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• represent — represent, depict, portray, delineate, picture, limn can mean to present an image or lifelike imitation of (as in art). Represent implies a placing before the mind as if real or as if living through the medium of one of the arts (as painting,… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• Rome — /rohm/, n. 1. Harold (Jacob), born 1908, U.S. lyricist and composer. 2. Italian, Roma. a city in and the capital of Italy, in the central part, on the Tiber: ancient capital of the Roman Empire; site of Vatican City, seat of authority of the… …   Universalium

• PURITY AND IMPURITY, RITUAL — (Heb. וְטָהֳרָה טֻמְאָה, tumah ve toharah), a symbolic system according to which a pure person or object is qualified for contact with the Temple and related sancta (holy objects and spaces) while an impure person or object is disqualified from… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Geoffrey Chaucer —     Geoffrey Chaucer     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Geoffrey Chaucer     English poet, born in London between 1340 and 1345; died there, 25 October, 1400. John Chaucer, a vintner and citizen of London, married Agnes, heiress of one Hamo de Copton …   Catholic encyclopedia

• A. I. Artificial Intelligence —    Warner Bros. , 143 minutes, June 2001 Concept: Stanley Kubrick; Executive Producers: Jan Harlan,Walter F. Parkes; Producers: Bonnie Curtis, Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg; Director: Steven Spielberg; Screenplay: Steven Spielberg, Ian… …   The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick

• Joshua Reynolds — Infobox Artist name = Sir Joshua Reynolds honorific suffix = RA FRS FRSA thumb imagesize = 200px caption = Self portrait birthname = Joshua Reynolds birthdate = birth date|1723|7|16|df=y deathdate = death date and age|1792|2|23|1723|7|16|df=y… …   Wikipedia

• Mary Karr — (born January 16, 1955 in Groves, Texas) is an American poet, essayist and memoirist. She rose to fame in 1995 with the publication of her bestselling memoir The Liars Club. She is the Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse… …   Wikipedia

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• Harry Clifton — (born 1952) is an Irish poet. He was born in Dublin but has lived in Africa and Asia, as well as more recently in continental Europe. He has published five collections of poems in Ireland and the United Kingdom, including The Liberal Cage (1988)… …   Wikipedia

• Character actor — A character actor is one who predominantly plays unusual or eccentric characters. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a character actor as an actor who specializes in character parts , defining character part in turn as an acting role… …   Wikipedia