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Fast, Cheap and Out of Control

Director:Errol MorrisDirector of Photography:Robert RichardsonEditors:Shondra Merrill and Karen SchmeerMusic:Caleb SimpsonProduction Designer:Ted BafaloukosProducers:Errol Morris, Julia…

Mallarmé, Stéphane

(Encyclopedia) Mallarmé, StéphaneMallarmé, Stéphanestāfänˈ mälärmāˈ [key], 1842–98, French poet. Mallarmé's great importance is as the chief forebear of the symbolists; the influence of his poetry…

Duer, William

(Encyclopedia) Duer, WilliamDuer, Williamd&oomacr;ˈər, dy&oomacr;ˈ– [key], 1747–99, political leader in the American Revolution and financier, b. Devonshire, England. He served for a time as…

Powell, Anthony

(Encyclopedia) Powell, AnthonyPowell, Anthonypōˈəl [key], 1905–2000, English novelist, grad. Eton and Baillol College, Oxford. A distinguished writer of social comedy, he is best known for his 12-…

folk dance

(Encyclopedia) folk dance, primitive, tribal, or ethnic form of the dance, sometimes the survival of some ancient ceremony or festival. The term is used also to include characteristic national dances…

Bourgeois, Louise

(Encyclopedia) Bourgeois, LouiseBourgeois, Louiseb&oomacr;rzhwäˈ [key], 1911–2010, French-American sculptor, b. Paris. She married the art historian Robert Goldwater in 1938, emigrated to the…

Joshua S. SALMON, Congress, NJ (1846-1902)

SALMON Joshua S. , a Representative from New Jersey; born at Mount Olive, Morris County, N.J., February 2, 1846; at an early age moved with his parents to the village of Bartley; attended the…