Search results for "Contact (film)" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Contact improvisation is a form developed 30 years ago that is now ... == Film == The director Mike Leigh uses lengthy improvisations developed ...
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  • screenwriter, journalist, poet, and film critic. In the 1940s he was ... gone and he desperately missed the daily contact with his mother. His mother ...
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  • filmmaker. His one feature-length film, Nicaragua Was Our Home, was ... of Oklahoma he became interested in film and transferred to the London ...
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  • nominated and Tony Award winning American film and stage actress, perhaps ... However at the same time MGM offered her a contact with a better compensation ...
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  • between molecules of the items in contact. Various types of adhesives ... === Contact adhesives === A contact adhesive is one that must be applied ...
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  • the Cosmos series and co-wrote the novel Contact, the basis for the 1997 ... the best-selling science fiction novel Contact, but did not live to see ...
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  • Varnish is a transparent, hard, protective finish or film used primarily ... After being applied, the film-forming substances in varnishes either ...
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  • Another way to think about it is that a molecule in contact with a ... to picture this is to imagine a flat soap film bounded on one side by a taut ...
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  • 12, 1954) was a Russian pioneer documentary film and newsreel director. His ... the Moscow Cinema Committee's weekly film series, and the first newsreel ...
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  • acclaimed, Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor, best known ... from 1926 to 1934, and made his first film appearance (1935) as the leading ...
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  • Consider a metal in contact with an electrolyte—that is, a medium ... of iron or steel. When iron comes in contact with water (especially water ...
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  • A contact lens (also known simply as a "contact") is a corrective ... Contact lenses usually serve the same corrective purpose as conventional ...
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  • a resurgence of popularity, in stage, film, and on television. Its structure ... "follower," dance with physical contact through their upper or lower ...
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  • and ions). Thus, if the metal is in contact with a solution that has ... Passivation is the spontaneous formation of a hard, nonreactive film ...
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  • professionals, and anyone who had contact with the West, or represented ... professionals, and anyone who had contact with the West, or represented ...
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  • not irritate the skin even on prolonged contact. However, high intake of ... * As a solvent for mixing photographic chemicals, such as film developers ...
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  • September 28, 2003) was a Greek-American film and theater director, film ... Kazan directed Marlon Brando in both the theater and film versions ...
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  • law. Her mother remarried and forbade Dian contact with him, although he tried ... up a 10,000-foot volcano for her first contact with the mountain gorilla. ...
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  • New York City and soon began acting in both film and, later, television. She ... Gardner is listed as one of the American Film Institute's greatest ...
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  • who had been courting Mary, ceases all contact with the family, and it ... In 1930, a British film adaptation of the play was produced. It was ...
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  • and the flame was said to be in direct contact with her skin for over 15 ... life. The book was later adapted into a film of the same title in 1943 ...
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  • ) (born June 2, 1943 as Gnanadesikan), an Indian film composer, singer ... Raja), and daughter (Bhavatharini) work as film composers and singers. ...
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  • (especially such as are least in contact with European influence ... 1921 Der müde Tod, the 1924 Hollywood film The Thief of Baghdad starring ...
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  • surface area over which the two materials contact each other. Materials that ... or liquid (called the adsorbent), forming a film of molecules or atoms (called ...
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  • away, the door to continued unavoidable contact with outside western and ... by isolating the country from unnecessary contact with outside elements. ...
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  • mediums would use various methods to contact the spiritual world. Raps ... Spiritualists believe that the Ouija board allows them to make contact ...
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  • this period. At the same time he came into contact with the movement of Beat ... Book Mart, where he undoubtedly came into contact with many other well-known ...
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  • Special effects (abbreviated SPFX or SFX) are used by the film, television ... Restoration spectacular, through classic film techniques invented in the ...
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  • are radioactive enough to fog photographic film in approximately 30 to 60 days. ... that burns the skin immediately on contact. It must therefore be handled ...
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  • a succession of governesses and had little contact with other children. In ... In 1971, The Tales of Beatrix Potter was released on film. Directed ...
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  • The surfaces of the electrodes that are in contact with the liquid ... calculators, have a single electrical contact for each segment. An external ...
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  • as a cabaret singer, chorus girl, and film actress in 1920s Berlin; Hollywood ... She made her film debut playing a bit part in the 1922 film, So sind ...
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  • February 1, 1966) was an American silent film comic actor and filmmaker ... and Directions, 1929-1968, leading film critic Andrew Sarris included ...
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  • for process C-41 (color negative film) stabilizer in the final wash ... solution, it is absorbed through skin contact. The health effects associated ...
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  • After two terms, he transferred to the Film Faculty of the Academy of ... After graduating in 1952, the Film Faculty appointed him a lecturer ...
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  • Russian history. He was memorialized in the film which bears his name by the ... Kristina of Norway in 1251. The marriage contact was broken. Kristina went ...
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  • document reproduction. In this process, paper or film is coated with a diazonium salt. After contact exposure under light, the residual diazo is converted ...
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  • singer who starred in theater, radio, and film. She was the creator and star ... Best Actress for reprising her role in the film version. ...
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  • *Contact Front: In a shock wave caused by a driver gas (for example ... [[Image:Trinity explosion film strip.jpg|thumb|right| Shock wave propagating ...
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  • the truly alien. Solaris was made into a film in 1972 by Russian director ... or Eden describe the failure of first contact. Lem's book Return ...
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  • a murder. The case brings them in contact with a rather grotesque ... influence his novels and stories had on film, Hammett "is now widely ...
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  • The tire tread is that portion of the tire that comes in contact with ... void ratios to provide more rubber in contact with the road for higher ...
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  • it moved down the Shenandoah Valley and to maintain contact with the lead element, Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell's Second Corps, as it advanced in the ...
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  • * Metal film: Made from high quality polymer foil (usually polycarbonate ... * Mica: Similar to metal film. Often high voltage. Suitable for high ...
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  • the twentieth century, as well as a notable film director. He is considered ... their personal lives and, increasingly, in film. Chaplin won two honorary ...
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  • 1982, the original version was made into a film of the same title. ... by lightning. One could also come in contact with the strangest of views; ...
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  • sign language, paralanguage, touch, eye contact, or the use of writing. ... by their body posture, eye gaze and physical contact.]] ...
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  • in Operation Barbarossa, Petrov wrote four film scripts: The Air Coachman ... The main characters generally avoid contact with the apparently lax ...
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  • ), the name of a film Indian musical comedy film directed by Rajkumar ... 23, 2006. accessdate 2007-04-28 the film has "stirred the popular ...
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  • been referenced throughout pop culture in film, literature, television, theater ... FSU, he appeared in a school recruitment film and in January 1964, urged ...
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