Curtain (disambiguation)

Curtain is a piece of cloth intended to block or obscure light. During the ancient period, cavemen used animal skins as curtains and covered the entrance of the caves. Today, curtains are made up of cotton, silk, velvet and other form of fabrics.

Curtain or curtains may also refer to:

Materials

Shutter curtain, see Shutter (photography)

Curtain, another term for a castle walls

As used in theaters: see Theater drapes and stage curtains, Front curtain

Cave curtain or drapery, a type of speleothem

People & politics

John Curtin (1885–1945), Australian Prime Minister around WWII

Curtin University of Technology, the (Perth, WA) university named after the Prime Minister

The Iron Curtain, from the Churchill speech referring to the closed-off nature of the USSR in the years immediately following WWII

Music & media

Curtain (novel), by Agatha Christie

Curtains (1983 film), a 1983 Canadian horror film

Curtains (1995 film), a 1995 Canadian short film, produced in both English and French and also known as Rideau

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Curtains (John Frusciante album)

Curtains is the ninth solo album by John Frusciante, released on February 1, 2005 on Record Collection. The album is primarily an acoustic album, in contrast to his previous collaboration with Josh Klinghoffer, A Sphere in the Heart of Silence, which was mostly electronic. According to Frusciante, the album was recorded in his living room: "It was just me sitting on a pillow, on my living room floor, with my back leaning against the couch."

The album features contributions from Autolux drummer Carla Azar, upright bassist Ken Wild, and The Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López, with Frusciante noting, "Carla from the band Autolux plays drums. I loved having a feminine energy. My friend Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of the Mars Volta played some guitar. He and I do these solos together where we're using the same amp at the same time."

A video was released for "The Past Recedes".

The vinyl edition of the record saw a repressing from Record Collection on December 11, 2012. These reissued records are 180 gram and come with a download of choice between MP3 and WAV formats of the album.

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Curtained hair

Curtained hair is the term given to the hairstyle featuring a long fringe divided in either a middle parting or a side parting, with short (or shaved) sides and back. The term, when used, generally applies to males, although an alternative name, the undercut, is used for both male and female haircuts following this style. Variations on this haircut have been popular in Europe and North America throughout the 20th century and in the 21st century.

Origins

A shorter version of the haircut, parted in the middle and kept in place with pomade became popular during the Edwardian era as a more practical alternative to the longer hair and sideburns fashionable from the 1840s to 1890s. This was due in part to the popularity of sporting activities like rugby football among younger men.

From the turn of the century until the 1920s, a longer variant of the undercut was popular among young working class men, especially members of street gangs. In interwar Glasgow, Neds, the precursors to the Teddy Boys, favoured a haircut that was long on top and cropped at the back and sides. Despite the fire risk, lots of paraffin wax was used to keep the hair in place. Other gangs who favored this haircut were the Scuttlers of Manchester, and the Peaky Blinders of Birmingham, because longer hair put the wearer at a disadvantage in a street fight.

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Direct

Direct may refer to:

Direct current, a direct flow of electricity

Direct examination, the in-trial questioning of a witness by the party who has called him or her to testify

Direct sum of modules, a construction in abstract algebra which combines several vector spaces

Direct (Vangelis album), 1988 album by Vangelis

Direct (EP), a 2002 EP by The 77s

Direct (Tower of Power album), 1981

DirectX, a proprietary dynamic media platform

Mars Direct, a proposal for a manned mission to Mars

DIRECT, a proposed space shuttle-derived launch vehicle

Computing

Direct access (disambiguation), a method of accessing data in a database

Direct connect (disambiguation), various methods of telecommunications and computer networking

Direct memory access, access to memory by hardware subsystems independently of the CPU

Mathematics

Directed set, in order theory

Direct limit of (pre), sheaves

Direct (Tower of Power album)

Direct is a 1981 live in-studio album by Tower of Power. It was their only album for the direct-to-disc record label Sheffield Lab. It also marked the return of original guitarist Willie James Fulton, not heard from since 1972's Bump City, and the last album to feature saxophonist Lenny Pickett. Mark Sanders plays drums on this album. Between this album and their 1987 comeback album Power they would record the sessions that later became the Dinosaur Tracks CD. Besides that, save for the original single release of "Simple As That" (from the same Dinosaur Tracks sessions), this would be their last new release until 1987. It contained mostly songs from their previous albums but included new stuff as well.

Direct would later be released with alternate takes on CD as Direct PLUS in 1997.