Dickinson, city, seat (1883) of Stark county, southwestern North Dakota, U.S. It lies on the Heart River, about 100 miles (160 km) west of Bismarck. Founded in 1880 as a stop on the Northern Pacific Railway and originally called Pleasant Valley Siding, it was renamed in 1882 for Wells S. Dickinson,

Henrietta Lacks was an American woman whose cervical cancer cells were the source of the HeLa cell line, research on which contributed to numerous important scientific advances. After her mother died in childbirth in 1924, her father moved with his 10 children to Clover, Virginia, where he divided

Greenville, city, seat (1797) of Greenville county, northwestern South Carolina, U.S., on the Reedy River, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. First called Pleasantburg when the area was settled in the 1760s, it was renamed Greenville in 1821, probably for Isaac Green, an early settler,

Kansas City Group: … and overlie those of the Pleasanton Group, all of which are included within the Missourian Series. The Kansas City Group consists of six limestone formations that alternate with six shale units. The rocks are fossiliferous and contain important fusulinid genera useful for stratigraphic correlation.

Reese Witherspoon: Early career: Pleasantville and Cruel Intentions: …tale “Little Red Riding Hood”; Pleasantville (1998), a comedy centering on teenaged siblings in the 1990s who become trapped in a 1950s TV sitcom; and Cruel Intentions (1999), a modern take on the 18th-century novel Dangerous Liaisons, set in high school. The latter film costarred Ryan Phillippe, to whom she…

Pet Shop Boys: …from the duo’s first album, Please (1986), and “It’s a Sin,” “Rent,” “Heart,” and “What Have I Done to Deserve This?” (a collaboration with Dusty Springfield) from Actually (1987).

Jericho Brown: Please: ” In 2007 Brown finished a Ph.D. at the University of Houston. The following year he published his first book, Please, which won an American Book Award. Loosely structured as an album track list, complete with a section titled “Liner Notes,” the collection features many…

Charles Walters: …adaptation of Jean Kerr’s play Please Don’t Eat the Daisies (1960). The domestic comedy was one of year’s highest-grossing films.

Jean Kerr: …domestic life under the title Please Don’t Eat the Daisies. The book was a best-seller and was adapted as a popular motion picture and later a television series under the same title. The Snake Has All the Lines (1960) was in the same vein as the earlier book. Mary, Mary…

the Marvelettes: …result was the song “Please Mr. Postman.” Motown founder Berry Gordy, Jr., signed the singers, and a reworked “Please Mr. Postman,” featuring a young Marvin Gaye on drums, was released as their debut single. The song went to the top of the pop charts, and it provided Motown with…

Ringo Starr: Joining the Beatles: …the band’s 1963 debut album, Please Please Me, and its first American release, Introducing the Beatles (1964); “Honey Don’t” on Beatles for Sale in the United Kingdom and Beatles ’65 in the United States (both 1964); “Act Naturally” on Help! (1965); “Yellow Submarine” on Revolver (1966); and “With a

the Beatles: First success: Brian Epstein, George Martin, and Please Please Me: …first big British hit), “Please Please Me,” changing it from a slow dirge into an up-tempo romp.

Toni Morrison: Nonfiction works and children’s books: …of Mean People (2002), and Please, Louise (2014).

James Brown: …hated Brown’s first recording, “Please, Please, Please” (1956), but the record eventually sold three million copies and launched Brown’s extraordinary career. Along with placing nearly 100 singles and almost 50 albums on the best-seller charts, Brown broke new ground with two of the first successful “live and in concert”…

the Replacements: …Be (1984), Tim (1985), and Pleased to Meet Me (1987). The albums document Westerberg’s growing sophistication as a pop tunesmith, but they promised a commercial breakthrough that never came. In 1986 Bob Stinson was fired for drug and alcohol abuse and replaced the following year by Slim Dunlap. An unstable…

pleasing fungus beetle, (family Erotylidae), any of more than 3,500 species of widely distributed, mostly tropical beetles (insect order Coleoptera) that feed on fungi such as mushrooms and are often brightly coloured with orange, red, and black patterns. Pleasing fungus beetles range in size from

aesthetics: Emotion, response, and enjoyment: …instance, a certain kind of pleasure. But what kind of pleasure? While our emotions and sympathies are sometimes pleasurable, this is by no means their essential feature; they may equally be painful or neutral. How then does the aesthetic of sympathy explain the pleasure that we take, and must take,…

Kamala Markandaya: Literary career: …The Golden Honeycomb (1977), and Pleasure City (1982; also published as Shalimar).

garden and landscape design: Islamic: …Palermo, was taken up with pleasure grounds—walled enclosures large enough to contain woods and hills, canals, artificial lakes, groves of oranges and lemons, fountains, water stairways, and wild creatures running free.

George Seaton: Later films: In 1961 Seaton helmed The Pleasure of His Company, a deft comedy with Fred Astaire and Debbie Reynolds. He then shifted gears with The Counterfeit Traitor (1962), a classic espionage tale set during World War II, with fine performances by Holden and Lilli Palmer. The Hook (1963) was also…

human behaviour: Psychoanalytic theories: … gradually begins to control the pleasure principle; the child learns that the environment does not always permit immediate gratification. Child development, according to Freud, is thus primarily concerned with the emergence of the functions of the ego, which is responsible for channeling the discharge of fundamental drives and for controlling…

Jean Negulesco: Later films: The Pleasure Seekers (1964), Negulesco’s musical remake of Three Coins in the Fountain, was set in Spain and featured Ann-Margret, Pamela Tiffin, and Carol Lynley. Negulesco later moved to Spain and resumed his long-deferred career as a painter. He came out of his unofficial retirement…

Andrew Motion: Motion’s first verse collection, The Pleasure Steamers, was published in 1978. It contains “Inland,” which describes the fear and helplessness of 17th-century villagers who must abandon their homeland following a devastating flood; the poem received the Newdigate Prize in 1975. Noted for his insight and empathy, Motion frequently wrote…

number game: Pioneers and imitators: …surveyor, in 1694, published his Pleasure with Profit: Consisting of Recreations of Divers Kinds, viz., Numerical, Geometrical, Mechanical, Statical, Astronomical, Horometrical, Cryptographical, Magnetical, Automatical, Chymical, and Historical. The title page further states that the purpose of the book was to “recreate ingenious spirits and to induce them to make farther…

Pierre Bonnard: But about 1906 he painted Pleasure, Study, Play, and the Voyage, a series of four decorations made to resemble tapestries, for the salon of Misia Natanson, the wife of one of the editors of La Revue blanche. These pictures show that he was an heir to the French grand tradition…

Marcel Proust: Life and works: …Plaisirs et les jours (Pleasures and Days), a collection of short stories at once precious and profound, most of which had appeared during 1892–93 in the magazines Le Banquet and La Revue Blanche. From 1895 to 1899 he wrote Jean Santeuil, an autobiographical novel that, though unfinished and ill-constructed,…

George Lamming: The Pleasures of Exile (1960) is a collection of essays that examines Caribbean politics, race, and culture in an international context. Lamming’s later novels included Water with Berries (1971), a political allegory based on William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and Natives of My Person (1971), about…

Thomas Campbell: In 1799 he wrote The Pleasures of Hope, a traditional 18th-century survey in heroic couplets of human affairs. It went through four editions within a year.

Mark Akenside: …best known for his poem The Pleasures of Imagination, an eclectic philosophical essay that takes as its starting point papers on the same subject written by Joseph Addison for The Spectator. Written in blank verse derived from Milton’s, it was modelled (as its preface states) on the Roman poets Virgil…

aesthetics: The origins of modern aesthetics: …series of influential essays, “The Pleasures of the Imagination” in The Spectator (1712). He defended the theory that imaginative association is the fundamental component in our experience of art, architecture, and nature, and is the true explanation of their value to us.

leather: Artificial leather: Some of the earliest leather substitutes were invented in the 19th century. Nitrocellulose (guncotton) was developed by German chemist Christian Friedrich Schönbein in 1845 and was later turned into collodion (pyroxylin) in 1846 by French scientist Louis-Nicolas Ménard. Collodion was used as a…

dress: Ancient Greece: …in draping was created by pleating, a treatment particularly in use for feminine wear. The pieces of material were set into pleats, soaked in a thin starch solution, twisted and tied at the ends, then left in the sun to dry. This gave a greater permanence to the pleating.

plebeian, member of the general citizenry in ancient Rome as opposed to the privileged patrician class. The distinction was probably originally based on the wealth and influence of certain families who organized themselves into patrician clans under the early republic, during the 5th and 4th

ancient Rome: The plebeian tribunate: According to the annalistic tradition, one of the most important events in the struggle of the orders was the creation of the plebeian tribunate. After being worn down by military service, bad economic conditions, and the rigours of early Rome’s debt law, the…

ancient Rome: The plebeian tribunate: According to the annalistic tradition, one of the most important events in the struggle of the orders was the creation of the plebeian tribunate. After being worn down by military service, bad economic conditions, and the rigours of early Rome’s debt law, the…

plebeian, member of the general citizenry in ancient Rome as opposed to the privileged patrician class. The distinction was probably originally based on the wealth and influence of certain families who organized themselves into patrician clans under the early republic, during the 5th and 4th

plebeian, member of the general citizenry in ancient Rome as opposed to the privileged patrician class. The distinction was probably originally based on the wealth and influence of certain families who organized themselves into patrician clans under the early republic, during the 5th and 4th

plebeian: …a law (Lex Hortensia) making plebiscita (measures passed in the plebeian assembly) binding not only on plebeians but also on the rest of the community. In the later republic and under the empire (after 27 bce), the name plebeian continued to be used in the sense of commoner.

plebiscite, a vote by the people of an entire country or district to decide on some issue, such as choice of a ruler or government, option for independence or annexation by another power, or a question of national policy. In a plebiscite, voters are asked not to choose between alternate regimes or

plebeian, member of the general citizenry in ancient Rome as opposed to the privileged patrician class. The distinction was probably originally based on the wealth and influence of certain families who organized themselves into patrician clans under the early republic, during the 5th and 4th

Bohemian Forest: …the Bavarian (western) side and Plechý (Plöckenstein; 4,521 feet [1,378 m]) on the Czech (eastern) side. The Šumava is the source for the Vltava (German: Moldau) River, which cuts a broad trough through part of the region and is a source of hydroelectric power. Forests, both coniferous and deciduous, cover…

March fly, (family Bibionidae), any member of a family of stout insects in the fly order, Diptera, that are commonly seen around flowers during spring and early summer. The dark, short adults frequently have red and yellow markings. The larvae feed on the roots of plants and on decaying vegetation

Western architecture: Art Nouveau: Josef Plečnik, a talented pupil of Wagner, began his career in 1903–05 with the office and residence of Johannes Zacherl in Vienna. This was in a Wagner-inspired style that Plečnik developed in the 1930s in a fascinating series of buildings, especially in his native city…

sweetfish, delicately flavoured marine fish that migrates upstream to spawn in clear waters. It is found in East Asia and is of the family Osmeridae. The sweetfish is light yellow or olive-coloured, about 30 cm (1 foot) long, and similar to a small trout in appearance. It is distinguished by a

stonefly, (order Plecoptera), any of about 2,000 species of insects, the adults of which have long antennae, weak, chewing mouthparts, and two pairs of membranous wings. The stonefly ranges in size from 6 to more than 60 mm (0.25 to 2.5 inches). The hindwings are generally larger and shorter than

Pinnacles National Park: …mountain lions, tarantulas, and the Townsend’s big-eared bat (Plecotus townsendii) are among the wildlife found there.

Murray Gell-Mann: …Complexity, he coined the word plectics to describe the type of research supported by the institute. In The Quark and the Jaguar (1994), Gell-Mann gave a fuller description of the ideas concerning the relationship between the basic laws of physics (the quark) and the emergent phenomena of life (the jaguar).

Plectoceras, extinct genus of small marine nautiloid cephalopods, forms related to the modern pearly nautilus, that had a coiled shell composed of a series of chambers; Plectoceras was active in the Ordovician Period (from about 488 million to 444 million years ago). The junctures between

tetraodontiform, (order Tetradontiformes), any member of a group of primarily tropical marine fishes that are closely related to the perciforms (the typical advanced spiny-rayed fishes) that evolved during the Eocene Period of the Cenozoic Era, about 50 million years ago. Included are the

grunt: …larger fishes; several species of sweetlips (Plectorhynchus), which are Indo-Pacific fishes, highly variable in colouring and sometimes kept in marine aquariums; and the tomtates (Bathystoma rimator and related species), grunts found off Florida and the West Indies.

grassland: Biota: …species of the spinifex grasses, Plectrachne and Triodia, which form characteristic hummocks by trapping windblown sand at the bases of their tussocks. Heteropogon and Sorghum dominate grasslands in moister, northern areas, and Astrebla (Mitchell grass) is prevalent in seasonally arid areas, especially on cracking clay soils in the east. Other

Lamiales: Lamiaceae: Hundreds of named cultivars of Plectranthus, notable for their colourful leaves, are prized as houseplants and for protected outdoor plantings. Wildflowers and cultivated varieties of Monarda (bergamot) are also appreciated for their colour in summer.

coleus: Varieties of common coleus, or painted nettle (Plectranthus scutellarioides, formerly Coleus blumei), from Java, are well-known house and garden plants up to one metre (three feet) tall. They have square stems and small, blue, two-lipped flowers borne in spikes. The leaves are often variegated with colourful patterns…

coleus: Bush coleus, or blue Plectranthus (P. thyrsoideus, formerly C. thyrsoideus), from Central Africa, reaches a height of one metre and produces sprays of bright blue flowers. The leaves have distinctive venation and are often green with white borders.

Valerianoideae: …flower clusters from the Mediterranean; Plectritis congesta, a rose-pink-flowered annual from northwestern North America; and members of the Eurasian genus Patrinia, perennials with yellow or white flowers. Spikenard (Nardostachys grandiflora, sometimes N. jatamansi) is a perennial herb of the Himalayas that produces an essential oil in its woody rhizomes; it…

bunting: …white buntings of the genus Plectrophenax are hardy songbirds of the Arctic. They include the snow bunting (P. nivalis), sometimes called “snowflake,” as their flocks seem to swirl through the air and then settle on winter fields. The whitest North American songbird, McKay’s bunting (P. hyperboreus), nests on the remote…

bunting: The whitest North American songbird, McKay’s bunting (P. hyperboreus), nests on the remote Bering Sea islands of St. Matthew and Hall.

bunting: They include the snow bunting (P. nivalis), sometimes called “snowflake,” as their flocks seem to swirl through the air and then settle on winter fields. The whitest North American songbird, McKay’s bunting (P. hyperboreus), nests on the remote Bering Sea islands of St. Matthew and Hall.

anseriform: Locomotion: …feet, is exemplified by the spur-winged goose (Plectropterus gambensis). Others walk more straightforwardly and can outrun a pursuing human. In the ducks, whose short legs are situated rearward and farther apart, the gait is at best a waddle. The legs of most pochards and mergansers are so far back that…

Charles Martel: Early life: …until they came of age, Plectrude, Pippin’s widow, was to hold power. As an illegitimate son, Charles Martel was entirely neglected in the will. But he was young, strong, and determined, and an intense struggle for power at once broke out in the Frankish kingdom.

stringed instrument: The production of sound: …player’s fingernail or a plastic plectrum) emphasizes the higher overtones, thus creating a “bright” tone quality. By contrast, a soft pad, such as that on a piano hammer, emphasizes the fundamental pitch. The relative hardness of the hammer on the piano is thus of critical importance to the sound of…

heteropteran: Sound production and reception: …of a series (called a plectrum) of minute pegs, setigerous tubercles, or an upturned edge of a sclerite (hard body plate). The plectrum may be on the movable body member or on the fixed body part. One or both sexes, and sometimes even the nymphs, of a species may stridulate.…

keyboard instrument: Plucking mechanism: …the quill, plastic, or leather plectrum that does the actual plucking; the smaller slot holds a piece of cloth that rests on the string and silences it when the key is not depressed. When the harpsichordist pushes down on a key, the back end rises, lifting the jack and forcing…

Prince: Later career: …releasing Art Official Age and PlectrumElectrum, the latter of which featured backing by the female trio 3rdEyeGirl. They also appeared on HitnRun: Phase One and Phase Two (both 2015).

nematode: …two species, Halicephalobus mephisto and Plectus aquatilis, which inhabit subterranean water seeps as deep as 3.6 km (2.2 miles) beneath Earth’s surface, are the deepest-living multicellular organisms known. See also aschelminth.

property law: Mortgages and pledges: The Russian Federation’s Civil Code permits mortgages and pledges to be used as devices for securing the performance of legal obligation, notably loan agreements. Although mortgages and pledges are very common in the West, they are quite rare (and quite complicated) in Russia.

Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, pledge to the flag of the United States. It was first published in the juvenile periodical The Youth’s Companion on September 8, 1892, in the following form: “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands; one

Sean Penn: …impressive directorial effort came with The Pledge. The drama featured Jack Nicholson as a police detective who vows to find a child killer. In 2003 Penn won the best actor honors at the Venice Film Festival for 21 Grams (2003), and the following year he received a best actor Oscar…

ibis: …and its close relative the white-faced ibis (P. chihi) are small forms with dark reddish brown and glossy purplish plumage. As a group they are found throughout the warmer regions of the world.

ibis: The glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) and its close relative the white-faced ibis (P. chihi) are small forms with dark reddish brown and glossy purplish plumage. As a group they are found throughout the warmer regions of the world.

Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Plehve was a Russian imperial statesman whose efforts to uphold autocratic principle, a police-bureaucratic government, and class privilege resulted in the suppression of revolutionary and liberal movements as well as minority nationality groups within the Russian Empire.

Gaston Gallimard: …firm also published the well-known La Pléiade series of French literary classics (acquired 1933) as well as the Série Noire, a series of some 2,000 thrillers, detective novels, and spy stories.

La Pléiade, group of seven French writers of the 16th century, led by Pierre de Ronsard, whose aim was to elevate the French language to the level of the classical tongues as a medium for literary expression. La Pléiade, whose name was taken from that given by the ancient Alexandrian critics to

Pleiades, (catalog number M45), open cluster of young stars in the zodiacal constellation Taurus, about 440 light-years from the solar system. It contains a large amount of bright nebulous material and more than 1,000 stars, of which six or seven can be seen by the unaided eye and have figured

Pleiades, in Greek mythology, the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione: Maia, Electra, Taygete, Celaeno, Alcyone, Sterope, and Merope. They all had children by gods (except Merope, who married Sisyphus). The Pleiades eventually formed a constellation. One myth recounts that

heteropteran: Annotated classification: Family Pleidae Very small, stout, convex above; scutellum large, exposed; hindwings reduced or absent; head and pronotum partially or wholly fused; inhabit fresh waters; about 20 species; in all zoogeographic regions. Family Helotrephidae Like Pleidae; about 15 species; only in Asia, Africa, and South America. Family…

Swedish literature: Political writing: Agneta Pleijel, also an accomplished poet, found many of her subjects in history. The primary concerns in her novels are ethics, love, the role of art, and individual responsibility (as in Lord Nevermore [2000]). Other Swedish women authors at the turn of the 21st century…

Pleiku, city, central Vietnam, located in the central highlands. The city has a hospital, a commercial airfield, and several air bases that are a legacy of its strategic importance during the later stages of the Vietnam War (1965–75). It lies in a mountainous region inhabited mainly by Bahnar and

Victor Hugo: Exile (1851–70) of Victor Hugo: …of “Le Satyre”; and “Plein Ciel” proclaims, through utopian prediction of men’s conquest of the air, the poet’s conviction of indefinite progress toward the final unity of science with moral awareness.

Alain Delon: title Purple Noon), based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley. Delon went on to even greater fame with roles in Luchino Visconti’s Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960; Rocco and His Brothers) and Il gattopardo (1963; The Leopard) and Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Eclisse (1962),…

plein-air painting, in its strictest sense, the practice of painting landscape pictures out-of-doors; more loosely, the achievement of an intense impression of the open air (French: plein air) in a landscape painting. Until the time of the painters of the Barbizon school in mid-19th-century France,

Pleione, star in the Pleiades, thought to be typical of the shell stars, so called because in their rapid rotation they throw off shells of gas. In 1938 sudden changes in the spectrum of Pleione were attributed to the ejection of a gaseous shell, which by 1952 had apparently dissipated. Pleione is

heredity: Universality of Mendel’s laws: …many traits (a condition termed pleiotropic). The white gene in Drosophila flies is pleiotropic; it affects the colour of the eyes and of the testicular envelope in the males, the fecundity and the shape of the spermatheca in the females, and the longevity of both sexes. In humans many diseases…

Pleistocene Epoch, earlier and major of the two epochs that constitute the Quaternary Period of Earth’s history, an epoch during which a succession of glacial and interglacial climatic cycles occurred. The base of the Gelasian Stage (2,588,000 to 1,800,000 years ago) marks the beginning of

Oliver Perry Hay: …providing the basis for his Pleistocene of North America and Its Vertebrated Animals… (1923) and two subsequent volumes (1924; 1927).

Pleistocene Series, worldwide division of rocks deposited during the Pleistocene Epoch (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago). It overlies rocks from the Pliocene Epoch (5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago) and is itself overlain by rocks of the Holocene Series (from 11,700 years ago to the present);

Georgy Valentinovich Plekhanov was a Marxist theorist, the founder and for many years the leading exponent of the Marxist movement in Russia. A Menshevik, he opposed the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia in 1917 and died in exile. Plekhanov was born into a family of the minor gentry. In 1873 he

Jesse Plemons is an American actor known for an understated, natural acting style that has made him popular with fans and critics alike. Plemons is typically cast in character roles, and his notable credits include the TV shows Friday Night Lights, Breaking Bad, and Fargo and the movies The

Jesse Plemons is an American actor known for an understated, natural acting style that has made him popular with fans and critics alike. Plemons is typically cast in character roles, and his notable credits include the TV shows Friday Night Lights, Breaking Bad, and Fargo and the movies The

Latin American dance: Puerto Rico: …Rican musical genre of the plena may be danced, but it is more important for its lyrics, which have dealt with contemporary events since the end of the 19th century. The basic step is a side-to-side, step-touch movement with subtle motion through the rib cage and shoulders. Panderos (tambourines), drums,…

indulgence: “Plenary,” or full, indulgences cancelled all the existing obligation, while “partial” indulgences remitted only a portion of it. People naturally wanted to know how much debt was forgiven (just as modern students want to know exactly what they need to study for examinations), so set…

E. Mavis Hetherington was a Canadian-born developmental psychologist best known for her work on the effects of divorce and remarriage on child development. She also made significant contributions to research on childhood psychopathology, personality and social development, and stress and coping.

diplomacy: India: …three categories of diplomats (plenipotentiaries, envoys entrusted with a single issue or mission, and royal messengers); a type of consular agent (similar to the Greek proxenos), who was charged with managing commercial relations and transactions; and two kinds of spies (those charged with the collection of intelligence and those…

International Telecommunication Union: …the ITU includes: (1) the Plenipotentiary Conference, which is the supreme organ of the ITU and meets every four years; (2) World Administrative Conferences, which meet according to technical needs; (3) the ITU Council, which meets annually and is responsible for executing decisions of the Plenipotentiary Conference; (4) the General…

Christianity: Emergence of official doctrine: …of Being (1936), called the principle of plenitude. This is the idea that the best possible universe does not consist only of the highest kind of creature, the archangels, but contains a maximum richness of variety of modes of being, thus realizing every possible kind of existence from the highest…

universal: Plenitudinous theories and sparse theories: The distinction between plenitudinous and sparse theories of universals (a distinction that cuts across the distinction between Platonic and Aristotelian realism) did not become a major issue in philosophy until the 20th century. According to the plenitudinous view, there is…

Roman Catholicism: Ancient and medieval views of papal authority: …that fullness of power (plenitudo potestatis) over the church to which, according to some scholars, Leo I himself had laid claim. In this they were aided not only by the efforts of publicists such as the 13th-century Italian theologian and philosopher Giles of Rome, also known as Aegidius Romanus,…

Croatia: Independent Croatia: …the following month HDZ leader Andrej Plenković was confirmed as prime minister at the head of a centre-right coalition government. Plenković presided over a healthy economic recovery, but further integration with the EU was hindered by Croatia’s ongoing border dispute with Slovenia. In June 2017 the Permanent Court of Arbitration…

David Hare: …a screenwriter for his 1985 film adaptation of Plenty. In 1994 he adapted for film The Secret Rapture (1988), his play exploring the complex relationship between two sisters. In addition, he helmed the films Wetherby (1985) and Strapless (1989), for which he penned the screenplays. He wrote and directed Page…

David Hare: …while the widely praised play Plenty (1978) was a searching study of the erosion of a woman’s personality, metaphorically evoking Britain’s contemporaneous postwar decline.