• Every Breath You Take (song by Sting)

    Sean Combs: Bad Boy Entertainment, Notorious B.I.G., and Puff Daddy: …melody from the Police’s “Every Breath You Take.”

  • Every Building on the Sunset Strip (work by Ruscha)

    Ed Ruscha: …into wordless books, such as Every Building on the Sunset Strip. The 16 artist’s books he created in this manner were widely influential among a younger generation of artists. During this period Ruscha also made two short films, Premium (1969–70) and Miracle (1975), and in 1978 he collaborated with Lawrence…

  • Every Day I Have the Blues (recording by Basie)

    Joe Williams: His recording of “Every Day I Have the Blues” with Basie in 1955 made him famous and was a factor in the Basie band’s comeback. Staying with Basie until 1961, Williams also had hits with “Alright, Okay, You Win,” “Going to Chicago,” and “The Comeback.” The rich timbre…

  • Every Day Is Mother’s Day (novel by Mantel)

    Hilary Mantel: …she completed her first novel, Every Day Is Mother’s Day (1985), before eventually moving back to England.

  • Every Day We Get More Illegal (poetry by Herrera)

    Juan Felipe Herrera: Poetry and career: …laureate also inspired the collection Every Day We Get More Illegal (2020).

  • Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (play by Stoppard)

    Tom Stoppard: Plays: …Tony Award for best play), Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1978), Night and Day (1978), Undiscovered Country (1980, adapted from a play by Arthur Schnitzler), and On the Razzle (1981, adapted from a play by Johann Nestroy). The Tony-winning The Real Thing (1982), Stoppard’s first romantic comedy, deals with art…

  • Every Man A Tiger (work by Clancy and Horner)

    Tom Clancy: , and Every Man a Tiger (1999; updated ed. 2005), cowritten with Chuck Horner. Clancy also created video games and was co-owner (from 1993) of the Baltimore Orioles major league baseball team.

  • Every Man for Himself (novel by Bainbridge)

    Beryl Bainbridge: 1995), The Birthday Boys (1991), Every Man for Himself (1996), Master Georgie (1998), and According to Queeney (2001).

  • Every Man for Himself (film by Godard [1979])

    Jean-Luc Godard: Later work and awards of Jean-Luc Godard: …qui peut (la vie) (Every Man for Himself), a story of three young Swiss people and their problems of work and love. In the 1980s he was involved in film projects at home as well as in California and Mozambique. His most notable work of the decade was his…

  • Every Man in His Humour (play by Jonson)

    Every Man in His Humour, comic drama in five acts that established the reputation of Ben Jonson, performed in London by the Lord Chamberlain’s Men in 1598 and revised sometime before its publication in the folio edition of 1616. With its galleries of grotesques, its scornful detachment, and its

  • Every Man out of His Humour (play by Jonson)

    Every Man out of His Humour, comic drama in five acts by Ben Jonson, performed in London by the Lord Chamberlain’s Men in 1599 and published in 1600. Although the play was modeled after its successful predecessor, Every Man in His Humour, it was a critical failure that forced Jonson to abandon the

  • Every Mother Counts (American organization)

    Christy Turlington: …Turly Pictures, LLC, and founded Every Mother Counts, an organization dedicated to improving maternal health and reducing maternal mortality. Turlington made her directorial debut with the maternal health documentary No Woman, No Cry (2010). She also directed the short film Every Mile, Every Mother (2014), in which members of Every…

  • Every Move You Make (short stories by Malouf)

    David Malouf: … (1999), Dream Stuff (2000), and Every Move You Make (2006). Malouf also wrote a collection of autobiographical essays called 12 Edmondstone Street (1985). His numerous honors include the Neustadt Prize (2000).

  • Every Night at Eight (film by Walsh [1935])

    Raoul Walsh: Films of the 1930s: Every Night at Eight (1935) offered Raft in the unlikely role of a radio-show bandleader who transforms three factory girls (Alice Faye, Frances Langford, and Patsy Kelly) into singing stars; its one enduring element was the debut of the song “I’m in the Mood for…

  • Every Picture Tells a Story (album by Stewart)

    Rod Stewart: Solo career: Every Picture Tells a Story charted at number one in Britain and the United States simultaneously; the single “Maggie May” repeated the feat; and Rolling Stone magazine named Stewart “rock star of the year.”

  • Every Student Succeeds Act (United States [2015])

    Lamar Alexander: He later wrote the Every Student Succeeds Act (2015), which revised No Child Left Behind (2001) to give states more control in issues relating to public education. Alexander also assumed a strong leadership position on energy issues. From 2008 to 2012 he was chair of the Senate Republican Conference,…

  • Every Third Thought: A Novel in Five Seasons (novel by Barth)

    John Barth: Every Third Thought: A Novel in Five Seasons (2011) features a character from The Development who injures his head and then, with each change of the seasons, experiences moments from his past as if they are taking place in the present. Collected Stories appeared in…

  • Every Tongue Got to Confess (work by Hurston)

    Zora Neale Hurston: Legacy and posthumous publications: …The Complete Stories (1995), and Every Tongue Got to Confess (2001), a collection of folktales from the South. In 1995 the Library of America published a two-volume set of Hurston’s work in its series. In addition, Hurston’s Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” was released in 2018. Although…

  • Every, Henry (British pirate)

    John Avery was one of Britain’s most renowned pirates of the late 17th century, and the model for Daniel Defoe’s hero in Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, of the Famous Captain Singleton (1720). Avery reputedly served in the Royal Navy and on merchantmen, as well as on buccaneer and slave ships,

  • Every, The (novel by Eggers)

    Dave Eggers: …2021 Eggers published a sequel, The Every.

  • Every-Day Book, The (work by Hone)

    William Hone: …for debts incurred in publishing The Every-Day Book (1826–27), the most popular of his miscellanies, and he ended his career as subeditor on a Nonconformist weekly.

  • Everybody (play by Jacobs-Jenkins)

    Branden Jacobs-Jenkins: Gloria and Everybody: …in 2018 for his drama Everybody, a contemporary take on Everyman, a 15th-century morality play that uses allegory to impart moral lessons on death and the fate of the human soul. In Jacobs-Jenkins’s intriguing reimagining, the cast members are assigned their roles via a lottery before each performance; therefore, each…

  • Everybody Does It (film by Goulding [1949])

    Edmund Goulding: The 1940s: Everybody Does It (1949) was based on a comic story by James M. Cain; Paul Douglas, Linda Darnell, and Celeste Holm played the bickering aspiring singers.

  • Everybody Hates Chris (American television program)

    Chris Rock: …series based on his childhood, Everybody Hates Chris (2005–09). The show was a critical and commercial success. Rock hosted the Academy Awards ceremony in 2005.

  • Everybody Knows (film by Farhadi [2018])

    Asghar Farhadi: …film Todos lo saben (2018; Everybody Knows), which starred Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem as Laura and Paco, former lovers who grow closer when Laura’s daughter is kidnapped. In his next film, Ghahreman (2021; A Hero), a businessman on a two-day leave from debtors’ prison attempts to secure an early…

  • Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (album by Young)

    Neil Young: Early career: Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Its follow-up, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969), teamed Young with the garage band Crazy Horse. When nascent FM radio played “Cinnamon Girl,” whose one-note guitar solo encapsulates Young’s sly sarcasm about established forms, and “Down by the River,” a long, raw-edged guitar blitzkrieg around lyrics about…

  • Everybody Loves Raymond (American television program)

    David Letterman: Retirement and other projects: …shows included the hit sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond (1996–2005). He also co-owned a race-car team.

  • Everybody Loves Somebody (song by Coslow, Taylor, and Lane)

    Dean Martin: …of This” (1955), and “Everybody Loves Somebody” (1964). Simultaneously, he kept his acting career alive, beginning with the World War II drama The Young Lions (1958), in which he starred with Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift. That same year he released another hit single, “Volare.” His first film appearance…

  • Everybody Wants Some!! (film by Linklater [2016])

    Richard Linklater: Before Sunset, Before Midnight, and Boyhood: His next effort, Everybody Wants Some!! (2016), was a lighthearted examination of young adulthood in the mold of Dazed and Confused. The film, which is set in 1980, trails the high jinks of a college baseball player in the days leading up to the start of his freshman…

  • Everybody’s All-American (film by Hackford [1988])

    Timothy Hutton: …Destiny (1988); the sports drama Everybody’s All-American (1988); Lumet’s police thriller Q & A (1990); George A. Romero’s The Dark Half (1993), based on a Stephen King novel; the TV movie Zelda (1993), in which he played F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ted Demme’s romantic comedy

  • Everybody’s Fine (film by Jones [2009])

    Robert De Niro: Comedies and later work: …following year he starred in Everybody’s Fine, portraying a widower who discovers various truths about his adult children. He later took supporting roles in the thrillers Machete (2010) and Limitless (2011), the action drama Killer Elite (2011), and the ensemble romantic comedy New Year’s Eve (2011).

  • Everybody’s Protest Novel (work by Baldwin)

    African American literature: Ralph Ellison: …protégé of Wright, published “Everybody’s Protest Novel,” a criticism of protest fiction from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Native Son. Baldwin’s charge that the protest novel was prone to categorize humanity rather than reflect its full “beauty, dread, and power” heralded a shift in the 1950s away…

  • Everybody’s Talkin’ (song by Neil)

    Harry Nilsson: Fame as songwriter and singer: …except for Fred Neil’s “Everybody’s Talkin’,” which became the theme song for the film Midnight Cowboy (1969) and earned Nilsson a Grammy Award for best contemporary male vocal performance. Commissioned to write the film’s theme song, Nilsson had come up with “I Guess the Lord Must Be in New…

  • Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pépin (American television miniseries)

    Jacques Pépin: Author, television chef, and educator: Pépin’s first television series—Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pépin—began airing on PBS in 1982 and would be the first of many. From 1999 to 2000, he starred alongside his close friend Julia Child in Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home—the show received both a daytime Emmy Award and a…

  • Everyday Life (album by Coldplay)

    Coldplay: To mark the release of Everyday Life (2019), Coldplay performed two livestreamed concerts, one at sunrise and the other at sunset, in Amman, Jordan. In 2021 Music of the Spheres appeared, and it became the band’s ninth consecutive studio album to reach the top spot of the British album chart.

  • Everyday People (song by Stone)

    Sly and the Family Stone: Musical style and themes: “Everyday People” and “Thank You (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Agin)”—both of which reached number one on the pop and rhythm-and-blues charts—as well as “Hot Fun in the Summertime” and “I Want to Take You Higher” all became classics of popular music.

  • Everyday People (poetry by Goldbarth)

    Albert Goldbarth: (1998), Saving Lives (2001), Everyday People (2012), and The Loves and Wars of Relative Scale (2017). Goldbarth also wrote essays, including those collected in Great Topics of the World (1996) and Many Circles (2001), and the novel Pieces of Payne (2003).

  • Everyday Stuff Developed by NASA

    Over the decades the American space program has put 12 men on the moon, landed rovers on Mars, and sent numerous probes into the outer reaches of our solar system. The science behind these and other projects has provided countless products and innovations that benefit the world—including some that

  • Everyman (novel by Roth)

    Philip Roth: With Everyman (2006), a novel that explores illness and death, Roth became the first three-time winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, which he had won previously for Operation Shylock (1993) and The Human Stain. Everyman also marked the start of a period during which Roth…

  • Everyman (English morality play)

    Everyman, an English morality play of the 15th century, probably a version of a Dutch play, Elckerlyc. It achieves a beautiful, simple solemnity in treating allegorically the theme of death and the fate of the human soul—of Everyman’s soul as he tries to justify his time on earth. Though morality

  • Everyman His Own Historian (work by Becker)

    Carl Becker: …the American Historical Association, “Everyman His Own Historian” (published in 1932 and expanded to book length in 1935), deals most explicitly with this theme of historical relativism. In one of his best-known books, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers (1932), Becker not only examined the ideas of…

  • Everyman’s Library

    typography: Mechanical composition: …used Kelmscott-inspired endpapers for his Everyman’s Library; Stone and Kimball of Chicago and Thomas Mosher of Maine, who issued small, readable editions of avant-garde writers with Art Nouveau bindings and decorated title pages; the Insel Verlag in Germany, with millions of inexpensive yet well-printed and designed pocket books—these and their…

  • Everyman’s University (university, Israel)

    Israel: Education: The Open University of Israel (formerly Everyman’s University) in Tel Aviv opened in 1974, and teachers’ training colleges include two for Arabs. The language of instruction at Israeli universities is Hebrew, while the teaching system represents a mixture of European and American methods. In the 1990s…

  • Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995 (work by Emin)

    Tracey Emin: …South London Gallery, she produced Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995 (1995; now destroyed), a tent embroidered with the names of everyone she had (literally) slept with, including her twin brother, her mother, and her two aborted fetuses, as well as assorted lovers.

  • Everyone Says I Love You (film by Allen [1996])

    Drew Barrymore: Personal struggles and career revival: …work in Woody Allen’s musical Everybody Says I Love You and Wes Craven’s hit thriller Scream.

  • Everyone’s Life (film by Lelouch [2017])

    Claude Lelouch: …dramedy Chacun sa vie (2017; Everyone’s Life) and Les Plus belles années d’une vie (2019; The Best Years of a Life).

  • Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (work by Wallace)

    David Foster Wallace: Other books: Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (2003) is a survey of the mathematical concept of infinity. He also wrote, with Mark Costello, Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present (1990; 2nd edition 1997).

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once (film by Kwan and Scheinert [2022])

    A24: Films: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) was a standout and won 7 out of the 11 awards for which it was nominated. Directed by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the genre-bending dark comedy tells the story of a Chinese immigrant and mother, Evelyn Wang (Michelle…

  • (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (song by Adams, Kamen and Lange)

    Bryan Adams: …Award for his hit “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You” (1991). He was also an accomplished photographer whose work ranged from fashion shots to advertising campaigns for clothing and automobile lines. His photographic collection Wounded, which he published with journalist Caroline Froggatt, appeared in 2013, and a…

  • Everything I Have Is Yours (film by Leonard [1952])

    Robert Z. Leonard: Later films: Leonard next directed Everything I Have Is Yours (1952) with Marge and Gower Champion, but even their considerable dance skills could not energize the mundane musical. The Clown (1953) cast Red Skelton as a former vaudeville star whose career is destroyed by alcohol, but his loving son encourages…

  • Everything I Never Told You (novel by Ng)

    Celeste Ng: …Ng published her first novel, Everything I Never Told You. Set in a fictional Ohio town in the 1970s, the story centres on a Chinese American family and the sudden death of their eldest daughter. The novel explores themes of grief, anti-Asian racism, and family ties. Upon its publication Everything…

  • Everything I Thought It Was (album by Timberlake)

    Justin Timberlake: Solo music career and acting roles: In 2024 Timberlake released Everything I Thought It Was. The album features the single “Selfish,” which debuted in the top 20 of Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, and collaborations with his former *NSYNC bandmates and Timbaland.

  • Everything Inside (short stories by Danticat)

    Edwidge Danticat: Everything Inside (2019) is a collection of short stories.

  • Everything Is Beautiful (song by Stevens)

    Ray Stevens: Number 1 hits: …1 hit pop song “Everything Is Beautiful,” a sentimental work that reflected his expansion into different musical styles. He subsequently recorded the country music album Turn Your Radio On (1972) and in 1974 released “The Streak”—his second song to reach number 1 on the pop music charts. He later…

  • Everything Is Everything (American music group)

    Jim Pepper: …(both on drums) to form Everything Is Everything, another jazz-rock ensemble. The album Everything Is Everything was released in 1969 and featured “Witchi Tai To,” a peyote song that Pepper had arranged according to his own jazz, rock, and folk music sensibilities. Everything Is Everything’s recording of “Witchi Tai To”…

  • Everything Is Love (album by the Carters)

    Beyoncé: Lemonade, the Carters, Homecoming, and act i: RENAISSANCE: …Jay-Z released a collaborative album, Everything Is Love, credited to the Carters, and it took the Grammy for best urban contemporary album. That same year Beyoncé became the first Black woman to headline the Coachella Valley Festival in Indio, California. Her highly acclaimed performance, which featured marching bands from historically…

  • Everything Must Go (film by Rush [2010])

    Will Ferrell: Elf, Anchorman, and Talladega Nights: …alcoholic selling his possessions in Everything Must Go (2010), an adaptation of a Raymond Carver short story.

  • Everything Must Go (album by Steely Dan)

    Steely Dan: …followed by the equally accomplished Everything Must Go (2003). Becker died after a short illness in 2017, but Steely Dan continued to tour. In 2001 Steely Dan was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

  • Everything Now (album by Arcade Fire)

    Arcade Fire: Everything Now (2017) mined themes of media consumerism and existential anxiety. Though it was less well received than its predecessors, it also debuted atop the Billboard album chart.

  • Everything Sucks! (American television series)

    Sydney Sweeney: Breakthrough parts and stardom: …Addario in the comedy-drama series Everything Sucks! In that same year, she portrayed the pious and obedient Eden Spencer in the acclaimed drama series The Handmaid’s Tale. She went on to appear with Amy Adams in the psychological thriller miniseries Sharp Objects (2018).

  • Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (album by Byrne and Eno)

    David Byrne: …Eno again on the gospel-inspired Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (2008) and with singer-songwriter St. Vincent on Love This Giant (2012).

  • Everything That Rises Must Converge (short stories by O’Connor)

    Everything That Rises Must Converge, collection of nine short stories by Flannery O’Connor, published posthumously in 1965. The flawed characters of each story are fully revealed in apocalyptic moments of conflict and violence that are presented with comic detachment. The title story is a

  • Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex (but Were Afraid to Ask) (film by Allen [1972])

    Woody Allen: The 1970s: In Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*but Were Afraid to Ask) (1972), Allen satirized David Reuben’s popular sex manual with mixed results. Sleeper (1973), a far more cohesive satire, featured Allen in the role of a neurotic health-food mogul who goes into the…

  • Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask (work by Reuben)

    best seller: …Dolls (1966) and David Reuben’s Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask (1969) were both among the top 20 all-time best sellers of the 20th century in the United States.

  • Everything’s Gone Green (film by Fox [2006])

    Douglas Coupland: …Coupland penned the screenplay for Everything’s Gone Green (2006), and he cocreated and cowrote the TV series jPod (2008), which was based on his 2006 novel. Bit Rot: Stories + Essays appeared in 2016.

  • Everything’s Illuminated: 6 Bioluminescent Organisms

    Light-producing, or bioluminescent, organisms occur across the spectrum of life—get it, spectrum? There are blinking bacteria, flaming fungus, shimmering squid, and flashing fish. (Interestingly, fish are the only bioluminescent vertebrates and there are no plants that produce light.) Nearly all of

  • everything, theory of (physics)

    subatomic particle: A theory of everything: While GUTs resolve some of the problems with the Standard Model, they remain inadequate in a number of respects. They give no explanation, for example, for the number of pairs of quarks and leptons; they even raise the question of why such…

  • Everywhere We Go (album by Chesney)

    Kenny Chesney: Two years later Everywhere We Go, with its traditional country-music sound, sold more than two million copies and positioned Chesney solidly within the musical mainstream. Most of his subsequent albums, while still clearly country, incorporated stronger rock- and pop-music elements, and many—such as No Shoes, No Shirt, No…

  • Everywhere We Go (ballet)

    Justin Peck: …creations to his credit, including Everywhere We Go (2014), a second collaboration with Stevens, and the commissions Debonair (2014) for Pacific Northwest Ballet and Heatscape (2015) for Miami City Ballet. In addition, NYCB premiered his Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes and New Blood in 2015 and The Decalogue, his third Stevens…

  • Evesham (England, United Kingdom)

    Evesham, town (parish), Wychavon district, administrative and historic county of Worcestershire, west-central England. It lies on the right bank of the River Avon (Upper Avon). Evesham is an agricultural centre situated in the middle of a fertile vale that has become an important fruit-growing

  • Evesham, Vale of (valley, England, United Kingdom)

    Wychavon: The Vale of Evesham in the south and centre has the proper soil and climate for the cultivation of plums and various other fruits and vegetables. The steep limestone scarps of the Cotswolds uplands cross into Wychavon near the small parish (town) of Broadway in the…

  • Evian Championship (golf tournament)

    LPGA’s Evian Championship: …Ladies Professional Golf Association’s (LPGA) Evian Championship begins on September 10 at the Evian Resort Golf Club in Évian-les-Bains, France. A field featuring 2015 money-leader Park In-Bee, as well as all-time greats Juli Inkster and Karrie Webb, will strive to capture the last major title of the 2015 LPGA season.…

  • Évian Conference (France [1938])

    Holocaust: Nazi antisemitism and the origins of the Holocaust: …but did not attend, the Évian Conference on resettlement, in Évian-les-Bains, France, in July 1938. In his invitation to government leaders, Roosevelt specified that they would not have to change laws or spend government funds; only philanthropic funds would be used for resettlement. Britain was assured that Palestine would not…

  • Evian Masters (golf tournament)

    LPGA’s Evian Championship: …Ladies Professional Golf Association’s (LPGA) Evian Championship begins on September 10 at the Evian Resort Golf Club in Évian-les-Bains, France. A field featuring 2015 money-leader Park In-Bee, as well as all-time greats Juli Inkster and Karrie Webb, will strive to capture the last major title of the 2015 LPGA season.…

  • Évian-les-Bains (France)

    Évian-les-Bains, spa and tourist resort, Haute-Savoie département, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes région, eastern France, on the southern shore of Lake Geneva, opposite Lausanne on the Swiss shore of the lake. Lying below the lowest Alpine spurs, it has a mild climate. The spa buildings, the new hôtel de

  • eviction (law)

    eviction, the process of dispossessing a person of land, be it lawful or unlawful. Subject to any statutory provisions, it is lawful if the person evicted has a right to possession inferior to that of the person carrying out the eviction. The delivery of possession under order of the court is

  • evidence (law)

    evidence, in law, any of the material items or assertions of fact that may be submitted to a competent tribunal as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it. To the end that court decisions are to be based on truth founded on evidence, a primary

  • evidence (reasoning)

    Christianity: Evidentialist approach: In addition to this and other work concerning religious language there was a renewal of fundamental discussion of Christian, and more broadly religious, epistemology. The natural theology tradition held that, in order to be rational, religious belief must be supported by adequate evidences…

  • Evidence of Love (novel by Grau)

    Shirley Ann Grau: …are The Condor Passes (1971), Evidence of Love (1977), and Roadwalkers (1994). Her other short-story collections include The Wind Shifting West (1973), Nine Women (1985), and Selected Stories (2003).

  • Evidence of the Affair (short story by Reid)

    Taylor Jenkins Reid: Writing career: …published a short story, “Evidence of the Affair,” in 2018.

  • evidence-based health care (health care)

    evidence-based medicine, approach to patient care in which decisions about the diagnosis and management of the individual patient are made by a clinician, using personal experience and expertise combined with the best, most relevant, and most up-to-date scientific information available.

  • evidence-based medicine (health care)

    evidence-based medicine, approach to patient care in which decisions about the diagnosis and management of the individual patient are made by a clinician, using personal experience and expertise combined with the best, most relevant, and most up-to-date scientific information available.

  • evidence-based policy (social science)

    evidence-based policy, public policies, programs, and practices that are grounded in empirical evidence. The movement for evidence-based policy is an outgrowth of a movement in the United Kingdom in the 1990s calling for “evidence-based medicine,” which argued that only those treatment modalities

  • evidence-based research

    translational medicine, area of research that aims to improve human health and longevity by determining the relevance to human disease of novel discoveries in the biological sciences. Translational medicine seeks to coordinate the use of new knowledge in clinical practice and to incorporate

  • evil

    The Master and Margarita: …profound and eternal problems of good and evil. It is considered a 20th-century masterpiece.

  • Evil Dead (film by Alvarez [2013])

    Sam Raimi: Comic-book adaptations and later films: That same year Raimi produced Evil Dead, a remake that replaced the original film’s absurd gore with the brutally rendered violence more typical of 21st-century horror offerings. Raimi also created (with his brother Ivan Raimi and Tom Spezialy) the action-comedy TV series Ash vs Evil Dead, which aired from 2015…

  • Evil Dead II (film by Raimi [1987])

    Sam Raimi: The Quick and the Dead and A Simple Plan: … to fund a sequel, and Evil Dead II (1987), with Campbell returning in the lead role, added a camp, slapstick twist to the original film’s formula. Raimi experimented with the superhero genre in Darkman (1990) before completing the Evil Dead trilogy with Army of Darkness (1992).

  • Evil Dead, The (film by Raimi [1981])

    Sam Raimi: Early life and The Evil Dead: …arguably Raimi’s most famous work, The Evil Dead (1981). Although its low-budget origins were apparent and its level of gore bordered on the cartoonish, The Evil Dead became one of the most influential horror films of all time, and Raimi’s use of “shaky cam”—a handheld camera technique that was intended…

  • Evil Empire (album by Rage Against the Machine)

    Rage Against the Machine: Evil Empire (1996), which reprised the densely textured musical approach and militant lyrics of the band’s debut album, entered the Billboard albums chart at number one. The Battle of Los Angeles (1999) was also successful commercially. In the summer of 2000 the group staged a…

  • evil eye (occult)

    evil eye, glance believed to have the ability to cause injury or death to those on whom it falls; pregnant women, children, and animals are thought to be particularly susceptible. Belief in the evil eye is ancient and ubiquitous; it occurred in ancient Greece and Rome, in Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist,

  • Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong (work by Oates)

    Joyce Carol Oates: Novels and short stories: Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong (2014) features tales that explore the sinister possibilities of romantic entanglement. In the collection The (Other) You (2021), the stories’ characters contemplate regret and missed opportunities.

  • Evil That Men Do, The (film by Thompson [1984])

    Charles Bronson: …including Love and Bullets (1979), The Evil That Men Do (1984), and Murphy’s Law (1986). In other movies he revealed humanity and tenderness beneath the toughness, as in Sean Penn’s The Indian Runner (1991) and the TV movie Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (1991).

  • Evil Under the Sun (film by Hamilton [1982])

    Hercule Poirot: Adaptations: … (Death on the Nile [1978]; Evil Under the Sun [1982]; and Appointment with Death [1988]; as well as several made-for-television movies).

  • evil, problem of (theology)

    problem of evil, problem in theology and the philosophy of religion that arises for any view that affirms the following three propositions: God is almighty, God is perfectly good, and evil exists. An important statement of the problem of evil, attributed to Epicurus, was cited by the Scottish

  • Evinrude, Ole (Norwegian-American inventor)

    Ole Evinrude was a Norwegian-American inventor of the first commercially successful outboard marine internal-combustion engine. Evinrude began work on this project in 1906 and by 1909 had developed a one-cylinder power plant rated at 1.5 horsepower. Subsequent outboard motors followed his

  • evirato (music)

    castrato, male soprano or contralto voice of great range, flexibility, and power, produced as a result of castration before puberty. The castrato voice was introduced in the 16th century, when women were banned from church choirs and the stage. It reached its greatest prominence in 17th- and

  • evisceration (industrial technology)

    poultry processing: Removal of heads and legs: …by a wall from the evisceration steps in order to minimize cross-contamination.

  • Evita (musical by Lloyd Webber and Rice)

    Patti LuPone: Perón in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita. The production, initially staged in Los Angeles, traveled to New York City later that year. LuPone’s embodiment of the Argentine leader’s rise to power won her the Tony Award for best actress in a musical. She continued to work steadily in New York and…

  • Evita (film by Parker [1996])

    Alan Parker: …films included The Commitments (1991), Evita (1996), and The Life of David Gale (2003).

  • Evita (Argentine political figure and actress)

    Eva Perón was the second wife of Argentine Pres. Juan Perón, who, during her husband’s first term as president (1946–52), became a powerful though unofficial political leader, revered by the lower economic classes. Duarte was born in the small town of Los Toldos on the Argentine Pampas. Her