It was largely due to the popularity of artists such as Blind Lemon Jefferson and contemporaries such as Blind Blake and Ma Rainey that Paramount became the leading recording company for the blues in the 1920s.

In rare instances, such as Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock, John Cassavetes's The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and Blake Edwards ' Darling Lili, scenes have been deleted instead of added, creating a shorter, more compact cut.

The term megacaldera is sometimes used for calderas with supervolcano characteristics, such as the Blake River Megacaldera Complex in the Abitibi greenstone belt of Ontario and Quebec, Canada.

Although tempera has been out of favor since the Late Renaissance and Baroque eras, it has been periodically rediscovered by such later artists such as William Blake, the Nazarenes, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Joseph Southall.

) Hart continued to write plays after parting with Kaufman, such as Christopher Blake ( 1946 ) and Light Up the Sky ( 1948 ), as well as the book for the musical Lady In The Dark ( 1941 ), with songs by Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin.

The event has featured such players as Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Jim Courier, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Michael Chang, James Blake and Andy Roddick, before they turned professional.

Except for Blake, whose death was contractual, the characters were shown being attacked in such a way that their survival would have been possible had a fifth series been commissioned.

In addition to JoAnne Worley, it starred a young Richard H. Blake, who would go on to become a familiar face on Broadway in such shows as The Wedding Singer, Saturday Night Fever, and Legally Blonde: The Musical.

Many early slash stories were based on a pairing of two close friends, a " hero dyad " or " One True Pairing " such as Kirk / Spock or Starsky / Hutch ; conversely, a classic pairing between foils was that of Blake / Avon from Blake's 7.

Blake created several books in which the pictures and the " storyline " are inseparable, such as Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

Blake was featured by leading conductors such as Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Fiedler.

During this period the Carfax held important exhibitions of such artists as Aubrey Beardsley, William Blake and John Singer Sargent.

Belgium has numerous well-known cartoonists, such as Hergé ( The Adventures of Tintin ), Peyo ( The Smurfs ), Franquin ( Spirou et Fantasio, Marsupilami, Gaston ), Willy Vandersteen ( Spike and Suzy ), Morris ( Lucky Luke ), Edgar P. Jacobs ( Blake and Mortimer ), Jef Nys ( Jommeke ) and Marc Sleen ( Nero ).

Pettibon has stated that his interest in this technique is a result of the influence of artists such as William Blake and Goya, and the style of political editorial cartoons.

Other characters like Col. Blake, Maj. Winchester, and Corp. Klinger, help demonstrate various American civilian attitudes towards army life, while guest characters such as Eldon Quick, Herb Voland, Mary Wickes, and Tim O ' Connor also help further the show's discussion of America's place as Cold War war-maker and peace-maker.

* Ivan ( Eric Jungmann )-Sidekick and yes-man for Larry Beale in the first season, although he occasionally serves as a yes-man for other popular kids, such as Blake Thompson in the episode " Louis in the Middle ".

What was particular to the Piedmont was that a generation of players adapted these older, ragtime-based techniques to blues in a singular and popular fashion, influenced by guitarists such as Blind Blake and Gary Davis.

Recording artists such as Blind Blake, Josh White, Buddy Moss, and Blind Boy Fuller helped spread the style on the strength of their sales throughout the region.

He greatly admired Cézanne, but also Van Gogh, Blake, Rembrandt, Rubens and Northern European artists of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance such as Bosch, Bruegel and Matthias Grünewald.

Several key executives, such as Chief Product Officer Blake Irving left.

From 1941 to 1947, the USO presented more than 400, 000 performances, featuring entertainers such as Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Hattie McDaniel, Eubie Blake, Ann Sheridan, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, Jack Benny, Larry Adler, Ossy Renardy, Zero Mostel, James Cagney, James Stewart, Gary Cooper, Doraine and Ellis, Lena Horne, Danny Kaye, The Rockettes, Al Jolson, Fred Astaire, Curly Joe DeRita, The Andrews Sisters, Joe E. Brown, Joe E. Lewis, Ray Bolger, Lucille Ball, Glenn Miller, Martha Raye, Mickey Rooney, Betty Hutton, Dinah Shore, and most famously, Bob Hope.

Some directors cast her multiple times in their films, such as Blake Edwards for The Man Who Loved Women ( 1983 ) and Blind Date ( 1987 ), as well as Robert Altman for Fool for Love ( 1985 ) and Prêt-à-Porter ( 1994 ).

In the 1920s, artists such as F. L. Griggs had begun to re-evaluate and re-discover the works of their Romantic forebears ; from the visionary work of Samuel Palmer and William Blake via high Romanticism, to the neo-romanticism that flowered between 1880 and 1910.

Physiologist Keys flatly dismisses such appetite depressants as the amphetamines ( Benzedrine, Dexedrine ) as dangerous `` crutches for a weak will ''.

Hume acknowledges that some historians have argued " that he was well qualified for government, had he legally obtained it ; and that he committed no crimes but such as were necessary to procure him possession of the crown ", but he dismisses this view on the grounds that Richard's exercise of arbitrary power encouraged instability.

Hayek dismisses philosophies that do not adequately recognize the emergent nature of society, and which describe it as the conscious creation of a rational agent ( be it God, the Sovereign, or any kind of personified body politic, such as Hobbes's Leviathan ).

Quintilian dismisses the story as a fiction because " the poet nowhere mentions the affair, although he was not in the least likely to keep silent on a matter which brought him such glory ..".

Despite being overjoyed to have Buffy back, he is furious at Willow for invoking such dark magic, and angrily dismisses her as " a rank, arrogant amateur.

He rejects dualism and also dismisses newer hypotheses such as the so-called ' computational ' model of consciousness, which liken the brain's functions to the operations of a computer.

Incensed by such a violation of Klingon honor codes, Worf disregards Martok's request and confronts Gowron, who dismisses Worf's accusation and adds that his " child's uniform "-- referring to his Starfleet uniform -- is the only thing saving him from his true fate: a duel to the death ( to wit, his own.

David Dumville dismisses the whole concept of transplanting foederati from Scotland to Wales in this manner, given that the political state of sub-Roman Britain would probably have made it impossible to exercise such centralised control by the fifth century.

If the player gets his or her troops killed often, regularly hires and dismisses members or generally is insensitive ( such as not paying for deceased merc body shipments back home ), his or her reputation will lower.

Tytler dismisses the more optimistic vision of democracy by commentators such as Montesquieu as " nothing better than an Utopian theory, a splendid chimera, descriptive of a state of society that never did, and never could exist ; a republic not of men, but of angels ," for " While man is being instigated by the love of power -- a passion visible in an infant, and common to us even with the inferior animals -- he will seek personal superiority in preference to every matter of a general concern ; or at best, he will employ himself in advancing the public good, as the means of individual distinction and elevation: he will promote the interest of the state from the selfish but most useful passion of making himself considerable in that establishment which he labors to aggrandize.

Momiji dismisses the idea that she could be such a person, despite the fact she lives with her mother and grandmother in a shrine in Izumo.

Smith wishes to return to his love but dismisses such action.

She dismisses many things, such as " tolerance ", " wheel chair access " and " not having babies ", as " for gays ".

The scientific community dismisses such beliefs as superstition or pseudoscience.

Some of the details of the creation of Narnia, such as the emergence of animals from the ground, and the way they shake earth from their bodies are also similar to John Milton's Paradise Lost, and may also have been inspired by descriptions of the processes of nature in The seventh book of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.

" In addition, the term was sometimes used to dismiss a scientific principle considered by the writer to be fanciful, such as in 1855's The Principles of Metaphysical and Ethical Science, which stated that " Milton's conception of inorganic matter left to itself, without an indwelling soul, is not merely more poetical, but more philosophical and just, than the scientific romance, now generally repudiated by all rational inquirers, which represents it as necessarily imbued with the seminal principles of organization and life, and waking up by its own force from eternal quietude to eternal motion.

In this original sense, commonplace books were collections of such sayings, such as John Milton's commonplace book.

He highly recommends poetry, especially verse novels such as Milton's " Paradise Lost ".

To dwell upon such literary infamies would be below the dignity of the historian, were it not that these habits of the early Italian humanists imposed a fashion upon Europe which extended to the later age of Scaliger's contentions with Scioppius and Milton's with Salmasius.

Heaven, Hell, and the Divine Despot may descend to earth and have offspring in the Hamlet theme which involves a child's " ambivalent attitude " toward its parents and off of which are spun such variants as Oedipus and Orestes ( Bodkin 1934: 11-15, cited in Williams 1973: 221 ), or all may remain at the divine level, as in the situation with Milton's God and Satan, or Aeschylus's Zeus and Prometheus:

" At the same time, some critics such as George Saintsbury in the Cambridge History of English and American Literature have condemned this work and Milton's later Defensio secunda, asserting that they show, in Saintbury's words, " a good deal of bandying of authority and of wearisome rebutting on particular points.

The club published several books of etchings illustrating various themes by well-known authors such as Goldsmith's " The Deserted Village ", Sonnets by Shakespeare and Milton's " L ' Allegro " and " Il ponseroso ".