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Klee
Swiss painter. After studies in Germany and Italy, he settled in Munich, where he became associated with Der Blaue Reiter (1911). He taught at the Bauhaus (1920-31), then at the D\u00fc sseldorf Academy. He lost his post when the Nazis came to power in 1933, and returned to Switzerland. One of the foremost artists of the 20th cent., he belonged to no movement, yet he assimilated and even anticipated some of the major artistic tendencies of his time. Using both representational and abstract approaches, he produced some 9,000 paintings, drawings, and watercolors in a great variety of styles. His works, which tend to be small in scale, are remarkable for their delicate nuances of line, color, and tonality. In Klee's highly sophisticated art, irony and a sense of the absurd are joined to an intense evocation of the mystery and beauty of nature. His late paintings, anticipating his approaching death, are among his most memorable.
ale
Fermented malt beverage, full-bodied and somewhat bitter, with strong flavor of hops. Until the 17th cent. it was an unhopped brew of yeast, water, and malt, beer being the same brew with hops added. Modern ale (now largely synonymous with beer) is made with top-fermenting yeast and processed at higher temperatures than lager beer. Pale ale has up to 5% alcohol content; the darker strong ale contains up to 6.5%.
Alea
Cuban film director. After earning a law degree in Cuba, he studied filmmaking in Rome (1951-53). A supporter of F. Castro, he helped develop Cuba's film industry after 1959 and made the Communist regime's first official feature film, Stories of the Revolution (1960). Later he worked within the restrictions of the regime to satirize and explore various aspects of life in postrevolutionary Cuba in such internationally acclaimed films as Death of a Bureaucrat (1966), Memories of Underdevelopment (1968), The Survivors (1978), and Strawberry and Chocolate (1993). He is regarded as the finest director Cuba has produced.
alenu
(Hebrew: "it is our duty") Opening words of a Jewish prayer recited at the end of the three periods of daily prayer since the Middle Ages. The first section is a prayer of thanks for Israel's being chosen for God's service; the second expresses hope for the coming messianic age. Though traditionally ascribed to Joshua, it is often credited to Abba Arika, a Jewish scholar in Babylonia in the 3rd cent. AD.
Aleppo
City (pop., 1994 est.: 1,591,000), NW Syria. Syria's second-largest city, it is about 30 mi (48 km) from the Turkish border. Lying at the crossroads of great commercial routes, it has long been inhabited, and is first mentioned at the end of the 3rd millennium BC. It subsequently came under the control of many kingdoms, incl. the Hittites (17th-14th cent. BC). Controlled by the Persians in the 6th-4th cent. BC, it later fell to the Seleucids, who renamed it Beroea. Absorbed into the ...
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