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lipid (iou) and Sirk, Douglas (sh)


lipid (iou)



lipid noun. . E20.
[French lipide, formed as LIPO- + -IDE.]
Biochemistry. Any of the large group of fats and fatlike compounds (including oils, waxes, steroids, etc.) which occur in living organisms and are soluble in certain organic solvents but only sparingly soluble in water; (an ester or Other derivative of) a fatty acid.
lipi'dosis noun, pl. -doses , Medicine a disorder characterized by an excessive accumulation of lipids in tissue M20.

Sirk, Douglas (sh)




orig. Claus Detlef Sierck

born April 26, 1900, Hamburg, Ger.
died Jan. 14, 1987, Lugano, Switz.

German-U.S. Film director.

He was artistic director of theatres in Bremen (1923-29) and Leipzig (1929-36), Ger., and made several films before fleeing the country in 1937. He arrived in Hollywood in 1939, and in 1943 he directed his first American Film, Hitler's Madman. He joined Universal Pictures in 1950, where he directed comedy, western, and war movies but was best known for popular melodramas such as Magnificent Obsession (1954), There's Always Tomorrow (1956), Written on the Wind (1956), and The Tarnished Angels (1957), in which frightful emotional warfare lurks beneath the facade of upper-middle-class life. After directing his greatest Success, Imitation of Life (1959), he retired to Europe.