Piave and Verdi wanted to follow Dumas in giving the opera a contemporary setting, but the authorities at La Fenice insisted that it be set in the past, " c. 1700 ".

Montmartre was the setting of the film La Môme, ( La vie en rose ) which elaborates on the life of famous French singer Edith Piaf and her times in the slums of Paris, and of Amélie, the story of a young Parisian woman determined to help the lives of others and find her true love, is set in an exaggeratedly quaint version of contemporary Montmartre.

Puerto Rican playwright, Luis Rafael Sánchez published in 1968 La Pasión según Antígona Pérez, taking the basic premise of the play into a contemporary world, where Creon is the dictator of a fictional Latin American nation, and Antígona and her ' brothers ' are dissident freedom fighters.

After La Péri, Dukas completed no new large-scale compositions, although, as with his contemporary Jean Sibelius, there were frequent reports of major work in hand.

The contemporary monument Tropaeum Alpium in La Turbie celebrates the victory won by the Romans over 46 tribes in these mountains.

Producer and pianist Sergio George helped to revive salsa's commercial success in the 1990s by mixing salsa with contemporary pop styles with artists like Tito Nieves, La India, and Marc Anthony.

A contemporary political issue also formed the background for La guerre est finie ( The War Is Over ) ( 1966 ), this time the clandestine activities of left-wing opponents of the Franco régime in Spain.

In 1939, now able to co-finance his own films, Renoir made The Rules of the Game ( La Règle du Jeu ), a satire on contemporary French society with an ensemble cast.

Chapelain acquired considerable prestige as a literary critic, but his own major work, an epic poem about Joan of Arc called " La Pucelle ," ( 1656 ) was lampooned by his contemporary Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux.

The 1992 single " Inquisition " included the b-side " Lahuman8 ", one of several pieces commissioned by the contemporary dance group La La La Human Steps for their 1991 production Infante C ' est Destroy.

This may stem from a mistranslation of the contemporary French sources such as the magazine La France Auto of March 1901.

Most of contemporary Aymaran urban culture was developed in the working-class Aymara neighborhoods of La Paz, such as Chijini and others.

These contemporary sources include ; the Articles of the Bataill bitwix the Kinge of Scottes and therle of Surrey in Brankstone Field said to be a field despatch ; Brian Tuke's news-letter to Cardinal Bainbridge ; an Italian poem, La Rotta de Scosesi in part based on Tuke's letters ; a news-sheet printed in London, The Trewe Encountre ; another lost news-sheet printed by Richard Pynson which was the source used in Edward Hall's Chronicle.

La Géométrie and two other appendices also by Descartes, the Optics and the Meteorology, were published with the Discourse to give examples of the kinds of successes he had achieved following his method ( as well as, perhaps, considering the contemporary European social climate of intellectual competitiveness, to show off a bit to a wider audience ).

Notable contemporary folk musicians include Christian Pacher and Claude Ribouillault ( Poitou ) and the group La Marienne ( Vendée.

In these lectures, published as the Cours de littérature ancienne et moderne, La Harpe is considered to have been at his best, finding a standpoint more or less independent of contemporary polemics.

* See contemporary memoirs of Madame de Sévigné, of Saint-Simon, of Bussy-Rabutin and others ; also the proceedings of the Chambre Ardente preserved in the Archives de la Bastille ( Arsenal Library ) and the notes of La Reynie preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale.

This move, widely criticized by the local community and the closing of the only contemporary art museum between San Francisco and La Jolla, led indirectly to the founding of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 1979, a project largely driven by Norton Simon's sister Marcia Weisman.

This may stem from a mistranslation of the contemporary French sources such as the magazine La France Auto of March 1901.

The contemporary sketches which she contributed from 1836 to 1839 to the La Presse, under the nom de plume of Charles de Launay, were collected under the title of Lettres parisiennes ( 1843 ), and obtained a brilliant success.

La Feuille villageoise was thoroughly partisan in its republican favoritism, and unambiguous in its didactic presentation of its opinions .. Less vitriolic and more analytical than many of its more infamous contemporary newspapers, La Feuille villageoise also distinguished itself by rarely identifying individual politicians as enemies of its ideas, but instead relied on a simple trope of aristocrates and patriotes.

The early Celtic La Tène short sword, contemporary with the Xiphos, had a virtually identical blade design as the Xiphos.

" L ' électron libre ", a gorgeously-ornamented building ( in a raving psychedelic style ) located in the core of the city ( 59 rue de Rivoli ), and owned by a French Bank, was in 2001 the third most visited place for contemporary art ( 40, 000 visitors a year, according to the French Ministry for Culture ).

Star-News considered Culture Club as a ' new rock ' band of the 1980s, the newspaper said, " Now you see the more rhythm-oriented, ' new rock of the 80s ,' like Culture Club and the Eurythmics, fitting in more easily with urban contemporary formats ".

The concept of détournement has had a popular influence amongst contemporary radicals, and the technique can be seen in action in the present day when looking at the work of Culture Jammers including the Cacophony Society, Billboard Liberation Front, Occupy Movements and Adbusters, whose ' subvertisements ' ' detourn ' Nike adverts, for example.

Supporting interpretations and explanations of contemporary conspicuous consumption are proffered in Consumer Culture ( 1996 ), by C. Lury, Consumer Culture and Modernity ( 1997 ), by D. Slater, Symbolic Exchange and Death ( 1998 ), by Jean Baudrillard, and Spent: Sex, Evolution, and the Secrets of Consumerism ( 2009 ), by Geoffrey Miller.

An overview of all available sources from southern Germany concluded that the Bell Beaker Culture was a new and independent culture in that area, contemporary with the Corded Ware Culture.

* Scottish social and cultural commentator Gordon P. Clarkson has termed contemporary Mass Culture " Eloi Culture " as he claims that it is creating a society of unthinking passive consumers of " meaningless trivia ".

She rejoined the Government in 2003 as Minister for the Arts in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and caused further comment when she admitted that she did not know much about contemporary art.

In 1986, Evans produced and arranged the soundtrack to the film of the Colin MacInnes book Absolute Beginners, thereby working with such contemporary artists as Sade Adu, Patsy Kensit's Eighth Wonder, The Style Council, Jerry Dammers, Smiley Culture, Edward Tudor-Pole, and, notably, David Bowie.

Hayflick is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an Honorary Member of the Tissue Culture Association and, according to the Institute of Scientific Information, is one of the most cited contemporary scientists in the world in the fields of biochemistry, biophysics, cell biology, enzymology, genetics and molecular biology.

María Nsué Angüe ( born 1945 in Ebebeyín ( Río Muni ), Spanish Guinea ) is a noted contemporary Equatorial Guinean writer and former Minister of Education and Culture.

The Matsudai Snow-Land Agrarian Culture Centre ( aka Matsudai Nobutai ) was built in 2003 by architects MVRDV as part of the Triennial and is the focal point for local contemporary art activities.

* Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, a center for contemporary art and culture based in Moscow

Historian Joanne Meyerowitz argues ( in " Beyond the Feminine Mystique: A Reassessment of Postwar Mass Culture, 1946-1958 ," Journal of American History 79, March 1993 ) that many of the contemporary magazines and articles of the period did not place women solely in the home, as Friedan stated, but in fact supported the notions of full-or part-time jobs for women seeking to follow a career path rather than being a housewife.

In March 2005 Jan Zwicky ( University of Victoria ) used the notion of duende in the context of contemporary music at a symposium organised by Continuum Contemporary Music & the Institute for Contemporary Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum, an event televised by Big Ideas:

* Mario Vargas Llosa a writer of historical fiction and a major figure in contemporary Latin American letters, is the first occupant of the Ibero-American Literature and Culture Chair at Georgetown University.

It, too, created major shock waves in contemporary British culture, some of which appear in works such as Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy and John Ruskin's The Crown of Wild Olive, as authors debated whether this shift of power would create democracy that would, in turn, destroy high culture.

After 1950, two general literary trends took form: the first, dubbed the " Greenback Culture " () sought to make itself appealing to contemporary American culture and consumers ; the second, called the " Left Wing " (), opposed the " Greenback " style.

These contemporary life conditions ( Historic Times ; Geographic Place ; Existential Problems ; and Societal Circumstances ) are explored in books like Carl Sagan's The Demon Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark ( New York: Ballantine Books, 1996 ), John Brockman's The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution ( New York: Touchstone Books, 1996 ), and Michael Shermer's Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudo-science, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time ( New York: W. H.

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