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Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus (fish)
any of several unrelated marine fishes found along sandy shores. Sandfishes, or beaked salmon, of the species Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus (family Gonorhynchidae) live in shallow to deep Indo-Pacific waters and can burrow rapidly in sand. They are slender fishes up to 37.5 cm (15 inches) long and have pointed snouts; the mouth, preceded by a whiskerlike barbel, is underneath. These......
gonorrhea (pathology)
sexually transmitted disease characterized principally by inflammation of the mucous membranes of the genital tract and urethra. It is caused by the gonococcus, Neisseria gonorrhoeae—a bacterium with a predilection for the type of mucous membranes found in the genitourinary tract a...
Gonorynchiformes (fish order)
...group of some 8,000 species, including the majority of known freshwater fishes.Series AnotophysiOrder Gonorynchiformes (milkfish, beaked sandfishes, snake mudheads, and relatives)Toothless; with epibranchial organs and a characteristic caudal......
Gonostomatidae (fish)
(family Gonostomatidae), any of the approximately 33 species of oceanic fishes (order Stomiiformes), occurring in tropical regions of the major oceans and characterized by luminescent organs on the undersides of their bodies. They inhabit moderate depths and are often referred to as deep-sea bristlemouths....
gonozooid (anatomy)
...the cheilostome Celleporella). Among living stenolaemates most zooids contain only testes (male gonads). The few female zooids enlarge to form spacious brood chambers, which are called gonozooids. During development, a young embryo squeezes off groups of cells that form secondary embryos; these in turn may form tertiary embryos. In this way, many larvae can develop in a single......
Gonsalvus Hispanus (Franciscan friar)
...determine whether he was with or against the king. Some 70 friars, mostly French, sided with Philip, while the rest (some 80 odd) remained loyal to the pope, among them John Duns Scotus and Master Gonsalvus Hispanus. The penalty was exile from France within three days. Boniface countered with a bull of August 15 suspending the university’s right to give degrees in theology or canon and c...
Gontcharova, Natalya (Russian artist)
innovative Russian painter, sculptor, and stage designer who was a founder, with Mikhail Larionov, of Rayonism (c. 1910) and was a designer for the Ballets Russes....
Gonthier de Biran, Marie-François-Pierre (French statesman and philosopher)
French statesman, empiricist philosopher, and prolific writer who stressed the inner life of man, against the prevalent emphasis on external sense experience, as a prerequisite for understanding the human self. Born with the surname Gonthier de Biran, he adopted Maine after his father’s estate, Le Maine....
Gontran (king of Burgundy)
Merovingian king of Burgundy who strove to maintain a balance of power among his warring relations....
Gonville and Caius Hall (building, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom)
...of New College, Oxford (1380–86), are connected to form a unified mass. This layout was enormously influential in subsequent collegiate building. One of the best-known quadrangles is that of Gonville and Caius, Cambridge (begun 1565), built by John Caius partly to display the new Renaissance architecture he had seen while journeying in Italy. He created an allegorical......
Gonville, Edmund (British priest)
parish priest who founded Gonville Hall (1349), since 1557 Gonville and Caius College, at the University of Cambridge. He was the son of William de Gonvile and the brother of Sir Nicholas Gonvile. He served as rector of Thelnetham in Suffolk (1320–26), of Rushford (1326–42), and of Terrington St. Clement in Norf...
Gonyaulax (dinoflagellate genus)
genus of dinoflagellates (single-celled aquatic organisms) that inhabit fresh, saline, or brackish water. Members are covered by closely fitting cellulose plates and have two flagella: one extends backward from a longitudinal groove in the armour, and the other, in an encircling groove, may help to keep the animal afloat. There is no eyespot (stigma), and the pigment-containing chromatophores are...
Gonyaulax catenella (dinoflagellate)
...Certain species of dinoflagellates are capable of producing some of the most toxic substances known. The two species of dinoflagellates most commonly involved in human intoxications have been Gonyaulax catenella along the Pacific coast of North America and G. tamarensis along the eastern coast of North America. Intoxications from these organisms are known as paralytic shellfish......
Gonyaulax tamarensis (dinoflagellate)
...the most toxic substances known. The two species of dinoflagellates most commonly involved in human intoxications have been Gonyaulax catenella along the Pacific coast of North America and G. tamarensis along the eastern coast of North America. Intoxications from these organisms are known as paralytic shellfish poisoning. The symptoms, which begin with a tingling or burning......
Gonyostomum semen (algae)
...are analogous to ejectile organelles and are found in the class Cryptophyceae. Several classes of algae in the division Chromophyta have mucous organelles that secrete slime. Gonyostomum semen, a freshwater member of the class Raphidophyceae, has numerous mucocysts, which, when such cells are collected in a plankton net, discharge and render the net and its......
Gonystylus (plant genus)
A group of genera in Thymeleaeceae scattered through the tropics lack the floral tube mentioned above and have relatively large fruits; genera in the group include: Gonystylus (20 species), which grows in Indo-Malesia (see Malesian subkingdom) and the western Pacific; and Tepuianthus (7 species), which is found in the Guiana Highlands and is perhaps....
Gonzaga College (university, Spokane, Washington, United States)
private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Spokane, Washington, U.S. It is affiliated with the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic church. The university includes the College of Arts and Sciences and schools of business administration, education, engineering, professional studies, and law, as well as a graduate school. In addition to undergraduate...
Gonzaga Cycle (painting by Tintoretto)
...father, together with other future artists of the close of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century. Certainly the presence of collaborators is obvious in two cycles: the eight scenes of the Gonzaga Cycle, with vivid scenes of battles, painted between 1579 and 1580, and the many paintings for the halls of the Scrutinio and of the Maggior Consiglio in the Doges’ Palace, which the Re...
Gonzaga dynasty (Italian dynasty)
Italian dynasty whose heads ruled Mantua from 1328 to 1707 and also Montferrat, with the stronghold of Casale, from 1536 to 1707. Their origins are uncertain, but by the 12th century the Corradi family of Gonzaga were established as members of the feudal gentry owning estates near Mantua, to which during the 13th century they managed to add other extensive properties. They took their name from th...
Gonzaga, Federigo II (duke of Mantua)
...On his liberation he adopted a more peaceful and conciliatory policy, and with the help of his wife, the famous Isabella d’Este, he promoted the fine arts and letters. He was succeeded by his son Federigo II (d. 1540), captain general of the papal forces. After the Peace of Cambrai (1529) Federigo II’s ally and protector, the emperor Charles V, raised his title to that of duke of ...
Gonzaga, Giovan Francesco I (duke of Mantua)
...Reggio from the Scaligeri, and the Gonzaga held it until 1371. Luigi was succeeded by Guido (d. 1369); the latter’s son Luigi II (or Ludovico II; d. 1382) came next in succession, and then Giovan Francesco I (sometimes referred to as Francesco I; d. 1407), who, although at one time allied with the treacherous Gian Galeazzo Visconti, incurred the latter’s enmity and all but lost hi...
Gonzaga, Giovan Francesco II (duke of Mantua)
...first humanistic school (Venice, c. 1414). Vittorino taught in both Padua (where he was briefly a professor of rhetoric) and Venice during the early 1420s. In 1423 he accepted the invitation of Gianfrancesco Gonzaga, marquis of Mantua, to become tutor to the ruling family. At this post Vittorino spent the remaining 22 years of his life. His school, held in a delightful palace that he......
Gonzaga, Giovan Francesco III (duke of Mantua)
...it became fashionable for rulers to create a room, or suite of rooms, known as a studiolo. The most celebrated example was created by Isabella d’Este, wife of Francesco Gonzaga III, at the ducal palace in Mantua (see also House of Este; Gonzaga dynasty). Decorated with paintings by Andrea Mantegna and other court art...
Gonzaga, Ludovico (marquess of Mantua)
Mantegna has been characterized as strongly jealous of his independence; yet by entering the service of the marchese di Montova (Mantua), Ludovico Gonzaga, in 1459, he was forced to submit to limitations on his freedom of travel and acceptance of commissions from other patrons. Despite such restrictions, Mantegna journeyed to Florence and Pisa in 1466–67, where he renewed contact with......
Gonzaga, Luigi I (ruler of Mantua)
The dynasty’s known history begins with the 14th century, when Luigi I (also called Ludovico; 1267–1360), after fierce struggles, supplanted his brother-in-law Rinaldo (nicknamed Passerino) Bonacolsi as lord of Mantua in August 1328, with the title of captain general and afterward of vicar-general of the empire, adding the designation of count of Mirandola and Concordia. In July 1335...
Gonzaga, Tomás Antônio (Portuguese poet)
poet whose popularity in Portugal up to the 20th century was second only to that of Luís de Camões....
Gonzaga University (university, Spokane, Washington, United States)
private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Spokane, Washington, U.S. It is affiliated with the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic church. The university includes the College of Arts and Sciences and schools of business administration, education, engineering, professional studies, and law, as well as a graduate school. In addition to undergraduate...
Gonzales, Alberto R. (United States official)
American lawyer, judge, and attorney general of the United States (2005–07), the first Hispanic to occupy the post....
Gonzales, Pancho (American tennis player)
American tennis player who won the U.S. professional championship in men’s singles eight times, seven consecutively (1953–59, 1961)....
Gonzales, Richard Alonzo (American tennis player)
American tennis player who won the U.S. professional championship in men’s singles eight times, seven consecutively (1953–59, 1961)....
Gonzales v. Carhart (law case)
...Repeated challenges since 1973, such as Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), have narrowed the scope of Roe v. Wade but have yet to overturn it. In Gonzales Carhart (2007), the Supreme Court upheld the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (2003), which prohibited a rarely used abortion procedure known as......
González, Ángel (Spanish poet)
Sept. 6, 1925Oviedo, SpainJan. 12, 2008Madrid, SpainSpanish poet who was greatly respected as a member of the “Generation of 1950” for his finely honed socially engaged poetic works as well as for lyrical poetry in which he explored his own nature and limitations. His poetry w...
González Cruchaga, the Right Rev. Carlos (Chilean Roman Catholic bishop)
June 8, 1921Santiago, ChileSept. 21, 2008SantiagoChilean Roman Catholic bishop who adamantly defended human rights during the Chilean military dictatorship (1974–90) of Augusto Pinochet. Following in the footsteps of his cousin, the Chilean saint Father Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga (beat...
González Dávila, Gil (Spanish conquistador)
Pedrarias sent a kinsman, Gil González Dávila, to explore northward, and he found civilization on the shores of Lake Nicaragua. The jealous Pedrarias forced him to flee to Santo Domingo before a Spanish colony could be planted, however, and instead sent Francisco Hernández de Córdoba in 1524, who established Granada on Lake Nicaragua and León not far from Lake......
González de Clavijo, Ruy (Spanish diplomat)
Spanish diplomat who traveled to the court of Timur (Tamerlane) at Samarkand, in Turkistan, and wrote a valuable account of his visit....
González de Duhalde, Chiche (Argentine politician)
...featured Kirchner’s spouse, Sen. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, running under the Front for Victory banner against Duhalde’s spouse, former congressional deputy Hilda (“Chiche”) González de Duhalde, of the Justicialist Front. “Cristina” soundly defeated “Chiche” by a margin of 46% to 20%, which thereby strength...
González de Duhalde, Hilda (Argentine politician)
...featured Kirchner’s spouse, Sen. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, running under the Front for Victory banner against Duhalde’s spouse, former congressional deputy Hilda (“Chiche”) González de Duhalde, of the Justicialist Front. “Cristina” soundly defeated “Chiche” by a margin of 46% to 20%, which thereby strength...
González de Mendoza, Pedro, Cardinal (Spanish cardinal)
Spanish prelate and diplomat who influenced Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon and was called, even in his own time, “the third king of Spain.”...
González, Fernán (count of Castile)
...Castile expanded during the 9th century but remained a fragmented collection of petty counties, whose rulers were nominated by the kings of Asturias and Leon, until the counties were united by Fernán González (d. 970), the first count of all Castile. With him the political history of Castile begins. He made the new county hereditary in his family and thus secured it a measure......
González Flores, Alfredo (president of Costa Rica)
...Rica. Coffee remains vital to the local economy. Known colloquially as the “City of Flowers,” it has one of the few colonial churches remaining in Costa Rica. Two former residences of Alfredo González Flores, president from 1914 to 1917, have been converted into museums; one is a traditional historical museum, and the other, the Museum of Popular Culture, explores cultural....
Gonzalez, Gerardo (Cuban boxer)
Cuban professional boxer and world welterweight champion who was known for his “bolo punch,” a combination of a hook and an uppercut....
Gonzalez Gonzalez, Pedro (American actor)
Mexican American actor (b. May 24, 1925, Aguilares, Texas—d. Feb. 6, 2006, Culver City, Calif.), was such a hit when he appeared as a contestant on the Groucho Marx quiz show You Bet Your...
González Iñárritu, Alejandro (Mexican director and producer)
Mexican director and producer whose movies—which often featured interconnected stories and a nonlinear narrative—placed him at the forefront of the Mexican film renaissance in the early 21st century....
González, José Victoriano (Spanish painter)
Spanish painter whose lucidly composed still lifes are major works of the style called Synthetic Cubism....
González, Julio (Spanish sculptor)
Spanish sculptor and painter who developed the expressive use of iron as a medium for modern sculpture....
González Lucas, Luis Miguel (Spanish matador)
Spanish matador, one of the major bullfighters of the mid-20th century. He was an international celebrity in his day, known as much for his hobnobbing with the rich and famous as for his bullfighting....
González Macchi, Luis (president of Paraguay)
Also in May, an appeals court overturned the 2006 conviction of former president Luis González Macchi for concealing a $1 million Swiss bank account. He was freed after having served five months of his eight-year sentence....
González, Manuel (president of Mexico)
Mexican soldier and president of Mexico (1880–84)....
González Márquez, Felipe (prime minister of Spain)
Spanish lawyer and Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español; PSOE) politician who was prime minister of Spain from 1982 to 1996. During his four terms in office, he consolidated Spain’s fledgling democracy, oversaw continued ...
González Martínez, Enrique (Mexican poet)
poet, physician, and diplomat, who was a major influence on 20th-century Mexican poetry....
Gonzalez, Matt (American politician)
...Born: February 27, 1934, Winsted, ConnecticutEducation: Princeton University (A.B, 1955); Harvard Law School (L.L.B., 1958)Vice Presidential Nominee: Matt GonzalezSpouse: unmarriedChildren: 0Political Experience: Consultant to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then Assistant Secretary of Labor (1964)...
González, Miguel Angel (Cuban baseball player)
...season the Longbranch Cubans of the New York–New Jersey League became a repository of Cuban talent for the major leagues. Two players who made the grade, pitcher Adolfo Luque and catcher Miguel Angel González, not only had long, distinguished careers in the majors in the United States but also became the patriarchs of professional baseball in Cuba nearly until its demise.......
González, Pablo (Mexican general)
Soon afterward General Pablo González, who directed the government operations against Zapata, had Colonel Jesús Guajardo pretend to want to join the agrarians and contrive a secret meeting with Zapata at the hacienda of Chinameca in Morelos. There Zapata was ambushed and shot to death by Carrancista soldiers. His body was carried to Cuautla and buried there....
Gonzalez, Pancho (American tennis player)
American tennis player who won the U.S. professional championship in men’s singles eight times, seven consecutively (1953–59, 1961)....
Gonzalez, Richard Alonzo (American tennis player)
American tennis player who won the U.S. professional championship in men’s singles eight times, seven consecutively (1953–59, 1961)....
González Videla, Gabriel (president of Chile)
During the period from 1946 to 1952, the president was Gabriel González Videla, also of the Radical Party, who gained a plurality with the support of the Communists. The Socialist Party denounced an offer of alliance, however, and the popular front could not be reconstituted. González Videla’s first cabinets, between 1946 and 1948, included Communist ministers; but the......
González-Torres, Félix (American artist)
Cuban-born American sculptor, photographer, and conceptual artist known for work in a variety of media that addresses issues of identity, desire, originality, loss, the metaphor of journey, and the private versus the public domain. Like many artists of the 1980s, Gonzalez-Torres used the postmodern strategy of appropriating ready-made motifs and objects to create his art, thereby challenging the i...
Gonzalez-Torres, Felix (American artist)
Cuban-born American sculptor, photographer, and conceptual artist known for work in a variety of media that addresses issues of identity, desire, originality, loss, the metaphor of journey, and the private versus the public domain. Like many artists of the 1980s, Gonzalez-Torres used the postmodern strategy of appropriating ready-made motifs and objects to create his art, thereby challenging the i...
Gonzalo, Comrade (Peruvian revolutionary)
...ware. Ayacucho can be reached by highway from Lima, Huancayo, and Cuzco, as well as by air. Ayacucho has been the site of terrorist acts and campaigns by the revolutionary organization Shining Path. Abimael Guzmán Reynoso, a philosophy professor at the National University of San Cristóbal de Huamanga in Ayacucho, founded the movement in 1970 as an offshoot of the Communist Party o...
Gonzalves, Nelson (Brazilian singer)
Brazilian crooner who recorded over 1,000 romantic songs during a career that lasted 56 years (b. June 1919, Rio Grande do Sul state, Braz.--d. April 18, 1998, Rio de Janeiro, Braz.)....
Gonzi, Lawrence (prime minister of Malta)
Area: 316 sq km (122 sq mi) | Population (2010 est.): 413,000 | Capital: Valletta | Head of state: President George Abela | Head of government: Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi | ...
gonzo journalism (literary genre)
American journalist and author, who created the genre known as gonzo journalism, a highly personal style of reporting that made Thompson a counterculture icon....
goober (plant)
the pod, or legume, of Arachis hypogaea (family Fabaceae), which has the peculiar habit of ripening underground. (Despite its several common names, it is not a true nut.) It is a concentrated food; pound for pound, peanuts have more protein, minerals, and vitamins than beef liver; more fat than heavy cream; and more f...
Goober and the Peas (American musical group)
...Muldoon recorded a blues-infused single under the name the Upholsterers. Trading one set of influences for another, in 1993 Jack signed on as drummer for the established “cow-punk” band Goober and the Peas. Jack gained experience onstage and in the recording studio, and the group’s sound (a fusion of punk and rockabilly) and its stage persona (featuring cowboy hats and embr...
Gooch, George Peabody (British historian)
English historian of modern diplomacy, and one of the first writers in English on German history from the 18th century....
Gooch, Sir Daniel, 1st Baronet (British engineer)
English railway pioneer and mechanical engineer who laid the first successful transatlantic cables....
Good (Gnosticism)
Another 2nd-century figure, Justin (not to be confused with the more famous Justin Martyr), taught that there were three original entities, a transcendent being called the Good, a male intermediate figure named Elohim (the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament), and an earth-mother figure named Eden or Israel. The world was created from the love of Elohim and Eden, and the first......
good (philosophy)
Since at least the time of Aristotle (384–322 bce), many Western philosophers have made use of the notion of end, or final cause—i.e., a cause conceived of as a natural purpose or goal (see teleology). In ethics, ends are the natural or consciously determined goals of moral actions; they are moral absolutes, such as happiness or ...
good and evil
...draw him to the crime. Utilitarian morality suggests that killing her is a positive good because her money could be used to help many others. On the other hand, Raskolnikov reasons that belief in good and evil is itself sheer prejudice, a mere relic of religion, and that, morally speaking, there is no such thing as crime. Nevertheless, Raskolnikov, despite his denial of morality, sympathizes......
good, common (philosophy)
It was not until the 1980s that the term gained currency through its association with the work of a small group of mostly American political philosophers who argued for the importance of the common good in opposition to contemporary liberals and libertarians, who emphasized the good for individuals, particularly including personal autonomy and individual rights. The Canadian philosopher......
Good Companions, The (work by Priestley)
...and first established a reputation with the essays collected in The English Comic Characters (1925) and The English Novel (1927). He achieved enormous popular success with The Good Companions (1929), a picaresque novel about a group of traveling performers. This was followed in 1930 by his most solidly crafted novel, Angel Pavement, a sombre, realistic......
Good Conscience, The (work by Fuentes)
The novel Las buenas conciencias (1959; The Good Conscience) emphasizes the moral compromises that mark the transition from a rural economy to a complex middle-class urban one. Aura (1962) is a novella that successfully fuses reality and fantasy. La muerte de Artemio Cruz (1962; The Death of Artemio Cruz), which presents the agony......
good continuation (psychology)
Prägnanz may also be achieved through good continuation; this principle describes a tendency for smooth continuity of contour to be dominant over discrete, irregular, abruptly changing contours. Thus, a figure composed of the overlapping outlines of an ellipse and a rectangle will probably be seen as such rather than as three figures, each with irregular, noncontinuous borders....
Good Design Selection System (design award)
...Hirano & Associates (1960)—studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif. In 1957 MITI established the Good Design Awards (formerly the Good Design Selection System), or G-Marks. The G-Mark award system consists of an annual juried competition of new consumer products, with awards given for products within various categories and one grand prize that spans all. Awa...
Good Earth, The (novel by Buck)
novel by Pearl Buck, published in 1931. The novel, about peasant life in China in the 1920s, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1932....
Good Earth, The (film by Franklin [1937])
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good faith (law)
Perhaps the most important principle of international law is that of good faith. It governs the creation and performance of legal obligations and is the foundation of treaty law. Another important general principle is that of equity, which permits international law to have a degree of flexibility in its application and enforcement. The Law of the Sea treaty, for example, called for the......
Good Feeling, Era of (United States history)
national mood of the United States from 1815 to 1825, as first described by the Boston Columbian Centinel on July 12, 1817. Although the “era” generally is considered coextensive with President James Monroe’s two terms (1817–25), it really began in 18...
Good Feelings, Era of (United States history)
national mood of the United States from 1815 to 1825, as first described by the Boston Columbian Centinel on July 12, 1817. Although the “era” generally is considered coextensive with President James Monroe’s two terms (1817–25), it really began in 18...
Good Friday (Christianity)
the Friday before Easter, the day on which Christians annually observe the commemoration of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. From the early days of Christianity, Good Friday was observed as a day of sorrow, penance, and fasting, a characteristic that finds expression in the German word Karfreitag (“Sorrowful Friday...
Good Friday Agreement (British-Irish history)
accord reached on April 10, 1998, and ratified in both Ireland and Northern Ireland by popular vote on May 22 that called for devolved government in Northern Ireland....
Good Friday Experiment (psychology)
...produce mystical experiences, they create alternate states of consciousness that may lead to mystical experiences through prayer, meditation, visualization, or other religious activity. The “Good Friday Experiment,” in which Walter Pahnke, a researcher at Harvard University, administered psilocybin in a double-blind study in 1962, established that when both mental “set...
good genes hypothesis (biology)
in biology, an explanation which suggests that the traits females choose when selecting a mate are honest indicators of the male’s ability to pass on genes that will increase the survival or reproductive success of her offspring. Although no completely unambiguous examples are known, evidence supporting the good genes hypothesis is accumulating, primarily through the disc...
Good German, The (film by Soderbergh)
...mosaics, coloured this time by the genial temperament of the film’s inspiration, the Minnesota Public Radio show of the humorist Garrison Keillor. At year’s end Steven Soderbergh released The Good German, a valiant attempt to recapture the look and feel of Hollywood’s bittersweet romances of the 1940s, with George Clooney (see Biographies) and ...
Good Girl, The (film by Arteta [2002])
...portraying a waitress in the cult hit Office Space (1999), which centred on disgruntled office workers. In 2002 she earned critical acclaim for her work in The Good Girl, a dramedy in which she played a bored sales clerk who has an affair with a stock boy. She starred opposite Jim Carrey in the blockbuster comedy Bruce......
Good Gray Poet: A Vindication, The (work by O’Connor)
...was indecent. Whitman then obtained a post in the attorney general’s office, largely through the efforts of his friend, the journalist William O’Connor, who wrote a vindication of Whitman in The Good Gray Poet (published in 1866), which aroused sympathy for the victim of injustice....
Good Hair (film by Rock)
...In 2007 he directed and starred in I Think I Love My Wife. Two years later Rock investigated the hairstyles of African American women in the documentary Good Hair. He next appeared in Death at a Funeral (2010), a comedy about a chaotic funeral, and Grown Ups (2010), in which he, Adam Sandler,......
Good Hearts (novel by Price)
...and Work (1968); The Surface of the Earth (1975); The Source of Light (1981); Kate Vaiden (1986), the orphaned heroine of which was based on the author’s own mother; Good Hearts (1988), which resumes the story of Rosacoke in her middle age; and The Tongues of Angels (1990). He also wrote poetry, plays, translations from the Bible, and essays....
Good Hope, Cape of (historical province, South Africa)
former province of South Africa, occupying the southern extremity of the African continent. Prior to the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910, the area was known as the Cape Colony. Cape Province comprised all of souther...
Good Hope, Cape of (promontory, South Africa)
rocky promontory at the southern end of Cape Peninsula, Western Cape province, South Africa. It was first sighted by the Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias in 1488 on his return voyage to Portugal after ascertaining the southern li...
Good Hope, Castle of (building, Cape Town, South Africa)
...the canal in Amsterdam of that name, it was renamed Adderley Street in 1850. Other main roads paralleled it as the town grew. In Strand Street, on what once was the shore of Table Bay, stands the Castle of Good Hope, built by the company between 1666 and 1679. Near the Castle are the Botanic Gardens, which are bisected by Government Avenue and overlooked by government buildings. A parliament......
Good Housekeeping (American magazine)
...Home Journal, Scribner’s, and Harper’s. For many years she regularly contributed cover illustrations to Good Housekeeping, and she illustrated a number of children’s books....
Good Land (region, Luxembourg)
The southern two-thirds of Luxembourg is known as the Bon Pays, or Gutland (French and German: “Good Land”). This region has a more varied topography and an average elevation of 800 feet. The Bon Pays is much more densely populated than the Oesling and contains the capital city, Luxembourg, as well as smaller industrial cities such as Esch-sur-Alzette. In the centre of the Bon Pays,....
Good Man Is Hard to Find, A (work by O’Connor)
volume of short stories by Flannery O’Connor, published in 1955. Like much of the author’s work, the collection presents vivid, hidebound characters seemingly hounded by a redemption that they often successfully elude. Several of the stories are generally considered masterpieces of the form. ...
Good Morning America (American television program)
...television schedules had remained relatively stable for almost 30 years. Morning news and information shows such as Today (NBC, begun 1952) and Good Morning America (ABC, begun 1975) were followed by a mix of soap operas, game shows, domestic variety programs, and children’s shows. A new genre, the audience-participation talk show.....
Good Morning, Vietnam (film by Levinson)
Williams’s early movie appearances included leads in Popeye (1980) and The World According to Garp (1982), but his first major role came with Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), in which he portrayed the irreverent military disc jockey Adrian Cronauer. The role earned Williams his first Academy Award nomination. His second came soon a...
Good Neighbor Policy
popular name for the Latin American policy pursued by the administration of the U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt. Suggested by the president’s commitment “to the policy of the good neighbor” (first inaugural address, March 4, 1933), the approach marked a departure from traditional American interventionism. Through the diplomacy of Secretary of State ...
Good Neighbour Policy (Chinese foreign policy)
popular name for the Latin American policy pursued by the administration of the U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt. Suggested by the president’s commitment “to the policy of the good neighbor” (first inaugural address, March 4, 1933), the approach marked a departure from traditional American interventionism. Through the diplomacy of Secretary of State ......
Good News for People Who Love Bad News (album by Modest Mouse)
...punk rock, with Brock’s bleating, often abrasive vocals serving as a common thread. Later albums saw increasing musical experimentation and a broader instrumental palette. Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004) adopted more concise song structures and radio-friendly production but was also the group’s most eclectic record to date, featuring acc...
Good Night, and Good Luck (film by Clooney)
...portrait of Truman Capote (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman) at the time of his coverage of the Kansas killings that inspired the nonfiction novel In Cold Blood. In George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck, David Strathairn played commentator Edward R. Murrow courageously defying McCarthyist hysteria. Ron Howard’s Cinderella Man was a profound and feeling ac...