What is "night and day"

a. (context figuratively English) entirely different, opposite adv. (context idiomatic English) (alternative form of day and night English)

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Night and Day is Joe Jackson's fifth album, released in June 1982. It reached the Top 5 in both the UK and U.S., Jackson's only studio album to do so. It sold over one million copies, earning platinum disc status.

"Night and Day" is a popular song by Cole Porter. It was written for the 1932 musical play Gay Divorce. It is perhaps Porter's most popular contribution to the Great American Songbook and has been recorded by dozens of artists.

Fred Astaire introduced "Night and Day" on stage, and his recording of the song was a #1 hit. He performed it again in the 1934 film version of the show, renamed The Gay Divorcee, and it became one of his signature pieces.

There are several accounts on how Porter got inspiration to compose the song. One mentions that he was inspired by Islamic prayer when he visited Morocco. Another popular legend has it he was inspired by the Moorish architecture of the Alcazar Hotel in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

The song was so associated with Porter, that when Hollywood first filmed his life story in 1946, the movie was entitled Night and Day.

Night and Day was a British soap opera which was produced by Granada Television for LWT and ran on ITV from 2001 to 2003.

Its theme-song, "Always & Forever", was sung by Kylie Minogue.

Night and Day is a 1946 Technicolor Warner Bros. biographical musical film starring Cary Grant as American composer and songwriter Cole Porter. The movie was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Arthur Schwartz, with Jack L. Warner as executive producer. The screenplay was written by Charles Hoffman, Leo Townsend and William Bowers.

The music score by Ray Heindorf and Max Steiner was nominated for an Academy Award. The film features several of the best-known Porter songs, including the title song, " Night and Day," " Begin the Beguine" and " My Heart Belongs to Daddy."

Alexis Smith plays Linda Lee Porter, Porter's wife of 35 years. Monty Woolley and Mary Martin appear as themselves, and the rest of the cast includes Jane Wyman, Eve Arden, Alan Hale, Dorothy Malone, Donald Woods, and Ginny Simms.

Night and Day is a 1978 play by Tom Stoppard. The sets and costumes were designed by Carl Toms and it ran for two years at the Phoenix Theatre in central London, UK. The lead roles of Richard Wagner and Ruth Carson were created by John Thaw and Diana Rigg, respectively.

The play is post-colonial in nature, a satire on the British news media, and an exploration of its discourse. Stoppard employs yet another sub-text in Night and Day, by commenting on the very form of language through his remarks on journalism (Stoppard is a former journalist himself). There is a consistent use of pun and innuendo sprinkled in the dialogues of each character. This kind of linguistic play with words and meaning, has marked the playwright for his interest and most keen observations on the aesthetics of language.

Night and Day throws up themes of colonization, journalism, language, and alternate or multiple realities. The plot narrative unfolds through the silent or subconscious thoughts of Ruth Carson, who is a by-stander to the main events taking place around her. She is regularly shown to express conflicting ideas between what she is saying, and what she is actually thinking.

The narrative technique merges the forms of fiction and non-fiction, where Stoppard has created an imaginary country called Kambawi, located in Africa, and situated in a post-colonial timespace. The story of the play unveils the politics under which the British media approach the coverage of the impending internal war in this country, through the paradigms of objectivity, factual reportage and the inevitable realities of linguistic manipulation and double meaning.

Category:Plays by Tom Stoppard

Night and Day is a 2008 South Korean comedy-drama film written and directed by Hong Sang-soo, and stars Kim Young-ho, Park Eun-hye. The film competed for the Golden Bear at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival.

Night and Day is an instrumental jazz album by country singer Willie Nelson, released on July 13, 1999.

Night and Day is a crime novel by Robert B. Parker, the eighth in his Jesse Stone series. It was the last in the series to be published before his death in 2010.

Night and Day is a 1991 French drama film directed by Chantal Akerman.

Night and Day is a novel by Virginia Woolf first published on 20 October 1919. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives and romantic attachments of two acquaintances, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. The novel examines the relationships between love, marriage, happiness, and success.

Dialogue and descriptions of thought and actions are used in equal amount, unlike in Woolf's later book, To the Lighthouse. There are four major characters, Katharine Hilbery, Mary Datchet, Ralph Denham, and William Rodney. Night and Day deals with issues concerning women's suffrage, if love and marriage can coexist, and if marriage is necessary for happiness. Motifs throughout the book includes the stars and sky, the River Thames, and walks. Also, Woolf makes many references to the works of William Shakespeare, especially As You Like It.

Night and Day (AKA La Nuit et le Jour or The Night and the Day) is a "fantastic ballet" in 1 act/3 scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Ludwig Minkus.

This ballet was produced for the festivities held at the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre in honor of the coronation of Tsar Alexander III and Empress Maria Feodorovna, who were crowned at the Upensky Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin three days prior to the ballet's premiere. The Tsar was so impressed by the work (being an avid balletomane) that he ordered the work be performed a second time two days later for a performance attended only by his immediate family. A March from the work was among the Tsar's favorite pieces, and he often requested that his orchestra play it during Imperial Balls and other social events for the St. Petersburg royalty and nobility.

The ballet was premièred on May 18/30 ( Julian/ Gregorian calendar dates), 1883, at the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre by the Imperial Ballet.

"Night and Day" is a song written by Roxanne Seeman and Billie Hughes. Seeman and Hughes recorded a demo of the song performed by Billie Hughes. Seeman took the song demo to New York and dropped it off with a letter for Tunc Erim, A&R at Atlantic Records. A week later, Tunc Erim invited Seeman to lunch where he told her that Ahmet Ertegun and Doug Morris liked the song and wanted to show it to Mike Rutherford of Mike + The Mechanics. After the lunch, Seeman went to see Vicky Germaise in Arif Mardin's office at the Atlantic Recording Studios. Germaise asked Seeman if she had another copy and overnighted the demo to Arif Mardin who was in Los Angeles, producing Bette Midler's upcoming album.

"Night and Day" was recorded by Bette Midler for her Some People's Lives album. It was produced by Arif Mardin, with Marc Shaiman serving as associate producer, and Joseph Jack Puig as the recording and mix engineer. It was arranged by Arif Mardin, Billie Hughes, and Joe Mardin.

"Night and Day" is the second single from Some People's Lives. It was released to adult contemporary radio and stayed on the chart for 15 weeks, peaking at #15. The release to mainstream radio came later. As "Night and Day" was ascending the Billboard Hot 100, the Gulf War broke out, focusing attention back on the first single, "From A Distance". "Night and Day" remained on the Hot 100 for 7 weeks.

"Night and Day" by Bette Midler was also released as a single in Japan. It is included on a Bette Midler collection released in Australia.

"Night and Day" is included in A Gift of Love, 2015 greatest hits album by Bette Midler focusing on her hit ballads.

"Night and Day" is a song by Jamaican recording artist Dawn Penn from her debut studio album, No, No, No (1994). The song was originally written by Augustus Pablo as "Baby I Love You So", but on Penn's album it appeared as "Night and Day". It was later re-titled "Night and Day (Baby I Love You So)" for the single release.

The song was released as the second single from Penn's debut studio album No, No, No, as a follow-up to the worldwide hit " You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)". Unlike its predecessor, "Night & Day" was not successful in music charts, only entering charts in the UK, where it stayed for two weeks, peaking at number 81 in September 1994. Its music video was filmed in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. The song was used in Brett Ratner's 2004 film After the Sunset, starring Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek.