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enwiki-00000000-0000-0000 | ! (Cláudia Pascoal album) | ! (pronounced "blah") is the debut studio album by Portuguese singer Cláudia Pascoal. It was released in Portugal on 27 March 2020 by Universal Music Portugal. The album peaked at number six on the Portuguese Albums Chart. | |
enwiki-00000001-0000-0000 | ! (The Dismemberment Plan album) | ! is the debut studio album by American indie rock band The Dismemberment Plan. It was released on October 2, 1995 on DeSoto Records. The band's original drummer Steve Cummings played on the album but left shortly after its release. | |
enwiki-00000001-0001-0000 | ! (The Dismemberment Plan album) | Personnel | The following people were involved in the making of ! : |
enwiki-00000002-0000-0000 | ! (The Song Formerly Known As) | "! (The Song Formerly Known As)" is a song by Australian rock band Regurgitator. The song was released as a double-A sided single with "Modern Life" in September 1998 as the fourth and final single from the band's second studio album Unit. The single peaked at number 28 in Australia and it also ranked at number 6 on Tr... | |
enwiki-00000002-0001-0000 | ! (The Song Formerly Known As) | At the ARIA Music Awards of 1999, the song was nominated for two awards; ARIA Award for Best Group and ARIA Award for Single of the Year. | |
enwiki-00000002-0002-0000 | ! (The Song Formerly Known As) | Critical reception | In 2014, Clem Bastow from The Guardian said "'!' is unmatched: it's a towering slab of electronic fuzz, tailor made for giant stadiums and the sort of raves that bring to mind The Matrix's Zion scenes, and yet the song is about staying home and listening to records in the living room with your significant other." |
enwiki-00000002-0003-0000 | ! (The Song Formerly Known As) | Critical reception | In 2015, the song was listed at number 60 in In the Mix's 100 Greatest Australian Dance Tracks of All Time with Nick Jarvis saying "The best track on the album (and arguably the best track the 'Gurge has written yet) – a dance track played by a live band about how dancing around your living room with bae wearing ugly p... |
enwiki-00000002-0004-0000 | ! (The Song Formerly Known As) | Critical reception | In 2019, Tyler Jenke from The Brag ranked Regurgitator's best songs, with "!" coming it at number 1. Jenke said "Ask anyone from the era, and they'll all agree that '! (The Song Formerly Known As)' is Regurgitator's finest moment.. it managed to become their shining glory, with lyrics that describe just sitting back an... |
enwiki-00000002-0005-0000 | ! (The Song Formerly Known As) | Critical reception | Junkee said, "Even at their most ribald, they still sound like an out-of-control after-school care group going to town on a bunch of poor, unsuspecting instruments. "!" isn’t even really a song. It’s a work of punkish extravagance, dressed in nothing but a streak of yellow paint and with murder on its mind. " |
enwiki-00000003-0000-0000 | ! (Trippie Redd album) | ! (pronounced "Exclamation Mark") is the second studio album by American rapper Trippie Redd. It was released on August 9, 2019, by TenThousand Projects and Caroline Records. The album features appearances from Diplo, The Game, Lil Duke, Lil Baby and Coi Leray. The album also originally featured Playboi Carti, but was ... | |
enwiki-00000003-0001-0000 | ! (Trippie Redd album) | Background | In January 2019, Trippie Redd announced that he had two more projects to be released soon in an Instagram live stream, his second studio album, Immortal and Mobile Suit Pussy, which was reportedly set to be his fourth commercial mixtape, but it then became scrapped. He explained that Immortal would have tracks where de... |
enwiki-00000003-0002-0000 | ! (Trippie Redd album) | Background | Trippie released the lead single to the album "Under Enemy Arms" on May 29, 2019. He confirmed in an interview with Zane Lowe of Beats 1 Radio that the album would be titled ! and was already completed, but that he wanted to add several more features as well as videos. |
enwiki-00000003-0003-0000 | ! (Trippie Redd album) | Critical reception | ! was met with mixed reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 59, which indicates "mixed or average reviews", based on 6 reviews. |
enwiki-00000003-0004-0000 | ! (Trippie Redd album) | Critical reception | Rachel Aroesti of The Guardian described the album as "compelling but contradictory emo-rap", noting lyrical contradictions and concluding it "is doubtless part of the genre's forward march – but it's hard to get past the sense that White has sacrificed a coherent artistic identity in the name of progress." |
enwiki-00000003-0004-0001 | ! (Trippie Redd album) | Critical reception | Writing for Pitchfork, Andy O'Connor wrote that the "songs touch on being true to oneself at all costs, but these half-baked lessons land flat since Redd himself doesn't really have an identity, musical or otherwise", further commenting, "Most of what happens here couldn't even realistically be considered rapping", cal... |
enwiki-00000003-0005-0000 | ! (Trippie Redd album) | Commercial performance | The album debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200 with 51,000 album-equivalent units, of which 7,000 were pure album sales in its first week. |
enwiki-00000004-0000-0000 | !!! | !!! (/tʃ(ɪ)k.tʃ(ɪ)k.tʃ(ɪ)k/ ch(i)k-ch(i)k-ch(i)k), also known as Chk Chk Chk, is an American rock band from Sacramento, California, formed in 1996 by lead singer Nic Offer. Members of !!! came from other local bands such as the Yah Mos, Black Liquorice and Pope Smashers. They are currently based in New York City. The b... | |
enwiki-00000004-0001-0000 | !!! | Background and history | !!! was formed in the fall of 1996 by the merger of members of the groups Black Liquorice and Popesmashers. After a successful joint tour, the two bands decided to mix the disco-funk with more aggressive sounds and integrate the hardcore singer Nic Offer from the Yah Mos. The band's name was inspired by the subtitles o... |
enwiki-00000004-0002-0000 | !!! | Background and history | The band's full-length debut record came out in 2000 as a self-titled album on the label Gold Standard Laboratories. This was followed in 2003 by the single "Me and Giuliani Down By the School Yard", a lengthy track combining house beats with sinewy basslines, psychedelic guitars, and simple lyrics which quote the titl... |
enwiki-00000004-0003-0000 | !!! | Background and history | A second full-length, Louden Up Now, was released on Touch and Go in America and on Warp Records in Europe in June 2004. In June 2005 !!! released a new EP covering "Take Ecstasy with Me" by The Magnetic Fields, and "Get Up" by Nate Dogg. The following December, the original drummer for the band, Mikel Gius, was struck... |
enwiki-00000004-0004-0000 | !!! | Background and history | !!! is composed of Mario Andreoni (guitar), Dan Gorman (horns/percussion/keys), Nic Offer (vocals), Rafael Cohen (bass/various electronic devices), Chris Egan (drums) and Meah Pace (vocals). |
enwiki-00000004-0005-0000 | !!! | Background and history | Vocalist and drummer John Pugh officially left the band in July 2007 to concentrate on his new band Free Blood. Vocalist Shannon Funchess stood in for Pugh during much of their 2007 tour. The band also shared membership with the similar, defunct group Out Hud (including Tyler Pope, who has played with LCD Soundsystem a... |
enwiki-00000005-0000-0000 | !!! (album) | !!! is the eponymous debut studio album by dance-punk band !!!. It was released in 2000 on Gold Standard Laboratories on vinyl, and saw wide release on CD on 19 June 2001. | |
enwiki-00000005-0001-0000 | !!! (album) | Reception | Johnny Loftus, from AllMusic states "On this [album], !!! trash the axiom that says bands influenced by angular post-punk must be populated by dour misanthropes who sport wallet photos of Ian Curtis. Highly recommended." |
enwiki-00000006-0000-0000 | !Action Pact! | !Action Pact! was a London-based punk rock band, formed in 1981 by guitarist Wild Planet, bassist Kim Igoe, George Cheex, and drummer Joe Fungus. | |
enwiki-00000006-0001-0000 | !Action Pact! | History | !Action Pact! was from Stanwell in Middlesex, and was also originally named Bad Samaritans. In 1981 they changed their name to !Action Pact!. The John from Dead Mans Shadow (D.M.S.) was Bad Samaritan's original lead singer, and he left to concentrate on D.M.S., before the name change. He was replaced by George Cheex, w... |
enwiki-00000006-0001-0001 | !Action Pact! | History | "London Bouncers" and "All Purpose Action Footwear", got the attention of BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel. He played their songs often and he convinced the band to record their first full session, which they did on 22 February 1982. They recorded "People", "Suicide Bag", "Mindless Aggression", "Losers", and "Cowslick Blues". ... |
enwiki-00000006-0002-0000 | !Action Pact! | History | The band would later be joined by drummer Grimly Fiendish and bassist Thistles, and producer Phil Langham would also moonlight on bass under the name Elvin Pelvin; whereas Kim Igoe, the bassist, continued on as a lyricist. The band split in 1986. |
enwiki-00000006-0003-0000 | !Action Pact! | History | In early 2016, Wild Planet (Des Stanley) died from cancer. |
enwiki-00000006-0004-0000 | !Action Pact! | Other projects | Wild Planet managed the heavy rock band Purge, in which his son, Mark Stanley, plays bass guitar; Purge has sometimes played a live cover version of !Action Pact! 's "London Bouncers". Joe Fungus also played with the punk band called Savage Upsurge. |
enwiki-00000007-0000-0000 | !Arriba! La Pachanga | !Arriba! La Pachanga is an album by Mongo Santamaría, published by Fantasy Records in 1959. | |
enwiki-00000008-0000-0000 | !Hero | ! HERO is a 2003 Christian rock opera about Jesus. It is based on the question, "What if Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania?". After the original tour in 2003 ended, it was released on DVD, CD, and was written into a trilogy of novels and series of comic books. | |
enwiki-00000008-0001-0000 | !Hero | Plot | ! HERO is a rock opera modernizing Jesus's last two years of life, as narrated in the Bible. The story takes place in New York City, in Brooklyn. The world government in this near-future dystopic Earth is centered under the International Confederation of Nations (I.C.O.N.). Under the iron fist of I.C.O.N., nearly all r... |
enwiki-00000008-0002-0000 | !Hero | Plot | In Bethlehem, Pensilvania, a child named Jesus, but referred to as Hero, is born and forced to flee with his family to the small Jewish section of Brooklyn. Jesus grows up and begins to preach and teach the principles of Christianity to the people of New York City, teaching people to love their enemies and care for eac... |
enwiki-00000008-0003-0000 | !Hero | Plot | The Opera is narrated by "Agent Hunter", a former I.C.O.N. agent who met Hero and was soon thrown into prison for joining him against I.C.O.N. The opera also features Petrov (Peter), Maggie (Mary Magdalene), and Jude (Judas Iscariot) the latter who conspires with Kai and Devlin to betray Hero. The storyline progresses ... |
enwiki-00000009-0000-0000 | !Hero (album) | ! Hero is an album featuring the songs from the rock opera, !Hero. It is based on the question, "What if Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania?" The rock opera modernizes Jesus' last two years on earth and features a cast of many well-known Christian rock artists with Michael Tait, Rebecca St. James, and Mark Stuar... | |
enwiki-00000009-0001-0000 | !Hero (album) | Reviews | Chris Well, writing for CCM Magazine, reviewed it favorably and stated, "! Hero is inventive, rhythmic and should, no doubt, spark debate everywhere about the real Jesus. On the other hand, Andree Farias of Christian Music Today, wrote, "! Hero's attempt to be all things to all people is well-intentioned, its 'replayab... |
enwiki-00000010-0000-0000 | !Kweiten-ta-ǀǀKen | !Kweiten-ta-||Ken (name derived from an unknown language local to the Katkop Mountains) (also known as Rachel or Griet) was a noted |xam (San) chronicler of ǀXam culture and knowledge. She played an important role in contributing to the Bleek and Lloyd archive of “Specimens of Bushman Folklore” providing a female persp... | |
enwiki-00000011-0000-0000 | !Oka Tokat | ! Oka Tokat is a Philippine paranormal drama which originally aired on ABS-CBN from June 24, 1997 to May 7, 2002 every Tuesday night. It starred Ricky Davao, Diether Ocampo, Jericho Rosales, Angelika Dela Cruz, Rica Peralejo, Paolo Contis and Agot Isidro. Its title is the reverse spelling of the phrase Takot ako! (I'm ... | |
enwiki-00000011-0001-0000 | !Oka Tokat | The show revolves around a media crew led by Rona del Fierro (played by Isidro) who investigate paranormal cases with the help del Fierro's premonitions. Most of the story arcs feature creatures in Filipino mythology, including the dwende (dwarf), tikbalang, diwata and the engkanto. | |
enwiki-00000011-0002-0000 | !Oka Tokat | Sequel | In 2011, ABS-CBN announced that !Oka Tokat will have its sequel entitled "Oka2kat". It was supposed to be aired in March 2011 but it was delayed to February 4, 2012. The sequel does not focus on the previous characters but has the same genre. |
enwiki-00000012-0000-0000 | !PAUS3 | !PAUS3, or THEE PAUSE, (born July 27, 1981) is an international platinum selling musician and artist, who began his career in his early teens in the former Soviet Bloc nations of Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria. | |
enwiki-00000012-0001-0000 | !PAUS3 | Biography | THEE PAUSE is originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and currently based in the New York City area. He has been previously selected by MTV & 495 Productions with other DJs to perform internationally for thousands. Having been selected to perform with and remix multiple platinum selling artists, he has been featured... |
enwiki-00000012-0001-0001 | !PAUS3 | Biography | He has been featured, interviewed or reviewed by Spin (France), Scotch & Murder Monthly, More Than Disco, Hot Biscuits, The Atlantic Monthly, Trip Hop Daily, Creme de le Creme, reverb, Music Under Fire, and Fahrenheit, and has multiple top-charting tracks and remixes on The Hype Machine and Beatport. THEE PAUSE was sel... |
enwiki-00000012-0002-0000 | !PAUS3 | Collaborations, Take Remedy | Take Remedy was a new collective on the New York City scene featuring Alice Love, THEE PAUSE, and Billy 'Vapor Eyes'. They have been described as a "combination of the alternative organic sound meets digital chaos". THEE PAUSE is bassist, programmer and provides back-up vocals. Lead vocals are provided by Alice Love. B... |
enwiki-00000012-0003-0000 | !PAUS3 | Collaborations, Take Remedy | Their debut EP Hello successfully charted on two individual Hype Machine Top 100 singles charts without major label promotion, EyeView and Lines unusual for a new band with a debut EP. |
enwiki-00000012-0004-0000 | !PAUS3 | Collaborations, Take Remedy | Hello, the five track debut EP originally only available on 12" red limited edition vinyl via Projecting Nothing Records, is now available worldwide digital via Organic Intelligence Records. |
enwiki-00000012-0005-0000 | !PAUS3 | Collaborations, Take Remedy | Announced March 24, 2012, THEE PAUSE began recording with artist Nikki Noir with producer DJ Alex J of Digable Planents fame for a late-2012 CD and digital release on Projecting Nothing Records titled Of The Echoes. |
enwiki-00000012-0006-0000 | !PAUS3 | Collaborations, The Daisy Kids | In March 2013, THEE PAUSE joined forces with Scott Putesky, former lead guitarist and co-founder of the band Marilyn Manson, to form "The Daisy Kids". The Daisy Kids was an American hard rock group consisting of former Marilyn Manson guitarist Daisy Berkowitz and producer, multi-instrumentalist and bass player THEE PAU... |
enwiki-00000012-0007-0000 | !PAUS3 | Collaborations, The Daisy Kids | With legal issues resolved, November 20, 2015, saw the release of the Mr Conrad Samsung EP, which had been delayed since 2013 and is the final released recording featuring guitarist and vocalist Scott Putesky prior to his passing in 2017. |
enwiki-00000012-0008-0000 | !PAUS3 | Collaborations, Mr Conrad Samsung EP | After numerous delays due to internal health problems plaguing both band members[5] Daisy Berkowitz and THEE PAUSE, the Mr Conrad Samsung EP was released digitally on September 20, 2015, via Organic Intelligence Records internationally. Vocal duties were split on this EP between Daisy Berkowitz, THEE PAUSE and Justin S... |
enwiki-00000012-0009-0000 | !PAUS3 | Collaborations, Andy Stott's Numb (beauty of being) Remix | Andy Stott is a Manchester-based producer of dub and techno music who has released three albums with the Modern Love label. THEE PAUSE's remix of Andy Stott's "Numb" charted on Pitchfork's Top 200 Tracks of the Decade so Far. |
enwiki-00000012-0010-0000 | !PAUS3 | Collaborations, Let's Go Somewhere Quiet | The first single from the THEE PAUSE produced album Let's Go Somewhere Quiet to benefit The Children's Brain Tumour Foundation featuring a remix of Lena Katina's track "Never Forget" was released on July 27, 2012, on Projecting Nothing Records. It also features an original unreleased track by THEE PAUSE. |
enwiki-00000013-0000-0000 | !Women Art Revolution | ! Women Art Revolution is a 2010 documentary film directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson and distributed by Zeitgeist Films. It tracks the feminist art movement over 40 years through interviews with artists, curators, critics, and historians. | |
enwiki-00000013-0001-0000 | !Women Art Revolution | Synopsis | ! Women Art Revolution is a documentary film, created by Lynn Hershman Leeson, to examine the under-recognized world of feminist art. Through interviews, documentary footage, and artworks, the film tracks the trajectory of feminist art. It begins at the start of the 1960s with antiwar and civil rights protests, it foll... |
enwiki-00000013-0002-0000 | !Women Art Revolution | Synopsis | Lynn Hershman Lesson interviewed artists, curators, critics, and historians for over 4 decades about their individual and group efforts to help women succeed in the art world and society by helping them overcome obstacles. There were over 40 individuals interviewed for the project. These interviews are done in a variet... |
enwiki-00000013-0002-0001 | !Women Art Revolution | Synopsis | The movie begins with a scene at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where Hershman asks people to name 3 women artists; very few can name more than Frida Khalo. Hershman calls the film the, "remains of an insistent history that refuses to wait any longer to be told." She says the events of the day led her to feel an, ... |
enwiki-00000013-0003-0000 | !Women Art Revolution | Synopsis | The film gets its name from Women Artists in Revolution (WAR), which formed in the 1960s as a coalition to raise awareness about the unique obstacles faced by female artists. Many of the issues started at a fundamental level, Rachel Rosenthal states in the movie, with the women artists not getting recognition in the st... |
enwiki-00000013-0004-0000 | !Women Art Revolution | Synopsis | The film overlays historical events with feminist art events, which were somewhat spurred on by these political events such as the Vietnam War, Black Panthers, Civil Rights Movement, Women's Liberation, and Free Speech Movement. She labels the 1968 Miss America Pageant as the moment when art and politics fused, culmina... |
enwiki-00000013-0005-0000 | !Women Art Revolution | Synopsis | The film mentions that minimalism was the popular art style of the time. Meant to be devoid of politics, this movement didn't match up with what was happening socially and politically. The feminist art movement worked to recognize contemporary political movements and social issues, creating a platform for awareness of ... |
enwiki-00000013-0006-0000 | !Women Art Revolution | Release | The film debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2010 as part of the Real to Reel category. |
enwiki-00000013-0007-0000 | !Women Art Revolution | Release | ! Women Art Revolution played at New York's IFC Center beginning June 1, 2011, before opening around the country. |
enwiki-00000013-0008-0000 | !Women Art Revolution | Digital archive | In the film, Hershman states that the filming process, "has accumulated (roughly) 12,428 minutes of footage", and ! W.A.R. shows only 83 minutes, leaving 12,343 minutes of footage out. A digital archive was created to contain the two decades of Hershmann Leeson's interviews that went into creating this film and is avai... |
enwiki-00000013-0009-0000 | !Women Art Revolution | Reception | Barry Keith Grant praises the film in his Film International piece, "Leeson's film is a like a patchwork quilt of disparate footage, but in the end it all comes together to become an important feminist work. The film could well serve as required viewing for art and film students today." |
enwiki-00000013-0010-0000 | !Women Art Revolution | Reception | Reviewer Ellen Druda says, "This powerful film will ignite even the tiniest spark of feminism in any woman's heart. Not only art lovers will come away with a deeper understanding of the movement and an appreciation for those who stood up and paved the way." |
enwiki-00000013-0011-0000 | !Women Art Revolution | Reception | Richard Knight for the Windy City Times has a more critical view of the film, explaining, "Hershman Leeson succeeds in her goal to expose and pique the interest of the viewer to the radical feminist artists who used activist tactics to get their work shown, demanding parity with their male counterparts. |
enwiki-00000013-0011-0001 | !Women Art Revolution | Reception | However, by the time queer film historian B. Ruby Rich starts talking about how the lesbian artists didn't want to identify as artists because that label was considered bourgeois by their female counterparts, the movie has taken on an exclusionary air of its own – just like those 'womyn only' coffeehouses that existed ... |
enwiki-00000013-0012-0000 | !Women Art Revolution | Reception | Elisabeth Subrin states that, "Fusing history with memoir, Lynn Hershman Leeson enlists multiple visual strategies to produce an elegantly layered visual and sonic web of politics and powerful emotion." |
enwiki-00000014-0000-0000 | !Wowow! | !Wowow! is a collective in Peckham, London. Otherwise known as The Children of !Wowow!, they are a group of artists, fashion designers, writers and musicians, who have promoted numerous art events and parties in London and Berlin. | |
enwiki-00000014-0001-0000 | !Wowow! | History | !Wowow! began in the back of the Joiners Arms in Camberwell in 2003 as a performance night in a pub by Hanna Hanra and Matthew Stone. In 2004, the collective squatted a large Victorian co-op in Peckham South East London and made it into an artist-run space. They include fashion designer Gareth Pugh, performance artist ... |
enwiki-00000014-0002-0000 | !Wowow! | History | In 2003, !Wowow! organised warehouse parties in Peckham. At times club nights with 2000 people took place. One of these was attended by Lauren Bush, the former U.S. President's niece, and her two CIA bodyguards. |
enwiki-00000014-0003-0000 | !Wowow! | History | The second show by the collective in December 2004 was of paintings, film, photography and performance by recent Slade graduates for a month in the Georgian building at 251 Rye Lane, Peckham, formerly occupied by the Co-op shop, which the artists gutted and refurbished. The artists, who curated the exhibition together,... |
enwiki-00000014-0004-0000 | !Wowow! | History | In November 2005, the Children of !Wowow! organised a week-long event in a large warehouse in Peckham, curated by member Gareth Cadwallader, and in a number of smaller venues in the area, featuring members of the collective and also Mark McGowan. Events included Stolen Cinema with cult films from a local rental shop, R... |
enwiki-00000014-0005-0000 | !Wowow! | History | The Amazing squat created its own "distinctly odd harlequin-esque fashion style", through Gareth Pughs' participation. Hanna Hanra and Katie Shillingford edited Fashion/ Art/ Leisure, a fanzine affiliated with the group. |
enwiki-00000014-0006-0000 | !Wowow! | History | It was an opportunity to invest in what we believed in, rather than chipping off bits of our soul working as unpaid interns. The practicalities of not having to work meant that we could be playful with what we did, but some serious ideas came out of that ridiculous house. |
enwiki-00000014-0007-0000 | !Wowow! | History | Since the Imperials left their original building in 2006, they have organised events in Dresden and also squatted a Kwik Fit Garage in Camberwell for an exhibition. Millie Brown and Adham Faramawy have organised several art and music events. These have included an event in March 2007 in Birmingham. Along with the origi... |
enwiki-00000015-0000-0000 | "...And Ladies of the Club" | "... And Ladies of the Club" is a novel, written by Helen Hooven Santmyer, about a group of women in the fictional town of Waynesboro, Ohio who begin a women's literary club, which evolves through the years into a significant community service organization in the town. | |
enwiki-00000015-0001-0000 | "...And Ladies of the Club" | The novel, which looks at the club as it changes throughout the years, spans decades in the lives of the women involved in the club, between 1868 and 1932. Many characters are introduced in the course of the novel, but the primary characters are Anne Gordon and Sally Rausch, who in 1868 are new graduates of the Waynesb... | |
enwiki-00000015-0002-0000 | "...And Ladies of the Club" | Synopsis | On the day of their graduation from the Waynesboro Female College in 1868, best friends Anne Alexander and Sarah "Sally" Cochran are invited along with several of the college's female teachers by Mrs. Lowrey, who along with her professor husband operates the college, to become founding members of a new local society, t... |
enwiki-00000015-0002-0001 | "...And Ladies of the Club" | Synopsis | Socially ambitious Sally agrees to join because she believes the club might become important in the town, and wants to establish herself as a serious-minded member of adult society. Introspective Anne, the class valedictorian, joins in order to support Sally. |
enwiki-00000015-0002-0002 | "...And Ladies of the Club" | Synopsis | Other early members of the Club include Miss Louisa Tucker, a beautiful but cold mathematics teacher who later marries the commencement speaker General Deming; scholarly Amanda Reid, who overcame a poor background to earn a degree from Oberlin and has returned to teach at the Female College; Miss Agatha Pinney, an elde... |
enwiki-00000015-0003-0000 | "...And Ladies of the Club" | Synopsis | The club's membership grows over time to include the daughters, granddaughters, and other relatives of the early members, and other society women, particularly the wives of the town's numerous and often-changing Protestant ministers. Although the club itself is framed as non-controversial, club meetings and social even... |
enwiki-00000015-0004-0000 | "...And Ladies of the Club" | Synopsis | Anne, the daughter of a doctor, is in love with Dr. John "Dock" Gordon, her father's protege and a friend of her late brother Rob who was killed in the Civil War. Depressed by his war experiences, John gave up his medical practice for several years, but with Anne's encouragement resumes his practice and the two marry. ... |
enwiki-00000015-0004-0001 | "...And Ladies of the Club" | Synopsis | Sally develops a relationship with John's friend Captain Ludwig Rausch, who has bought a small local rope-making business and begun building it into a large, updated factory. Although Ludwig is a German immigrant, his ambitions match Sally's and her banker father, approving of his work ethic and prospects, agrees to th... |
enwiki-00000015-0005-0000 | "...And Ladies of the Club" | Synopsis | Over the years, Anne and Sally continue their club activities while raising families. Anne and John have a son, Johnny, and a daughter, Binny; Sally and Ludwig have a daughter, Elsa, and several sons. Although John is an intelligent and caring doctor, he is secretly unfaithful to Anne as a way of relieving the pressure... |
enwiki-00000015-0006-0000 | "...And Ladies of the Club" | Synopsis | Ludwig hires Eliza Ballard as his secretary after she is forced to leave her previous position in her late father's former law firm due to gossiping about partner Doug Gardiner's romance with an Irish Catholic girl whom he later marries. Despite Eliza's gossip and sharp tongue occasionally causing trouble in the town, ... |
enwiki-00000015-0007-0000 | "...And Ladies of the Club" | Synopsis | Elsa secretly loves her childhood friend Johnny, but Johnny falls in love with the Demings' daughter Julia, who like her mother is beautiful but cold. Julia is more affectionate towards Johnny's younger sister Binny, who is dazzled by Julia's beauty. Binny gathers violets on a cold damp morning to make Julia a May bask... |
enwiki-00000015-0008-0000 | "...And Ladies of the Club" | Synopsis | Julia's frigidity causes Johnny to have an affair with his Irish Catholic nurse, Norah O'Neill. Through Johnny, Norah's younger sister Ellen meets Ludwig and Sally's youngest son Paul. Ellen and Paul have a secret romance and Ellen becomes pregnant, resulting in Paul quietly marrying her with Ludwig's consent since he ... |
enwiki-00000015-0008-0001 | "...And Ladies of the Club" | Synopsis | As a result, Julia divorces Johnny, moves to California with Tucker, and later marries a wealthy older man who is past the age of having sex. Johnny, suffering from heart disease and the strain of the divorce, soon dies. Anne and the other members of the club are unaware that Sally was the one who revealed Johnny's aff... |
enwiki-00000015-0009-0000 | "...And Ladies of the Club" | Synopsis | Ludwig dies and his daughter Elsa takes over as president of the family-owned bank; she also succeeds her mother as president of the club. Elsa's son Ludwig takes control of his grandfather's company after returning from his service in the Great War, where he was gassed. Tucker, separated from Jennifer by his parents' ... |
enwiki-00000015-0009-0001 | "...And Ladies of the Club" | Synopsis | By the 1930s, Sally is suffering from arteriosclerosis and asks Elsa to bring Anne so that she can confess to Anne that she was the one who revealed Johnny's affair. Elsa talks her out of doing so, noting that Anne is happy with the company of Tucker, Jennifer and their children. As a result, Sally has a farewell visit... |
enwiki-00000015-0010-0000 | "...And Ladies of the Club" | Characters | Due to the length of the book and its large number of characters, this list is selective. † denotes a minor character. |
enwiki-00000015-0011-0000 | "...And Ladies of the Club" | Background, Writing | From 1922 to 1930, Santmyer wrote three novels. The first two were published to little notice and the third was unpublished. She disliked Sinclair Lewis's negative portrayal of small town America in his novel, Main Street, and conceived of Ladies as an antidote. However, since she worked full-time, she was unable to wr... |
enwiki-00000015-0012-0000 | "...And Ladies of the Club" | Background, Writing | A collection of her nostalgic reminiscences of Xenia, Ohio was published as Ohio Town by Ohio State University Press in 1962. The director of the Press, Weldon Kefauver, encouraged her to write more. In 1976 she submitted eleven boxes containing bookkeeping ledgers, her manuscript of Ladies in longhand. Kefauver accept... |
enwiki-00000015-0013-0000 | "...And Ladies of the Club" | Background, Writing | Ladies was awarded the 1983 Ohioana Book Award in the category of fiction, but otherwise gained little attention at the time. |
enwiki-00000015-0014-0000 | "...And Ladies of the Club" | Background, Success | One local library patron, in returning the book, told the librarian that it was the greatest novel she had ever read. Another patron, Grace Sindell, overheard this and checked the book out herself. After reading it, she agreed with the assessment and called her son Gerald in Hollywood. He was at first reluctant to look... |
enwiki-00000015-0014-0001 | "...And Ladies of the Club" | Background, Success | He convinced his Hollywood friend Stanley Corwin of the same and the two purchased movie, TV and republication rights. They then convinced Putnam to republish the book. Before republication, the Book-of-the-Month club chose Ladies as their main selection. Suddenly, Santmyer and her novel were a media sensation, includi... |
enwiki-00000015-0015-0000 | "...And Ladies of the Club" | Background, Success | The paperback edition, published by Berkley in 1985, sold more than 2 million copies between June and September, making it the best-selling paperback in history at the time. |
enwiki-00000015-0016-0000 | "...And Ladies of the Club" | Reception | Most reviews were enthusiastic. A few were grudging and even hostile. |
enwiki-00000016-0000-0000 | "900", Cahiers d'Italie et d'Europe | "900", Cahiers d'Italie et d'Europe was an Italian magazine published for the first time in November 1926, directed by Massimo Bontempelli with Curzio Malaparte as co-director. Beginning as an internationalist publication, after some numbers it dramatically changed its editorial line, rallying to the nationalist, strap... |
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