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mata hari
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stage name taken by exotic dancer Margaretha Gertruida Zelle (1876-1917), from Malay mata "eye" + hari "day, dawn."
Wikipedia
Margaretha Geertruida "Margreet" MacLeod (née Zelle; 7 August 187615 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy and executed by firing squad in France under charges of espionage for Germany during World War I.
"Mata Hari" was the Norwegian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1976, performed in English by Anne-Karine Strøm.
The song is an up-tempo number, in which Strøm sings about the difficulties she faces in life. The cure for these, she sings, is to borrow some of the mystique of Mata Hari, to whom she addresses the song. The sexual exploits of the famous woman are implied to have been considerable.
The song was performed ninth on the night, following the Netherlands' Sandra Reemer with " The Party's Over" and preceding Greece's Mariza Koch with " Panayia Mu, Panayia Mu". At the close of voting, it had received 7 points, placing 18th (last) in a field of 18.
Strøm had represented Norway at Eurovision twice before, once in 1973 as part of vocal group The Bendik Singers and again as a solo performer in the 1974 Contest.
As of 2012, Strøm still holds the record as the only artist in the history of Eurovision to have finished in last place twice. The first time came in 1974 with the song " The First Day of Love".
Anne was succeeded as Norwegian representative at the 1977 contest by Anita Skorgan with " Casanova".
Category:Eurovision songs of Norway Category:Eurovision songs of 1976 Category:English-language Norwegian songs Category:1976 songs Category:Songs with music by Frode Thingnæs
Mata Hari is a 1985 film directed by Curtis Harrington produced by Golan-Globus featuring Sylvia Kristel in the title role of exotic dancer Mata Hari, executed for espionage during World War I.
Mata Hari (1876–1917) was a Dutch Frisian exotic dancer executed for espionage during World War I.
Mata Hari or Matahari may also refer to:
Mata Hari (folaed in 1931 in Kentucky) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse bred and owned by Charles T. Fisher, a Detroit automobile body manufacturer who raced under the Dixiana Stable banner named for his Dixiana Farm in Lexington, Kentucky.
Mata Hari, die rote Tänzerin (English: Mata Hari: The Red Dancer), often shortened on release to Mata Hari, is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Friedrich Feher and starring Magda Sonja, Wolfgang Zilzer and Fritz Kortner. It depicts the life and death of the German World War I spy Mata Hari. It was the first feature-length portrayal of Hari.
Mata Hari is a pinball machine created by Bally Manufacturing in 1977 and released in 1978. The theme of the game is based on Dutch exotic dancer, Mata Hari. It was mainly produced in solid state electronic but also 170 electro-mechanical versions were released. It was the last model manufactured by Bally in two such versions. Approximately 20 sample games were produced with a plastic playfield, instead of the traditional wooden playfield.
Mata Hari at the Moulin Rouge is a musical with a book by Ivan Mechell, lyrics by Jack Murphy, and music by Frank Wildhorn. It is based on the life of Mata Hari, a Dutch sex symbol and spy during World War I.
It will premiere in March 2016 in South Korea with a production directed by Two-Time Tony Award Nominee, Jeff Calhoun.
Mata Hari is a musical with a book by Jerome Coopersmith, lyrics by Martin Charnin and music by Edward Thomas. The exotic dancer Mata Hari was accused of spying for the Germans during World War I and was executed by a French firing squad, but her guilt is still being debated. The musical is centered on her affair with a French intelligence officer who plays a major role in her arrest and execution and later regrets it. A parallel sequence of events follows a young French soldier who fights in the trenches, illustrating what war is really about. The musical was perceived as an anti-war piece at a time when the US war in Vietnam was sinking in popularity.
The show's premiere production was directed by Vincente Minnelli and produced in 1967 by David Merrick at National Theatre in Washington, DC. The production lost at least $500,000, and Merrick decided not to bring the show to Broadway. In 1968, after Merrick withdrew his support of the musical, the authors brought a more modest version of it to New York's off-Broadway Theatre DeLys (now the Lucille Lortel Theater) under the title "Ballad For a Firing Squad". In 1996, York Theatre in New York revived the 1968 version under the original title Mata Hari. A cast recording of that production was released in 2001.
Usage examples of "mata hari".
What you do about that is your business, but be certain, we are not asking you to play Mata Hari.
You make it sound like I'm some Mata Hari, but I've never done any undercover work at all.
Before seeing what sort of a book I was going to have here, I wrote the dedication 'To Mata Hari.
When she was fourteen years old her brother Sean had taught her a smutty rhyme about Mata Hari.