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...point for serious film lovers. La Notte (1961), Eclipse (1962) and Red Desert (1964) cemented Antonioni's reputation as an anatomizer of malaise and a supreme picture-maker. Blowup (1966), his first full-length English-language film, was a sensation for its frank view of sex, drugs and rock 'n roll in swinging London. It grossed $20 million (about $120 million today) on a $1.8 million budget and helped liberate Hollywood from its puritanical prurience...
DEFINITION id-i-o-path-ic sei-zure n. an unexplained electrical charge inside the brain that sets off seizure activity (idiopathic means "of unknown cause...
...international alternative solution to the global warming problem by drawing on leaders and scholars from a “variety of venues” in science, academia, business, government, and non-governmental organizations, according to the plan’s co-director, Pratt Professor of Business and Government Robert N. Stavins...
...Isaias N. Chaves ’08, who served as a peer concentration adviser for the department, wrote in an e-mail that Zakarin left a long-lasting impression on him despite the short time they spent working together...
DEFINITION nak-ba n: an Arabic word meaning disaster or catastrophe that Palestinians use as shorthand to refer to the time just before and after the creation of the state of Israel, in which approximately 700,000 Palestinian refugees were displaced...