Sundance Film Festival - In 1979, Sterling Van Wagenen left to head up the first year "pilot" program of what was to become the Sundance Institute, and Cirina Hampton Catania took over as executive director of the festival... Over 60 films were screened at the festival that year, and panels featured many well-known Hollywood filmmakers...
Communist Party Of China - Theoretically, the party's highest body is the National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which meets at least once every five years... In addition, some scholars contend that China has never operated under a decentralized democratic regime in its several thousand years of history, and therefore it can be argued that the present political structure, albeit not up to Western moral or political standards, is the best possible option when compared to the alternatives... In practice, positions within the Central Committee and Politburo are determined before a Party Congress, and the main purpose of the Congress is to announce the party policies and vision for the direction of China in the following few years...
History of The People's Republic of China (1949–1976): Great Leap Forward - We can practice joint cooperation in government, military, cultural, and economic matters and you can leave us with a guerrilla force." When the Soviet premier himself visited China the following year, Mao again asked him to explain what a joint fleet was... China rejected de-Stalinization and in fact displayed large Stalin portraits at the May Day celebrations that year...
Thomas Edison: The Final Years - In 1930, the year before Edison died, Mina said in an interview about him that "Correct eating is one of his greatest hobbies." She also said that during one of his periodic "great scientific adventures", Edison would be up at 7:00, have breakfast at 8:00, and be rarely home for lunch or dinner, implying that he continued to have all three... Edison was said to have been influenced by a popular fad diet in his last few years; "the only liquid he consumed was a pint of milk every three hours"...
History of Television: Electromechanical Television - On June 13 of that year, Charles Francis Jenkins transmitted the silhouette image of a toy windmill in motion, over a distance of five miles from a naval radio station in Maryland to his laboratory in Washington, using a lensed disk scanner with a 48-line resolution... As a 23-year-old German university student, Paul Nipkow proposed and patented the first electromechanical television system in 1884...
Samuel Adams (beer) - Over the years, the brand has been produced under contract at various brewing facilities with excess capacity, ranging from Stroh breweries, Portland's original Blitz-Weinhard brewery (shuttered in 1999), Cincinnati's Hudepohl-Schoenling brewery (eventually purchased by the Boston Beer Company in early 1997), and industry giant SABMiller... That year, The Boston Beer Company went public, selling shares of Class A Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange, under the ticker symbol, "SAM"...
History Of Clothing And Textiles - Other scientific research also based on the study of the lice which infests modern humans estimates that humans have been wearing clothing for 190 thousand years... This study suggests that clothing may possibly have been used 650 thousand years ago – much longer than previously thought...
History of Film: The Silent Era - Thus, for the first thirty years of their history, films were silent, although accompanied by live musicians and sometimes sound effects and even commentary spoken by the showman or projectionist... The first eleven years of motion pictures show the cinema moving from a novelty to an established large-scale entertainment industry...
Actor - The first recorded case of an actor performing took place in 534 BC (though the changes in calendar over the years make it hard to determine exactly) when the Greek performer Thespis stepped on to the stage at the Theatre Dionysus and became the first known person to speak words as a character in a play or story... When an eighteen year Puritan prohibition of drama was lifted after the English Restoration of 1660, women began to appear on stage in England...
Samuel Adams (beer): Current Family of Beers - Core beers Beer title Year introduced Description Boston Lager 1984 This deep amber color lager is brewed using only four ingredients and traditional brewing methods for a full, smooth body... Beer title Year introduced Description Samuel Adams Boston 26.2 Brew 2012 A light beer with a slightly lower alcohol level than many other Samuel Adams beers... Beer title Year introduced Description Triple Bock 1994 Noncarbonated and ruby-black - this Triple Bock should be sipped from a small crystal glass in a two-ounce serving...
B Movies (The Exploitation Boom) - The death of the Production Code in 1968 and the major success of the exploitation-style Easy Rider the following year fueled the trend through the subsequent decade... An 82-minute-long suspense film, Terror Is a Man, produced by a Manila-based, American-Philippine company, ran as a "co-feature." It had a now familiar sort of exploitation gimmick: "The dénouement helpfully includes a 'warning bell' so the sensitive can 'close their eyes.'" That year, Roger Corman took American International down a new road: "When they asked me to make two ten-day black-and-white horror films to play as a double feature, I convinced them instead to finance one horror film in color." A period piece in the vein of Britain's Hammer Films, House of Usher was a success, launching a series of Poe-based movies Corman would direct for AIP...
Samuel Adams (beer): Products - Additionally, the company brews four seasonal beers per year, as follows: Alpine Spring (January - March) Summer Ale (April - August) Octoberfest (August - October) Winter Lager (November - January) Samuel Adams also runs a "Winter Classics Mix Pack" near the Christmas Season, consisting of Old Fezziwig Ale, a spiced ale introduced in 1995; Holiday Porter, which is very dark but smooth, introduced in 2004; and Cranberry Lambic, which tastes like cranberries, but is not actually a Lambic-style beer... As of 2007, the company produces twelve varieties of beer year-round: Boston Lager, Sam Adams Light, Boston Ale, Pale Ale, Cherry Wheat, Cream Stout, Brown Ale, Hefeweizen, Scotch Ale, Black Lager, Honey Porter, and Irish Red...
Cinema of Iran: Censorship - Tahmineh Milani's Kakadu, which was about the environment, was banned and still cannot be seen in Iran because it depicts a beautiful eight-year-old girl who is not wearing a headscarf... Of a subsequent film, Two Women, Milani has said " was banned for seven months and before I could even start on it my script was banned for seven years...
Cinema of Germany: 1945–1989 East Germany - In the final years of the GDR, the availability of television and the programming and films on television broadcasts reaching into the GDR via the uncontrollable airwaves, DEFA's productions' importance was reduced, although its continuing role in producing shows for East German television channel remained... In its early years, production was limited due to strict controls imposed by the authorities which restricted the subject-matter of films to topics that directly contributed to the Communist project of the state...
Sundance Film Festival: History - In 1979, Sterling Van Wagenen left to head up the first year "pilot" program of what was to become the Sundance Institute, and Cirina Hampton Catania took over as executive director of the festival... Over 60 films were screened at the festival that year, and panels featured many well-known Hollywood filmmakers...
History of Clothing and Textiles: Prehistoric Development - This study suggests that clothing may possibly have been used 650 thousand years ago – much longer than previously thought... Other scientific research also based on the study of the lice which infests modern humans estimates that humans have been wearing clothing for 190 thousand years...
B Movies (The Exploitation Boom): Sleazeballs and Slashers: 1970s - But the movie regarded as truly igniting the blaxploitation phenomenon, again completely independent, came the following year: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is also perhaps the most outrageous example of the form—wildly experimental in style, borderline pornographic ("Rated X by an All White Jury," declared the ads), and essentially a manifesto for a black American revolution... Loden, who spent six years raising money for the sub-$200,000 production, created a film that Vincent Canby of the New York Times praised for "the absolute accuracy of its effects, the decency of its point of view and the kind of purity of technique that can only be the result of conscious discipline." While Wanda would be the only movie Loden ever made, she "left us with a film that anticipated the independent spirit that would reinvigorate the industry."...