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Brass is a metal alloy made of copper and zinc; the proportions of zinc and copper can be varied to create a range of brasses with varying properties. It is a substitutional alloy: atoms of the two constituents may replace each other within the same crystal structure.
By comparison, bronze is principally an alloy of copper and tin. However, bronze and brass may also include small proportions of a range of other elements including arsenic, phosphorus, aluminium, manganese, and silicon. The term is also applied to a variety of brasses, and the distinction is largely historical. Modern practice in museums and archaeology increasingly avoids both terms for historical objects in favour of the all-embracing "copper alloy".
Brass is used for decoration for its bright gold-like appearance; for applications where low friction is required such as locks, gears, bearings, doorknobs, ammunition casings and valves; for plumbing and electrical applications; and extensively in brass musical instruments such as horns and bells where a combination of high workability (historically with hand tools) and durability is desired. It is also used in zippers. Brass is often used in situations in which it is important that sparks not be struck, such as in fittings and tools around explosive gases.
Giovanni Brass (born 26 March 1933), better known as Tinto Brass, is an Italian filmmaker. In the 1960s and 1970s, he directed many critically acclaimed avant-garde films of various genres. Today, he is mainly known for his later work in the erotic genre, with films such as Caligula, Così fan tutte (released under the English title All Ladies Do It), Paprika, Monella (Frivolous Lola) and Trasgredire.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Brass was considered a promising experimental and avant-garde director, and his debut film Who Works Is Lost got very favorable reviews after screening at Venice Film Festival 1963. In 1964, he was comissioned by Umberto Eco to create two short films experimenting with visual language for the 13th Triennale di Milano – Tempo Libero and Tempo Lavorativo. Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, Brass directed films in many genres, including western (Yankee) and crime (Col cuore in gola), all using a very experimental editing- and camera-style. In 1968, Paramount Pictures offered Brass the job of directing A Clockwork Orange, which did not happen due to scheduling conflicts. In an article about the filming of Dropout from 1970, he was called the "Antonioni of the 70s". His early period has been referred to as "rebellios [sic], anarchistic and experimental".
Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, she moved to Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 14 to pursue a career in country music. She signed with the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest songwriter ever signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. The release of Swift's eponymous debut album in 2006 marked the start of her career as a country music singer. Her third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Hot Country Songs chart.
Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008. Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", Fearless became the best-selling album of 2009 in the United States. The album won four Grammy Awards, making Swift the youngest ever Album of the Year winner. Swift's third and fourth albums, 2010's Speak Now and 2012's Red, both sold more than one million copies within the first week of their U.S release. Speak Now's "Mean" won two Grammy Awards, while Red's singles "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" and "I Knew You Were Trouble" were successful worldwide. Swift's fifth album, the pop-focused 1989, was released in 2014 and sold more copies in its opening week than any album in the previous 12 years, making Swift the first and only act to have three albums sell more than one million copies in the opening release week. Its singles "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", and "Bad Blood" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The album would go on to win three awards at the 2016 Grammys including Album of the Year making Swift the first and thus far only female artist to receive the award twice.
Marvin Gaye (/ɡeɪ/; born Marvin Pentz Gay Jr.; April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) was an American soul singer, songwriter, and musician. Gaye helped to shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an in-house session player and later as a solo artist with a string of hits, including How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) and I Heard It Through the Grapevine, and duet recordings with Mary Wells, Kim Weston, and Tammi Terrell, later earning the titles Prince of Motown and Prince of Soul.
During the 1970s, he recorded the concept albums What's Going On and Let's Get It On and became one of the first artists in Motown to break away from the reins of their production company.
Gaye's later recordings influenced several contemporary R&B subgenres, such as quiet storm and neo-soul. Following a period in Europe as a tax exile in the early 1980s, Gaye released the 1982 Grammy Award-winning hit "Sexual Healing" and its parent album Midnight Love.
On April 1, 1984, Gaye's father, Marvin Gay Sr., fatally shot him at their house in the West Adams district of Los Angeles. Since his death, many institutions have posthumously bestowed Gaye with awards and other honors—including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Actors: Gunnar Hansen (actor), Trent Haaga (actor), Billy Garberina (actor), Billy Garberina (producer), Matt Pizzolo (producer), Kenneth J. Hall (actor), Jera Sky (miscellaneous crew), Elske McCain (actress), Don Adams (actor), Scott Phillips (director), Scott Phillips (writer), Scott Phillips (editor), Jeremy Owen (actor), D. Ryan Mowry (actor), D. Ryan Mowry (actor),
Genres: Horror,Actors: Stanley Dorfman (director), Andreas Kouris (editor), Sarah Brock (producer), Martin Fischer (producer), Mark Alan Compton (actor), Jonathan Vanderkolff (miscellaneous crew), Jonathan Vanderkolff (composer), Michael Ray Esham (actor), Brandon Joseph Epperson (actor), Wesley David Bullock (actor), Darren Michael Hazlett (actor), Vernon James Johnson Jr. (actor), Sanford Jones (actor), Michael Jeffrey Greer (actor), John B. Mansager (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Stanley Dorfman (director), Andreas Kouris (editor), Sarah Brock (producer), Martin Fischer (producer), Mark Alan Compton (actor), Jonathan Vanderkolff (miscellaneous crew), Jonathan Vanderkolff (composer), Michael Ray Esham (actor), Brandon Joseph Epperson (actor), Wesley David Bullock (actor), Darren Michael Hazlett (actor), Vernon James Johnson Jr. (actor), Sanford Jones (actor), Michael Jeffrey Greer (actor), John B. Mansager (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Stanley Dorfman (director), Andreas Kouris (editor), Sarah Brock (producer), Martin Fischer (producer), Mark Alan Compton (actor), Jonathan Vanderkolff (miscellaneous crew), Jonathan Vanderkolff (composer), Michael Ray Esham (actor), Brandon Joseph Epperson (actor), Wesley David Bullock (actor), Darren Michael Hazlett (actor), Vernon James Johnson Jr. (actor), Sanford Jones (actor), Michael Jeffrey Greer (actor), John B. Mansager (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Stanley Dorfman (director), Andreas Kouris (editor), Sarah Brock (producer), Martin Fischer (producer), Mark Alan Compton (actor), Jonathan Vanderkolff (miscellaneous crew), Jonathan Vanderkolff (composer), Michael Ray Esham (actor), Brandon Joseph Epperson (actor), Wesley David Bullock (actor), Darren Michael Hazlett (actor), Vernon James Johnson Jr. (actor), Sanford Jones (actor), Michael Jeffrey Greer (actor), John B. Mansager (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Stanley Dorfman (director), Andreas Kouris (editor), Sarah Brock (producer), Martin Fischer (producer), Mark Alan Compton (actor), Jonathan Vanderkolff (miscellaneous crew), Jonathan Vanderkolff (composer), Michael Ray Esham (actor), Brandon Joseph Epperson (actor), Wesley David Bullock (actor), Darren Michael Hazlett (actor), Vernon James Johnson Jr. (actor), Sanford Jones (actor), Michael Jeffrey Greer (actor), John B. Mansager (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Stanley Dorfman (director), Andreas Kouris (editor), Sarah Brock (producer), Martin Fischer (producer), Mark Alan Compton (actor), Jonathan Vanderkolff (miscellaneous crew), Jonathan Vanderkolff (composer), Michael Ray Esham (actor), Brandon Joseph Epperson (actor), Wesley David Bullock (actor), Darren Michael Hazlett (actor), Vernon James Johnson Jr. (actor), Sanford Jones (actor), Michael Jeffrey Greer (actor), John B. Mansager (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Stanley Dorfman (director), Andreas Kouris (editor), Sarah Brock (producer), Martin Fischer (producer), Mark Alan Compton (actor), Jonathan Vanderkolff (miscellaneous crew), Jonathan Vanderkolff (composer), Michael Ray Esham (actor), Brandon Joseph Epperson (actor), Wesley David Bullock (actor), Darren Michael Hazlett (actor), Vernon James Johnson Jr. (actor), Sanford Jones (actor), Michael Jeffrey Greer (actor), John B. Mansager (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Tony Mabesa (actor), Original Thunder Stuntmen (actor), Rufa Mae Quinto (actress), Joko Diaz (actor), Toto Natividad (director), Vic del Rosario Jr. (producer), Zandro Zamora (actor), Cris Aguilar (actor), Ramon Christopher (actor), Rodolfo 'Boy' Garcia (actor), Eva Darren (actress), Kier Legaspi (actor), Evangeline Pascual (actress), Donita Rose (actress), Brando Legaspi (actor),
Genres: Action, Drama,Actors: Berton Churchill (actor), Bill Wolfe (actor), Frank M. Thomas (actor), Willie Best (actor), Harry Carey (actor), Victor Potel (actor), Ronald R. Rondell (actor), Kenner G. Kemp (actor), Donald Kerr (actor), Paul Kruger (actor), George Magrill (actor), Arthur Hoyt (actor), David Newell (actor), Bud Jamison (actor), Helen Dickson (actress),
Plot: In a film advertised and sold as a Damon Runyon story, but actually combined elements from his "All Scarlet" and another story written by J. Robert Bren and Norman Houston called "Odds Are Even", horse breeder Tom Martin, in a streak of bad luck, is persuaded by his daughter Doris to enter a mare in the feature race at the county fair. There, Martin rejects a tout's proposition to throw the race, and he also meets his old friends, the "Judge" and the "Warbler". The race starts and the mare, just short of reaching the wire and winning the race, is crowded into the rail and ruined as a racer. The Martins return home, where Ruth busies herself in training a colt, Katydid. She enters the horse in a claiming race at Santa Anita, where she gets lots of publicity as a novelty girl trainer.Wealthy, amateur horseman Steve Wendall offers her a job as trainer of his stable, but she refuses. Katydid wins but is claimed by Bradford, Wendall's trainer, on behalf of Wendall, who has done so simply to get Ruth to accept his job offer. She does, and goes East and then to Europe, winning time and again with the Wendall horses she has trained. But there is a falling out between Ruth and Wendall, who doesn't think Katydid can win the Santa Anita, and Ruth who thinks Wendall has had the horse kidnapped to keep it out of the race.
Keywords: acceptance, accident, african-american, amateur, argument, automobile-manufacturer, b-movie, bet, bribery, californiaAutumn's back and it's cool again.
And, the better things that you feel set into the cold.
Grab your jacket, fix your hat, and face the snow.
Throw your pack across your back before you go.
A slow goodbye and the batt'ry dies
'Fore your breathe your last is your second life. You're alive.
Pay your pleasantries to all the passers by.
Say the words to them, but never beg the why.
Sleeping in to save your cold goodbye.
Slipping down the same old rope. Goodbye.
The blink of an eye and the tears you cry.
Carry luggage along the electric line this time.
Swear your heart out yours won't intersect with mine.
Unwrap your silverware as you prepare to dine.
And you're carried away to the nearest place.
Yeah, you've seen it before, the familiar face, this town.
Jason's chomping at his bit to send your 'round.
Hanging upside like a spider spin you down.
You're sleeping to beat of the real thing.
'Cause you got and cold and unescapable feeling, yeah.
You put the horse before the car.
You got a mark on your head and a battle scar.
Take the title to escape your past.