Munnery was brought to the attention of a comedy community as the compere of a post-alternative comedy cabaret called Cluub Zarathustra performed originally in London and later at the Edinburgh Festival.

In our present era of Science and Angst, the heart has been downgraded, to use one of our popular retrogressive verbs ''.

In the swing era they were usually either arrangements of popular songs or they were entirely new compositions.

The definition of ballroom dance also depends on the era: balls have featured popular dances of the day such as the Minuet, Quadrille, Polonaise, Polka, Mazurka, and others, which are now considered to be historical dances.

By the Victorian era, ballad had come to mean any sentimental popular song, especially so-called " royalty ballads ", which publishers would pay popular singers to perform in Britain and the United States in " ballad concerts.

This track features an Indian sample from a cult Bollywood era making the track popular on the bhangra and desi scene and with much of British Asian urban culture.

The popular Commodore computer magazines of the era also entered the arena with type-in fast-load utilities, with Compute!

To call the dance " collegiate shag " was not as common during the swing era as it is today, but when it was used ( as it was with other vernacular dances of the time ) it was meant to indicate the style of the dance that was popular amongst the college crowd.

And, though double shag is the most popular form of collegiate shag today, single was the dominant rhythm during the swing era.

The double bass as a solo instrument enjoyed a period of popularity during the 18th century and many of the most popular composers from that era wrote pieces for the double bass.

The electric bass was able to provide the huge, highly amplified stadium-filling bass tone that the pop and rock music of this era demanded, and the upright bass receded from the limelight of the popular music scene.

In most countries, intertitles came to be used to provide dialogue and narration for the film, thus dispensing with narrators, but in Japanese cinema human narration remained popular throughout the silent era.

He was the winner of the popular vote for president three times — in 1884, 1888, and 1892 — and was the only Democrat elected to the presidency in the era of Republican political domination that lasted from 1861 to 1913.

Notable names in mid-century modern design include Adrian Frutiger, designer of the typefaces Univers and Frutiger ; Paul Rand, who, from the late 1930s until his death in 1996, took the principles of the Bauhaus and applied them to popular advertising and logo design, helping to create a uniquely American approach to European minimalism while becoming one of the principal pioneers of the subset of graphic design known as corporate identity ; and Josef Müller-Brockmann, who designed posters in a severe yet accessible manner typical of the 1950s and 1970s era.

During the 1970s and early 1980s, this show was probably the best-known showcase for popular country music on commercial television, aside from other half-hour performer-hosted syndicated shows ( most notably The Porter Wagoner Show, which is perhaps the only other weekly country music show of this era to approach Hee Haws longevity.

In the popular Canadian television program Degrassi, character Eli Goldsworthy, a ' death obsessed ' 16 year old, drives a 1960's era vintage hearse, affectionately nicknamed Morty.

In 1977 they upgraded and extended their Artist range and introduced a number of other top quality original designs made to match or surpass famous American brands ; the Performer and short-lived Concert ranges which competed with the Les Paul ; through neck Musicians ; Studios in fixed and through neck construction ; the radically shaped Iceman and the Roadster which morphed into the Roadstar range, precursor to the popular superstrat era in the mid-1980s.

Bead embroidery, a popular type of handwork during the Victorian era, is enjoying a renaissance in modern jewellery making.

Settling in Southern California, Mitchell and her popular songs like " Big Yellow Taxi " and " Woodstock " helped define an era and a generation.

These negative qualities provided extensive material for fiction writers in the Victorian era, and John remains a recurring character within Western popular culture, primarily as a villain in films and stories depicting the Robin Hood legends.

Like most movie stars of the silent era, Pickford found her career fading as talkies became more popular among audiences.

Musical stars such as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were among the most popular and highly respected personalities in Hollywood during the classical era ; the Fred and Ginger pairing was particularly successful, resulting in a number of classic films, such as Top Hat ( 1935 ), Swing Time ( 1936 ) and Shall We Dance ( 1937 ).

The most popular film of the brief era of Stalinist musicals was Alexandrov ’ s 1938 film Volga-Volga.

The post-war motels, especially in the early 1950s to late 1960s, sought more visual distinction, often featuring eye-catching colorful neon signs which employed themes from popular culture, ranging from Western imagery of cowboys and Indians to contemporary images of spaceships and atomic era iconography.

U. S. Route 66 is the most popular example of the " neon era ".

Piano trios that are set in the Sonata tradition share the general concerns of such works for their era, and often are reflective directly of symphonic practice with individual movements laid out according to the composer's understanding of the sonata form.

The piano trios of the Classical era, notably those of Haydn, are dominated by the piano part.

His writings from this period included a series of historical novels, featuring a fictional naval officer from Guernsey, Richard Delancey, during the Napoleonic era.

The nearest potential images included one claimed to be by noted Revolutionary War era engraver Pierre Eugene du Simitiere that turned out to be a forgery, and a reference to a portrait possibly by Ralph Earl that has not been found ( as of Stewart Holbrook's writing in 1940 ).

The textual transmission of the plays from the fifth century BC, when they were first written, up until the era of the printing press, was largely a haphazard process in which much of Euripides's work was lost and corrupted, but it also included triumphs by scholars and copyists, thanks to whom much was also recovered and preserved.

Other entries during this era included Fanball. com, launched in 1999 by the parent company of Fantasy Football Weekly.

The 1982 Steve Martin comedy Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was shot in black-and-white as a parody of a 1940s film noir and included footage of actors from the film-noir era such as Humphrey Bogart, Burt Lancaster, and others spliced in with the modern actors.

It included fake movie trailers made to look like those of the era.

Hence the group included supporters of Trotskyism, like Judith Merril and others who would have been deemed far left for the era ( Frederik Pohl became a member of the Communist Party in 1936, but later quit in 1939 ).

However, not all such grimoires of this era were based upon Arabic sources ; the 13th century the Sworn Book of Honorius for instance was, like the ancient Testament of Solomon before it, largely based upon the supposed teachings of the Biblical king Solomon, and also included ideas such as prayers and a ritual circle, with the mystical purpose of having visions of God, Hell and Purgatory, and gaining much wisdom and knowledge as a result.

Other authors of the Gogol's era included Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky ( The Living Corpse, written 1838, published 1844, The Ghost, The Sylphide, and other stories ), Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy ( The Family of the Vourdalak, 1839, and The Vampire, 1841 ), Mikhail Zagoskin ( Unexpected Guests ), Józef Sękowski / Osip Senkovsky ( Antar ), Yevgeny Baratynsky ( The Ring ).

Notable Parsons-penned songs included "$ 1000 Wedding ", a holdover from the Burrito Brothers era, and " Brass Buttons ", a 1965 opus which addresses his mother's alcoholism.

In 1684 the French and Spanish signed the Treaty of Ratisbon that included provisions to suppress the actions of the Caribbean privateers, which effectively ended the era of the buccaneers on Tortuga, many being employed by the French Crown to hunt down any of their former comrades who preferred to turn outright pirate.

With the era of rap metal on the decline, Kid Rock included several southern rock and country ballads on the album.

The R3000 also included a built-in MMU, a common feature on CPUs of the era.

The repertoire included many bebop mainstays, standards from the Great American Songbook and the pre-bop era, and some traditional tunes.

Often toward the later part of the era they included battlements and arrow loops.

Towards the end of the era, the continents gathered together into a supercontinent called Pangaea, which included most of the Earth's land area.

Key recordings included Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow, the first album to come out of San Francisco during this era, which sold well enough to bring the city's music scene to the attention of the record industry: from it they took two of the earliest psychedelic hit singles: " White Rabbit " ( 1967 ) and " Somebody to Love " ( 1967 ).

American Impressionist painters noted for this style during this era included, Guy Rose, Robert William Wood, Mary Denil Morgan, John Gamble, and Arthur Hill Gilbert.

Exceptions included The Platters, with songs including " The Great Pretender " ( 1955 ) and The Coasters with humorous songs like " Yakety Yak " ( 1958 ), both of which ranked among the most successful rock and roll acts of the era.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution introduced an era of European world hegemony that included the domination of most of the lands of Islam.

His Aldine Editions included translations of nearly all the known Greek manuscripts of the era.

These included significant expansions in workhouses ( or poorhouses in Scotland ), although with changing populations during the era.

TSR's medieval era miniatures game, Chainmail ( 1971 ) included a fantasy supplement that led to a new phenomenon that would become much bigger than its parent hobby, role-playing games ( RPGs ).

This era included the battles of Smolensk, Borodino, Lützen, Bautzen, and the Dresden.

New names in the post-war era included ' Socialist Party ', ' Socialist Unity Party ', ' Popular Party ', ' Workers ' Party ' and ' Party of Labour '.