4. A rocker is a member of a group of young people following a fashion
for leather clothes, motorcycles, and rock'n'roll, isn't he?
My girlfriend wandered...
5. My brother boasted: "Yesterday I was driving a motor scooter and
fought with the rockers".
My brother boasted to me...
6. The Prado, which was created as a Museum of Paintings and Sculptures,
also has important collections of drawings, etchings, coins and medals
and almost two thousand pieces of decorative art. Sculpture in itself is
represented by more than seven hundred pieces and by a slightly smaller
number of sculptural fragments.
The lecturer said...
7. Did Edouard Manet think that that the subject of the execution of the Emperor of Mexico was too politically disturbing as well as too distasteful to sell well? My aunt wanted to know...
Literary and poetic in origin, the Futurist movement burst violently onto the European cultural scene on February 20, 1909 when the French newspaper Le Figaro carried on its front page the aggressive and inflammatory "Founding and Manifesto of Futurism." It was written by
the polemical Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, a highly inventive firebrand and a master of public relations. The article informed...
9. What should be done when the whole society is fractured by violence
and people's experience is one of endless despair, disbelief, helplessness
and alienation?
My classmate was unable to find an answer...
10. Will the devastation turn to vengeance without a healing process? Why
have nowadays, civilisational divisions and rivalries become increas
ingly powerful factors in global politics?
The sociologists wanted to know...
11. While working on one of his paintings of sunflowers, Van Gogh wrote
to his brother Theo in August 1888, "I am hard at it, painting with the
enthusiasm, some sunflowers. If I carry out this idea there will be a
dozen panels. So the whole thing will be a symphony in blue and
yellow. I am working at it every morning from sunrise on, for the flow
ers fade so quickly. I am now on the fourth picture of sunflowers. This
fourth one is a bunch of 14 flowers."
Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in August 1888...
12. People often ask me, "Well, how did you come to write about these
people, these super-elites, super-affluent people?" And of course the an
swer is, "I came to work at the Weekly Standard, which is on the fifth
floor of this building, and I started riding the elevator with these people.
So suddenly I realised there was this new elite class, and I thought I
should start writing about them. There are, of course, two places, in
American culture where you can really get the temperature of the new
elite, the people who are really shaping society: one being the dining
room, the other being the New York Times wedding page."
People often ask me... My answer is...
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Assault
1. . I) ; , , : to make /give assault -
; to win / gain / take / carry by assault - (,
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storm; 2) , , : assaults of opposition -
, assault and battery -
. Syn: assail, attack
2. adj. : assault party/team - / ,
assault position -
3. v. , , . Syn: to attack, to assail
Celebrity
l) , , ; 2) , ; : film celebrity - , Hollywood celebrity - , international celebrity - , literary celebrity - , local celebrity - , national celebrity - , visiting celebrity - ; 3) , , , , . Syn: ceremony, celebration
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Fantasy
l) , ; . Syn: imagination, fancy; 2) ; ; : to act out a fantasy - , to indulge in fantasy - , to live in a world of fantasy, to live in a fantasy world - . Syn: delusion, hallucination; 3) , , ; , , . Syn: whim, caprice; 4) , . Syn: impromptu
Movie
, , : to make / produce a movie - , home movie - . Syn: film, picture, motion picture; 2) , ; the movie -
Picture
I. n. l) , : to paint a picture - ; 2) , , : picture of the morals of the period - -
/ , clear picture - , detailed picture - , realistic picture - ; 3) , : to form a clear picture of smth - -, to pass from the picture - ; out of / not in the picture - , to put / keep in the picture - , , . Syn: scene; 4) , , . Syn: symbol, type, figure; 5) ; ; 6) ; ; , : the pictures - , motion picture, moving picture. Syn: film, picture, show
2. v. l) , . Syn: to depict, to illustrate, to draw, to paint; 2) , . Syn: to photograph, to take a photograph; 3) , , , . Syn: to outline, to sketch; 4) , : to picture to oneself. Syn: to imagine
Revenge
1. n. l) , , : to take (one's) revenge on/upon
smb - -, to exact / get / have revenge on smb -
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vengeance; 2) : to give smb his revenge - -
2. , : to revenge an insult -
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). Syn: to avenge, to get back
Value
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ues - , spiritual values - . Syn:
merit, worth; 2) , : to take on / acquire value -
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thousand pounds - . Syn: to ap-
praise, to evaluate; 2) , , : to value highly -
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4. What is the subject of cultural anthropology?
5. What is the chief characteristic of twentieth-century art?
6. What tendency is typical for Hollywood at the beginning of the twenty-
first century?
20. . .
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
{Alfred Hitchcock)
Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belonged.
{Alfred Hitchcock)
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
{Jean Cocteau)
It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't.
{Oscar Wilde)
In a very ugly and sensible age the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
{Oscar Wilde)
No one is entirely useless. Even the worst of us can serve as horrible examples.
{State Princeton Newspaper, Salt Lake City)
19. .
1. How is the beginning of the twenty-first century characterised?
2. What is Andy Warhol noted for?
3. Into what groups can culture be classified?
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theatre goer, theatre fan - , opera house - playhouse -
performance - ,
matinee -
the first night -
play -
ballet -
opera -
to stage a play, to produce a play -
stage-
scenery -
curtain -
seating chart - ,
stalls, orchestra -
box -
pit -
dress-circle -
gallery -
company -
touring company -
artistic director -
cast -
to play the part, to play the role -
to play the leading part, to play the main part, to play the title role -
scene - , interval, intermission - cloak room, check room - usher (usherette) - () theatre-guide, program - opera-glasses - spare ticket -
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movie theatre, cinema, nickelodeon -
wide-screen film -
to star in the film -
to produce a film -
to make a film, to shoot a film -
to release a film -
to advertise a film -
film star, movie star -
director -
producer -
playwright, dramatist -
screenwriter, scriptwriter, continuity writer -
screenplay, continuity, script, scenario -
screenplay, screen version -
composer -
conductor -
soundtrack - ,
special effects, visual effects -
poster -
synopsis - ,
trailer - ,
preview -
review -
main characters -
all-star film -
silent film -
sound film -
black and white film, black series - -
colour film -
dubbed film -
show, soap-opera, series - ,
documentary, documentary film -
popular science, popular science film - -
newsreel -
newsfilm -
cartoon, animated cartoon, animated cartoon film -
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The Merry Wives of Windsor -
Measure for Measure -
The Comedy of Errors -
Much Ado About Nothing -
Love's Labours Lost -
A Midsummer-Night's Dream -
The Merchant of Venice -
The Two Gentlemen of Verona -
As You Like It -
The Taming of the Shrew -
All's Well That Ends Well-Bc ,
The Twelfth Night -
The Winter's Tale -
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