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Performing Arts
Argentina strode forward with Pablo Trapero's Nacido y criado, an emotionally turbulent drama about a father, a car accident, guilt, and demons, visually nourished by the frozen expanses of ...
Rouch, Jean-Pierre
French documentary filmmaker and ethnologist (b. May 31, 1917, Paris, France-d. Feb. 18, 2004, northern Niger), pioneered the cinema verite style and techniques, notably the use of the hand-held ...
de Oliveira, Joao Carlos
Brazilian athlete who set a world record in the triple jump at the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico City with a jump of 17.89 m (58 ft 8.25 in); his record, which surpassed the previous mark by an ...
Agnelli, Giovanni
Italian business tycoon (b. March 12, 1921, Turin, Italy-d. Jan. 24, 2003, Turin), as chairman (1966-96) of the Fiat SpA industrial conglomerate, was the most important Italian business leader of the ...
McLaren, Dame Anne Laura
British geneticist pioneered fundamental advances in mammalian genetics and embryology that contributed to a greater understanding of reproductive biology and paved the way for advances in in vitro ...
King, Michael
New Zealand historian and biographer (b. Dec. 15, 1945, Wellington, N.Z.-d. March 30, 2004, near Maramarua, N.Z.), wrote accessible scholarly works on New Zealand history and culture, both Maori and ...
Mathosa, Lebo
South African singer (b. July 16, 1977, Daveyton township, near Johannesburg, S.Af.-d. Oct. 23, 2006, near Johannesburg), blended traditional music with non-African influences (including rhythm and ...
Newton, Helmut
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Geremek, Bronislaw
Polish historian and politician was an outspoken supporter of government reform in the 1980s, a prominent adviser to Lech Walesa (then leader of the Solidarity labour movement), and a key negotiator ...
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