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• Propaganda model — The propaganda model is a theory advanced by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky that alleges systemic biases in the mass media and seeks to explain them in terms of structural economic causes. Overview First presented in their 1988 book , the… …   Wikipedia

• HUTTEN, Ulrich von — (1488 1523) Ulrich von Hutten gained prominence with his poetical and satirical polemics against the papacy and continued support of German national solidarity. He was considered a humanist and German patriot and associated with such intellectual …   Renaissance and Reformation 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary

• Fieschi, Jacques — (1948, Oran, Algeria )    Born in Algeria, he spent his adolescence in Cannes, France. After his studies in literature, he became chief editor of a film review, Cinématographe (1973 1984), for which he interviewed such directors as Maurice Pialat …   Encyclopedia of French film directors

• door — door, gate, portal, postern, doorway, gateway are comparable chiefly as meaning an entrance to a place. Door applies chiefly to the movable and usually swinging barrier which is set in the opening which serves as an entrance to a building or to a …   New Dictionary of Synonyms