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Contents 1 Art and culture 1.1 Literature 1.2 Visual culture 1.3 Film 1.4 Music 2 Births 3 Deaths

Art and culture

Literature

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Le Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet

Visual culture

• Broadway and 103rd Street. New York by William Klein [1]

• The DS (also known as Déesse, or Goddess, after the punning initials in French) was a model of Citroen automobile manufactured and sold between 1955 and 1975. The DS is characterized by long, smooth, fluid body lines, a hydraulic suspension system, front-wheel drive, and a large, preternaturally comfortable interior.

• American cinema: from grindhouse to arthouse
  • Grindhouse moves giddily through the decades, passing from '30s "road to ruin" pix to the '40s burlesque and dope films, and into the '50s, when grindhouses became "art houses." The two strains collided in 1955 when huckster Kroger Babb bought the U.S. rights to Ingmar Bergman's Summer with Monika. -- Gary Morris, http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/18/18_grind.html

Film

• Summer with Monika is released as a skin flick in the United States
• Garden of Eden
• Night and Fog
• The Night of the Hunter (1955) - Charles Laughton
• Kiss Me Deadly (1955) - Robert Aldrich

Music

• "Tutti Frutti (song)"
• "Maybellene" by Chuck Berry
• "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets

Births

• Bill Laswell
• Arthur Baker
• DJ Spooky
• Kool DJ Herc

Deaths

• José Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955) -
• Robert Warshow (1917 - 1955)