic compared him not only with Llobet but also with Pablo Casals. | Career His American début was at The Town Hall in New York City in 1940. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Rey%20de%20la%20Torre | José Rey de la Torre |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | director | CDHR's director analyzes Saudi news and policies for the benefit of the readers who would otherwise take the highly censored Saudi news for face value. | CDHR was founded by Dr. Ali Alyami, executive director, in May 2004. | Activities Provides information and analysis of Saudi events and policies via its website and 5,000 strong newsletter recipients worldwide. | Operates a Blog, Twitter and Facebook accounts to spread information and engage readers in open discussions about issues that affect them, but which they cannot initiate from or discuss openly in Saudi Arabia. | Organizes public and official conferences and round table discussions in which speakers present current different prospective and analysis about Saudi policies, US-Saudi relations and the Saudi role in the financing and spread of its austere brand of Islam, Wahhabism. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Center%20for%20Democracy%20and%20Human%20Rights%20in%20Saudi%20Arabia | The Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | director | Celebrated Italian director Federico Fellini often praised this film, and his Nights of Cabiria refers to it. | The acclaimed French filmmaker Robert Bresson placed this film as first and second on his top ten films of all time. | George Bernard Shaw called Chaplin "the only genius to come out of the movie industry". | In the 2003 documentary Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin, Woody Allen said it was Chaplin's best picture. | Allen is said to have based the final scene of his 1979 film Manhattan on its final scene. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20Lights | City Lights |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | novelist | Charles Brockden Brown is the earliest American novelist whose works are still commonly read. | Sentimentalism is often thought to be a reaction against the Calvinistic belief in the depravity of human nature. | While many of these novels were popular, the economic infrastructure of the time did not allow these writers to make a living through their writing alone. | He published Wieland in 1798, and in 1799 published Ormond, Edgar Huntly, and Arthur Mervyn. | These novels are of the Gothic genre. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20literature | American literature |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | composer | Charles Rosen, in a chapter on Mendelssohn in his 1995 book The Romantic Generation, both praises and criticizes the composer. | Mercer-Taylor comments on the irony that "this broad-based reevaluation of Mendelssohn's music is made possible, in part, by a general disintegration of the idea of a musical canon", an idea which Mendelssohn "as a conductor, pianist and scholar" had done so much to establish. | The critic H. L. Mencken concluded that, if Mendelssohn indeed missed true greatness, he missed it "by a hair". | He calls him "the greatest child prodigy the history of Western music has ever known", whose command at age 16 surpassed that of Mozart or Chopin at 19, the possessor at an early age of a "control of large-scale structure unsurpassed by any composer of his generation", and a "genius" with a "profound" comprehension of ... | Rosen believes that in the composer's later years, without losing his craft or genius, he "renounced ... his daring"; but he calls Mendelssohn's relatively late Violin Concerto in E minor "the most successful synthesis of the Classical concerto tradition and the Romantic virtuoso form". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%20Mendelssohn | Felix Mendelssohn |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | mathematician | Cheon, Jung Hee is a South Korean mathematician and cryptographer whose research interest includes computational number theory, cryptography, and information security. | NONE | NONE | He is one of the inventors of braid cryptography, one of group-based cryptography, and approximate homomorphic encryption HEAAN. | As one of co-inventors of approximate homomorphic encryption HEaaN, he is actively working on homomorphic encryptions and their applications including machine learning, homomorphic control systems, and DNA computation on encrypted data. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheon%2C%20Jung%20Hee | Cheon, Jung Hee |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | musician | Chicago blues musician Lonnie Brooks, praised the talents of "Fiddlin' Marcy". " | In earlier years his daughters performed with the band. | Circa 1996 this included Marcy on fiddle and T'Pech on rubboard. | I'm real impressed with her," he said. " | I think she's great. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojo%20%26%20The%20Bayou%20Gypsies | Mojo & The Bayou Gypsies |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | designer | Chief designer of the Nikolaev Shipyard, Sergey Ratnik, evaluated Chikhachov's request for proposals, and advised against the idea in general. | Design and description Similar in size to earlier coastal defence ships but seaworthy for operations in the Black Sea, Rostislav was conceived in 1892 as a cheap and compact platform for 12-inch guns. | Admiral Nikolay Chikhachov, Chief of the Ministry of the Navy, envisioned a squadron of such ships, each displacing , that would fit into his total desired displacement target of . | The Naval Technical Committee (NTC) concurred: any meaningful combination of firepower, armor, speed and stability required at least . | The NTC discarded Ratnik's advice to build an improved copy of the battleship of , but did not present a definite alternative. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20battleship%20Rostislav | Russian battleship Rostislav |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | author | Chiropractors have criticized this conclusion, claiming that the author did not evaluate the potential benefits of spinal manipulation. | A 2010 systematic review stated that there is no good evidence to assume that neck manipulation is an effective treatment for any medical condition and suggested a precautionary principle in healthcare for chiropractic intervention even if a causality with vertebral artery dissection after neck manipulation were merely... | The same review concluded that the risk of death from manipulations to the neck outweighs the benefits. | Edzard Ernst stated "This detail was not the subject of my review. | I do, however, refer to such evaluations and should add that a report recently commissioned by the General Chiropractic Council did not support many of the outlandish claims made by many chiropractors across the world." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic | Chiropractic |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | mathematician | Christian Goldbach (; ; 18 March 1690 – 20 November 1764) was a German mathematician who also studied law. | NONE | NONE | He is remembered today for Goldbach's conjecture. | Biography Born in the Duchy of Prussia's capital Königsberg, part of Brandenburg-Prussia, Goldbach was the son of a pastor. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Goldbach | Christian Goldbach |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | artist | Chwistek's fellow-artist and closest friend, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, harshly criticized his philosophical views. | He was a defender of "common sense" against metaphysics and irrational feeling. | His theory of plural reality was merely an attempt to specify the various ways in which the term, "real," is used. | Witkiewicz's own philosophy was based on a monadic character to the individual's existence, embracing a multiplicity of existences, with the world being made up of a multiplicity of Particular Existences. | Works The limits of science. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20Chwistek | Leon Chwistek |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | musician | Cicero quotes the Athenian musician Stratonicus, who said "Let Alabandus be my enemy! | Alabandus (Ancient Greek: ) was in Greek mythology a Carian hero, son of Euippus and Callirhoe, although which one is unclear (according to some traditions, his mother's name was Car). | Mythology Alabandus was the founder of the town of Alabanda, and was after his death worshiped by the inhabitants of that town as a divinity. | But let Hercules be yours," for he had grown tired of the praises which the Carians were incessantly bestowing on their mythical founder, to the neglect of more Roman cults (e.g. Hercules, whom the Carians disdained). | Alabandus' original name is unknown. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabandus | Alabandus |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | historian | Civil War historian James M. McPherson stated that "A historian reading their testimony, however, will be convinced that they told several falsehoods." | The Senate committee was very cautious in its questions of two of Brown's backers, Samuel Howe and George Stearns, out of fear of stoking violence. | Howe and Stearns later said that the questions were asked in a manner that permitted them to give honest answers without implicating themselves. | Aftermath of the raid John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was among the last in a series of events that led to the American Civil War. | Southern slaveowners, hearing initial reports that hundreds of abolitionists were involved, were relieved the effort was so small, but feared other abolitionists would emulate Brown and attempt to lead slave rebellions. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Brown%20%28abolitionist%29 | John Brown (abolitionist) |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | scientist | Clinton AdministrationIn April 1998, President Bill Clinton read the Richard Preston novel The Cobra Event, a fiction book about a mad scientist spreading a virus throughout New York City. | History Cold War Era During the first decade of the Cold War, the United States accumulated a civil defense medical stockpile at 32 storage facilities. | The supplies began to degrade in the 1960s, and were disposed of and the stockpile program closed in 1974. | As a result, Clinton held a meeting with scientists and cabinet officials to discuss the threat of bioterrorism. | He was so impressed, that he asked the experts to meet with senior-level aides at the Department of Defense and in the Department of Health and Human Services. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic%20National%20Stockpile | Strategic National Stockpile |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | journalist | Colombian American journalist, Sonia Uribe studied in and now lives in London. | Notable individuals Several Colombian immigrants to the UK as well as British born people of Colombian descent have gained notable success, some examples are listed here. | Jorge Castano is a Cali born professional wrestler who has made a new life and career for himself in the UK, Fernando Montano is the first Colombian to dance with the Royal Ballet and has been a member of the company since 2006, Phil Manzanera a musician and record producer who was the lead guitarist with Roxy Music w... | José Fernández Madrid was a former ambassador to the UK for Colombia who lived in the UK for a number of years where he subsequently died. | Another notable expatriate in the UK of Colombian origin is Australian actor Adam Garcia who has found fame in many US and British films. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombians%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | Colombians in the United Kingdom |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | historian | commercial directed by Michael Bay features a historian obsessed with the study of Aaron Burr—he owns the guns and the bullet from the duel (see Aaron Burr (advertisement)). | Gore Vidal's Burr: A Novel (1973) is part of his Narratives of Empire series. | A 1993 "Got Milk?" | PBS's American Experience episode "The Duel" (2000) chronicled the events that led to the Burr–Hamilton duel. | Burr is a principal character in the 2015 Broadway musical Hamilton, written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and inspired by historian Ron Chernow's 2004 biography of Hamilton. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron%20Burr | Aaron Burr |
METONYMIC | PRODUCER | band | Composer Gunther Schuller wrote: "In 1943 I heard the great Earl Hines band which had Bird in it and all those other great musicians. | The most influential bebop musicians included saxophonist Charlie Parker, pianists Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Brown, and drummer Max Roach. | Divorcing itself from dance music, bebop established itself more as an art form, thus lessening its potential popular and commercial appeal. | They were playing all the flatted fifth chords and all the modern harmonies and substitutions and Dizzy Gillespie runs in the trumpet section work. | Two years later I read that that was 'bop' and the beginning of modern jazz ... but the band never made recordings." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz | Jazz |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | singer | CompositionThe songs on the album lean towards the blues the singer listened to in his youth. | One of the original songs, "Just Like Greta", that was not included on the album would appear on Morrison's 2005 release Magic Time, without a rerecording. | It was finished by year's end in 2001 and released after numerous delays. | The title track was originally entitled "Down the Road I Go" and was first recorded in 1981 with guitarist Mark Knopfler. | The song was then re-recorded with Linda Gail Lewis in November 2000 with additional lyrics. " | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down%20the%20Road%20%28Van%20Morrison%20album%29 | Down the Road (Van Morrison album) |
METONYMIC | PRODUCER | drummer | Conclusion: In the final chapter, Thoreau criticizes conformity: "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. | He watches the geese winging their way north, and a hawk playing by itself in the sky. | As nature is reborn, the narrator implies, so is he. | Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away", By doing so, men may find happiness and self-fulfillment. | ThemesWalden emphasizes the importance of solitude, contemplation, and closeness to nature in transcending the "desperate" existence that, he argues, is the lot of most people. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden | Walden |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | journalist | Conflict Ethiopian Judicial Authority v Swedish journalists 2011 was caused as the journalist studied report of human rights violation in the Ogaden in connection with activities of Lundin Petroleum. | Criticism has also been directed towards former Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt, a former board member for the company, responsible for ethics. | Ethiopia arrested the two Swedish journalists Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye and held them for 14 months before releasing them. | The trial against Lundin may become a landmark case because of the novelty and complexity of the legal issues that the Swedish court will have to decide. | It would be the first time since the Nuremberg trails that a multibillion-dollar company were to be charged for international crimes. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lundin%20Energy | Lundin Energy |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | journalist | Controversies The journalist Troels Jørgensen from TV station DR has rated be2's matching system as flawed. | It went live on April 1, 2004. | The same year, the Spanish and Italian services were added. | Wildly different profiles were matched to exactly the same potential partners in a test performed for consumer rights programme Kontant. | Also, membership is extended without consent which is illegal according to The Danish Consumer Council. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be2 | Be2 |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | director | Co-star Ewan McGregor agreed, having said about Polanski that "he's a legend ... I've never examined a director and the way that they work so much before. | In the United States, film critic Roger Ebert included it in his top 10 picks for 2010 and states that "this movie is the work of a man who knows how to direct a thriller. | Smooth, calm, confident, it builds suspense instead of depending on shock and action." | He's brilliant, just brilliant, and absolutely warrants his reputation as a great director." | Carnage (2011) Polanski shot Carnage in February/March 2011. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Polanski | Roman Polanski |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | playwright | Cricketing careerA right-handed batsman, he played one first-class match for Dublin University against Northamptonshire in July 1926, a match that also featured the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. | J D Gwynn later married Esther Hulbert, a musicologist and singer, who also predeceased him. | He died at the age of 91 on 21 November 1998. | Gwynn came from a cricketing family. | Three of his uncles (Arthur, Lucius and Robin) all represented Ireland, whilst a fourth uncle, Jack, played first-class cricket in India. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20David%20Gwynn | John David Gwynn |
METONYMIC | PRODUCER | composer | Critic Martin Bernheimer said that Salerno-Sonnenberg was "battling the composer rather than interpreting the composer." | The only criticism the reviewer made of her interpretation was of "her characteristic tendency to break up the melodic line into fragments". | Some reviewers criticized the clothes she wore during performances, her facial "grimaces", and her "almost abandoned disregard". | Another critic disagreed: "I don't care what she wears or how she moves as long as she keeps playing with such passionate intelligence." | Fans have found her performances "exhilarating". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadja%20Salerno-Sonnenberg | Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | singer | Critic Robert Palmer wrote that William S. Burroughs and J. G. Ballard were "obvious influences" to Curtis, and Morris also remembered the singer reading T. S. Eliot. | In 1979, NME journalist Paul Rambali wrote, "The themes of Joy Division's music are sorrowful, painful and sometimes deeply sad." | Music journalist Jon Savage wrote that "Curtis's great lyrical achievement was to capture the underlying reality of a society in turmoil, and to make it both universal and personal," while noting that "the lyrics reflected, in mood and approach, his interest in romantic and science-fiction literature." | Deborah Curtis also remembered Curtis reading works by writers such as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, Franz Kafka, and Hermann Hesse. | Curtis was unwilling to explain the meaning behind his lyrics and Joy Division releases were absent of any lyric sheets. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy%20Division | Joy Division |
METONYMIC | PRODUCER | pianist | Critical reaction to the recordings was sharply divided, with some claiming to hear an authentic 19th-century pianist (Harold C. Schonberg wrote, "some critics wonder if Franz Liszt had been reincarnated"). | Some of these recordings were released between 1977 and 1979 on albums on the Desmar and Columbia Masterworks labels, which briefly brought Nyiregyházi back into public view. | An all-Liszt double album won Stereo Review's 1978 Record of the Year award. | Others denounced Nyiregyhazi's "incredibly slipshod" technique, "ridiculously amateurish" fortissimo playing, "glacial tempos and total dissociation from contemporary performance styles. | But Romantic revivalists were enthralled." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ervin%20Nyiregyh%C3%A1zi | Ervin Nyiregyházi |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | editor | Critical receptionAllmusic editor Andy Kellman rated the album three and a half ouf of five stars. | Pushed back numerous times due to record label complications of the Sony–BMG merger, the album was released to critical acclaim and became Jones' highest charting album on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart where it topped at number one, while entering the top 20 on the Billboard 200 chart. | The album was originally scheduled to be released December 20, 2005 under the title Where I Wanna Be: The Last Chapter, the sequel to his studio album Where I Wanna Be (1999), but was finally released in the summer of the following year. | He found that Journey of a Gemini "doesn't quite maintain the steady level of consistency that his first three albums carried, it's nonetheless a satisfying addition to his catalog [...] Since the album's not as ballad-heavy, Jones is less prone to oversinging, and several excellent midtempo tracks — "Better Start Talk... | Just to show that he hasn't turned into a total square, there are plenty of nasty bedroom come-ons." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey%20of%20a%20Gemini | Journey of a Gemini |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | editor | Critical receptionAllmusic editor Andy Kellman rated the album three out of five stars. | The album features guest appearances by Joe Budden, Rufus Blaq and fellow former Immature member Young Rome. | In the United States, Naked peaked at number 13 on the Billboard 200, and peaked at number 5 on Billboards Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. | He found that "Naked is no deeper than 2003's MH, which most of his fans will find perfectly acceptable. | It offers a similar mix of earnest slow jams and sexually frank club tracks. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked%20%28Marques%20Houston%20album%29 | Naked (Marques Houston album) |
METONYMIC | PRODUCER | musician | Critical receptionFrançois Couture at AllMusic gave Live from Oz three stars out of five, saying that it "packs tons of energy" and praising each musician for their virtuosity. | NONE | Live from Oz is a live album by instrumental rock/progressive metal supergroup Planet X, released in 2002 through Inside Out Music. | Track listing Personnel Tony MacAlpine – guitar, production Derek Sherinian – keyboard, production Virgil Donati – drums, production Dave LaRue – bass Albert Law – engineering Simon Phillips – mixing Brad Vance – mastering Release history References External links In Review: Planet X "Live From Oz" at Guitar Nine R... | NONE | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%20from%20Oz | Live from Oz |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | singer | Critical receptionPeople magazine noted that "the country singer exhibits an insightful awareness of life's vagaries" on the song, and designated it as the album's recommended download. | Later, everyone prays for a cousin who has been deployed to Iraq, well aware he may never return home alive. | That night, as the protagonist lays in bed, he reflects on his day, thankful for his blessings and summing this all up by stating how he "love[s] this crazy, tragic, sometimes almost magic, awful, beautiful life." | Music video Directed by Cameron Casey, this video plays out the events related in the song's lyrics; Worley's participation in the events is interspersed with performance shots of him singing while standing in a field, standing by a fence and in front of a barn, and driving an old red chevy. | Near the end of the video, Worley is shown picking up his cousin and drops him off at his house. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awful%2C%20Beautiful%20Life | Awful, Beautiful Life |
METONYMIC | PRODUCER | orchestra | CriticismStill many members of the intelligentsia criticized the orchestra and its instruments for being not Russian (as the name implies) but Turkish. | Many instruments were heavily customized to work in an orchestra setting. | In a few years, the orchestra became famous, generating thousands of followers as well as causing an explosion of balalaika compositions. | More recently, Iurii Boiko pointed out in 1984 that the orchestra's technique of playing a melody in the form of a sustained tremolo on one stringmuch copied and widely thought of as "Russian" in style (witness Maurice Jarre's film score for David Lean's Doctor Zhivago)is in fact not a Russian manner of playing at all;... | This new form of folk music gained international popularity after Andreyev's many concert tours in Great Britain between 1900 and 1910. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily%20Andreyev | Vasily Andreyev |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | scientist | Cuvier was the first scientist to deeply analyze their possible taxonomic placement through Mosasaurus. | The Maastricht limestone beds were rendered so famous by the mosasaur discovery, they have given their name to the final six-million-year epoch of the Cretaceous, the Maastrichtian. | Classification Relation with snakes or monitor lizards The specific placement of mosasaurs within the Squamata has been controversial since its inception. | While his original 1808 hypothesis that the genus was a lizard with affinities to monitor lizards remained the most popular, Cuvier was uncertain, even at the time, about the accuracy of this placement. | He simultaneously proposed a number of alternative hypotheses, with one such alternative suggesting that Mosasaurus instead had closer affinities with iguanas due to their shared presence of pterygoid teeth. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosasaur | Mosasaur |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | artist | Cyberfeminist artist and thinker Faith Wilding also critiques its utopian vision for not doing the tough work of technical, theoretical and political education. | Just let it not be pushed down their throats as 'empowering.' | Otherwise this too will go the way of all imposed technology and achieve the exact opposite of what it purports to do." | Art and artists The practice of cyberfeminist art is inextricably intertwined with cyberfeminist theory. | The 100 anti-theses make clear that cyberfeminism is not just about theory, while theory is extremely important, cyberfeminism requires participation. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberfeminism | Cyberfeminism |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | journalist | Daily Mail journalist, Jane Kelly, exhibited a painting of Myra Hindley and was dismissed from her job. | Some of the work was compared with the "shocking" work of YBAs, Jake and Dinos Chapman. | The gallery posted a warning notice of some "sexual and violent" subject matter. | Critical reaction to the show ranged from "dreadful" to "the next big thing in art". | Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate gallery, visited the show and called it "lively". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Stuckists%20Punk%20Victorian | The Stuckists Punk Victorian |
METONYMIC | PRODUCER | scientist | Daniel Pauly is a French-born marine biologist, well known for his work in studying human impacts on global fisheries and for being the most cited fisheries scientist in the world. | NONE | NONE | He is a professor and the project leader of the Sea Around Us Project at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at the University of British Columbia. | He also served as Director of the UBC Fisheries Centre from November 2003 to October 2008. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Pauly | Daniel Pauly |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | historian | Date unknown English historian and naturalist Robert Plot publishes The Natural History of Staffordshire, a collection of illustrations and texts detailing the history of the county. | The unpopular Andros, who reigns as a dictator after being appointed by King James II, is driven out of office in 1689 after the overthrow of James, and the Dominion of New England is broken up into its constituent colonies. | December 22 – Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia, head of the House of Hohenzollern, enters into an alliance with the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by Emperor Charles VI of the Holy Roman Empire and head of the Austrian House of Habsburg. | It is the first document known to mention crop circles and a double sunset. | The Café Procope, which remains in business in the 21st century, is opened in Paris by Procopio Cutò, as a coffeehouse. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1686 | 1686 |
METONYMIC | PRODUCER | historian | Dating of PygmalionPygmalion's dates are derived from Josephus's Against Apion i.18, where Josephus quotes the Phoenician historian Menander as follows:Pygmalion . . . | It was argued, based on philological considerations, that the name as given in the Assyrian text could be matched to a Phoenician Ba'al-'azor and the Greek Baal-Eser/Balazeros, a name corresponding to two kings in Menander's list. | The first Balazeros was a son of Hiram I, contemporary of David and Solomon, so this was too early, but the second name referred to the grandfather of Pygmalion and was therefore in the right date range. | lived fifty-six years, and reigned forty-seven years. | Now, in the seventh year of his reign, his sister fled away from him, and built the city of Carthage in Libya. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion%20of%20Tyre | Pygmalion of Tyre |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | artist | David also praised the story's artist, Rich Buckler, "whose dynamic and energetic storytelling and gritty texture brought the story to pulsing life. | So a murderer that makes me?") | Readers will mentally categorize this as someone who is friendly and even comic relief." | He gave it the kind of down-and-dirty feeling that we were looking for. | Kind of Spidey meets Hill Street Blues." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Death%20of%20Jean%20DeWolff | The Death of Jean DeWolff |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | violinist | Debussy dedicated his only string quartet to the violinist, who studied the score with great care. | Ysaÿe was also a friend of Claude Debussy and would sometimes correspond with him by letter. | The two had great respect for each other and Ysaÿe was a significant supporter of the younger composer's early career. | The quartet received its premiere on 29 December 1893 by the Ysaÿe Quartet at the Société Nationale in Paris, to mixed reviews. | The virtuoso and the composer also corresponded during the writing of Debussy's Nocturnes. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne%20Ysa%C3%BFe | Eugène Ysaÿe |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | poet | December – Persian poet Nima Yooshij publishes the poem Afsaneh, the manifesto of the She'r-e Nimaa'i school of modernist poetry. | October 8 – A production of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus at The Old Vic, directed by Robert Atkins, is the first in London since 1857. | It is also the first to restore the full original text since the playwright's time. | December 28 – George Bernard Shaw's drama Saint Joan is premièred at the Garrick Theatre (New York City) on Broadway by the Theatre Guild, with Winifred Lenihan in the title role. | unknown dates The poet Xu Zhimo founds the Crescent Moon Society at private dinner meetings in China. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923%20in%20literature | 1923 in literature |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | artist | Definitely a creative artist, she comprehends life and its significance. | She is an extremely sensitive organism and has a great comprehension of human nature. | She has judgment and an abiding understanding which make it possible for her to portray human emotion poignantly and truly. | Everything she does has been subjected to painstaking analysis. | She thinks over every shade of emotion to make it ring true. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luise%20Rainer | Luise Rainer |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | philosopher | Describing "Machiavelli's Dream", the author recounts a legend in which on his death bed, the great philosopher gathered his friends and told of a dream. | Viroli states that Machiavelli's longing for a powerful ruler was not merely based on a cynical wish to see power exercised; rather, he posits that Machiavelli hoped for a strong and, if necessary, devious ruler who could rule effectively but also wisely and justly. | In his personal life, he is revealed here as a caring, sensitive man who, contrary to expectations, was frequently ruled by his heart rather than his head. | In the dream, a band of ragged, poorly dressed and miserable men were the self-described "saintly and blessed; we are on our way to Heaven". | He then saw a crowd of solemnly attired, noble men of grave appearance. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccolo%27s%20Smile | Niccolo's Smile |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | director | Despite the mutual tensions, the director rated Scheider highly, did not hold any grudges, and regretted he did not receive more recognition for his body of work. | According to Diane Kachmar, Friedkin believed that he inspired others to achieve great results, but Scheider did not favor such working conditions. | However, Scheider also admitted that only a director of Friedkin's stature could have persuaded him to perform all the life-threatening scenes he did, and added that upon seeing the dailies he "knew it was worth it". | However, their relationship eventually "drifted apart". | Characterization and design According to Friedkin cited by Kachmar, his artistic intent was to shoot the entire film without "sentiment" or "melodrama", rendering it completely devoid of "heartfelt moments". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcerer%20%28film%29 | Sorcerer (film) |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | pianist | Diederik Wissels (Brussels I) is a Dutch jazz pianist that studied at the Berklee college of music of Boston. | She was formerly a member of the Bundestag (2009 - 2019), and member of the German government under Chancellor Merkel, holding the positions of Federal Minister of Defence (2013 - 2019), Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs (2009 - 2013) and Federal Minister of Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (2005 - 2009). | Marina Wheeler QC (Brussels I) is a British lawyer, author and columnist. | He received many awards such as the Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros, the Prix Adami and the Prix du Musicien Européen de l'Académie du Jazz. | He played with great artists like Chet Baker, Joe Henderson and Toots Thielemans. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20School | European School |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | violinist | Dina Schneidermann (born 1930 or 1931 in Odessa, USSR, died August 9, 2016 in Uppsala, Sweden) was a Ukrainian-Swedish violinist that studied violin with David Oistrakh in Moscow. | NONE | NONE | Having married the Bulgarian violin professor Emil Kamilarov (1928–2007), Schneidermann moved to Bulgaria. | The couple left Bulgaria in the 1980s, and moved to Uppsala, Sweden, where they lived for the rest of their lives. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dina%20Schneidermann | Dina Schneidermann |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | composer | Disch's book mentions a female composer named Adrienne Leverkuhn. | Allusions and sources The book is seen as an example of New Wave modernism. | In addition to the staging of Marlowe's play, the book references Thomas Mann's novel Doctor Faustus, which is about a composer named Adrian Leverkühn who intentionally contracts syphilis. | References External links 1967 American novels Dystopian novels 1967 science fiction novels Novels by Thomas M. Disch | NONE | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp%20Concentration | Camp Concentration |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | artist | Discussion of Gottlieb's art is usually limited to mentions of "Bursts" or "Imaginary Landscapes", which detracts from the broad range of ideas this artist examined. | 1960s–1970s By 1960 Gottlieb's efforts on his "Burst" series, allowed him to greatly simplify his use of imagery. | Gottlieb created "Burst" and "Imaginary Landscape" type paintings for the remainder of his career but, unlike some of his colleagues, he did not limit himself to one or two images. | Gottlieb summarized his aims in a 1967 interview: But to me everything is nature, including any feelings that I have – or dreams. | Everything is part of nature. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph%20Gottlieb | Adolph Gottlieb |
METONYMIC | PRODUCER | band | Disliking his first name, he began to call himself "Spike" after hearing the band Spike Jones and his City Slickers on Radio Luxembourg. | Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was a British-Irish actor, comedian, writer, musician, poet, and playwright. | The son of an Irish father and an English mother, Milligan was born in India, where he spent his childhood, relocating in 1931 to live and work the majority of his life in the United Kingdom. | Milligan was the co-creator, main writer and a principal cast member of the British radio programme The Goon Show, performing a range of roles including the Eccles and Minnie Bannister characters. | He was the earliest-born and last surviving member of the Goons. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike%20Milligan | Spike Milligan |
LITERAL | PRODUCER | writer | Dositej Obradović was a prominent figure of the Age of Enlightenment, while Jovan Sterija Popović was a Classicist writer whose works also contained elements of Romanticism. | Baroque trends in Serbian literature emerged in the late 17th ccentury. | Baroque-influenced authors include Gavril Stefanović Venclović, Jovan Rajić, Zaharije Orfelin, and Andrija Zmajević. | In the era of national revival, in the first half of the 19th century, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić collected Serbian folk literature, and reformed the Serbian language and spelling, paving the way for Serbian Romanticism. | The first half of the 19th century was dominated by Romanticist writers, including Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Branko Radičević, Đura Jakšić, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj and Laza Kostić, while the second half of the century was marked by Realist writers such as Milovan Glišić, Laza Lazarević, Simo Matavulj, Stevan Sremac, Vojis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia | Serbia |
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