Colleen Hoover: First novels: …Point of Retreat (2012) and This Girl (2013), also became bestsellers.

film noir: The cinema of the disenchanted: …Maltese Falcon (1941), Frank Tuttle’s This Gun for Hire (1942), Otto Preminger’s Laura (1944), and Edward Dmytryk’s Murder, My Sweet (1944). Banned in occupied countries during the war, these films became available throughout Europe beginning in 1946. French cineastes admired them for their

David Lean: …of these, the domestic drama This Happy Breed (1944), is today seen as hopelessly dated because of Coward’s patronizing treatment of the lower middle-class. The second was Coward’s classic supernatural comedy Blithe Spirit (1945), regarded as a good effort but little more than a stage play on celluloid. The last…

Rick Mercer: …Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in This Hour Has 22 Minutes, an inventive sketch-comedy-based television show he created with several fellow Newfoundlanders.

Judd Apatow: …a terminal blood disorder, and This Is 40 (2012), which revisited two supporting characters from Knocked Up now facing the midlife frustrations of marriage and family.

Caryl Churchill: …year her surrealistic short play This Is a Chair was produced. She later explored issues of identity in A Number (2002), about a father and his cloned sons. For the drama, Churchill won her third Obie for playwriting. Also in 2002 she won an Obie for sustained achievement. Her subsequent…

Lily Tomlin: …later featured on Tomlin’s album This Is a Recording (1971), which earned the comedian a Grammy Award, and several characters appeared in the Emmy Award-winning TV movie Lily (1973).

Michael Jackson: Legacy: The documentary film This Is It, which drew from more than 100 hours of footage compiled during rehearsals for Jackson’s scheduled 50-concert comeback engagement in London, premiered in October 2009. Later documentaries include Leaving Neverland (2019), which centers on two men who allege that Jackson sexually abused them…

Jennifer Saunders: …in the surreal comedy series This Is Jinsy (2010–11, 2014) and appeared as a prison warden in the show Dead Boss (2012). She also costarred with Timothy Spall in the P.G. Wodehouse-inspired Blandings (2013–14) and played a rare dramatic role in the eight-part thriller The Stranger (2020).

Jennifer Lopez: Marriage to Ben Affleck and This Is Me…Now: …studio album in a decade, This Is Me…Now. Promoted as a “sister album” to 2002’s This Is Me…Then, the new album explores the singer’s love life, in particular her relationship with Affleck. In 2024 Lopez was also chosen to be a cochair (alongside Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth, and Zendaya) for…

Yuly Markovich Daniel: …Arzhak as Govorit Moskva (1962; This Is Moscow Speaking, and Other Stories). In the title story, “This Is Moscow Speaking,” the Soviet government declares Public Murder Day—a day on which murder is legal. The day itself passes uneventfully, underscoring the apathy and passivity of the Soviet citizenry.

Carly Simon: …from the Edge (1990) and This Is My Life (1992).

Jafar Panahi: …directed Īn Fīlm Nīst (2011; This Is Not a Film), which depicts a day in Panahi’s life while he awaited the result of his appeal, denied in October 2011. The film was made clandestinely in Panahi’s Tehrān apartment and was smuggled out of Iran inside a USB stick hidden in…

Robert Fisk: …was profiled in the documentary This Is Not a Movie (2019).

Missy Elliott: Her fifth studio album, This Is Not a Test! (2003), included features by rappers Jay-Z and Nelly as well as an appearance by Mary J. Blige, but it did not produce hits as her others had. Her 2005 album, The Cookbook, contained the Grammy-winning single “Lose Control.” Elliott subsequently…

Alfredo Jaar: …of his better-known works is This Is Not America (A Logo for America) (1987), a sequence of projections on a light board overlooking a U.S. Army recruitment station in Times Square. The projections included an outlined map of the United States with the words This Is Not America written across…

Kenneth Lonergan: Lonergan’s first successful play was This Is Our Youth, an expansion of an earlier one-act play, Betrayal by Everyone. A story about disaffected young people in the early 1980s, it opened Off-Broadway in 1996 with Mark Ruffalo in the lead role. His next play, The Waverly Gallery, about a young…

This Is Spinal Tap, American film comedy released in 1984 that parodies the “rockumentary” film genre via the exploits of the fictional heavy metal band Spinal Tap. Directed by American filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner, the film was largely improvised by Reiner and the core cast members—American

This Is Spinal Tap, American film comedy released in 1984 that parodies the “rockumentary” film genre via the exploits of the fictional heavy metal band Spinal Tap. Directed by American filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner, the film was largely improvised by Reiner and the core cast members—American

Ansel Adams: Later career: …most notable of these was This Is the American Earth (1960; with Newhall), published by the Sierra Club. It was one of the essential books in the reawakening of the conservation movement of the 1960s and ’70s, along with Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There…

Michael Cera: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and This Is the End: …debauched version of himself in This Is the End, a film about a group of celebrities dealing with an apocalyptic event. The all-star cast includes James Franco, Seth Rogen, Rihanna, and Mindy Kaling.

Ann Patchett: Later novels and other works: …published essays were collected in This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage (2013).

Tom Jones: In 1969 his variety show, This Is Tom Jones, began airing there as well as in the U.K. The show hosted big names in the music and entertainment business and ran through January 1971. Jones established a strong following in Las Vegas beginning in the 1970s, when he landed steady…

Phylicia Rashad: …recurring roles in Empire and This Is Us; her work in the latter series earned her two Emmy nominations. She was also cast as the title character’s teacher in the TV series David Makes Man (2019– ). In addition, Rashad continued to appear in movies, notably portraying the widow of…

Gwen Stefani: Stefani’s third solo album, This Is What the Truth Feels Like, appeared in 2016, and from 2018 to 2020 she had a Las Vegas residency titled Just a Girl. During this time she also appeared as a coach on the singing competition show The Voice (2014–15, 2017, 2019–20). Country…

Tina Fey: …dead father in the comedy This Is Where I Leave You. Fey and Poehler costarred as siblings who decide to throw a party at their childhood home in Sisters (2015). After narrating the nature documentary Monkey Kingdom (2015), Fey portrayed a reporter who is sent to cover the Afghanistan War…

Diane di Prima: Her first book of poetry, This Kind of Bird Flies Backward, was published in 1958. In 1961 di Prima and LeRoi Jones (now Amiri Baraka) began a monthly poetry journal, Floating Bear, that featured their own poetry and that of other notable Beat writers such as Jack Kerouac and William…

This Land Is Your Land, popular song written by American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie. It has been embraced as a protest song and as an alternative patriotic anthem for the United States because of its themes of inclusion and equality. Guthrie penned the lyrics to “This Land Is Your Land”

ellipsis: Auden’s poem “This Lunar Beauty”:

Angela Bassett: …and the romantic action comedy This Means War (2012) before playing the director of the U.S. Secret Service in the action thriller Olympus Has Fallen (2013) and its sequel London Has Fallen (2016). Her other films include Lee’s crime dramedy Chi-Raq (2015) and the action adventure Mission: Impossible—Fallout

Helen Frankenthaler: …of her paintings, such as This Morning’s Weather (1982) and Yoruba (2002), embody a strong feeling of landscape. Among her later works are Seeing the Moon on a Hot Summer Day (1987), Warming Trend (2002), and Ebbing (2002).

Sean Penn: …star turned Nazi hunter in This Must Be the Place (2011), mid-20th-century mob boss Mickey Cohen in the noir drama Gangster Squad (2013), and a reformed assassin whose past catches up with him in The Gunman (2015). Penn also voiced characters in animated fare, including Persepolis (2007) and Angry Birds…

Leo Baeck: Baeck’s philosophy: …written in the concentration camp, This People Israel: The Meaning of Jewish Existence (1955), which moves from the essence of an “ism” to the concrete existence of a people and creates an approach to Jewish life that must be set alongside the thought of the great 20th-century Jewish religious philosophers…

Gary Snyder: A later collection, This Present Moment, appeared in 2015. A longtime advocate of environmental issues, Snyder argued in Back on the Fire: Essays (2007) that forest fires can be beneficial and that government actions to fight them often work against natural processes. His subsequent works of nonfiction included…

Sydney Pollack: Film directing: …by Pollack’s first prestige production, This Property Is Condemned (1966), an extremely loose expansion of Tennessee Williams’s one-act play. The 1930s drama, which was cowritten by Francis Ford Coppola, cast Natalie Wood as a young woman in a small Mississippi town who falls in love with a visiting railroad official…

William Styron: …the Clap Shack (1972) and This Quiet Dust (1982), a collection of essays that treat the dominant themes of Styron’s fiction. Darkness Visible (1990) is a nonfiction account of Styron’s struggle against depression. A Tidewater Morning (1993) consists of autobiographical stories. Havanas in Camelot (2008), a collection of personal essays…

Margaret Laurence: Her first novel, This Side Jordan (1960), deals with how old colonials and native Africans suffered through the exchange of power as Ghana became a nation. The Prophet’s Camel Bell (1963; also published as New Wind in a Dry Land) is an account of her life in Africa.…

Roark Bradford: …in historical perspective, such as This Side of Jordan (1929), about the arrival of machines on the plantations.

This Side of Paradise, first novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. Immature though it seems today, the work when it was published was considered a revelation of the new morality of the young in the early Jazz Age, and it made Fitzgerald famous. The novel’s hero, Amory Blaine, is a

David Storey: Storey’s first published novel, This Sporting Life (1960), is his best-known. It is the story of a professional rugby player and his affair with his widowed landlady. Storey wrote the script for a film based on the novel and directed by Lindsay Anderson in 1963. Other novels followed: Flight…

This Sporting Life, British film drama, released in 1963, that is considered a classic of the 1960s social realist cinema in Britain. It featured Richard Harris in his first starring role. Harris played Frank Machin, a bitter young coal miner determined to break free of his lower-class status by

James Ellroy: The story continues in This Storm (2019), the second installment in the series.

José Donoso: …third novels, Este domingo (1966; This Sunday) and El lugar sin límites (1966; “The Place Without Limits”; Hell Has No Limits), depict characters barely able to subsist in an atmosphere of desolation and anguish. El obsceno pajaro de la noche (1970; The Obscene Bird of Night), regarded as his masterpiece,…

Alexander Hall: The Columbia years: Arguably better was This Thing Called Love (1940), with Rosalind Russell and Douglas as a recently married couple who struggle after she insists on three months of celibacy.

Robert Bly: …of Camphor and Gopherwood (1977), This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years (1979), Morning Poems (1997), and Eating the Honey of Words (1999). His poems of The Man in the Black Coat Turns (1981) explore themes of male grief and the father-son connection that he developed further in…

Tadeusz Borowski: …appear in the English translation This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Other Stories [1967].)

Christiane Amanpour: …of ABC’s political affairs show This Week later that year. She stepped down from the program, however, in December 2011. In a special arrangement, she then resumed her role at CNN while continuing at ABC as its global affairs anchor. Amanpour returned in 2012 on the CNN International channel, and…

David Brinkley: …Broadcasting Company (ABC) to host This Week with David Brinkley, a Sunday program featuring Brinkley and a panel of other journalists that conducted interviews and provided analysis of the week’s events from various political perspectives. Brinkley hosted the show until 1996 but played a continuing role as a weekly commentator…

Maeve Binchy: … (1984; television movie 1990), and This Year It Will Be Different, and Other Stories: A Christmas Treasury (1996). The collections Chestnut Street (2014) and A Few of the Girls (2016) were published posthumously. She authored several plays for the stage and for television.

Elvis Costello: Forming the Attractions: …early albums with the Attractions—This Year’s Model (1978), Armed Forces (1979), and Get Happy!! (1980)—Costello and Lowe developed a distinctive guitar and keyboard mix that was influenced by a variety of 1960s artists, including Booker T. and the MG’s. The most notable work of this early period—rockers such as…

molecular gastronomy: …gastronomy—was established in 1988 by Hervé This, a physical chemist, and Nicholas Kurti, a former professor of physics at the University of Oxford, who were interested in the science behind the phenomena that occur during culinary processes. Although food science had existed for some centuries, its focus had historically been…

Pyramus and Thisbe: Thisbe, hero and heroine of a Babylonian love story, in which they were able to communicate only through a crack in the wall between their houses; the tale was related by Ovid in his Metamorphoses, Book IV. Though their parents refused to consent to their…

Thisted, city in northwestern Jutland, Denmark. It dates from the 14th century and used to be a busy port for local commerce on the Limfjorden. Industry now includes meat processing and the manufacturing of metals and plastics. The city’s small brewery, Thisted Bryghus, is well known. Pop. (2008

thistle, weedy species of Cirsium, Carduus, Echinops, Sonchus, and other plant genera of the family Asteraceae. The word thistle most often refers to prickly leaved species of Carduus and Cirsium, which have dense heads of small, usually pink or purple flowers. Plants of the genus Carduus,

brush-footed butterfly: The thistle butterfly (Vanessa) is named for its principal larval host plant. Some species, such as the painted lady (V. cardui), migrate during adulthood, traveling in large groups.

prickly poppy: …white or yellow blooms; the crested, or thistle, poppy (A. platyceras), with 6- to 10-cm (2- to 4-inch) white or yellow blooms; and the Mexican poppy (A. mexicana), with smaller yellow blooms and light green leaves with white vein markings.

The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, the Scottish order of knighthood whose modern period dates from King James VII of Scotland (James II of England), who revived it in 1687, and Queen Anne, who revived it again in 1703. As with many orders of chivalry, its origins lie much further

Arthur Thistlewood was a revolutionary who in 1820, a time of economic distress and radical unrest in England, organized the Cato Street Conspiracy to assassinate all the members of the British Cabinet. The son of a successful farmer, Thistlewood visited the United States and France and returned to

Phetchabun Range, mountain range in north-central Thailand. A heavily forested southern extension of the Luang Prabang Range, it runs north-south, forming the western rim of the Khorat Plateau, and rises to 5,840 feet (1,780

Thebes, dímos (municipality) and city, Central Greece (Modern Greek: Stereá Elláda) periféreia (region). The city lies northwest of Athens (Athína) and was one of the chief cities and powers of ancient Greece. On the acropolis of the ancient city stands the present commercial and agricultural

Thebes, dímos (municipality) and city, Central Greece (Modern Greek: Stereá Elláda) periféreia (region). The city lies northwest of Athens (Athína) and was one of the chief cities and powers of ancient Greece. On the acropolis of the ancient city stands the present commercial and agricultural

thixotropy, reversible behaviour of certain gels that liquefy when they are shaken, stirred, or otherwise disturbed and reset after being allowed to stand. Thixotropy occurs in paint, such as lithopone in oil, which flows freely when stirred and reverts to a gel-like state on standing. Quicksand, a

Thjórs River, longest stream in Iceland. Rising from the central plateau northeast of Hofsjökull (Hofs Glacier), it flows southwestward for 143 miles (230 km) and then discharges into the Atlantic Ocean southeast of Selfoss. The Thjórs River and its largest tributary, the Tungna (80 miles [129 km]

Thjórs River, longest stream in Iceland. Rising from the central plateau northeast of Hofsjökull (Hofs Glacier), it flows southwestward for 143 miles (230 km) and then discharges into the Atlantic Ocean southeast of Selfoss. The Thjórs River and its largest tributary, the Tungna (80 miles [129 km]

pennycress, (genus Thlaspi), genus of plants of the mustard family (Brassicaceae), named and sometimes grown for their round seedpods. Most of the species are Eurasian, but a few are native to North and South America, mostly in mountain areas. Pennycress species can be annuals or perennials and

pennycress: Field pennycress, or fanweed (T. arvense), has flat and circular notched pods and is a common weed throughout much of North America. Its seeds have a high oil content, and the species has gained interest as a potential feedstock for biofuel production.

Dogrib, a group of Athabaskan-speaking North American First Nations (Indian) people inhabiting the forested and barren-ground areas between the Great Bear and Great Slave lakes in the Northwest Territories, Canada. There are six settlements: Behchoko (formerly Rae-Edzo), Whati (Lac la Martre),

Chu Van Tan: …Tan became chieftain of the Tho, a tribal ethnic minority in the mountainous regions of northern Vietnam near the China border. Before World War II, Chu Van Tan organized his people into a revolutionary militia to resist the French. By 1940–41 he had formed an effective fighting force, the Vietnam…

Tai languages: The distribution and classification of Tai languages: …now known in Vietnam as Tay. Ahom, an extinct language once spoken in Assam (India), has a considerable amount of literature. The Tai languages are divided into three linguistic groups—the Southwestern, the Central, and the Northern. Thai and Lao, the official languages of Thailand and Laos, respectively, are the best…

Vietnamese literature: …and Nhat Linh, and the Tho Moi (“New Poetry”) school, which included important writers such as Xuan Dieu, Che Lan Vien, Cu Huy Can, Bang Ba Lan, and Luu Trong Lu. Both groups succeeded in throwing off antiquated Chinese literary habits, creating a new and lively literature in Quoc-ngu, the…

Isabella Thoburn was an American missionary to India whose work in education there culminated in the founding of an important woman’s college in Lucknow. Thoburn attended local schools and the Wheeling Female Seminary in Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia). In 1866, after she had taught for

Sarah Winnemucca was a Native American educator, lecturer, tribal leader, and writer best known for her book Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims (1883). Her writings, valuable for their description of Northern Paiute life and for their insights into the impact of white settlement, are

Sarah Winnemucca was a Native American educator, lecturer, tribal leader, and writer best known for her book Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims (1883). Her writings, valuable for their description of Northern Paiute life and for their insights into the impact of white settlement, are

kapāla, cup made of a human skull, frequently offered by worshipers to the fierce Tantric deities of Hindu India and Buddhist Tibet. In Tibet the skull cup is displayed on the Buddhist altar and is used in ritual to offer to the ferocious dharmapāla (“defender of the faith”) divinities either wine,

Balder: After Balder’s funeral, the giantess Thökk, probably Loki in disguise, refused to weep the tears that would release Balder from death.

Imre Thököly was a Hungarian patriot, a leader of the Hungarian Protestants in their struggle against Austrian Habsburg rule. The scion of a rich Protestant family, Thököly moved to Transylvania after his father was executed for having had a role in the Hungarian magnates’ conspiracy against the

tholeiite, fine-grained extrusive igneous rock, a basalt that contains plagioclase feldspar (labradorite), clinopyroxene (augite with pigeonite), and iron ore (magnetite and ilmenite). Tholeiitic lavas often contain glass, but little or no olivine. Tholeiite occurs as extensive plateaus (volumes on

basalt: Tholeiitic basaltic lavas are characterized by calcic plagioclase with augite, pigeonite or hypersthene, and olivine (rarely) as the dominant mafic minerals; basalts without olivine are also well represented. Tholeiitic basalts, which contain 45 to 63 percent silica, are rich in iron and include the tholeiites…

igneous rock: Classification of volcanic and hypabyssal rocks: …the iron-rich group called the tholeiitic series and the iron-poor group called calc-alkalic. The former group is most commonly found along the oceanic ridges and on the ocean floor; the latter group is characteristic of the volcanic regions of the continental margins (convergent, or destructive, plate boundaries; see below Forms…

tholos, in ancient Greek architecture, a circular building with a conical or vaulted roof and with or without a peristyle, or surrounding colonnade. In the Mycenaean period, tholoi were large ceremonial tombs, sometimes built into the sides of hills; they were beehive-shaped and covered by a

Pluto: The surface and interior: …arises from organic compounds called tholins.

tholos, in ancient Greek architecture, a circular building with a conical or vaulted roof and with or without a peristyle, or surrounding colonnade. In the Mycenaean period, tholoi were large ceremonial tombs, sometimes built into the sides of hills; they were beehive-shaped and covered by a

Athens: Athens at its zenith: The Tholos, the round building that served as the headquarters of the executive committee of the council, was also built at this time. Lack of attention to the Acropolis was partly the result of the oath, sworn before the Battle of Plataea in 479 bce, that…

Treasury of Atreus, a beehive, or tholos, tomb built about 1350 to 1250 bc at Mycenae, Greece. This surviving architectural structure of the Mycenaean civilization is a pointed dome built up of overhanging (i.e., corbeled) blocks of conglomerate masonry cut and polished to give the impression of a

tholos, in ancient Greek architecture, a circular building with a conical or vaulted roof and with or without a peristyle, or surrounding colonnade. In the Mycenaean period, tholoi were large ceremonial tombs, sometimes built into the sides of hills; they were beehive-shaped and covered by a

South Asian arts: Folk theatre: …Andhra Pradesh the puppets, called tholu bommalata (“the dance of leather dolls”), are fashioned of translucent, coloured leather. These are projected on a small screen, like colour photographic transparencies. Animals, birds, gods, and demons dominate the screen. The puppeteer manipulates them from behind with two sticks. Strong lamps are arranged…

tholos, in ancient Greek architecture, a circular building with a conical or vaulted roof and with or without a peristyle, or surrounding colonnade. In the Mycenaean period, tholoi were large ceremonial tombs, sometimes built into the sides of hills; they were beehive-shaped and covered by a

René Frédéric Thom was a French mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1958 for his work in topology. Thom graduated from the École Normale Supérieure (now part of the Universities of Paris) in 1946, spent four years at the nearby National Centre for Scientific Research, and in 1951 was

Tristan and Isolde: …1170, however, the Anglo-Norman poet Thomas, who was probably associated with the court of Henry II of England, produced an adaptation in which the harshness of the archetype was considerably softened. A mellifluous German version of Thomas’ adaptation, by Gottfried von Strassburg, is considered the jewel of medieval German poetry.…

Thomas à Kempis was a Christian theologian, the probable author of Imitatio Christi (Imitation of Christ), a devotional book that, with the exception of the Bible, has been considered one of the most influential works in Christian literature. About 1392 Thomas went to Deventer, Netherlands,

African American literature: The turn of the 21st century: …Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Thomas and Beulah (1986), her tribute to her maternal grandparents, Yusef Komunyakaa won the same prize for Neon Vernacular (1993), a collage of new and collected poems from seven previous volumes, ranging from Dien Cai Dau (1988), based on Komunyakaa’s service in the Vietnam War,…

St. Thomas Aquinas ; canonized July 18, 1323; feast day January 28, formerly March 7) was an Italian Dominican theologian, the foremost medieval Scholastic. He developed his own conclusions from Aristotelian premises, notably in the metaphysics of personality, creation, and Providence. As a

James Patterson: …dark stylized crime novel called The Thomas Berryman Number (1976), won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best first novel from the Mystery Writers of America. Several novels in a similar vein followed, though he failed to attract much attention from either critics or the reading public.

Thomas Christians, indigenous Indian Christian groups who have traditionally lived in Kerala, a state on the Malabar Coast, in southwestern India. Claiming to have been evangelized by St. Thomas the Apostle, Thomas Christians ecclesiastically, liturgically, and linguistically represent one of the

Thomas Cook: …conducted tour and founder of Thomas Cook and Son, a worldwide travel agency. Cook can be said to have invented modern tourism.

Thomas Cook: …conducted tour and founder of Thomas Cook and Son, a worldwide travel agency. Cook can be said to have invented modern tourism.

Thomas Cook: …conducted tour and founder of Thomas Cook and Son, a worldwide travel agency. Cook can be said to have invented modern tourism.

Pierce Brosnan: …remake of the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair. He later appeared in the espionage-thriller The Tailor of Panama (2001), a film adaptation of John le Carré’s novel; the romantic comedy Laws of Attraction (2004); and The Matador (2005), in which he played a weary hit man. In 2007 Brosnan…

The Thomas Crown Affair, American caper film, released in 1968, featuring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway in a cat-and-mouse game with erotic overtones. Playing against type, McQueen portrays a rich businessman who relieves his boredom by hiring a gang to stage an audacious string of ingenious

Thomas Cup, trophy signifying world supremacy in the sport of badminton. The cup was donated in 1939 by Sir George Thomas for a series of men’s international team competitions to be managed by the International Badminton Federation (IBF), of which Thomas was then president. The first tournament was