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The Juilliard School,[1] located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, United States, is a performing arts conservatory which was established in 1905. It is informally identified as simply «Juilliard,» and trains about 800 undergraduate and graduate students in dance, drama, and music. Juilliard is considered one of the most prestigious performing arts conservatories in the world.[2][3]

In 2007, the school received 2,138 applications for admission, of which 162 were admitted for a 7.58% acceptance rate.[4] In the fall semester of 2009, the school had an 8.0% acceptance rate.[5] In 2011, the school accepted only 5.5% of applicants.[6]

When Victoria is a young girl, Hillary finds herself easily exhausted and breathless, a state she attributes to her busy schedule as an attorney. But when she collapses at work and is rushed to the hospital, she is diagnosed with viral cardiomyopathy, a debilitating cardiac illness, requiring a heart transplant if she is to live. She is put on a donor list, but it is rare that a heart of her tissue type will be found in time. Hillary learns more about the illness and it becomes clear that she will most likely die as a result of it, depriving her of the chance to live to see her daughter grow up. This plunges her into a state of depression, which she inadvertently takes out on CC who she sees as «having energy», and who is «fun», in comparison to her now debilitated state.

Beaches (also known as Forever Friends), is a 1988 American comedy-drama film adapted by Mary Agnes Donoghue from the Iris Rainer Dart novel of the same name. It was directed by Garry Marshall, and stars Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard, James Read, Spalding Gray, and Lainie Kazan.

The film's theme song, Hot 100 #1 «Wind Beneath My Wings» went on to win Grammys for Record of the Year and Song of the Year at the Grammy Awards of 1990.[citation needed] The film was released on VHS in August 1989, with a DVD release on August 13, 2002, followed by a special edition DVD on April 26, 2005.

Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, actress and comedian, also known (by her informal stage name) as The Divine Miss M. She has starred in highly acclaimed films such as The Rose, Ruthless People, Beaches and For The Boys.

During her more than forty-year career, Midler has been nominated for two Academy Awards; and won four Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a special Tony Award. She has sold over 30 million albums worldwide.[1]

Barbara Hershey (born Barbara Lynn Herzstein; February 5, 1948),[1] also known as Barbara Seagull,[2] is an American actress. In a career spanning nearly 50 years, she has played a variety of roles on television and in cinema, in several genres including westerns and comedies. Extraordinarily photogenic, she began acting at age 17 in 1965, but did not achieve much critical acclaim until the latter half of the 1980s. By that time, the Chicago Tribune referred to her as «one of America's finest actresses.»[3]

Hershey was awarded an Emmy and a Golden Globe for Outstanding Lead Actress In A Miniseries/TV Film for her role in A Killing in a Small Town (1990). She has been nominated for two more Golden Globes: in 1989 for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mary Magdalene in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ, and for her role in Jane Campion's Portrait of a Lady (1996). For the latter film, she was also nominated for an Academy Award and she won a Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. In addition, she has won two Best Actress awards at the Cannes Film Festival for her roles in Shy People (1987) and A World Apart (1988). She also featured in both Woody Allen's critically acclaimed Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Garry Marshall's melodrama, Beaches (1988).

In 2010, Hershey had a featured role as the mother of a ballerina (Natalie Portman) in the Oscar-winning film Black Swan.

Establishing a reputation early in her career as a «hippie,» Hershey experienced conflict between her personal life and her acting goals. Her career suffered a decline during a six year relationship with actor David Carradine, with whom she had a child. She experimented with a change in stage name that she later regretted. During this time her personal life was highly publicized and ridiculed.[4] It was not until she separated from Carradine and changed her stage name back to Hershey that her acting career became well established.[5][6] Later in her career, she began to keep her personal life private.[4][7]

Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (eight, more than any other composer) including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre,[1] multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize. Described by Frank Rich of the New York Times as «the greatest, and perhaps best-known artist working in musical theatre»,[2] his most famous scores include (as composer/lyricist) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Assassins. He also wrote the lyrics for West Side Story and Gypsy.

In addition to theatre, he has contributed to movies as well, including the 1981 Warren Beatty film Reds, contributing the song «Goodbye For Now». He also wrote five songs for the 1990 movie Dick Tracy, including Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man), which won the Academy Award for Best Song.

He was also president of the Dramatists Guild from 1973 to 1981. On September 15, 2010, in honor of his 80th birthday, the Henry Miller's Theatre was renamed the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in his honor. He is also the only living composer with a quarterly journal published in his name.

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The Book of Leviticus (from Greek Λευιτικός, Levitikos, meaning «relating to the Levites»; Hebrew: ויקרא‎, Wayiqra, «And He called») is the third book of the Hebrew Bible, and the third of five books of the Torah (or Pentateuch).
The English name is from the Latin Leviticus, taken in turn from Greek and a reference to the Levites, the tribe from whom the priests were drawn; Leviticus is not, however, a manual for priests, as it concerns itself at least equally with the role and duties of the laity.[1]
Leviticus rests on two crucial beliefs: the first, that the world was created «very good» and retains the capacity to achieve that state although it is vulnerable to sin and defilement; the second, that the faithful enactment of ritual makes God's presence available, while ignoring or breaching it compromises the harmony between God and the world.[2]

Turkey Baster
lesbian who wants to give birth to her own child. so called because of the infamous episode of Brookside when artificial insemination was attempted using a turkey baster
kevin thought he had scored when he pulled ms spicer at stringfellows only to discover she was a turkey baster

When a woman after sex, takes the condom and uses a turkey baster to suck out the contents then uses it to artificially inseminate herself, without the knowledge or consent of the male.

Often done to gain child support from pro sports players, or to prolong bad relationships.
After hooking up with the cheerleader at the homecoming party, Tyrone Biggins found himself a victim of a turkey baster. He is now the father of 6, and he still can't figure out why condoms aren't working.

Sermons to Young Women (1766), often called Fordyce's Sermons, is a two-volume compendium of sermons compiled by Dr. James Fordyce, a Scottish clergyman, which were originally delivered by himself and others. Dr. Fordyce was considered an excellent orator, and his collection of sermons found a ready audience among English clergy and laity alike. It quickly became a staple of many Church and personal libraries.

To the modern Western ear, the sermons, which emphasize a feminine manner of speech, action, and appearance over substantive development of ideas, seem hopelessly outdated and chauvinistic. That they were so considered even within fifty or so years after their publication is evidenced by their mention in Jane Austen's seminal novel Pride and Prejudice (1813), wherein Mr. Collins, a buffoonish clergyman, selects Fordyce's Sermons as an appropriate title for reading aloud to his young female cousins.

Dr. Fordyce married at the age of 51, about eleven years after publishing his famous collection of sermons.

made of money idiom
Very rich. This hyperbolic expression uses made of in the sense of “composed of,” a usage dating from about 1200.

One story says that the pig lived in a pub called the Rampant Horse Inn and gained fame because it could spell or count depending on how much ale the customers drank.

to count one's blessings

радоваться своей удаче, считать себя счастливым

Still, she counted her blessings: «I'm alive. I don't have a scratch on me.» — Но всё же она считала, что ей повезло: «Я осталась в живых. На мне нет ни царапины».

to take the veil

постричься в монахини

Fame

Сейчас широко известная как Школа «Славы», Школа музыки и искусств (High School of Music & Art) была основана в 1936 г. мэром Нью-Йорка Фиорелло Г. ЛаГардиа, который хотел создать такое учебное заведение, где одаренные дети могли бы развивать свои таланты, одновременно проходя обучение и по общеобразовательным предметам. Школа актерского мастерства (School of Performing Arts) была основана в 1948 г. для того, чтобы готовить профессиональных танцовщиков, музыкантов, драматических артистов. Обе школы слились в одну в 1961 г. — в ожидании того момента, когда они окажутся под одной крышей, в здании Линкольн-центра, что в конце концов и произошло, но только в 1984 г. В память о ЛаГардиа новая школы стала носить его имя – она стала называться Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts – Школа музыкального искусства и актерского мастерства им. Фиорелло Г. ЛаГардиа.
Школа ЛаГардиа стала первой в стране школой, которая могла обеспечить студентам, обладающим талантами в области искусства, бесплатное образование, финансируемое из бюджетных средств. Студенты принимались в школу, исходя из их таланта и личных достижений на основании творческого конкурса и академических успехов. Более подробную информацию можно найти на сайте www.laguardiahs.org.
Выдающиеся выпускники Школы ЛаГардиа:
Дженнифер Энистон Эллен Баркин
Мэрилин Бергман Лайза Миннелли
Стивен Бочко Айзек Мизрахи
Эдриан Броуди Лора Ниро
Джеймс Берроуз Аль Пачино
Чарльз Буш Сюзанна Плешетт
Дайан Кэрролл Фредди Принц
Кит Дэвид Кэрол Байер Сэгер
Дом ДеЛуис Уэсли Снайпс
Омар Эппс Сюзанн Вега
Сара Мишель Геллар Бен Верин
Эрика Джонг Лесли Энн Уоррен
Эрта Китт Марлон Уайнс
Хол Линден Билли Ди Уильямс
Мелисса Манчестер

Dreamgirls – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The group is composed of full-figured lead singer Effie White and best friends, Deena Jones and Lorrell Robinson. For the contest, the Dreamettes sing "Move ...

on the money
exactly right or correct right on

to be on the edge of doing smth.

быть на грани, быть готовым сделать что-л.

The Missouri Compromise was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30' north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri. Prior to the agreement, the House of Representatives had refused to accept this compromise and a conference committee was appointed.

A bill to enable the people of the Missouri Territory to draft a constitution and form a government preliminary to admission into the Union came before the House of Representatives in Committee of the Whole, on February 13, 1819. An amendment offered by James Tallmadge of New York (which was named the Tallmadge Amendment), which provided that the further introduction of slaves into Missouri should be forbidden, and that all children of slave parents born in the state after its admission should be free at the age of 25, was adopted by the committee and incorporated in the bill as finally passed on February 17, 1819 by the house. The United States Senate refused to concur in the amendment, and the whole measure was lost.

During the following session (1819–1820), the House passed a similar bill with an amendment, introduced on January 26, 1820 by John W. Taylor of New York, allowing Missouri into the union as a slave state. The question had been complicated by the admission in December of Alabama, a slave state, making the number of slave and free states equal. In addition, there was a bill in passage through the House (January 3, 1820) to admit Maine as a free state.

The Senate decided to connect the two measures. It passed a bill for the admission of Maine with an amendment enabling the people of Missouri to form a state constitution. Before the bill was returned to the House, a second amendment was adopted on the motion of Jesse B. Thomas of Illinois, excluding slavery from the Missouri Territory north of the parallel 36°30' north (the southern boundary of Missouri), except within the limits of the proposed state of Missouri.