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  • 121Camp (style) — Camp is an aesthetic in which something has appeal because of its bad taste or ironic value. When the term first appeared in 1909, it was used to refer to ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical, effeminate or homosexual behaviour. By the …

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  • 122Harold Pinter — Infobox Writer name = Harold Pinter imagesize = 180px caption = birthdate = birth date and age|df=yes|1930|10|10 birthplace = Hackney, London, England United Kingdom nationality = British spouse = Antonia Fraser (1980 – present) Vivien Merchant… …

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  • 123Blackface — For other uses, see Blackface (disambiguation). This reproduction of a 1900 William H. West minstrel show poster, originally published by the Strobridge Litho Co., shows the transformation from white to black . Blackface is a form of theatrical… …

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  • 124Marvin Gaye — in 1973 Background information Birth name Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr.[1] …

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  • 125R. K. Narayan — Not to be confused with K. R. Narayanan. R. K. Narayan Born 10 October 1906(1906 10 10) Madras, British India (now Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) …

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  • 126Emily Dickinson — From the daguerreotype taken at Mount Holyoke, December 1846 or early 1847. The only authenticated portrait of Emily Dickinson later than childh …

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  • 127Nostalgia — For other uses, see Nostalgia (disambiguation). For the use of the term Nostalgia on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Nostalgia. The term nostalgia describes a yearning for the past, often in idealized form.[1] The word is a learned formation of a Greek… …

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  • 128Paul Theroux — Infobox Writer name = Paul Theroux imagesize = 200px caption = Paul Theroux in 2008. birthdate = Birth date and age|1941|4|10|df=y birthplace = Medford, Massachusetts deathdate = deathplace = occupation = Novelist, Travel writer, short story… …

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