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Atalanta

(Encyclopedia) AtalantaAtalantaätəlănˈtə [key], in Greek mythology, huntress famous for her speed and skill. She took part in the Calydonian hunt and was rewarded by Meleager with the pelt of the…

amnesty

(Encyclopedia) amnestyamnestyămˈnəstē [key], in law, exemption from prosecution for criminal action. It signifies forgiveness and the forgetting of past actions. Amnesties are usually extended to a…

Giono, Jean

(Encyclopedia) Giono, JeanGiono, JeanzhäN jônōˈ [key], 1895–1970, French novelist, b. Provence. His semiautobiographical novel, Jean le bleu (1932, tr. Blue Boy, 1946) concerns his childhood. His…

American Beauty

Director:Sam MendesWriter:Alan BallDreamWorks Pictures; R; 115 minutesRelease:9/99Cast:Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari American Beauty makes the others…

The Strangeness of Beauty

Author:Lydia MinatoyaPublisher:Simon & Schuster The Strangeness of Beauty begins as a quietly self-reflective 'autobiography' of an Japanese expatriate living in 1920s Seattle, and…

Beautiful Creatures

Director: Bill Eagles Writer: Simon Donald Universal Focus; R; 86 minutes Release: 4/01 Cast: Rachel Weisz, Susan Lynch Beautiful Creatures is a new British film that…

The Beautiful Toilet

The Beautiful ToiletBlue, blue is the grass about the river And the willows have overfilled the close garden. And within, the mistress, in the midmost of her youth, White, white of face,…

Dangerous Beauty

Director:Marshall HerskovitzWriter:Jeannine DominyDirector of Photography:Bojan BazelliEditors:Arthur Coburn and Steven RosenblumMusic:George FentonProduction Designer:Norman GarwoodProducers…

Life Is Beautiful

Director:Roberto BenigniWriters:Vincenzo Cerami and Roberto BenigniMiramax; PG-13; 122 minutesRelease:10/98Cast:Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano and…

Brewer's: Beautiful

Beautiful or fair as an angel. Throughout the Middle Ages it was common to associate beauty with virtue, and ugliness with sin; hence the expressions given above, and the following also— “…