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leitmotif \LYT-moh-teef\, noun:
- In music drama, a marked melodic phrase or short passage which always accompanies the reappearance of a certain person, situation, abstract idea, or allusion in the course of the play; a sort of musical label.
- A dominant and recurring theme.
Leitmotif (also spelled leitmotiv) is from German Leitmotiv, "leading motif," from leiten, "to lead" (from Old High German leitan) + Motiv, "motif," from the French. It is especially associated with the operas of German composer Richard Wagner.
mormon first base
- Engaging in hand to hand contact. In other words, holding hands.
I walked in on Doug trying to get to mormon first base with a girl, while viewing a non-rated R movie.
History
- Spanish-American War: ended when Spanish troops surrendered to US in Santiago, Cuba (1898)
- House of Windsor: in the wake of anti-German sentiment, British royal family changed its name from Saxe-Coburg Gotha (1917)
- Potsdam Conference: world leaders Truman, Stalin and Churchill begin the final Allied summit of WWII (1945)
- Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: for the first time, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit; it marked the warming US-USSR relationship (1975)
- Woolworths: the last of the company's five-and-dime stores closed; over 9,000 employees went jobless (1997)
Birthdays
- John Astor 1762
- Erle Stanley Gardner 1889
- Berenice Abbott 1898
- James Cagney 1899
- Christina E. Stead 1902
- William Gargan 1905
- Art Linkletter 1912
- Eleanor Steber 1916
- Lou Boudreau 1917
- Phyllis Diller 1917 - Comedian
- Gordon Gould 1920
- Niccolo Castiglioni 1932
- Mimi Hines 1933
- Pat McCormick 1934
- Diahann Carroll 1935 - Actress, singer
- Peter Schickele 1935 - Musician (P. D. Q. Bach)
- Spencer Davis 1939 - Musician, singer (Spencer Davis Group)
- Connie Hawkins 1942 - Basketball player
- Camilla 1947 - Duchess of Cornwall, wife of Britain's Prince Charles
- Cathy Ferguson 1948
- Mick Tucker 1949 - Musician (Sweet)
- Terence 'Geezer' Butler 1949 - Musician (Black Sabbath)
- Mike Vale 1949 - Musician (Tommy James and the Shondells)
- Lucie Arnaz 1951 - Actress
- David Hasselhoff 1952 Actor ("Knight Rider," "Baywatch"), singer, actor, living legend
- Angela Merkel 1954 - German Chancellor
- Bryan Trottier 1956 - Hockey player
- Nancy Giles 1960
- Regina Belle 1963
- Alex Winter 1965
- Guru (Keith Elam) 1966 - Rapper (Gang Starr)
- Stockley (David "Stokley" Williams) 1967 - Singer (Mint Condition)
- JC (Jarret Cordes, J.C. the Eternal) 1971 - (PM Dawn)
- Kitten Jones 1982
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