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throne (iou) and Kiarostami, Abbas (sh)


throne (iou)



throne noun & verb. Also (earlier) trone. ME.

A. noun.
a. A chair of State for a potentate or dignitary; esp. an ornate, elaborate, and usu. raised chair occupied by a sovereign on State occasions. ME.
D. Jacobson The king's throne, an elaborate ivory-sheathed affair.
b. A chair for a deity, esp. God or Christ. ME.
c. A ceremonial chair for a pope or bishop. LME.
d. A chair provided by portrait-painters for their sitters. M19.
e. A lavatory seat and bowl. colloq. (freq. joc.). E20.
transf. & fig.
a. The position, office, or dignity of a sovereign; sovereign power or authority. ME.
B. Bettelheim The Archduke..became heir to the throne.
b. A position of dominion or supremacy. M16.
Ring Thai junior flyweight champ..barely kept his throne via a split decision. P. Bailey That chair was her throne, from which she ruled over her brood.
c. The occupant of a throne; the sovereign. M18.
In Christian theology, a member of the third order of the ninefold celestial hierarchy, ranking directly below the cherubim and above the dominations (usu. in pl.). ME.
Phrases: ascend the throne: see ASCEND 7. power behind the throne: see POWER noun. sit on the throne: see sit on (e) s.v. SIT verb. the Great White Throne the throne of God (with allus. to Revelation 20:11). throne and altar the established civil and ecclesiastical systems in a State. Throne of Grace the place where God is conceived as sitting to answer prayer.
Comb.: throne room a room containing a throne; Throne Speech Canad. = the King's speech, the Queen's speech s.v. SPEECH noun.
b. verb.
verb trans. Place on or as on a throne; enthrone. LME.
Pope Th' eternal thunderer sat thron'd in gold. J. Conington To throne him in the seat of power.
verb intrans. Be enthroned; sit on or as on a throne. E17.
thronedom noun (rare) the dominion or authority of a throne E19.
throneless adjective without a throne; deposed from a throne: E19.

Kiarostami, Abbas (sh)




born June 22, 1940, Tehran, Iran

Iranian director.

Kiarostami was hired in 1969 by the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults to establish its Film division. The institute produced his first Film as a director, the lyrical short The Bread and Alley (1970), which featured elements that define his work
improvised performances, documentary textures, and real-life rhythms. His first feature, Mosafer (1974), is a portrait of a troubled adolescent. Where Is the Friend's Home? (1987) gained him international acclaim, and he followed with several masterful films, including Close-up (1990), Through the Olive Trees (1994), The Taste of Cherry (1997), and The Wind Will Carry Us (1999). In the 1980s Kiarostami created documentaries examining the lives of Iranian schoolchildren, and his Film ABC Africa (2001) examined the blight of orphans in AIDS-ravaged Africa.