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Fritz Lang seems to be constantly settling his accounts with society. His main characters are always outsiders, marginal people. The hero of M was portrayed as a victim. In 1933, Lang had to get out of Germany quickly in the face of Nazism....
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One of the most notable features of M. Butterfly is its interesting uses of tone, in particular Hwang's feelings about the main character (and the change these feelings seem to undergo), and Hwang's feelings about the situations posed. Als...
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SOURCE: “Postmodern Double Cross: Reading David Cronenberg’s M. Butterfly as a Horror Story,” in Cinema Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2, Winter, 1998, pp. 49–64. In the following essay, Suner writes that the foundation of Cronenberg's film ...
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M.C. Escher (1898-1972) produced work that remains among the most widely reproduced and popular graphic art of the twentieth century. His brain-teasing prints use interlocking shapes, transforming creatures, and impossible architectures to...
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They say the pity of youth is that it's wasted on the young. Since we're well into our thirties and because we love the stories of Virginia Hamilton we must agree. Before motherhood descended upon us we could curl up in a corner with "Zeely...
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The American educator Martha Carey Thomas (1857-1935) was a proponent of woman's rights and president of Bryn Mawr. Carey Thomas was born in Baltimore, Md., on Jan. 2, 1857, the oldest of 10 children of Dr. James Carey Thomas and Mary Whit...
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SOURCE: "About the Various Pleasures of Eating," The New York Times Book Review, June 20, 1937, p. 3. In the following review, Woods offers enthusiastic praise for Serve It Forth. This is a book about food; but though food is universal, thi...
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(c. 1912–1987), Tamil film star and politician. Marudur Gopalamenon Ramachandran was a superstar in Tamil films from about 1950 to 1978. After that he moved into state politics to become the chief minister of Tamil Nadu state in so...
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Among modern American critics, M. H. Abrams ranks as one of the foremost defenders of humanistic and historical literary study. His two major works, The Mirror and the Lamp (1953) and Natural Supernaturalism (1971), base their historical a...
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Shadow of the Moon is an excellent, long historical novel about the Indian Mutiny, excellent because Miss Kaye has a real historical conscience, a sense of impartiality and a great many old mutiny records to draw upon. She cannot refrain fr...
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M. Night Shyamalan is a Hollywood phenomenon who steers clear of the city and its heavy mix of entertainment and corporate politicking. He both wrote and directed The Sixth Sense, a 1999 thriller starring Bruce Willis as a doctor treating ...
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M. P. Shiel's first book, Prince Zaleski (1895), opens with a short story called "The S. S." It is a mystery concerning a series of apparent suicides which are revealed to be murders perpetrated by the "Spartan Society," a group dedicated ...
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1933- Belgian diver and deep-sea explorer whose experiments in a submersible decompression chamber in 1964 provided invaluable scientific data for underwater divers and scientists. Stenuit also spent years collecting data on shipwrecks and...
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The Road Less Traveled
M. Scott Peek starts off with "life is difficult." Peck speaks of discipline and how it is the basic tool required to solve our problems. Life is a series of problems and what makes life difficult is the process o...
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Ma Barker (Kate Barker) Born: 1871? Died: January 16, 1935 To the FBI, Kate “Ma” Barker was the mastermind behind her sons’ criminal careers. To her sons, she was a dowdy, middle-aged woman who liked the movies. In spite o...
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fl. c. 260 Chinese alchemist who created an early compass. Using differential gears, Ma Chün developed what he called a "south-pointing carriage." The design of his compass was probably much like that of the ones that ha...
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A pioneering soap opera, Ma Perkins was heard on daytime radio for close to 30 years. For most of that time it was sponsored by Procter & Gamble's Oxydol soap flakes. The 15 minute show began in 1933 and did not leave the air...
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The first popular stage entertainer to incorporate authentic blues in her song repertoire, Ma Rainey (1886-1939) performed during the first three decades of the twentieth century.Known as the "Mother of the Blues," she enjoyed mass popular...
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Ma Yüan (active ca. 1190-ca. 1229) was a Chinese painter. With Hsia Kuei, he was one of the creators of the Ma-Hsia school of landscape painting and one of the great masters of the Southern Sung period. Ma Yüan, also called Ch'in...
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Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed TayaPresident (pronounced "ma-OH-ya OOD sid-AH-med TAH-ya") "I am glad to hail the increasing trust which our country enjoys with our partners in development and which has given us the opp...
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1929- Dutch-American Astronomer In 1963 Dutch-American astronomer Maarten Schmidt discovered what are now called quasars, or quasi-stellar radio sources (QSOs). Having found what appeared to be invisible stars that emitted radio waves, he ...
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The rites of passage conducted in the Massai tribe - Central Africa.
The Massai is home to a series of different rites of passage, according to the different tribes, that are still carried out presently. The ceremonies are named different...
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In 1935 Hermann Hesse called Joachim Maass one of the most talented among the younger generation of German novelists. Maass belongs to the generation of exile authors who left Germany in opposition to the Nazi regime. Unlike Thomas Mann an...
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The Maastricht Treaty is the most recent step towards uniting Europe into a political and economic European union (EU). For decades, Europeans have been gradually moving towards a united Europe in order to increase economic efficiency...
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When Hamilton Wright Mabie died, the man assigned to write his obituary for the New York Globe dawdled for several days before producing a single unpublishable sentence: "Hamilton Wright Mabie conducted young ladies into the suburbs of cul...
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The Mabinogion as translated by Patrick Ford In 1849 Lady Charlotte Guest translated into English a group of 11 Welsh tales and dubbed the ensemble The Mabinogion, a convenient, if inaccurate, title that has come to designate the 11 as a wh...
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Kamo Mabuchi (1697-1769) was a Japanese writer, poet, and scholar and one of the major figures in the school of National Learning. Kamo Mabuchi was born Masanobu, or Masafuji, the son of the superior (Kannushi) of the Kamo shrine in Totomi...
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(2002 est. pop. 465,000). A Portuguese colonial outpost in southern China for more than four centuries (1557–1999), the territory of Macao (Macau), or as it is known in Chinese, Aomen, consists of a narrow peninsula in southern Guan...
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Macbeth (died 1057) was king of Scotland from 1040 to 1057. Although he is best known through the Shakespearean drama bearing his name, his historical importance lies in the fact that he was the last Celtic king of Scotland. The career of ...
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Simply what he is and has been makes Welles the quintessential type of Big Experimental Cult hero—always achieving failure yet bringing it off brilliantly, decking it with eloquence and a certain magnificence; fusing in each film the vice...
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Roman Polanski's Macbeth [is] all but the worst Shakespeare ever filmed. If it wasn't as Now as Tony Richardson's Hamlet or as West-Side-Storyish as Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet … it was more blatant than either and distilled even less p...
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Well known as an Ottawa literary personality and the first woman president of the Canadian Authors' Association, Madge Hamilton Lyons Macbeth was born in Philadelphia, 6 November 1880, the elder daughter of Bessie Maffit and Hymen Hart Lyo...
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Maccoby, Eleanor Emmons (1917 Social Development: Psychological Growth and the Parent-Child Relationship. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, 1980. Maccoby, E., and C.N. Jacklin. Psychology of Sex Differences. Stanford: Stanford Unive...
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Cynthia Macdonald is best known for the grotesque imagery and sardonic tone in her poems. She is the author of five collections of poetry, as well as a contributor to numerous anthologies of contemporary verse. Both her subject matter and ...
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Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982) was an editor, journalist, essayist, and critic of literature, popular culture, films, and politics. Dwight Macdonald was born in New York City on March 24, 1906, the son of Dwight and Alice (Hedges) Macdonald....
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Eleanor Josephine Macdonald (born 1906) has been a pioneer in the field of cancer epidemiology. Over the course of forty years, she made several significant contributions to the understanding of cancer and was a strong advocate for early t...
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