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jongleur
Professional storyteller or public entertainer in medieval France. His roles included those of musician, juggler, acrobat, and reciter of literary works. Jongleurs performed in marketplaces on public holidays, in abbeys, and in castles of nobles, who sometimes retained them in permanent employment. Jongleurs were most important in the 13th cent.; in the 14th cent., the various facets of their role were taken over by other performers. See also goliard, trouvè re.


angle
In geometry, a pair of rays (see line) sharing a common endpoint (the vertex). An angle may be thought of as the rotation of a single ray from an initial to a terminal position. Clockwise rotation is considered negative and counterclockwise rotation positive. Either may be measured in degrees (one full rotation = 360° ) or radians (one full rotation 2p rad). A 90° angle is called a right angle. Any angle less than 90° is an acute angle; any angle more than 90° but less than 180° is an obtuse angle.


Inge
U.S. playwright and screenwriter. Born in Independence, Kan., he worked as a schoolteacher (1937-49) and moonlighted as drama editor of the St. Louis Star-Times (1943-46). His first play, Farther Off from Heaven (1947), was revised for Broadway as The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957; film, 1960). He is best known for his plays Come Back, Little Sheba (1950; film, 1952), Picnic (1953, Pulitzer Prize; film, 1956), and Bus Stop (1955; film, 1956), and for his original screenplay for Splendor in the Grass (1961, Academy Award). He was one of the first dramatists to explore small-town life in the Midwest.


juggler
Entertainer who keeps several plates, knives, balls, or other objects in the air at once by tossing and catching them. The art of juggling has been practiced since antiquity. Through the 18th cent. jugglers performed at fairs and marketplaces, and in the 19th cent. they found larger audiences in circuses and music halls. In these training grounds the art advanced in technical perfection, producing such outstanding performers as Enrico Rastelli, who could juggle 10 balls. Modern jugglers have introduced such variations as performing while blindfolded on horseback, on a high wire, or on a unicycle.


linoleum
Smooth-surfaced floor covering made from a mixture of oxidized linseed oil, resins, and other substances such as binder, fillers, and pigments, applied to a felt or canvas backing. Linoleum is flexible, warm, and unaffected by ordinary floor temperatures, and it does not readily burn. It is specially hardened to resist indentation and is not susceptible to damage from fats, oils, greases, or organic solvents.


Tinguely
Swiss-French sculptor and experimental artist. As a student of painting and sculpture in Basel, he showed interest in movement as an artistic medium, and in 1953 he moved to Paris and began to construct sophisticated kinetic ...

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