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surrealism

(Encyclopedia) surrealismsurrealismsərēˈəlĭzəm [key], literary and art movement influenced by Freudianism and dedicated to the expression of imagination as revealed in dreams, free of the conscious…

Virginia Mayo 2005 Deaths

Virginia MayoAge: 84 film actress whose beauty prompted the sultan of Morocco to write that she was “tangible proof of the existence of God.” She played the unfaithful wife of World War II…

Andrew Alford

Andrew Alford Born: 1904Birthplace: Samara, Russia Localizer antenna system—Alford invented and developed antennas for radio navigation systems, including VOR and instrument landing systems,…

Financial Advisor (#2)

A. Maronge Tell us about your work-what do you do? I am a financial auditor for Ernst & Young . What skills are…

Herman Affel

Herman Affel Born: 1893 Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York Coaxial cable—While at AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories in…

Gombrich, E. H.

(Encyclopedia) Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich), 1909–2001, British art historian and scholar, b. Vienna, grad. Univ. of Vienna (1933). From a culturally prominent Austrian-Jewish family,…

Vischer, Peter

(Encyclopedia) Vischer, PeterVischer, Peterpāˈtər [key]Vischer, Peter fĭshˈər [key], the elder, c.1455–1529, German sculptor, foremost of the bronze founders in Germany. Beginning as the assistant of…

serial music

(Encyclopedia) serial music, the body of compositions whose fundamental syntactical reference is a particular ordering (called series or row) of the twelve pitch classes—C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G…

Eugene McCarthy 2005 Deaths

Eugene McCarthyAge: 89 former dovish Senator who shook up politics in 1968 with his opposition to the Vietnam War. In his run for the Democratic presidential nomination, McCarthy challenged…

Critical Care

Director: Sidney LumetWriter: Steven SchwartzDirector of Photography:David WatkinEditor:Tom SwartwoutProduction Designer:Philip RosenbergProducers:Sidney Lumet and Steven SchwartzLive…