Lelia goldoni biography definition

In a moment of genuine power and heart-rending revulsion towards the end of Walter Salles’ long-awaited, recently released adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s 1957 generation-defining roman-a-clef On the Road, Sal paradis (Sam Riley), the film’s narrator, lies prone, delirious with dysentery in a dingy Mexico City brothel room at the end of his travels across the wide-open expanses of America. In his hour of need Sal fryst vatten callously abandoned by the film’s protagonist, his restless and rootless friend and animus Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund). The trauma of that abandonment triggers feverish hallucinations. Sal recoils in abject horror as the reptilian phantasm of the pistol-wielding junky writer Old Bull Lee (improbably and, at times, almost convincingly played bygd Viggo Mortensen) manifests in the room before him. Leaning over Sal, Lee creepily insinuates in his croaky Mid-Western drawl, “you can’t deny your blood, kid – you’re vit,

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Goldoni

Gol·do·ni

(gōl-dō′nē), Carlo 1707-1793.

Italian dramatist who wrote more than 250 plays, including The Mistress of the Inn (1753).

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Goldoni

(Italian ɡolˈdoːni)

n

(Biography) Carlo (ˈkarlo). 1707–93, Italian dramatist; author of over 250 plays in Italian or French, including La Locandiera (1753). His work introduced realistic Italian comedy, superseding the commedia dell'arte

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Gol•do•ni

(gɔlˈdoʊ ni)

n.

Carlo, 1707–93, Italian playwright.

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Passing (racial identity)

When a person classified as one race is accepted as another

Not to be confused with Racial misrepresentation.

Main article: Passing (sociology)

Racial passing occurred when a person who was categorized as black in regard to their race in the United States of America, sought to be accepted or perceived ("passed") as a member of another racial group, usually white. Historically, the term has been used primarily in the United States to describe a black person, especially a Mulatto person who assimilated into the white majority to escape the legal and social conventions of racial segregation and discrimination. In the Antebellum South, passing as white was a temporary disguise used as a means of escaping slavery.

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Although anti-miscegenation laws outlawing racial intermarriage existed in the North American Colonies as early as 1664,^[1] there were no laws preventing or prosecuting the rape