Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Envoy is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Warren Zevon. The album was released on July 16, 1982, by Asylum Records . The album's lack of commercial success caused Zevon's label to terminate his recording contract.
Envoy, A Review of Literature and Art, an Irish magazine; The Envoy (Gavilán Rayna Russom album), 2019; The Envoy (Polonskaya novel), a 1989 Russian novel by Elizaveta Polonskaya; The Envoy (Warren Zevon album), 1982; The Envoy, a 2008 spy novel by Edward Wilson; Der Gesandte (The Envoy), a 1991 play by the Swiss playwright Thomas Hürlimann
Zevon's 1982 release The Envoy returned to the high standard of Excitable Boy but was not a commercial success. [17] It was an eclectic but characteristic set that included such compositions as "Ain't That Pretty at All", "Charlie's Medicine" and "Jesus Mentioned", the first of Zevon's two musical reactions to the death of Elvis Presley.
Envoy, A Review of Literature and Art was a magazine published in Dublin, Ireland, from December 1949 to July 1951. It was founded and edited by John Ryan . During its brief existence, it published the work of a broad range of writers, Irish and others.
The GMC Envoy is a mid-size SUV manufactured and marketed by General Motors for the 1998 to 2009 model years over two generations. Adopting a nameplate used by GM Canada , the Envoy was phased in as a trim variant of the GMC Jimmy alongside the similar Chevrolet TrailBlazer .
In popular parlance, an envoy can mean a diplomat of any rank. Moreover, the rank of envoy should not be confused with the position of Special Envoy, which is a relatively modern invention, appointed for a specific purpose rather than for bilateral diplomacy, and may be held by a person of any diplomatic rank or none (though usually held by an ambassador).
Envoy was an automobile brand created by General Motors of Canada and used to sell badge engineered British built Vauxhall and Bedford vehicles on the Canadian market from 1959 to 1970. "Envoy" remained a trademark owned by Vauxhall and the name resurfaced as a trim designation in the 1990s , and was used to denote the entry level trim of ...
The word envoy or l'envoy comes from the Old French, where it means '[the] sending forth'. [3] Originally it was a stanza at the end of a longer poem, which included a dedication to a patron or individual, similar to a tornada. More recent examples are dedicatory poems as part of a collection, or an individual poem about farewell or moving on.