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Lists of phenomena, from the contemplation of which " the savage " was led to believe in animism, have been given by Sir E. B. Tylor, Herbert Spencer, Andrew Lang, and others ; a controversy arose between the former as to the priority of their respective lists.
Throughout the first seven seasons of the series he has a complicated relationship with Lana Lang, as well as his self-perceived guilt over the fact that the meteor shower that killed Lana's parents and created most of the superhumans he fought in the show's first few years was caused by his rocket coming to Earth and dragging pieces of Krypton with it.
A 1954 article by Truffaut attacked La qualité française (" the French Quality ") and was the manifesto for ' la politique des Auteurs ' which Andrew Sarris later termed the auteur theory — resulting in the re-evaluation of Hollywood films and directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Robert Aldrich, Nicholas Ray, Fritz Lang and Anthony Mann.
Also, the German Expressionists ( including Fritz Lang, who was not technically an expressionist as popularly believed ) emigrated to America and brought their stylized lighting effects ( and disillusionment due to the war ) to American soil.
Friedrich Christian Anton " Fritz " Lang ( December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976 ) was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor.
Lang was born in Vienna as the second son of Anton Lang ( 1860 – 1940 ), an architect and construction company manager, and his wife Pauline " Paula " Lang née Schlesinger ( 1864 – 1920 ).
Fritz Lang himself was baptized on 28 December 1890 at the Schottenkirche in Vienna.
At the outbreak of World War I, Lang returned to Vienna and volunteered for military service in the Austrian army and fought in Russia and Romania, where he was wounded three times.
His writing stint was brief, as Lang soon started to work as a director at the German film studio Ufa, and later Nero-Film, just as the Expressionist movement was building.
She and Lang co-wrote all of his movies from 1921 through 1933, including 1922's Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler ( Dr. Mabuse the Gambler ), which ran for over four hours in two parts in the original version and was the first in the Dr. Mabuse trilogy, 1924's five-hour Die Nibelungen, the famous 1927 film Metropolis, and the 1931 classic, M, his first " talking " picture.
Lang epitomized the stereotype of the tyrannical German film director such as Erich von Stroheim and Otto Preminger ; he was known for being hard to work with.
Whereas Lang was worried about the advent of the Nazi regime, partly because of his Jewish heritage, his wife and screen writer Thea von Harbou had started to sympathize with the Nazis in the early 1930s and joined the NSDAP in 1932.
According to Lang, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels called Lang to his offices to inform him that The Testament of Dr Mabuse was being banned but that he was nevertheless so impressed by Lang's abilities as a filmmaker ( especially Metropolis ), he was offering Lang a position as the head of German film studio UFA.
Lang had stated that it was during this meeting that he had decided to leave for Paris-but that the banks had closed by the time the meeting was over.

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There is certainly some irony in this, given that the organisation went on to plot the forcible removal of Premier Jack Lang from office.
Lang was certainly the progenitor of today's calendar.

Lang and Scot
In 1876 they acquired Scot James Lang.
* David Spinozza, Jeff Mironov, Jerry Donahue, Scot Lang, David Nichtern, Richard Resnicoff – guitar

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At the end of the ceremony, everyone in the park held hands and sang " Auld Lang Syne " to Williams, a moment which he later said " moved me quite a bit ".

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Jack Lang, the Labor Party Leader of the Opposition in New South Wales and a fiery left-wing populist, campaigned vigorously against the provisions of the Melbourne Agreement.

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Mrs. Blanche Dunkel, 60, who has spent 25 years in the Dwight reformatory for women for the murder in 1935 of her son-in-law, Ervin Lang, then 28, appealed for a parole at a hearing yesterday before two Illinois pardon and parole board members, John M. Bookwalter and Joseph Carpentier.
In 1931, after Woman in the Moon, Lang directed what many film scholars consider to be his masterpiece: M, a disturbing story of a child murderer ( Peter Lorre in his first starring role ) who is hunted down and brought to rough justice by Berlin's criminal underworld.
Lang left Germany in 1934 and moved to Paris after his marriage to Thea von Harbou, who stayed behind, ended in 1933.
Upon his arrival in Hollywood, Lang joined the MGM studio and directed the crime drama Fury, starring Spencer Tracy as a man wrongly accused of a crime and then attacked by lynch mob who burn down the jail where he is awaiting trial and it is assumed they killed him in the flames, but did not.
Mike Doughty ( who billed himself at the time as " M. Doughty ") was a folk singer ( he attended Eugene Lang College with Ani DiFranco, where they studied with Sekou Sundiata and played around the school together ), slam poet, sometime music writer, and doorman at the old Houston Street location of The Knitting Factory, then a nexus for such avant-garde artists as John Zorn and Marc Ribot.
** X-Sentinels-by Stephen Lang, androids who were duplicates of the original X-Men.
A further split, this time of left-wing NSW Labor MPs who supported the unorthodox economic policies of NSW Premier Jack Lang, cost the Scullin government its parliamentary majority.
The New South Wales Governor, Sir Philip Game, intervened on the basis that Lang had acted illegally in breach of the state Audit Act and sacked the Lang Government, who then suffered a landslide loss at the consequent 1932 state election.
Other notable artists from Whitehorse are the actors Tahmoh Penikett of Battlestar Galactica and Dollhouse ; Amy Sloan who has done many television shows ,( Molly Lang ) Dancer, Singer, Northern Icon, the storyteller Ivan Coyote, punk rock bassist Jonas Smith of JJS3, and the creator of Scrooge McDuck occasional resident Carl Barks.
Lang and Kornfeld noticed the ad, and the four men got together originally to discuss a retreat-like recording studio in Woodstock, but the idea evolved into an outdoor music and arts festival, although even that was initially envisioned on a smaller scale, perhaps featuring some of the big name artists who lived in the Woodstock area ( such as Bob Dylan and The Band ).
Lang, however, disputes Tiber's account, and says that Tiber introduced him to a real estate salesman, who drove him to Yasgur's farm without Tiber.
In 1928, Fritz Lang made the film Spies which contained many tropes that became popular in later spy dramas, including secret headquarters, an agent known by a number, and the beautiful foreign agent who comes to love the hero.
Jennings Lang arranged for Eastwood to meet Don Siegel, a Universal contract director who later became Eastwood's close friend, forming a partnership that would last more than ten years and produce five films.
Andrew Lang, who reviewed the book in 1876, suggested that " Hope " might be the Bonnet-maker.
Directed by Fritz Lang, Tracy played a man who swears revenge after narrowly escaping death by a lynch mob.
Andrew Lang, who merely quotes MacQuhirrie as to the fact of the conversion, without mentioning Abercromby, puts it as occurring in 1598.
Robert Lang and Alex Bateman are two designers who use computer programs to create origami tessellations.
The governor, Sir Philip Game, wrote to Lang, warning him that ministers were breaking the law, and warning that if they continued, he would have to obtain ministers who could carry on government within legal bounds.
Fire Down Below is a 1997 American action thriller film directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá, starring Steven Seagal as an EPA agent who investigates a Kentucky mine and helps locals stand up for their rights ; co-starring Marg Helgenberger, Kris Kristofferson, Harry Dean Stanton, and Stephen Lang, the film also includes cameos by country music performers Randy Travis, Mark Collie, Ed Bruce, Marty Stuart, and Travis Tritt, and country-rocker and The Band member Levon Helm.
Eventually, she agrees to testify against Orin and his people, much to the anger of her brother Earl ( Stephen Lang ), who actually committed the crime.
All branches are jointly governed by a chief of defence staff, Lieutenant General Massaneh Kinteh, who succeeded Lieutenant General Lang Tombong Tamba who is currently on death row for involvement in a 2009 coup plot.
In 1890, he met Charles Lang Freer, who became a valuable patron in America, and ultimately, his most important collector.

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