Louise Erdrich: …basis of her first novel, Love Medicine (1984; expanded edition, 1993). Love Medicine began a tetralogy that includes The Beet Queen (1986), Tracks (1988), and The Bingo Palace (1994), about the Indian families living on or near a North Dakota Ojibwa reservation and the whites they encounter. Tales of Burning…

Marilyn Monroe: …Let’s Make It Legal (1951), Love Nest (1951), Clash by Night (1952), and Niagara (1953), she advanced to star billing on the strength of her studio-fostered image as a “love goddess.” With performances in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), and There’s No Business Like Show…

Andrew Lloyd Webber: An unsuccessful sequel, Love Never Dies (lyrics by Glenn Slater and Charles Hart), debuted in London in 2010.

Edna O’Brien: …of O’Brien’s short stories include The Love Object (1968), A Scandalous Woman and Other Stories (1974), A Fanatic Heart (1984), Lantern Slides (1990), and Saints and Sinners (2011).

Alice Munro: …A Wilderness Station (1994), and The Love of a Good Woman (1998). The latter volume received both Canada’s esteemed Giller Prize (later the Scotiabank Giller Prize) and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the U.S. Her book Open Secrets (1994) contains stories that range in setting from the semicivilized…

history of publishing: The revival of the secular book trade: This is evident in Philobiblon, a book finished in 1345 describing the book-collecting activities of Richard de Bury, bishop of Durham. The book relates how the bishop established good relations with stationers and booksellers in England, France, Germany, and Italy by sending advance payments. Evidence from the same century…

Federico García Lorca: Early poetry and plays: …jardín (written 1925, premiered 1933; The Love of Don Perlimplín with Belisa in Their Garden in Five Plays: Comedies and Tragi-Comedies, 1970), a “grotesque tragedy” partially drawn from an 18th-century Spanish comic strip. Both plays reveal themes common to Lorca’s work: the capriciousness of time, the destructive powers of love…

G.W. Pabst: …Liebe der Jeanne Ney (1927; The Love of Jeanne Ney) incorporates documentary shots to heighten the realism of its postwar setting. These three films sealed Pabst’s international reputation.

Kola Ogunmola: A typical play is Ife Owo (performed c. 1950 and widely played under its English title, Love of Money, published 1965), which depicts the sufferings of a polygamous husband who tries to satisfy the greed of his second wife. Ogunmola’s greatest fame, however, came from Omuti Apa Kini (performed…

Mary Gordon: >The Love of My Youth (2011), There Your Heart Lies (2017), and Payback (2020). The Rest of Life (1993) and The Liar’s Wife (2014) are collections of novellas. Among Gordon’s works of nonfiction are Spiritual Quests: The Art and Craft of Religious Writing (1988) and…

Italo Montemezzi: …L’amore dei tre re (1913; The Love of Three Kings).

Leo Pinsker: …a newly formed Zionist group, Ḥibbat Ẕiyyon (“Love of Zion”), made him one of its leaders. In 1884 he convened the Kattowitz (Katowice, Pol.) Conference, which established a permanent committee with headquarters in Odessa. Although Ḥibbat Ẕiyyon (later Ḥovevei Ẕiyyon [“Lovers of Zion”]) was crippled by lack of funds, it…

English literature: The 1930s: Walter Greenwood’s Love on the Dole (1933) is a bleak record, in the manner of Bennett, of the economic depression in a northern working-class community; and Graham Greene’s It’s a Battlefield (1934) and Brighton Rock (1938) are desolate studies, in the manner of Conrad, of the loneliness…

W.S. Van Dyke: Powell and Loy, Eddy and MacDonald: Love on the Run (1936) featured Gable and Franchot Tone as foreign correspondents and Crawford as the woman they both desire. Van Dyke’s sixth release of 1936, After the Thin Man, may have been even better than the popular original. In addition to Powell and…

Jean-Pierre Léaud: …and L’Amour en fuite (1979; Love on the Run). Léaud was perfectly suited to play the part of Doinel, an engaging and innocent young man who is not particularly well equipped to meet the responsibilities of adult life. Léaud appeared in several other films by Truffaut, including Les Deux Anglaises…

The Love Parade: Germany’s annual Love Parade was the temporary centre of the world of electronic dance music during its two-decade run. First organized in 1989 in West Berlin by planetcom, a company affiliated with the defunct E-Werk club, the parade was registered with the city as a…

Ernst Lubitsch: Transition to sound: …was the inventive 1929 musical The Love Parade, in which Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald (in her film debut) find romance in the mythical land of Sylvania. With songs composed by Victor Schertzinger, this pleasant operetta was nominated for an Academy Award as best picture, and Lubitsch was nominated for…

ghazal, in Islamic literatures, genre of lyric poem, generally short and graceful in form and typically dealing with themes of love. As a genre the ghazal developed in Arabia in the late 7th century from the nasib, which itself was the often amorous prelude to the qaṣīdah (ode). Two main types of

Anne Sexton: …was followed by, among others, Love Poems (1969), Transformations (1971), The Book of Folly (1972), and The Death Notebooks (1974). Sexton taught at Boston University in 1970–71 and at Colgate University in 1971–72. She also wrote a number of children’s books with poet Maxine Kumin, including Eggs of

Nikki Giovanni: Giovanni’s later poetry collections included Love Poems (1997) and Bicycles (2009). Chasing Utopia (2013) and Make Me Rain (2020) feature poetry and prose. In Gemini (1971) she presented autobiographical reminiscences, and in Sacred Cows…and Other Edibles (1988) she proffered a collection of her essays.

Carol Ann Duffy: …well, notably issuing the collections Love Poems (2010), The Bees (2011), and Sincerity (2018), and her stage credits included retellings of the story of Casanova (2007) and of the morality play Everyman (2015).

ghazal, in Islamic literatures, genre of lyric poem, generally short and graceful in form and typically dealing with themes of love. As a genre the ghazal developed in Arabia in the late 7th century from the nasib, which itself was the often amorous prelude to the qaṣīdah (ode). Two main types of

Sandra Bullock: …charm in the romantic comedy Love Potion No. 9. This led to a series of films the following year, including the thriller The Vanishing; Demolition Man, in which she starred alongside action star Sylvester Stallone, and the drama Wrestling Ernest Hemingway. Her big breakthrough, however, was the thriller Speed

Joe Pesci: …Helen Mirren in the comedy Love Ranch (2010). He then reunited with Scorsese and De Niro in the mob drama The Irishman (2019), for which he earned his third Oscar nomination.

short story: The Greeks: The Love Romances of Parthenius of Nicaea, who wrote during the reign of Augustus, is a collection of 36 prose stories of unhappy lovers. The Milesian Tales (no longer extant) was an extremely popular collection of erotic and ribald stories composed by Aristides of Miletus in…

love seat, wide chair capable of, if not necessarily designed for, accommodating two people, whose intentions are implied in the name. The makers of early examples, in the late 17th and the 18th centuries, were not motivated by the amorous considerations with which later generations have credited

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, dramatic monologue by T.S. Eliot, published in Poetry magazine in 1915 and in book form in Prufrock and Other Observations in 1917. The poem consists of the musings of Prufrock, a weary middle-aged man haunted by the feeling that he has lost both youth and

Ntozake Shange: Fuji (1987), and The Love Space Demands: A Continuing Saga (1992).

Arthur Hiller: Films of the 1970s: …Segal adapted from his best-selling novel. The tearjerker about Harvard and Radcliffe students (played by Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw) who fall in love was a huge blockbuster and earned seven Academy Award nominations, including best picture and Hiller’s only Oscar nod for directing.

Arthur Hiller: Films of the 1970s: …his second effort from 1970, Love Story, which Erich Segal adapted from his best-selling novel. The tearjerker about Harvard and Radcliffe students (played by Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw) who fall in love was a huge blockbuster and earned seven Academy Award nominations, including best picture and Hiller’s only Oscar…

John Cassavetes: 1980s: …moving and unusual love story Love Streams (1984) as a brother and sister who lead wildly differing lifestyles but who care deeply about each other.

The Love Suicides at Amijima, classic Bunraku (puppet theatre) play by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, written and performed about 1720 as Shinjū ten no Amijima. Like most of Chikamatsu’s more than 20 love-suicide dramas, it was based on an actual event, the outcome of the brothel system. These works made

Chikamatsu Monzaemon: Sonezaki shinjū (1703; The Love Suicides at Sonezaki), for example, was written within a fortnight of the actual double suicide on which it is based. The haste of composition is not at all apparent even in this first example of Chikamatsu’s double-suicide plays, the archetype of his other…

Elvin Jones: …My Favorite Things (1960) and A Love Supreme (1964). Rather than merely keeping time, the drummer, through Jones’s example, became an improviser of equal importance to the lead melodic instrumentalist. After the addition of a second drummer, Rashied Ali, to the Coltrane group, Jones left in 1966 to lead his…

Avril Lavigne: Love Sux was released in 2022.

John Goodman: Film career: …Dalton Trumbo (2015); the comedy Love the Coopers (2015); the horror film 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016); and Patriots Day (2016), about the Boston Marathon bombing of 2013. In 2017 Goodman appeared in the action thrillers Kong: Skull Island,e Once Upon a Time in Venice, and Atomic Blonde

Carlos Saura: …and El amor brujo (1986; Love the Magician)—were innovative versions of classic stories, done in collaboration with choreographer–lead actor–dancer Antonio Gades and his company. Carmen, based on Prosper Mérimée’s 1845 novella, included musical passages from Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera and fused rehearsal, performance, and a contemporary mirror of Mérimée’s plot;…

Eminem: …singles “Not Afraid” and “Love the Way You Lie” (featuring the singer Rihanna) both became major hits. Eminem reteamed with Rihanna on “The Monster,” from The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (2013), and the album became his sixth to win the Grammy Award for best rap album.

Donna Summer: …creating the historic single “Love to Love You Baby” (1975), the first of more than a dozen hits in the United States for Summer, most on Casablanca. The club version of the erotically charged song, at nearly 17 minutes long, introduced the 12-inch disco mix. Over the next 14…

Augustus Edward Hough Love: …a method—based on measurements of Love waves—to measure the thickness of the Earth’s crust. In addition to his work on geophysical theory, Love studied elasticity and wrote A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity, 2 vol. (1892–93).

Captain & Tennille: Pop music stardom: “Love Will Keep Us Together” (1975) was enormously successful, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and earning Captain & Tennille a Grammy Award for record of the year. The number-one single paved the way for the duo’s 1975 debut album of the…

Joy Division/New Order: …followed tragedy; the single “Love Will Tear Us Apart” and the band’s second album, Closer, made the top 10 and top 20, respectively, in the United Kingdom.

Robert Mulligan: …film was the downbeat romance Love with the Proper Stranger (1963), featuring Natalie Wood as a young Roman Catholic woman who becomes pregnant following a one-night stand with a musician (played by Steve McQueen). The film ably blended humour with more-serious subjects, notably abortion, and it was another box-office hit.…

Robert Munsch: …Munsch achieved international success with Love You Forever (1986). The introspective work, which was written for his two stillborn babies, describes a parent’s love for a child. Popular with both young and older readers, it was published in some nine languages and sold more than 30 million copies by the…

Your best friend will thank you.In his will, designer Karl Lagerfeld stipulated that a portion of his $300 million fortune go to his beloved cat, Choupette. But when the fashion icon died in 2019, there were questions about how to pass that money on. Lagerfeld and Choupette lived in Paris, and in

Terrence McNally: …Award for best play, for Love! Valour! Compassion! (film 1997), and he won another the following year for Master Class, one of several works he wrote about opera.

Otto Erich Hartleben: …was the tragedy Rosenmontag (1900; Love’s Carnival, 1904), which portrays the tragedy of a Prussian officer in love with a working class girl. Social criticism in his works gave way to humorous anecdote, satire, and eroticism reminiscent of Guy de Maupassant, as seen in the tales Vom gastfreien Pastor (1895;…

Henrik Ibsen: First plays and directing: Kjaerlighedens komedie (1862; Love’s Comedy), a satire on romantic illusions, was violently unpopular, but it expressed an authentic theme of anti-idealism that Ibsen would soon make his own, and in Kongsemnerne (1863; The Pretenders) he dramatized the mysterious inner authority that makes a man a man, a king,…

Kenneth Branagh: …nomination for adapted screenplay; and Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000). In 1995 he appeared as Iago in the film Othello, and in 2006 he directed the film As You Like It. He also directed and acted in the motion pictures Dead Again (1991) and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Love’s Labour’s Lost, early comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written sometime between 1588 and 1597, more likely in the early 1590s, and published in a quarto edition in 1598, with a title page suggesting that an earlier quarto had been lost. The 1598 quarto was printed seemingly from an

Colley Cibber: …laureate of England, whose play Love’s Last Shift; or, The Fool in Fashion (1696) is generally considered the first sentimental comedy, a form of drama that dominated the English stage for nearly a century. His autobiography, An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber (1740), contains the best account…

Thomas Heywood: His charming masque Love’s Mistress (1636) was seen by Charles I and his queen three times in eight days.

Augustus Edward Hough Love was a British geophysicist and mathematician who discovered a major type of seismic wave that was subsequently named for him. Love held the Sedleian professorship of natural philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1899 to 1940. In his analysis of earthquake waves,

Chicago Bulls: Led by standouts Bob Love, Chet Walker, Jerry Sloan, and Norm Van Lier, the Bulls qualified for the play-offs every year between the 1969–70 and 1974–75 seasons, but they advanced past the first round only twice. After the talented foursome left the team, the Bulls slid into mediocrity…

Courtney Love is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actress best known for her influential rock band Hole and for her troubled personal life, including her marriage to Kurt Cobain, front man for the alternative rock band Nirvana. Love began her career as an actress, appearing in two

girl groups: …Spector paid a session singer, Darlene Love, a flat studio fee to record songs like “He’s a Rebel” that were credited to the group. The Crystals then found themselves fronting songs they had not recorded. Although royalty disputes were endemic in the industry at the time, girl groups were often…

golf: U.S. tournaments and players: Seve Ballesteros, José Maria Olazabal, Davis Love III, and Vijay Singh.

Bernard Kops: …in West Hampstead (1988) and Love, Death and Other Joys (2018) were among Kops’s many collections of poetry.

Gilda Radner: …was chronicled in the documentary Love, Gilda (2018). It included home movies and audiotapes of the comedian.

Cleveland Cavaliers: …third perennial All-Star, power forward Kevin Love, and entered the 2014–15 season as the odds-on favorite in the Eastern Conference. Cleveland struggled early in the season before the young team came together to post the second best record in the conference. Despite the team’s loss of Love to a season-ending…

the Beach Boys: February 6, 1998, Los Angeles), Michael Love (b. March 15, 1941, Los Angeles), and Alan Jardine (b. September 3, 1942, Lima, Ohio). Significant later members included David Marks (b. August 22, 1948, Newcastle, Pennsylvania) and Bruce Johnston (original name Benjamin Baldwin; b. June 27, 1942, Peoria, Illinois). Initially perceived as…

the Beach Boys: February 6, 1998, Los Angeles), Michael Love (b. March 15, 1941, Los Angeles), and Alan Jardine (b. September 3, 1942, Lima, Ohio). Significant later members included David Marks (b. August 22, 1948, Newcastle, Pennsylvania) and Bruce Johnston (original name Benjamin Baldwin; b. June 27, 1942, Peoria, Illinois). Initially perceived as…

Black cowboys: …attention, some Black cowboys—such as Nat Love—were well known. Love was rumored to have driven cattle through eight states, fought off raids by Native Americans, and ridden alongside such legends as Billy the Kid and Buffalo Bill Cody.

Keith Urban: His next album, Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing, was released that same year and sold well despite his initial inability to tour to promote it. In 2009 Urban returned with the crossover hit album Defying Gravity. Its pop and rock influences and universal messages of love…

Tony Randall: …Tony Randall Show (1976–78) and Love, Sidney (1981–83). Among his later stage roles was the one he considered his all-time favourite, a love-struck diplomat in M. Butterfly (1989). In 1991 Randall founded the National Actors Theatre in New York City—funding it partly with $1 million of his own money—with the…

love-in-a-mist, (Nigella damascena), an annual herbaceous plant of the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae). Native to Europe, North Africa, and Asia, it is now grown in gardens throughout temperate regions of the world. It grows 45 to 60 cm (18 to 24 inches) tall and has lacelike leaves. The delicate

pansy: Major species: The wild pansy (V. tricolor), also known as Johnny-jump-up, heartsease, and love-in-idleness, has been widely naturalized in North America. The flowers of this form are usually purple and yellow and less than 2 cm (0.8 inch) across.

pipsissewa: …sometimes also called prince’s pine, love-in-winter, and wintergreen, occurs in North America from Canada to Mexico and in Europe and Japan. C. maculata, sometimes called striped pipsissewa, rheumatism root, dragon’s tongue, and spotted wintergreen, occurs in North America from Canada to the southern United States. The name pipsissewa derives from…

Amaranthaceae: Major genera and species: Some species—namely, Inca wheat, or love-lies-bleeding (Amaranthus caudatus), red amaranth (A. cruentus), and quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa)—are high-protein pseudo-grain crops of interest to agricultural researchers. Quinoa in particular, touted as a health food, grew in popularity worldwide during the early 21st century.

Gwen Stefani: …released her first solo album, Love.Angel.Music.Baby (2004). Alongside such collaborators as André 3000 (of OutKast), Dr. Dre, and production duo the Neptunes, Stefani mixed hip-hop attitude with 1980s-style dance-pop music reminiscent of some of her earliest influences, including Prince and Madonna. On the strength of several hit singles—including “Rich

lovebird, any of nine species of small parrots, genus Agapornis (subfamily Psittacinae), of Africa and Madagascar. Lovebirds are noted for pretty colours and the seemingly affectionate proximity of pairs. (That one will die grieving if bereft of its mate is unproved.) The nine species are 10 to 16

Issa Rae: Acting roles: …also starring LaKeith Stanfield; and The Lovebirds (2020), an action-comedy wherein she and actor Kumail Nanjiani played a couple caught in a murder mystery. She executive produced the last two films. Rae also voiced a character in Hair Love (2019), an Academy Award-winning (2020) animated short film about a Black…

Lovech, town, north-central Bulgaria, on the Osŭm (Ossăm) River. A rapidly developing industrial town, its manufactures include bicycles, motorcycles, automobiles, agricultural machinery, and leather goods. Once a prehistoric settlement, Lovech was later a Roman town and then a large Turkish

Black horror: History of Black horror: … (2020) and the television shows Lovecraft Country and Them, for their seemingly gratuitous depictions of extreme Black trauma.

H.P. Lovecraft was an American author of fantastic and macabre short novels and stories, one of the 20th-century masters of the Gothic tale of terror. Lovecraft was interested in science from childhood, but lifelong poor health prevented him from attending college. He made his living as a

H.P. Lovecraft was an American author of fantastic and macabre short novels and stories, one of the 20th-century masters of the Gothic tale of terror. Lovecraft was interested in science from childhood, but lifelong poor health prevented him from attending college. He made his living as a

Enid Bagnold: …birth of a child, and The Loved and Envied (1951), a study of a woman facing the approach of old age. As a playwright, Bagnold achieved great success with The Chalk Garden (1955); a motion-picture version was produced in 1964. Her other stage works include Four Plays (1970) and A…

Tony Richardson: …films he later directed were The Loved One (1965), based on a novel by Evelyn Waugh, and the antiwar movie The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), which featured Vanessa Redgrave, Richardson’s wife from 1962 to 1967. His other credits included the Australian western Ned Kelly (1970), starring Mick Jagger

The Loved One, satiric novel by Evelyn Waugh, published in 1948. The novel relates the experiences of a young Englishman in southern California who observes the clash between English and American cultures. Among other targets, it attacks what Waugh perceived as the snobbery of the English and the

The Loved One, satiric novel by Evelyn Waugh, published in 1948. The novel relates the experiences of a young Englishman in southern California who observes the clash between English and American cultures. Among other targets, it attacks what Waugh perceived as the snobbery of the English and the

Lovedu, a Bantu-speaking people of Northern province, S.Af. Their immediate neighbours include the Venda and the Tsonga. Agriculture is their major economic activity, with corn (maize), millet, squash, and peanuts (groundnuts) cultivated by hoe. Animal husbandry is a secondary means of food

20th-century Norwegian literature: After World War II: …the 1980s and ’90s; and Cecilie Løveid, a postmodernist poet and playwright, one of the few who successfully challenged the Ibsenite tradition in drama. Løveid’s writing probes the potential for love, family, and close human relationships in modern society. Her work is playful and rich in imagery, humor, and sensuality,…

Arthur O. Lovejoy was an American philosopher best known for his work on the history of ideas and theory of knowledge. The son of a Boston minister and his German wife, Lovejoy received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley (1895), and his M.A. from Harvard University (1897) before

Arthur O. Lovejoy was an American philosopher best known for his work on the history of ideas and theory of knowledge. The son of a Boston minister and his German wife, Lovejoy received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley (1895), and his M.A. from Harvard University (1897) before

Elijah P. Lovejoy was an American newspaper editor and martyred abolitionist who died in defense of his right to print antislavery material in the period leading up to the American Civil War (1861–65). In 1827 Lovejoy moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he established a school and entered

Elijah P. Lovejoy was an American newspaper editor and martyred abolitionist who died in defense of his right to print antislavery material in the period leading up to the American Civil War (1861–65). In 1827 Lovejoy moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he established a school and entered

Lovek, the principal city of Cambodia after the sacking of Angkor by the Siamese king Boromoraja II in 1431. In the 14th and 15th centuries Cambodia was in a state of eclipse and became a minor state. After the virtual destruction of Angkor, Lovek was chosen as a new capital because of its more

John Perceval, 2nd earl of Egmont was an eccentric British politician and pamphleteer, a confidant of George III. Perceval sat in the Irish House of Commons from 1731 to 1748, when he succeeded to his father’s earldom in the Irish peerage. His interests, however, were in British politics. Elected

Francis Lovell, Viscount Lovell was an English politician, supporter of King Richard III in the dynastic struggles of the 1480s; he led the first rebellion against Richard’s enemy and successor Henry VII and took part in the later rising of the impostor Lambert Simnel (q.v.). A son of John, 8th

Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician, an associate of Charles Babbage, for whose prototype of a digital computer she created a program. She has been called the first computer programmer. Lovelace was the daughter of famed poet Lord Byron and Annabella Milbanke Byron, who legally separated two

Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician, an associate of Charles Babbage, for whose prototype of a digital computer she created a program. She has been called the first computer programmer. Lovelace was the daughter of famed poet Lord Byron and Annabella Milbanke Byron, who legally separated two

Earl Lovelace is a West Indian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright celebrated for his descriptive, dramatic fiction about West Indian culture. Using Trinidadian speech patterns and standard English, he probes the paradoxes often inherent in social change as well as the clash between rural

Richard Lovelace was an English poet, soldier, and Royalist whose graceful lyrics and dashing career made him the prototype of the perfect Cavalier. Lovelace was probably born in the Netherlands, where his father was in military service. He was educated at Charterhouse and Oxford, and at age 16 or

Robert Lovelace, fictional character, an aristocratic libertine in the epistolary novel Clarissa (1747–48) by Samuel

Loveland, city, Larimer county, northern Colorado, U.S., on the Big Thompson River, east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, 45 miles (72 km) north of Denver. Founded in 1877 during construction of the Colorado Central Railroad, it was soon populated by unlucky gold miners who turned to

Front Range: …[3,446 metres]), near Winter Park; Loveland (11,990 feet [3,655 metres]), just northwest of Grays Peak; and Iceberg (Trail Ridge Road) in Rocky Mountain National Park (12,183 feet [3,713 metres]). The mountains are composed largely of gneiss, schist, and granite.

Kathryn Bigelow: …on her first feature-length movie, The Loveless, which she cowrote and codirected (with Monty Montgomery). The 1982 drama, starring a then unknown Willem Dafoe, focused on a motorcycle gang’s visit to a small Southern town and the ensuing violence. Bigelow was subsequently sent a number of scripts, most of which…

Richard Joseph Neutra: …important early work was the Lovell House, Los Angeles (1927–29), which has glass expanses and cable-suspended balconies and is stylistically similar to the work of Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Europe. Throughout the 1930s he designed houses in the International Style.

Francis Lovell, Viscount Lovell was an English politician, supporter of King Richard III in the dynastic struggles of the 1480s; he led the first rebellion against Richard’s enemy and successor Henry VII and took part in the later rising of the impostor Lambert Simnel (q.v.). A son of John, 8th

radio telescope: Filled-aperture telescopes: …Parkes; and the 76-metre (250-foot) Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank in England. These filled-aperture radio telescopes are used for atomic and molecular spectroscopy over a wide range of frequency and for other galactic and extragalactic studies.