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In Love and War

Director: Richard AttenboroughWriters:Allan Scott, Clancy Sigal and Anna Hamilton PhelanDirector of Photography:Roger PrattEditor:Lesley WalkerMusic:George FentonProduction Designer:Stuart…

Tomorrow Never Dies

Director: Roger SpottiswoodeWriter: Bruce FeirsteinDirector of Photography:Robert ElswitEditors:Dominique Fortin and Michel ArcandMusic:David ArnoldProduction Designer:Allan CameronProducers:…

Manet, Édouard

(Encyclopedia) Manet, ÉdouardManet, Édouardādwärˈ mänāˈ [key], 1832–83, French painter, b. Paris. The son of a magistate, Manet went to sea rather than study law. On his return to Paris in 1850 he…

Pereda, José María de

(Encyclopedia) Pereda, José María dePereda, José María dehōsāˈ märēˈä dā pārāˈᵺä [key], 1833–1906, Spanish novelist. His stories are laid chiefly in his native Santander. An aristocrat by birth, he…

Innes, Michael

(Encyclopedia) Innes, Michael, pseud. of John Innes Mackintosh Stewart, 1906–94, British writer and scholar, b. near Edinburgh. From 1969 to 1973 he was a reader in English literature at Oxford.…

Runyon, Damon

(Encyclopedia) Runyon, Damon (Alfred Damon Runyon), 1884–1946, American short story writer and journalist, b. Manhattan, Kans. He is best known for his humorous stories—written in a picturesque,…

Olesha, Yuri

(Encyclopedia) Olesha, Yuri, 1899–1960, Russian novelist and dramatist. In his novel Envy (1927; tr. 1936) and in his other writing, Olesha focused on the conflict between the demands of an…

Tarzans through Time

A Brief History of Former Ape Men by Beth Rowen Johnny Weissmuller, perhaps the silver screen's most famous Tarzan, sweeps Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan) off her feet.While nearly 20 beefcake…

Mary Cassatt

Mary Cassatt was an American painter of the late 19th century, known for bold composition and fine detail in scenes of mother and child domesticity. From a well-to-do family in Pennsylvania, she…

Candide: Cunegund's Story

How the Old Woman Took Care O... What Happened to Cunegund, Ca... Cunegund's Story I was in bed, and fast asleep, when it pleased Heaven to send the Bulgarians to our delightful…