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City Lights is a 1931 American synchronized sound romantic comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects.
The White Negro is a 9,000-word essay divided into six sections of varying lengths. [20]In Section 1, Mailer argues that the twin horrors of the atom bomb and the concentration camps have wrought "psychic havoc" by subjecting individual human lives to the calculus of the state machine.
In New York, more than 1,600 oil lamps were in use as city street lights in 1809. [1] The city had started using spermaceti oil, which burned more brightly than candles, in its street lamps from as early as 1792. [1] Philadelphia was close behind during this period, with 1,100 street lamps. [1]
A lamplighter or gaslighter is a person employed to light and maintain street lights. These included candles, oil lamps, and gas lighting. Public street lighting was developed in the 16th century. [1] During this time, lamplighters toured public streets at dusk, lighting outdoor fixtures by means of a wick on a long pole. [2]
City Lights (1984 TV series), a Scottish sitcom made by BBC Scotland City Lights (2007 TV series) , a 2007 British comedy-drama, the sequel to Northern Lights CityLights (2014 film) , a Hindi-language film directed by Hansal Mehta
Ferlinghetti was born on March 24, 1919, in Yonkers, New York. [5] Shortly before his birth, his father, Carlo, a native of Brescia, died of a heart attack; [2] and his mother, Clemence Albertine (née Mendes-Monsanto), of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish descent, was committed to a mental hospital shortly after.
Released in June 1958, Price's version of "City Lights" stalled at #2 on the Billboard magazine Most Played C&W by Disc Jockeys chart later that summer. When Billboard introduced its all-encompassing chart for country music (called "Hot C&W Sides") on October 20, "City Lights" was the new chart's first #1 song. It remained atop the chart for 13 ...
City Lights was the inspiration of Peter D. Martin, who relocated from New York City to San Francisco in the 1940s to teach sociology.He first used City Lights, in homage to the Chaplin film, in 1952 as the title of a magazine, publishing early work by such key Bay Area writers as Philip Lamantia, Pauline Kael, Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, and Ferlinghetti himself, as "Lawrence Ferling".