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106 relations: Adlai Stevenson II, Alan King, Alaska, All the Young Men, American Legion, American Masters, Americans, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Belmont High School (Los Angeles), Bill Maher, Billy Crystal, Blacklisting, Canadians, China Lee, City manager, Comedy Central, Compton College, Counterculture, Culture of the United States, Danny Kaye, Dick Gregory, Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding!, Don't Make Waves, Eddie Cantor, Enrico Banducci, Fantasy Records, Foundation for Jewish Culture, George Carlin, Gerald Nachman, GNP Crescendo Records, H. L. Mencken, Harcourt (publisher), Henry Morgan (humorist), Herb Caen, Hubert Humphrey, Hungry i, Improvisational theatre, In Love and War (1958 film), Inside the Third Reich (film), Jack Rollins (producer), James Curtis (biographer), Jay Leno, Jewish humour, Jim Garrison, Joe's Pub, John Cleese, John F. Kennedy, Johnny Cool, Jon Stewart, ..., Jonathan Winters, KP duty, Lenny Bruce, Leonard Bernstein, Library of Congress, Lily Tomlin, List of satirists and satires, Los Angeles, Marin Independent Journal, Marlene Dietrich, Max Rose, Mercury Records, Milton Berle, Mister Kelly's, Montreal, National Recording Registry, Nothing Lasts Forever (film), Penelope Gilliatt, Phyllis Diller, Political philosophy, Political satire, Politics of the United States, Quebec, Reprise Records, Reserve Officers' Training Corps, Richard Crenna, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, Richard Pryor, Robert B. Weide, Robin Williams, Roger Ailes, S. J. Perelman, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, Saul Bellow, Shelley Berman, Sheriff, Stand-up comedy, Steve Allen, Sweater, Television, The Black Orchid (nightclub), The NBC Comedy Hour, Time (magazine), Tonight Starring Steve Allen, Traffic engineering (transportation), United States Air Force, University of California, Berkeley, University of Southern California, Variety (magazine), Verve Records, Village Vanguard, Warren Commission, Werner Finck, Will Rogers, Woody Allen. Expand index (56 more) »
Adlai Stevenson II
Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, noted for his intellectual demeanor, eloquent public speaking, and promotion of progressive causes in the Democratic Party.
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Alan King
Alan King (born Irwin Alan Kniberg; December 26, 1927 – May 9, 2004) was an American actor and comedian known for his biting wit and often angry humorous rants.
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Alaska
Alaska (Alax̂sxax̂) is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.
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All the Young Men
All the Young Men is a 1960 Korean War feature film starring Alan Ladd and Sidney Poitier dealing with desegregation in the United States Marine Corps.
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American Legion
The American Legion is a U.S. war veterans organization headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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American Masters
American Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists, filmmakers, and those who have left an indelible impression on the cultural landscape of the United States.
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Americans
Americans are citizens of the United States of America.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. (born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007) was an American historian, social critic, and public intellectual.
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Assassination of John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza.
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Belmont High School (Los Angeles)
Belmont Senior High School is a public high school located at 1575 West 2nd Street in the Westlake community of Los Angeles, California.
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Bill Maher
William Maher (born January 20, 1956) is an American comedian, political commentator, and television host.
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Billy Crystal
William Edward Crystal (born March 14, 1948)On page 17 of his book 700 Sundays, Crystal displays his birth announcement, which gives his first two names as "William Edward", not "William Jacob" is an American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, and television host.
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Blacklisting
Blacklisting is the action of a group or authority, compiling a blacklist (or black list) of people, countries or other entities to be avoided or distrusted as not being acceptable to those making the list.
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Canadians
Canadians (Canadiens / Canadiennes) are people identified with the country of Canada.
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China Lee
China Lee (born Margaret Lee; September 2, 1942) is an American model and actress.
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City manager
A city manager is an official appointed as the administrative manager of a city, in a council–manager form of city government.
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Comedy Central
Comedy Central is an American basic cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom.
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Compton College
Compton College is a public community college in Compton, California.
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Counterculture
A counterculture (also written counter-culture) is a subculture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, often in opposition to mainstream cultural mores.
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Culture of the United States
The culture of the United States of America is primarily of Western culture (European) origin and form, but is influenced by a multicultural ethos that includes African, Native American, Asian, Polynesian, and Latin American people and their cultures.
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Danny Kaye
Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer, dancer, comedian and musician.
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Dick Gregory
Richard Claxton Gregory (October 12, 1932 – August 19, 2017) was an African-American comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, writer, entrepreneur, conspiracy theorist,, NPR, July 12, 2005.
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Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding!
Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding! is a 1967 comedy film directed by Peter Tewksbury.
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Don't Make Waves
Don't Make Waves is a 1967 American sex farce (with elements of the beach party genre) starring Tony Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, Dave Draper and Sharon Tate.
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Eddie Cantor
Eddie Cantor (born Edward Israel Itzkowitz, January 31, 1892 – October 10, 1964) was an American "illustrated song" performer, comedian, dancer, singer, actor, and songwriter.
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Enrico Banducci
Enrico Banducci (born Harry Charles Banducci; February 17, 1922 – October 9, 2007) was an American impresario.
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Fantasy Records
Fantasy Records is an American record company and label founded by brothers Max and Sol Weiss in 1949.
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Foundation for Jewish Culture
The Foundation for Jewish Culture (formerly the National Foundation for Jewish Culture) was the leading advocate for Jewish cultural life and creativity in the United States.
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George Carlin
George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and social critic.
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Gerald Nachman
Gerald Weil Nachman (January 13, 1938 – April 14, 2018) was an American journalist and author from San Francisco.
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GNP Crescendo Records
GNP Crescendo Record Co. is an independent record label founded in 1954 by Gene Norman.
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H. L. Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English.
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Harcourt (publisher)
Harcourt was a United States publishing firm with a long history of publishing fiction and nonfiction for adults and children.
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Henry Morgan (humorist)
Henry Morgan (born Henry Lerner Van Ost Jr.; March 31, 1915 – May 19, 1994) was an American humorist.
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Herb Caen
Herbert Eugene "Herb" Caen (19161997) was a San Francisco journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, painful puns and offbeat anecdotes—"a continuous love letter to San Francisco".
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Hubert Humphrey
Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911January 13, 1978) was an American politician who served as the 38th Vice President of the United States from 1965 to 1969.
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Hungry i
The hungry i was a nightclub in San Francisco, originally located in the North Beach neighborhood.
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Improvisational theatre
Improvisational theatre, often called improv or impro, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted: created spontaneously by the performers.
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In Love and War (1958 film)
In Love and War is a 1958 Cinemascope and DeLuxe Color film set in World War II, directed by Philip Dunne.
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Inside the Third Reich (film)
Inside the Third Reich is a 1982 television film based on the book Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer.
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Jack Rollins (producer)
Jack Rollins (born Jacob Rabinowitz; March 23, 1915 – June 18, 2015) was an American film and television producer and talent manager of comedians and television personalities.
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James Curtis (biographer)
James Curtis is an American biographer.
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Jay Leno
James Douglas Muir Leno (born April 28, 1950) is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and television host.
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Jewish humour
Jewish humour is the long tradition of humour in Judaism dating back to the Torah and the Midrash from the ancient Middle East, but generally refers to the more recent stream of verbal and often anecdotal humour of Ashkenazi Jewry which took root in the United States over the last hundred years, including in secular Jewish culture.
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Jim Garrison
James Carothers Garrison (born Earling Carothers Garrison; November 20, 1921 – October 21, 1992) was the District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Louisiana, from 1962 to 1973.
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Joe's Pub
Joe's Pub, one of the six performance spaces within The Public Theater, is a music venue and restaurant that hosts live performances across genres and arts, ranging from cabaret to modern dance to world music.
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John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, voice actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer.
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John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.
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Johnny Cool
Johnny Cool is a 1963 neo noir crime film directed by William Asher based on the novel The Kingdom of Johnny Cool by John McPartland which stars Henry Silva and Elizabeth Montgomery.
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Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz; November 28, 1962) is an American comedian, writer, producer, director, political commentator, actor, and television host.
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Jonathan Winters
Jonathan Harshman Winters III (November 11, 1925 – April 11, 2013) was an American comedian, actor, author, and artist.
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KP duty
KP duty is "kitchen police" or "kitchen patrol" work under the kitchen staff assigned to junior U.S. enlisted military personnel.
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Lenny Bruce
Leonard Alfred Schneider (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), better known by his stage name Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist.
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Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist.
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.
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Lily Tomlin
Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer.
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List of satirists and satires
Below is an incomplete list of writers, cartoonists and others known for their involvement in satire – humorous social criticism.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.
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Marin Independent Journal
The Marin Independent Journal is the main newspaper of Marin County, California.
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Marlene Dietrich
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich (27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German actress and singer who held both German and American citizenship.
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Max Rose
Max Rose is a 2016 American drama film starring Jerry Lewis and written and directed by Daniel Noah.
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Mercury Records
Mercury Records is an American-based record label owned by Universal Music Group.
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Milton Berle
Milton Berle (born Mendel Berlinger; July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an American comedian and actor.
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Mister Kelly's
Mister Kelly’s was a nightclub on Rush Street in Chicago which existed from 1953 to 1975.
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Montreal
Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.
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National Recording Registry
The National Recording Registry is a list of sound recordings that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States." The registry was established by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, which created the National Recording Preservation Board, whose members are appointed by the Librarian of Congress.
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Nothing Lasts Forever (film)
Nothing Lasts Forever is a science-fiction comedy film directed by Tom Schiller.
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Penelope Gilliatt
Penelope Gilliatt (born Penelope Ann Douglass Conner; 25 March 1932 – 9 May 1993) was an English novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and film critic.
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Phyllis Diller
Phyllis Ada Driver (July 17, 1917 – August 20, 2012), better known as Phyllis Diller, was an American actress and stand-up comedian, best known for her eccentric stage persona, her self-deprecating humor, her wild hair and clothes, and her exaggerated, cackling laugh.
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Political philosophy
Political philosophy, or political theory, is the study of topics such as politics, liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of laws by authority: what they are, why (or even if) they are needed, what, if anything, makes a government legitimate, what rights and freedoms it should protect and why, what form it should take and why, what the law is, and what duties citizens owe to a legitimate government, if any, and when it may be legitimately overthrown, if ever.
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Political satire
Political satire is satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics; it has also been used with subversive intent where political speech and dissent are forbidden by a regime, as a method of advancing political arguments where such arguments are expressly forbidden.
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Politics of the United States
The United States is a federal republic in which the President, Congress and federal courts share powers reserved to the national government, according to its Constitution.
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Quebec
Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.
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Reprise Records
Reprise Records is an American record label founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra.
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Reserve Officers' Training Corps
The Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) are a group of college and university-based officer training programs for training commissioned officers of the United States Armed Forces.
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Richard Crenna
Richard Donald Crenna (November 30, 1926 – January 17, 2003) was an American motion picture, television, and radio actor and occasional television director.
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Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama, created by Blake Edwards, which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960.
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Richard Pryor
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and social critic.
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Robert B. Weide
Robert B. Weide (born June 20, 1959) is an American screenwriter, producer, and director, perhaps best known for his work on documentaries and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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Robin Williams
Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian.
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Roger Ailes
Roger Eugene Ailes (May 15, 1940 – May 18, 2017) was an American television executive and media consultant.
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S. J. Perelman
Sidney Joseph "S.
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San Francisco
San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.
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San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area (popularly referred to as the Bay Area) is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun estuaries in the northern part of the U.S. state of California.
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Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; 10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-American writer.
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Shelley Berman
Sheldon Leonard Berman (February 3, 1925 – September 1, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, writer, teacher, lecturer and poet.
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Sheriff
A sheriff is a government official, with varying duties, existing in some countries with historical ties to England, where the office originated.
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Stand-up comedy
Stand-up comedy is a comic style in which a comedian performs in front of a live audience, usually speaking directly to them.
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Steve Allen
Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen (December 26, 1921 – October 30, 2000) was an American television personality, radio personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, writer, and advocate of scientific skepticism.
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Sweater
A jumper or jersey (British English), or sweater (American English) is a garment intended to cover the torso and arms.
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Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.
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The Black Orchid (nightclub)
The Black Orchid was an upscale Chicago nightclub that flourished in the mid to late 1950s where, according to print media critics, Johnny Mathis got his first big break.
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The NBC Comedy Hour
The NBC Comedy Hour was a comedy show that ran on NBC in the first half of 1956, intended to be a replacement for The Colgate Comedy Hour.
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Time (magazine)
Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.
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Tonight Starring Steve Allen
Tonight Starring Steve Allen is an American talk show hosted by Steve Allen.
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Traffic engineering (transportation)
Traffic engineering is a branch of civil engineering that uses engineering techniques to achieve the safe and efficient movement of people and goods on roadways.
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United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial and space warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.
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University of Southern California
The University of Southern California (USC or SC) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California.
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Variety (magazine)
Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.
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Verve Records
Verve Records, founded in 1956 by Norman Granz, is home to the world’s largest jazz catalogue and includes recordings by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Stan Getz and Billie Holiday, among others.
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Village Vanguard
The Village Vanguard is a jazz club located at Seventh Avenue South in Greenwich Village, New York City.
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Warren Commission
The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission, was established by President Lyndon B. Johnson through on November 29, 1963 to investigate the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy that had taken place on November 22, 1963.
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Werner Finck
Werner Finck (2 May 1902 – 31 July 1978) was a German Kabarett comedian, actor and author.
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Will Rogers
William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was a stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, American cowboy, humorist, newspaper columnist, and social commentator from Oklahoma.
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Woody Allen
Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American director, writer, actor, comedian, and musician whose career spans more than six decades.
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