William Randolph Hearst: …the 21st century, the family-owned Hearst Corporation was still one of the largest media companies in the United States, with interests in newspapers, magazines, broadcasting, financial and medical services, and cartoon and feature syndicates.

William Randolph Hearst: …the 21st century, the family-owned Hearst Corporation was still one of the largest media companies in the United States, with interests in newspapers, magazines, broadcasting, financial and medical services, and cartoon and feature syndicates.

Patty Hearst is an heiress of the William Randolph Hearst newspaper empire who was kidnapped in 1974 by leftist radicals called the Symbionese Liberation Army, whom she under duress joined in robbery and extortion. The third of five daughters of Randolph A. Hearst, she attended private schools in

Patty Hearst is an heiress of the William Randolph Hearst newspaper empire who was kidnapped in 1974 by leftist radicals called the Symbionese Liberation Army, whom she under duress joined in robbery and extortion. The third of five daughters of Randolph A. Hearst, she attended private schools in

William Randolph Hearst was an American newspaper publisher who built up the nation’s largest newspaper chain and whose methods profoundly influenced American journalism. Hearst was the only son of George Hearst, a gold-mine owner and U.S. senator from California (1886–91). The young Hearst

Heart, American rock band formed in 1974 and led by sisters Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson. Heart sold millions of records from the mid- to late 1970s, bolstered by the singles “Magic Man” (1976) and “Barracuda” (1977), and staged a comeback in the mid-1980s with a pop-oriented sound and hits such as

heart, organ that serves as a pump to circulate the blood. It may be a straight tube, as in spiders and annelid worms, or a somewhat more elaborate structure with one or more receiving chambers (atria) and a main pumping chamber (ventricle), as in mollusks. In fishes the heart is a folded tube,

transplant: The heart and lungs: The technique of transplanting the heart and both lungs as a functioning unit was developed in animal experiments at Stanford Medical Center in California. Despite the technical feasibility of the operation, rejection could not be controlled by conventional immunosuppression. With the availability…

Hoagy Carmichael: …Sleepy People,” “Small Fry,” “Heart and Soul,” “Ole Buttermilk Sky,” “The Nearness of You,” and “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening,” which won an Oscar for the best film song of 1951. One of his best-known compositions of the 1940s was “Skylark,” another collaboration with Mercer, and…

Maeve Binchy: In 2008 Binchy released Heart and Soul, about a doctor who establishes a clinic in an underserved area while trying to juggle her own affairs. It was followed by Minding Frankie (2010), which centres on a single father who enlists the aid of his neighbours to help raise his…

Kadir Nelson: Author and illustrator: …King Author Award again for Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans (2011), which is narrated by a 100-year-old woman who tells the history of African Americans from their arrival on slave ships to the election of the first African American U.S. president. Other books that Nelson…

cardiac arrest, sudden loss of heart function, in which the regular contraction of the heart muscle unexpectedly stops, resulting in a loss of blood flow to vital organs. Cardiac arrest is a medical emergency. It is fatal in the vast majority of cases and is a significant cause of death worldwide.

heart attack, death of a section of the myocardium, the muscle of the heart, caused by an interruption of blood flow to the area. A heart attack results from obstruction of the coronary arteries. The most common cause is a blood clot (thrombus) that lodges in an area of a coronary artery thickened

Sissy Spacek: Other film and TV credits and honors: …Cassady in the less successful Heart Beat (1980). She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her lead role in Raggedy Man (1981), directed by her husband, Jack Fisk, and she won nominations for a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, and an Oscar for her performance in Costa-Gavras’s Missing…

heart rate, the number of times the ventricles of the heart contract and relax (that is, beat) per minute or other unit of time. In human beings, the normal resting heart rate among adults ranges from 60 to 100 beats per minute (BPM), whereas the normal resting heart rate for children is higher and

heart block, lack of synchronization in the contractions of the upper and the lower chambers of the heart—the atria and the ventricles. The lack of synchronization may range from a slight delay in the ventricular contractions to total heart block, a complete lack of synchronization between the

Colleen Hoover: Blockbuster books: It Ends with Us, It Starts with Us, and Verity: Hoover’s later books include Heart Bones (2020), in which a teenager becomes homeless after her mother dies of a drug overdose. Forced to move in with a father she barely knows, she finds herself unexpectedly attracted to one of his neighbors. Reminders of Him (2022) is another standalone novel.…

Heart River: …Arthur Patterson Lake, and the Heart Butte Dam, impounding Lake Tschida, are units of a Missouri River basin irrigation and flood-control project.

cardiac catheterization, medical procedure by which a flexible plastic tube (catheter) is inserted into an artery or vein. It is used for injecting drugs for therapy or diagnosis, for measuring blood flow and pressure in the heart and central blood vessels, in performing procedures such as

cockle, any of the approximately 250 species of marine bivalve mollusks, or clams, of the family Cardiidae. Distributed worldwide, they range from about one centimetre (0.4 inch) in diameter to about 15 centimetres (about 6 inches)—the size of the smooth giant cockle (Laevicardium elatum) of

heart disease, any disorder of the heart. Examples include coronary heart disease, congenital heart disease, and pulmonary heart disease, as well as rheumatic heart disease (see rheumatic fever), hypertension, inflammation of the heart muscle (myocarditis) or of its inner or outer membrane

congenital heart disease, any abnormality of the heart that is present at birth. Cardiac abnormalities are generally caused by abnormal development of the heart and circulatory system before birth. Abnormal development can be caused by a variety of factors, including infection and use of certain

heart failure, general condition in which the heart muscle does not contract and relax effectively, thereby reducing the performance of the heart as a pump and compromising blood circulation throughout the body. Heart failure is a major public health concern in countries worldwide. Although

Margaret Atwood: Novels: The Heart Goes Last (2015), originally published as a serial e-book (2012–13), imagines a dystopian America in which a couple is compelled to join a community that functions like a prison. Hag-Seed (2016), a retelling of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, was written for the Hogarth…

Alan Arkin: …as the deaf protagonist of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968), based on a novel by Carson McCullers.

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, novel by Carson McCullers, published in 1940. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its sensitive glimpses into the inner lives of lonely people, it is considered McCullers’s finest work. The novel’s protagonist is a deaf man, John Singer, who lives in a

Linda Ronstadt: …Briton Peter Asher, Ronstadt’s album Heart Like a Wheel (1974) sold more than a million copies. It also established the formula she would follow on several successful albums, mixing traditional folk songs, covers of rock and roll standards, and new material by contemporary songwriters (e.g., Anna McGarrigle, Warren Zevon, and…

cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR), three-dimensional diagnostic imaging technique used to visualize the heart and its blood vessels without the need for X-rays or other forms of radiation. Cardiac MRI employs a steady magnetic field, a radio-frequency transmission system, and computer

heart murmur, condition characterized by prolonged noises made by blood circulating through the heart. A heart murmur is often described as a swishing or hissing sound that occurs after the normal heartbeat sound and is audible through a stethoscope. Heart murmurs are classified into two types:

cardiac muscle, in vertebrates, one of three major muscle types, found only in the heart. Cardiac muscle is similar to skeletal muscle, another major muscle type, in that it possesses contractile units known as sarcomeres; this feature, however, also distinguishes it from smooth muscle, the third

Edmondo De Amicis: , The Heart of a Boy, 1960), written in the form of a schoolboy’s diary. It was translated into more than 25 languages.

The Heart of a Dog, dystopian novelette by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in Russian in 1925 as Sobachye serdtse. It was published posthumously in the West in 1968, both in Russian and in translation, and in the Soviet Union in 1987. The book is a satirical examination of one of the goals of the October

Margaret Laurence: …Diviners (1974), a novel, and Heart of a Stranger (1977), a collection of essays, Laurence turned to writing children’s stories.

H. Saint John Philby: …exploit recorded in his book, Heart of Arabia (1922). Philby succeeded T.E. Lawrence as chief British representative in Transjordan (1921–24) but resigned to establish a business in Arabia. He was an unofficial adviser of Ibn Saʿūd and converted to Islam in 1930.

Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States, case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Dec. 14, 1964, that in passing Title II of the Civil Rights Act (1964), which prohibited segregation or discrimination in places of public accommodation involved in interstate commerce, the U.S. Congress did not

Rudolfo Anaya: Heart of Aztlán (1976) follows a family’s move from rural to urban surroundings and confronts some of the problems of Chicano labourers. In Tortuga (1979) Anaya examines the emotions of a boy encased in a body cast at a hospital for paralyzed children (reflecting experiences…

Heart of Darkness, novella by Joseph Conrad that was first published in 1899 in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine and then in Conrad’s Youth: and Two Other Stories (1902). Heart of Darkness examines the horrors of Western colonialism, depicting it as a phenomenon that tarnishes not only the lands and

Blondie: …Another,” and the disco-influenced “Heart of Glass.” Eat to the Beat (1979) was similarly successful.

Neil Young: Later work and causes: Heart of Gold (2005) was the first of several feature-length documentaries about Young directed by Jonathan Demme. It captures a pair of emotional performances in Nashville that came in the wake of Young’s brush with death caused by a brain aneurysm and that drew on…

The Heart of Midlothian, novel of Scottish history by Sir Walter Scott, published in four volumes in 1818. It is often considered to be his finest novel. The Old Tolbooth prison in Edinburgh is called “the heart of Midlothian,” and there Effie Deans is held on charges of having murdered her

acai: Palm hearts: …palm hearts, also known as hearts of palm, which are eaten as a vegetable. Palm hearts are harvested by removing the growing top of the palm crown; each heart consists of a whitish cylinder of tender immature leaves. Given that acai palms are multistemmed, the harvest can be done without…

Marie Adelaide Lowndes: , The Heart of Penelope (1904) and Barbara Rebell (1905)—she wrote The Chink in the Armour (1912), a psychological study of a murder-plot victim. The Lodger, published the following year, was a fictional treatment of the Jack the Ripper murders. Her numerous works, spanning the first…

Alia Bhatt: Producer and international career: … debut in the Gal Gadot-led Heart of Stone (2023), playing a hacker. Bhatt represents the fashion house Gucci as a brand ambassador; in 2024 she was praised for wearing a sari (a traditional Indian garment) to the Met Gala, an international fashion fundraising event held annually.

The Heart of the Matter, novel by Graham Greene, published in 1948. The work is considered by some critics to be part of a “Catholic trilogy” that included Greene’s Brighton Rock (1938) and The Power and the Glory (1940). The novel is set during World War II in a bleak area of West Africa and

O. Henry: ” Heart of the West (1907) presented accurate and fascinating tales of the Texas range.

Leonhard Frank: …wo das Herz ist (1952; Heart on the Left).

heart rate, the number of times the ventricles of the heart contract and relax (that is, beat) per minute or other unit of time. In human beings, the normal resting heart rate among adults ranges from 60 to 100 beats per minute (BPM), whereas the normal resting heart rate for children is higher and

Heart River, river, Billings county, southwestern North Dakota, U.S. It rises in the badlands and flows about 200 miles (320 km) generally eastward past Dickinson to join the Missouri River south of Mandan, opposite Bismarck. The Dickinson Dam, impounding Edward Arthur Patterson Lake, and the Heart

heart rot, any of several diseases of trees, root crops, and celery. Most trees are susceptible to heart-rotting fungi that produce a discoloured, lightweight, soft, spongy, stringy, crumbly, or powdery heart decay. Conks or mushrooms often appear at wounds or the trunk base. Heart rot in trees

Annie Proulx: …of her first short-story collection, Heart Songs, and Other Stories (1988), Proulx turned to writing novels, which better accommodated her dense plots and complex characterizations. Postcards (1992), her first novel, uses the device of picture postcards mailed from the road over 40 years’ time to illustrate changes in American life.…

heart sound, audible rhythmic vibrations in the heart, typically heard through a stethoscope pressed to the chest or back during the diagnostic procedure known as auscultation. The heart sounds consist mainly of two separate sounds that occur when the two sets of heart valves—the atrioventricular

Heart Sutra, in Mahayana Buddhism, an extremely brief yet highly influential distillation of the essence of Prajnaparamita (“Perfection of Wisdom”) writings, much reproduced and recited throughout East and Central Asia. True to its title, this short sutra goes to the heart of the doctrine it

heart transplant, medical procedure involving the removal of a diseased heart from a patient and its replacement with a healthy heart. Because of the immense complexity of the procedure and the difficulty of finding appropriate donors, heart transplants are performed only as a last resort in

heart urchin, any echinoid marine invertebrate of the order Spatangoidea (phylum Echinodermata), in which the body is usually oval or heart-shaped. The test (internal skeleton) is rather fragile with four porous spaces, or petaloids. The body is covered with fine, usually short spines. Heart

cardiovascular disease: Abnormalities of the atrial septum: …atrial septum may involve the atrioventricular valves and may be associated with incompetence of these valves. In its most extreme form, there may be virtually no septum between the two atrial chambers. Atrial septal defect is a noncyanotic type of congenital heart disease and usually is not associated with serious…

atresia and stenosis: Aortic, pulmonary, and heart-valve stenoses all cause mild to severe circulatory difficulty in early life but can be repaired by surgery. See also agenesis.

transplant: Heart valves: Valvular diseases of the heart can be dangerous, since both a blocked valve and a valve that allows blood to leak backward create a strain on the heart that can lead to heart failure. If the valve is seriously damaged, it can be…

John Boyne: The Heart’s Invisible Furies (2017) follows the life of an adopted man as he searches for his identity in 20th-century Ireland. The Echo Chamber (2021) gives a comedic look at social media and the consequences of expressing oneself publicly.

W.D. Snodgrass: Snodgrass’s first collection, Heart’s Needle (1959), which won the Pulitzer Prize, is marked by careful formal control and a sensitive and solemn delineation of his experience of losing his daughter through divorce. The collection After Experience (1968) continues these formal and thematic concerns. His later work, including Remains…

Jesus Prayer, in Eastern Christianity, a mental invocation of the name of Jesus Christ, considered most efficacious when repeated continuously. The most widely accepted form of the prayer is “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me.” It reflects the biblical idea that the name of God is

Lu Jiuyuan: …Learning of the Heart-and-Mind (xinxue), often called the Lu-Wang school, after its two great proponents. It was opposed to the other great (and dominant) school, the Learning of Principle (lixue), often called the Cheng-Zhu school after its leading philosophers, Cheng Yi and Zhu Xi.

Serapias: The heart-flowered serapias (S. cordigera) has purple flowers with blackish purple lips that often have a tonguelike lobe. S. stenopetala features pale yellow flowers and is endemic to Algeria and Tunisia; the plant is listed as critically endangered by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

philodendron: Major species: …among them is the common heart-leaf philodendron (Philodendron hederaceum, variety oxycardium). Another variety, the velvet-leaf philodendron (P. hederaceum, variety hederaceum) has small bronzy green velvety leaves with reddish undersides. Of moderate size is the fiddle-leaf, or horsehead, philodendron (P. bipennifolium), with large fiddle-shaped glossy green leaves up to 15–25 cm…

heart–lung machine, a type of artificial heart

transplant: The heart and lungs: The technique of transplanting the heart and both lungs as a functioning unit was developed in animal experiments at Stanford Medical Center in California. Despite the technical feasibility of the operation, rejection could not be controlled by conventional immunosuppression. With the availability…

balloon vine, (species Cardiospermum halicacabum), woody perennial vine in the soapberry family (Sapindaceae) that is native to subtropical and tropical America. It is naturalized and cultivated widely as an ornamental for its white flowers and its nearly globular inflated fruits, which are about

balloon vine, (species Cardiospermum halicacabum), woody perennial vine in the soapberry family (Sapindaceae) that is native to subtropical and tropical America. It is naturalized and cultivated widely as an ornamental for its white flowers and its nearly globular inflated fruits, which are about

Robert Hayden: His first collection of poems, Heart-Shape in the Dust, was published in 1940. While a graduate student at the University of Michigan (M.A., 1944), he studied poetry with W.H. Auden and served as a teaching fellow, which made him the university’s first Black faculty member.

atresia and stenosis: Aortic-arch and heart-valve atresias cause serious difficulty in early life but can sometimes be repaired by surgery.

heart rate, the number of times the ventricles of the heart contract and relax (that is, beat) per minute or other unit of time. In human beings, the normal resting heart rate among adults ranges from 60 to 100 beats per minute (BPM), whereas the normal resting heart rate for children is higher and

the Cars: Mainstream success and breakup: …stardom with the release of Heartbeat City (1984). The album was the Cars’ highest-charting album, reaching number 3 on the Billboard album chart, and it features numerous singles. Whereas the singles “Hello Again,” “Why Can’t I Have You,” and the title track, “Heartbeat City,” all received substantial airplay, Heartbeat City…

History of film: Australia, New Zealand, and Canada: …and Les Amours imagininaires (2010; Heartbeats) and continued with, among others, Laurence Anyways (2012), Mommy (2014), the English-language The Death & Life of John F. Donovan (2019), and Matthias et Maxime (2019; Matthias & Maxime).

Andy Kaufman: …God We Tru$t [1980] and Heartbeeps [1981]), Kaufman did not use the increased exposure that came with starring as a lovable eccentric in a hit television show to broaden his appeal. Instead, he actively tried to alienate the public through a series of confrontational or simply bizarre talk-show interviews—as well…

Elvis Presley: Colonel Tom Parker and national celebrity: …a series of hits: “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Don’t Be Cruel,” and “Love Me Tender” (all 1956), “All Shook Up” (1957), and more.

Heartbreak House, play in three acts by George Bernard Shaw, published in 1919 and produced in 1920. The play’s subtitle, “A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes,” acknowledges its resemblance to Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. The action takes place in the decidedly bohemian

Chris Brown: Assault charges and later releases: …daughter; and the double albums Heartbreak on a Full Moon (2017) and Indigo (2019). The mixtape Slime & B (2020) is a collaboration with rapper Young Thug. He released Breezy in 2022, followed by 11:11 a year later. The latter won the Grammy for best R&B album in 2025.

Clint Eastwood: First directorial efforts: Heartbreak Ridge (1986) was an enjoyable drama about an old-school marine sergeant (Eastwood) on the verge of retirement whose tough approach whips a group of raw recruits into shape for the invasion of Grenada. White Hunter, Black Heart (1990) was Eastwood’s most audacious project of…

Wong Kar-Wai: …by the fragmentary narrative of Heartbreak Tango (1969).

Sarah Silverman: …There’s Something About Mary (1998), Heartbreakers (2001), and School of Rock (2003). She later voiced one of the main characters, Vanellope von Schweetz, in the computer-animated children’s film Wreck-It Ralph (2012) and its sequel, Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018). Silverman also played a prostitute waiting to consummate her relationship with…

American literature: Multicultural writing: (1999); and Dave Eggers’s A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000), a painful but comic tour de force, half tongue-in-cheek, about a young man raising his brother after the death of their parents.

nutritional disease: Heartburn and peptic ulcer: When gastric contents, containing hydrochloric acid, flow backward from the stomach, the lining of the esophagus becomes inflamed, leading to the burning sensation known as heartburn. Occasional heartburn (also known as acid indigestion) is a common occurrence, typically

Nora Ephron: … into her first solo screenplay, Heartburn (1986). The comedy-drama starred Streep in the Ephron role and Jack Nicholson as her philandering husband.

John Heartfield was a German artist best known for his agitprop photomontages—collages of text and imagery found in mass-produced media—and his role in the development of the Dada movement in Berlin. The child of politically active socialist parents, Heartfield (who retained the name Herzfeld until

blast furnace: Molten iron accumulates in the hearth, which has a taphole to draw off the molten iron and, higher up, a slag hole to remove the mixture of impurities and flux. The hearth and bosh are thick-walled structures lined with carbon-type refractory blocks, while the stack is lined with high-quality fireclay…

Australian Aboriginal peoples: Social groups and categories: The individual family, or hearth group, was the fundamental social unit; each family generally cooked and camped separately from other families in the band. The family could function self-sufficiently as an economic unit, but Aboriginal people preferred the enhanced sociality made possible by traveling and living together in bands.

South Africa: The Early Stone Age: …Cape province and at the Cave of Hearths in Mpumalanga province.

heartland, region of Eurasia whose control was posited by the British political geographer Halford Mackinder in the early 20th century as the key to world domination in an era of declining importance for traditionally invincible sea power. Mackinder observed that the majority of the world’s

Saxifragaceae: Heartleaf foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia) of North America is used in folk medicine as a diuretic and tonic. Creeping saxifrage (Saxifraga stolonifera), native to China and Japan, is used in Java, Vietnam, and various parts of China for earaches and other ear problems. It is also…

hornbeam: Major species: Heartleaf hornbeam (C. cordata), an Asian species, usually 15 metres (49 feet) tall, has heart-shaped leaves up to 15 cm (6 inches) long. In the Japanese hornbeam (C. japonica), the downy leaves are reddish brown when unfolding; the smaller Korean hornbeam (C. eximia), usually 9…

hearts, card game in which players aim to avoid taking tricks that contain hearts. Hearts first appeared in the United States about 1880, although it derives from the much older European game of reverse. In the late 20th century a version of hearts was included with every personal computer running

Mary Pickford: …in such silent films as Hearts Adrift (1914), The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917), Stella Maris (1918), and Johanna Enlists (1918) enthralled audiences everywhere.

Toni Collette: …Hereditary and the feel-good drama Hearts Beat Loud, garnered more-favorable reviews.

Stephen King: Short fiction: …Dreamscapes (1993; TV miniseries 2006), Hearts in Atlantis (1999; film 2001), Just After Sunset (2008), and The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (2015). His collection You Like It Darker was released in 2024. Among its stories is “The Answer Man,” which King began writing in the 1970s but did not finish…

Stephen King: Short fiction: …2006), Hearts in Atlantis (1999; film 2001), Just After Sunset (2008), and The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (2015). His collection You Like It Darker was released in 2024. Among its stories is “The Answer Man,” which King began writing in the 1970s but did not finish because he did not…

acai: Palm hearts: …palm hearts, also known as hearts of palm, which are eaten as a vegetable. Palm hearts are harvested by removing the growing top of the palm crown; each heart consists of a whitish cylinder of tender immature leaves. Given that acai palms are multistemmed, the harvest can be done without…

pansy: Major species: The wild pansy (V. tricolor), also known as Johnny-jump-up, heartsease, and love-in-idleness, has been widely naturalized in North America. The flowers of this form are usually purple and yellow and less than 2 cm (0.8 inch) across.

heartwood, dead, central wood of trees. Its cells usually contain tannins or other substances that make it dark in colour and sometimes aromatic. Heartwood is mechanically strong, resistant to decay, and less easily penetrated by wood-preservative chemicals than other types of wood. One or more

filariasis: In the form of heartworm disease, it may be fatal to dogs and other mammals.

heartworm disease, parasitic disease, predominantly of dogs but also occurring in cats, that is caused by the nematode Dirofilaria immitis. Infective larvae (microfilariae) develop in mosquitoes, which serve as the vector for transmission. In dogs, after the larvae are introduced into the host,

heat, energy that is transferred from one body to another as the result of a difference in temperature. If two bodies at different temperatures are brought together, energy is transferred—i.e., heat flows—from the hotter body to the colder. The effect of this transfer of energy usually, but not