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  • 41motion picture, history of the — Introduction       history of the medium from the 19th century to the present. Early years, 1830–1910 Origins       The illusion of motion pictures is based on the optical phenomena known as persistence of vision and the phi phenomenon. The first …

    Universalium

  • 42Les Valseuses — (1974)    Film. Les Valseuses was directed by Bertrand Blier, who adapted the film from his own novel. It narrates the journeys of two troublemakers in their twenties, Jean Claude (Gérard Depardieu) and Pierrot (Patrick Dewaere). After they chase …

    Guide to cinema

  • 43Streetwear —    While street style refers to trends, streetwear refers to clothing inspired by a particular subculture of society. The earliest examples of streetwear were born out the youth movement in the 1960s and 1970s, particularly the hippie and surf… …

    Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry

  • 44Wearable art —    As far back as the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848, artists have created clothing in deference to the prevailing fashion of the time. In the 1960s, when individualism and antiestablishment philosophies flourished, clothes that expressed an… …

    Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry

  • 45Les Valseuses — (1974)    Film. Les Valseuses was directed by Bertrand Blier, who adapted the film from his own novel. It narrates the journeys of two troublemakers in their twenties, Jean Claude (Gérard Depardieu) and Pierrot (Patrick Dewaere). After they chase …

    Historical Dictionary of French Cinema

  • 46Farinacci, Roberto — (1892–1945)    Before World War I, Farinacci was a railway worker and prominent labor boss in the Lombardy town of Cremona. Astreet fighter called by a British historian “one of the more illiterate and brutish of the hierarchy,” he was rooted in… …

    Historical Dictionary of modern Italy

  • 47Movimiento del 68 — El Movimiento del 68 es un movimiento estudiantil contracultural y contestatario que tiene lugar en el verano de 1968, comenzando en Francia pero extendiéndose rápidamente, por obra de los medios de comunicación, por toda Europa, Estados Unidos,… …

    Enciclopedia Universal

  • 48POPULISME — Le populisme Il est arrivé une singulière mésaventure au mot “populisme”: il est devenu populaire. Le terme étant sorti du langage savant, ses usages dominants s’inscrivent désormais dans l’espace polémique occupé par les acteurs politiques, les… …

    Encyclopédie Universelle

  • 49Color revolutions —    The term “color revolution” has been applied to a number of political upheavals across the former Soviet Union, beginning with the Rose Revolution in Georgia (2003), the Orange Revolution in Ukraine (2004–2005), and the Tulip Revolution in… …

    Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation

  • 50Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich — (1931–2007)    Born in the village of Butko in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Boris Yeltsin was the son of a construction worker and a seamstress. As a youth, he lost the thumb and index finger of his left hand while dismantling a grenade he stole from a… …

    Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation