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Kael
U.S. film critic. Born in Petaluma, Cal., she managed an art-film theater in Berkeley (1955-60) while writing film reviews for magazines and broadcasting her reviews on network radio. After a collection of her reviews and essays, I Lost It at the Movies (1965), gained her national attention, she moved to New York and became film critic for The New Yorker (1968-91). Her witty, biting, highly opinionated, and sharply focused reviews (of which five more collections were eventually published) made her perhaps the most influential film critic of all time.
Ake
Nigerian political scientist and activist. He received his PhD from Columbia Univ. in 1966. He founded the Center for Advanced Social Science in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and was active in efforts to uncover environmental and human-rights abuses by the Nigerian government. His books on African development and politics made him one of Africa's leading political scientists. He served as a consultant to Royal Dutch/Shell Group, but angrily resigned in 1995 to protest the execution of the activist K. Saro-Wiwa. He died the next year in a plane crash, whose cause has been disputed.
Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist. Studying chick development with his friend Christian Pander (1794-1865), Baer expanded Pander's concept of germ-layer formation to all vertebrates, thereby laying the foundation for comparative embryology. He emphasized that embryos of one species could resemble embryos (but not adults) of another, and that the younger the embryo the greater the resemblance, a concept in line with his belief that development proceeds from simple to complex, from like to different. He also discovered the mammalian ovum. His On the Development of Animals (2 vols., 1828-37) surveyed all existing knowledge on vertebrate development and established embryology as a distinct subject of research.
Baez
U.S. folksinger and activist. Born on Staten Island, N.Y., she moved often as a child, receiving little musical training. While still in her teens, her luminous soprano voice brought her to the forefront of the 1960s folk-song revival. An active participant in the protest movements of the 1960s and '70s, Baez made free concert appearances at civil-rights and anti-Vietnam War rallies. In 1964 she refused to pay federal taxes that went toward war expenses, and she was jailed twice in 1967. She published two books of memoirs.
Caen
City (pop., 1990: 116,000), NW France. Situated on the Orne River, it was the capital of lower Normandy in the 11th cent. The English took it in 1346 and 1417 and held it until 1450. It suffered in the Wars of Religion and fell to the Protestants in 1562. During the French Revolution, it was a center for the Girondin movement. The city was severely damaged in the Allied Normandy Campaign (1944), but it was rebuilt. Notable structures include the 11th-cent. abbey and the university. It is a ...
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