Close's book, Truth in Comedy, which was co-written by Charna Halpern, is the definitive text on the form.

Close is also a second cousin once-removed of actress Brooke Shields ( Shields's great-grandmother Mary Elsie Moore was a sister of Close's maternal grandfather, Charles Arthur Moore, Jr .).

As referenced in Orit Kamirs ' Every Breath You Take: Stalking Narratives and the Law, " Glenn Close's character Alex is quite deliberately made to be an erotomaniac.

* Temporalia: Instrumental track, it has professor Frank Close's explanation about time and space relativity, this is an extract of " Equinox – The rubber Universe ".

The live-action film was not as critically successful as the animated movie, but Close's performance, as well as her costumes, by Anthony Powell and Rosemary Burrows, received appreciative attention, including a spread in Vanity Fair.

Charna Halpern, named by Close as the executor of his will, delivered a skull to the Goldman Theater, claiming it was Close's.

Brown consulted Close's county coach, former England bowler Bill Bowes, who pleaded with Brown not to select Close, arguing that such early promotion would damage him as a player.

Developed by Del Close and brought to fruition through Close's collaboration with Charna Halpern, the Harold has become the signature form of Chicago's iO and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York and Los Angeles.

In 1949 he intervened to delay Brian Close's National Service so the 18-year-old Close could complete the cricket season playing for Yorkshire County Cricket Club.

t IO, Halpern combined Shepherd's " Time Dash " game with Del Close's " Harold " game ; the revised format for the Harold became the fundamental structure for the development of modern " long-form " improvisation.

Close's performance was noted for being her most subtle and introverted performance yet and a departure from her other roles.

In addition to Close's nomination, Albert Nobbs also received nominations for Best Supporting Actress for McTeer and Best Makeup.

It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Album for Children, making it Close's second nomination.

" Close's opinion was also corroborated by psychiatrists.

Brian Close's forthright views had never been welcome at Lord's and the affable Colin Cowdrey returned to lead the M. C. C.

Despite well publicised conflict between the two players, Boycott recorded in 1987 that he regretted Close's removal from the club, and wrote him a letter in admiration for his contributions to Yorkshire.

Among Close's classmates at Yale were Brice Marden, Janet Fish, Richard Serra, Nancy Graves, Jennifer Bartlett, Robert Mangold, and Sylvia Plimack Mangold.

Close's photogravure portrait of artist Robert Rauschenberg, “ Robert ” ( 1998 ), appeared in a 2009 exhibition at the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, New York, featuring prints from Universal Limited Art Editions.

Legend has it that Close's last words were, " I ’ m tired of being the funniest person in the room.

Halpern claimed that she had been unable to fulfill Close's wish due to pressure from the morgue, and was forced to instead purchase another skull from a local medical supply company.

In 2007, Eric Spitznagel wrote an article in the September issue of The Believer magazine reflecting on Close's life and his propensity for story-telling.

As cricketers did not use head or body protection in Close's day, he would often get hurt when a batsman struck a ball that hit him.

The hero and dominating figure in Close's home town of Rawdon was Hedley Verity, a great England and Yorkshire cricketer in the period before the Second World War.

Close's early years were surrounded by images of local cricketing greatness.

Close's first first-class games for Yorkshire in the 1949 season were against Cambridge University and then Oxford University.

Overall, Close's first season was seen as a resounding success.

This season set the tone for the remainder of Close's career ; times of notable success, tarnished by many run-ins with officialdom, and with Sellers in particular.

Close's call-up to the Australian touring party attracted considerable press interest, and a press conference was called at Catterick to give the press a chance to question him.

Classrooms open to a center piazza, kitchens are open to view, and access to the surrounding community is assured through wall-size windows, courtyards, and doors to the outside in each classroom.

The only times Schroeder accepted a gift from Lucy was when she gave him a sketch of Beethoven — she was then shocked to find he already had a gigantic wall-size portrait of Beethoven hanging in his room, and when Lucy gave him Elton John glasses.

Among the most important works by the artist in the collection of the Museo del Prado are the tapestry cartoons The Parasol and The Crockery Vendor, and portraits of The Duke and Duchess of Osuna and their Children, The Countess of Chinchón, Don Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, The Family of Charles IV and The Marchioness of Santa Cruz.

The library of literary portraits was figured forth in visual reminders, in illuminated manuscripts, and in tapestry, among other media.

Over the decades, Gaignières brought together a large collection of original letters and other documents, together with portraits and prints, and had copies made of a great number of the most curious antiquarian objects, such as seals, tombstones, stained glass, miniatures and tapestry.

There is a large tapestry draped from the Cottage which says " Stand up if you still believe ".

Muqarrab Khan sent to Jahangir " a European curtain ( tapestry ) the like of which in beauty no other work of the Frank painters has ever been seen.

In September 2000, the Louvre Museum dedicated the Gilbert Chagoury and Rose-Marie Chagoury Gallery to display tapestries donated by the Chagourys, including a 16th-century six-part tapestry suite, sewn with gold and silver threads representing sea divinities, which was commissioned in Paris for Colbert de Seignelay, Secretary of State for the Navy.

This sphere deals directly with Quintessence, the raw material of the tapestry, which is the metaphysical structure of reality.

The Bayeux Tapestry has been claimed to show Harold's death by an arrow to the eye, but that may be a later reworking of the tapestry to conform to 12th-century stories in which Harold was slain by an arrow wound to the head.

For the Beauvais tapestry workshops he first designed a series of Fêtes italiennes (" Italian festivals ") in 1736, which proved to be very successful and often rewoven over the years, and then, commissioned in 1737, a suite of the story of Cupid and Psyche.

The Bayeux Tapestry (,, Norman: La telle du conquest ) is an embroidered cloth — not an actual tapestry — nearly long, which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England concerning William, Duke of Normandy and Harold, Earl of Wessex, later King of England, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings.

In common with other embroidered hangings of the early medieval period, this piece is conventionally referred to as a " tapestry ", although it is not a true tapestry in which the design is woven into the cloth ; it is in fact an embroidery.

It was only on 22 August that the SS attempted to take possession of the tapestry by which time the Louvre was again in French hands.

The inventory listing of 1476 shows that the tapestry was being hung annually in Bayeux Cathedral for the week of the Feast of St. John the Baptist and this was still the case in 1728 although by that time the purpose was merely to air the hanging which was otherwise stored in a chest.

Evidence of this can be found in a comparison with engravings of the tapestry in 1729 by Bernard de Montfaucon, in which the arrow is absent ( see illustration above ).

As a normative term, it refers to ideologies or policies that promote this diversity or its institutionalisation ; in this sense, multiculturalism is a society “ at ease with the rich tapestry of human life and the desire amongst people to express their own identity in the manner they see fit .” Such ideologies or policies vary widely, including country to country, ranging from the advocacy of equal respect to the various cultures in a society, to a policy of promoting the maintenance of cultural diversity, to policies in which people of various ethnic and religious groups are addressed by the authorities as defined by the group they belong to.

However, Philomela weaves a tapestry in which she names Tereus as her assailant, and has it sent to Procne.

Queen Elizabeth II approved in Regina, Saskatchewan on July 4, 1973 a new badge for the RCMP, in recognition of which the force presented the sovereign with a tapestry rendering of the new design.

The coats-of-arms woven into the tapestry are of England ( parted as usual with France ) and the portcullis badge of the Beauforts, which the early Tudor kings later used in their arms.

Agamemnon initially rejects the hubris of walking on the fine purple tapestry, an act which is suggested by Clytemnestra, in hopes of bringing his ruin.

The exceptional 16th-century Brussels tapestry known as " To the birthwort ", both Gothic and Renaissance, is inspired by the discovery of the Americas, and their fauna and flora: it contains Peruvian silver pheasants, pineapples, orchids, pomegranates, animals and vegetables which until then were unknown in Europe.

Note the 19th-century Neuilly tapestry symbolizing the Cher, on which a Venetian gondola is portrayed ; the gondola was actually brought to Chenonceau in the 19th century, with its gondolier, by Madame Pelouze, the owner at that time.

Aubusson is well known for its tapestry and carpets, which have been famous throughout the world since the 14th century.

First attested in English in 1467, the word tapestry derives from Old French tapisserie, from tapisser, meaning " to cover with heavy fabric, to carpet ", in turn from tapis, " heavy fabric ", via Latin tapes, which is the latinisation of the Greek τάπης ( tapēs ), " carpet, rug ".

This method can be likened to pointillism, which originated from discoveries made in the tapestry medium.

* The Trojan War tapestry referred to by Homer in Book III of the Iliad, where Iris disguises herself as Laodice and finds Helen " working at a great web of purple linen, on which she was embroidering the battles between Trojans and Achaeans, that Ares had made them fight for her sake.

* The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidered cloth — not an actual tapestry — nearly 70 metres ( 230 ft ) long, which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England, likely made in England — not Bayeux — in the 1070s

* The New World Tapestry is a 267 feet long tapestry which depicts the colonisation of the Americas between 1583 and 1648, displayed at the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum ; this is not ( strictly speaking ) a tapestry, but is instead embroidery.