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Wiktionary, the free dictionary.Opus is a Latin word for work.The plural of opus is opera.It is used in many fields, notably in architecture and in music.In music, pieces of music by composers are given opus numbers, which generally run in order of publication.Unpublished compositions often are given WoO numbers (Werk ohne Opuszahl, German for work without opus number).In architecture, it specifically describes a technique or a method or a style of connecting building elements, following the studies on Roman architecture.In fine art, Opus is the formal name or nickname of a work of art
Magnum opus (or Opus magnum) refers to the best, most popular, or most renowned achievement of an author, artist, or composer.Opus is a document composition software for high volume printing by Elixir Technologies (www.CBCS is a Bulletin Board (Computer Based Conversation System)
opus String Quartet (real name is opus.Opus College of Business is the business school within University of St.Thomas (Minnesota)
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OPUS DEI IN THE U.VIDEO: an HR director for Opus Dei talks about the spiritual guidance Opus Dei offers, the roles of men and women, and becoming a numerary.When Men Cry
In 1972 a man lost his wife and son in an automobile accident.Faced with such pain, St.Christians have to transmit our faith by our example and word.Louise Lalu: My Life
Louise Lalu, a Congolese physician, recounts how she overcame great adversity to become a doctor in Africa."The Three Kings Had Their Star.Josemaria gave a homily entitled "The Epiphany of our Lord."What can we bring the Christ Child?We can offer him the work of all human activities.For the full Opus archive, go here.Tom the Dancing Bug Waddy McPhlegmster's pledge: No spit.By Keith Knight
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This Modern World Failing upward: A small sampling of the wisdom and insight that have just earned William Kristol a weekly column in the New York Times.Table Talk
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Get Salon in your mailbox!Ripley's Believe It or Not!Opus is a Sunday strip by Berkeley Breathed.Set in Bloom County, the strip documents the adventures of Breathed's popular character Opus the Penguin, parodying both pop culture and politics along the way.Opus
Opus is the title character and protagonist of the strip.Though he returned to Antarctica at the end of Outland, Opus has since traveled back home to Bloom County, only to find that time has changed everything and everyone he once held dear.Club, Breathed revealed that "Opus was named after a Kansas song."The band's 1976 album Leftoverture includes the song "Opus Insert" and a suite called "Magnum Opus".He also added, "If you're too young to know who Kansas was, to hell with you."Bill seems to be the only one completely unchanged by time.Still in a state of catatonia, he is occasionally tapped to run for political office but most often seen relaxing by Opus' side.Steve was reintroduced little more than a year in, now having appeared in all four of Breathed's comic strips.Dallas, who had come out as gay at the end of Outland, is back to his chauvinist ways apparently due to reparative therapy.Steve's lack of ability to charm women, however, remains.Viking princess), Pickles immediately began tagging along with Opus and Bill.Steve's long lost son, reunited with his father after many years.He has nothing but admiration for Steve, even though Steve is sometimes reluctant to act like a father figure.Opus' who begins appearing in the strip after a somewhat unexplained twelve year absence (see below).Though previously convicted on corruption charges, Bedfellow has returned of late, still usually drunk and plagued by reporters.He reappeared on August 5, 2007.Appeared in the strip on August 12, 2007.Opus, eventually marrying him.The marriage was immediately annulled, however, as Opus attempted to kiss Lola after their vows but was knocked cold due to 'incompatible noses.Lola leaves Opus with when she abandons him.Steve Dallas appears in this dream and declares to Opus about Lola that "She's got you whipped, blobbo!"Steve Dallas that seems to be involved with Lola).Upon waking from his dream, Opus calls for an immediate annulment, which Lola agrees to.Until the newer 2007 cartoons, she only made a few other brief appearances in Bloom County.On November 25, 2007, the cartoonist appeared as himself (using a likeness of Sean Connery as James Bond instead of drawing his own face) and "announced" that Jim Davis's character Garfield is gay in a parody of author J.Absent characters
Early on in the strip, it was revealed that Michael Binkley had fled Bloom County to become a teenage Tibet eunuch after a disastrous first kiss.At one point, Opus ponders the whereabouts of his other buddies from the past.Among those that Opus remembers are Milo Bloom, although Milo's whereabouts have not yet been discussed.Ann Smith, the original protagonist of Outland, has not been referenced at all in the strip.At an autograph party for an Opus anthology book, Breathed revealed that the reason many of the original child characters had not returned is because in the years since the end of Outland, the child characters would have aged into teenagers, and Breathed had no interest in reviving the characters in that form.Production history
In numerous interviews before launching Opus, Berke Breathed stated his hopes that the strip would help reinvigorate the medium of newspaper comics.Publisher reported on this interview in a story titled "Will Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed Kill Off Opus the Penguin?".Breathed confirmed that he was joking in an interview with Salon: "I was kidding about killing Opus, by the way.I'd like to walk the streets free from fears of spontaneous garroting."Artwork and availability
The original syndication contract for Opus stipulated that the strip occupy an entire half of a newspaper page.On August 26, 2007, the strip featured Lola Granola wearing a headscarf, explaining that she was now a "radical Islamist."The cartoon was pulled from the Washington Post and other papers.Both strips were replaced by more innocuous strips.Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed.Also, many fans seems disappointed that Opus himself was drawn differently than in 'Bloom County' or 'Outland', simply to facilitate his appearance in a possible animated film that by all accounts is now a dead project.Additionally, an older version of Steve Dallas does appear but Binkley and Oliver are apparently still young children, which is confusing from a continuity point of view."Opus" "in the works".Numerous online movie databases, including The New York Times, have entries for the movie, titled Opus: The Last Christmas, and give a release date of December 19, 2008.Tim Bjorklund and Paul Taylor.Uh, the better question is, 'Is there an Opus movie going to come out?Uh, the Weinstein brothers at Miramax tried for five years to develop an Opus movie, their first animated film, and it was, let me just say, it probably wasn't destined to be, as ...So without that control there probably shouldn't be an Opus movie.There'll only be a movie if I'm writing it, which will probably keep him off the big expensive screen ...Opus, November 25, 2007.Opus, June 3, 2007.External links
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Opus at Comics.Opus archive at washingtonpost.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.EntertainmentGossipCelebritiesTelevisionMoviesMusicArts, books, moreHoroscopeLotteryComics, SudokuCategoriesU.MSNBC: Opus, what have you been doing since your last stint in the comics?Berke (Breathed) and Bill (the Cat).Antarctica after Global Warming.Opus: Those rumors about my dandelion addiction are nothing but media confabulation!Opus: I admit I was devastated when Diane Sawyer married that Nichols guy.Opus: Some of the old cast for sure, but I hear the negotiations with Bill are not going well.Opus: Yeah, but some of them will look real familiar, if you get my driftwood.Personally, I suggested that computer mogul from Microsquish who looks like Bill Gates.DING DONGS Anyway, the only thing he did right in the early days was he drew my nose a lot smaller.You see how much better it looks in real life than in the comics, right?MSNBC: What about your relationship with Berkeley Breathed?There were stories that it was rather tense.Opus: Not for me.As long as the lunch table had sardines and Ding Dongs, I was one happy waterfowl.He put little kids in the cast (Milo and Binkley), a guy in a wheelchair (Cutter John) and a few meadow animals with attitudes.And I had to work with him a lot.Anyway, I walked him through developing my comic persona as a mix of honesty and innocence.Breathed try to kill off your character?But it was Bill the Cat who actually was dead for several weeks.Of course, they had to bring him back.But then Berke got too far out.It was painful to sit through the war without a public voice.Army helmet, I get the worst case of hat hair.The more serious an issue, the bigger the challenge.Opus: Berke always said he never read any other comics, but he also always complained that the print was too small, so what can you say?Berkeley Breathed knows the business better than he lets on.Opus and Ozzy Duets. |
