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Le Duan (1908-1986) was a major figure in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War and the principal leader of all Vietnam in the postwar era. He proved to be a good wartime ruler, but was less successful as a leader dealing with the problems ...
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(b. 1932), General secretary of the Vietnam Communist Party. Born in Thanh Hoa Province in 1932, Phieu Le Kha joined the Communist Party in 1949 and became a political officer in the Vietnam People's Army (VPA). He served during bot...
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The environmentally focused science fiction and fantasy novels of L. E. Modesitt, Jr. have been praised for their finely crafted plots, which are rich in technological detail. In both his "Forever Hero" trilogy and the nine-book (and count...
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L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) wrote 69 books beloved by children, including The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which became a classic movie. Lyman Frank Baum was born on May 15, 1856, near Syracuse, New York. His father, Benjamin, was a wealthy oil b...
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Think of the mail-order business and several prominent names come to mind--Sears, Roebuck & Company, Montgomery Ward, and Spiegel's, to name just a few. But perhaps none has achieved the unique quality, charm, and character of L.L. Bea...
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Leslie Poles Hartley sustains his high critical reputation and faithful readership in twentieth-century British fiction as a minor but respected writer of well-made novels of manners and sensibility notable for their moral and psychologica...
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The story of L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986) is also the story of a movement--the Church of Scientology. Founded by L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology claims millions of devoted members worldwide and, beyond all controversy, it cannot be denied that t...
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Lyon Sprague de Camp is one of America's leading writers and scholars of fantasy and science fiction. His interests in technology, history, and language have also resulted in the publication of numerous works of popular science, archaeolog...
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A ground-breaking prime-time television series, L. A. Law emerged in 1986 from the stable that had brought a new veracity to ensemble series drama with Hill Street Blues. Setting his new show in a high-powered law office, trend-setting pro...
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Russian mathematician whose work in geometry and topology was of great importance. Lyusternik's work in polyhedra (solid shapes with many sides) included shapes that inspired Buckminister Fuller to invent the geodesic dome, after wh...
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"It's not about blood and guts--it's about idealism," commented author L. J. Smith on SimonSays. Smith was speaking of the two dozen novels with which she has turned the light romantic horror novel into a metaphor for the adolescent experi...
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The history of L.L. Bean, Inc., founded in 1912, really begins with the quintessential rags-to-riches story of the company's founder, Leon Leonwood Bean. Born in 1872 to Benjamin and Sarah Bean, L.L. was the fourth of six children. ...
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SOURCE: "Flawed 'La Bamba'," in Rolling Stone, Issue 506, August 16, 1987, p. 13. In the following film review of La Bamba, DeCurtis criticizes Valdez for artificially inflating the already powerful story of Valens's life. A variety of prob...
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Ritchie Valens helped merge traditional Mexican music with American rock 'n' roll when he recorded "La Bamba" in 1958. Since his version, "La Bamba" has been recorded over 150 times in the United S...
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The poem "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" by John Keats is a ballad that expresses all of Keats' philosophies of happiness and the ideal world while, at the same time, being an enchanting love story on a simpler level. The poem contains his "plea...
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La BruyÈre, Jean De(1645–1696) Jean de La Bruyère, the French author and moralist, was born in Paris, the son of a city official. After some legal training he apparently fell on hard times, but through the influence of ...
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La Celestina: Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea by Fernando de Rojas Fernando de Rojas (d. 1541), the principal author of La Celestina, was born sometime in the fifteenth century in the town of Puebla de Montalb Damian Bacich...
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Godard's vision of [the young Maoists in La Chinoise (The Chinese Girl)] is persuasively realistic. And chilling. And comic. What always saves Godard's work for me is his superb sense of irony. His sympathetic fascination with the outsiders...
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La Collectionneuse is a very private kind of film—not only in that it is clearly the work of an individual artist (any Bergman or Fellini film is that) but also in that it is about very special, very private problems. The first-person nar...
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SOURCE: Dickinson, Linzy Erika. “Theatre as Metaphor in La Comédie humaine.” In Theatre in Balzac's La Comédie humaine, pp. 169-229. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi B. V., 2000. In the following excerpt, Dickinson analyzes terminology ...
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La Commare Secca, [which has been translated as The Grim Reaper but] which means literally "The Dry Housewife" or "Housewife Dry" is a Roman-dialect name for death, and Bernardo Bertolucci's film is basically a treatment of death and of pro...
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Zeno’s Conscience by Italo Svevo Italo Svevo, whose real name was Ettore Aron Schmitz, was born in 1861 in Trieste to Jewish parents of mixed backgrounds. His mother, Allegra Moravia, belonged to an Italian Jewish family. His father,...
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SOURCE: McGuire, James R. “The Feminine Conspiracy in Balzac's La Cousine Bette.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 20, nos. 3 & 4 (spring-summer 1992): 295-304. In the following essay, McGuire explores the lesbianism in La cousine Bett...
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La Dolce Vita is not so much long as redundant. Scene duplicates scene; and scene after scene is protracted long after its every point has been unmistakably made. The trouble would seem to be that the film is conceived on a grand scale, but...
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Nearly a year ago, just after he had finished La Femme Infidèle …, Claude Chabrol said in a television interview that he always made films about the bourgeoisie because that was the class he knew best. And the reason for that was simple:...
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SOURCE: "Almodóvar and the Tin Can," in Sight and Sound, Vol. 6, No. 2, February, 1996, pp. 24-7. In the following interview, Almodóvar discusses his latest film The Flower of My Secret, his cinematic process, and Spanish politics. [Smith...
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United States 1915 Sailors and fishermen have historically faced grueling hours, hazardous conditions, and low wages. During the nineteenth century, they were also confronted with corporal punishment, poorly maintained vessels, and few la...
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La Guerre Est Finie is an exciting movie on two counts. It is, I think, the most successful representation on film we have had so far of the archetypal political drama of our time, in which a man's psychological need to make ideological com...
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La intención de un escrito puede estar dictado a causa de las presuras de las expectaiones de la audiencia. También, el escritor puede tener una predisposición para alcanzar un objetivo a través de su escrito. &nb...
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Can it be possible for someone to have everything stacked against them, until the point of breaking, and still strive on to survive the everlasting hurdles that they are faced with daily? Well, it must be possible because La Joe did. In the...
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Numerous amounts of students label themselves as readers. Some may be classified under the category reluctant and underachieving readers while others go the extra mile and categorize themselves as avid and eager readers. As an individua...
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SOURCE: "Hugo's Légende des Siècles," in Literary Reviews and Essays, edited by Albert Mordell, Twayne Publishers, 1957, pp. 136–38. In following review of La légende des siècles, which was originally published in The Nation in May 3,...
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Roughly every time I walk into my suite or apartment, the television is on constantly in the living room, even if no one is watching it. Perhaps my suitemates just cannot stand complete silence and need it to always be on. I wake up to the...
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Luna is a dreadfully poseurish film, whether Caterina, stopping at the gate to the Villa Verdi, improbably apostrophizes the filmmaker's favorite composer, or whether the neurotic homelife of mother and son is shown in the most superficial ...
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Time. Most people take it for granted ¡V but what is it? This is a question that has been debated by philosophers and scientists alike since the ancient Greeks, and our knowledge is still incomplete. My report is on the...
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The difficulty in summarizing La Modification, like Butor's other novels, comes not from an excess or an absence of "content" as such, but from the insistent dualism, the simultaneous presence of inner and outer worlds. The basic analogy th...
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La Mothe Le Vayer, Fran cle. 2 vols. Paris: Boivin, 1943. Popkin, Richard H. The History of Scepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle. Rev. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003....
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