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Working together with Wegman, Hilma Walter and Margarethe Hauschka, Liane developed an original painting therapy for patients with a variety of ailments. The frescos in the “La Motta” chapel in Brissago, where the urn of Wegman's ashes was placed, are by Collot d'Herbois. Collot d'Herbois died on 17 September 1999 in Driebergen, the ...
The person portrayed sits in front of the writer, the writer observes and writes a poem on the spot with his typewriter. The poem-portrait is given to the person as a gift. The Written Portraits Performance format has included other disciplines such as dance, painting and music, inviting different artists to portray live.
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Actress Cathy Moriarty (left), Jake LaMotta, and Vikki LaMotta, whom Moriarty played in the film Raging Bull, 1980s. She was born in the Bronx, the daughter of Abraham Lucien and Margaret "Ruth" Thailer. She grew up in poverty because of her father’s gambling and frequent losses. [3]
The plot consists of the personified virtues of Hope, Sobriety, Chastity, Humility, etc. fighting the personified vices of Pride, Wrath, Paganism, Avarice, etc.The personifications are women because in Latin, words for abstract concepts have feminine grammatical gender; an uninformed reader of the work might take the story literally as a tale of many angry women fighting one another, because ...
Mr. Moto is a fictional Japanese secret agent created by the American author John P. Marquand.He appeared in six novels by Marquand published between 1935 and 1957. Marquand initially created the character for the Saturday Evening Post, which was seeking stories with an Asian hero after the death of Charlie Chan's creator Earl Derr
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems. It includes both print and digital writing. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been
The Battle of La Motta, also known as the Battle of Schio, Battle of Vicenza or Battle of Creazzo, took place at Schio, [clarification needed] in the Italian region of Veneto, Republic of Venice, on 7 October 1513, between the forces of the Republic of Venice and a combined force of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire, and was a significant battle of the War of the League of Cambrai. [1]