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Edward Albee. (playwright)(Interview)
The Progressive
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August 1, 1996|
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Despite wealthy adoptive parents who sent him to exclusive schools like Choate, Valley Forge, and Trinity College, playwright Edward Albee didn't have an easy start. He was expelled from most of the schools, or expelled himself. At eighteen he expelled himself from his parents' home and spent a decade drifting in and out of casual jobs.
He was a messenger for Western Union when, at twenty-nine, he wrote an angry, deeply disturbing one-act play called The Zoo Story, in which a businessman on a park bench is coerced into stabbing a vagrant.
The play was a ...
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Algiers Bancorp, Inc. Announces Agreement for the Merger of the Corporation With SNB, Inc.
PR Newswire
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Revolution now (and then)! The Battle of Algiers defined a political moment when it was released in 1965. Now it's back, and, if anything, it's even more relevant today.(Currents)
Magazine article from: The American Prospect
; THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS IS BACK--along with the Battle of Algiers scenario. At a time when Gillo Pontecorvo's documentary...to that accorded Battleship Potemkin, The Battle of Algiers was produced in the mid-1960s, set a decade earlier...
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Analysis: New life for the 1965 war film "The Battle of Algiers"
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered
; ...for the 1965 war film "The Battle of Algiers" Host: ROBERT SIEGEL, MICHELE NORRIS...Norris. The 1965 film "The Battle of Algiers" was required viewing for leftists and...dramatic film. And today, "The Battle of Algiers" has a new following in the US military...
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Profile: Film about the rebel uprising in Algeria in the '50s, "The Battle of Algiers," that's being re-released in theaters today
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition
; ...Algeria in the '50s, "The Battle of Algiers," that's being re-released in theaters...that's the case with "The Battle of Algiers." The 1965 film about the rebel uprising...KENNETH TURAN reporting: "The Battle of Algiers" is a political document and a great...
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Point of reference: Algiers' jazz history
Magazine article from: New Orleans Magazine
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In Algiers, residents chafe at mammoth redevelopment plan.(WORLD)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor
; ...Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Algiers, Algeria -- Ringed by low hills and...far into the distance, people here say Algiers Bay is among the world's most beautiful...city's French and Arabic nicknames: "Algiers the white" and "Algiers the joyful...
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Algiers' rocks Casbah with grim rebellion tale.(Arts and Lifestyle)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald
; ...Byline: JAMES VERNIERE "The Battle of Algiers." Not rated. In Algerian and French...than Gillo Pontecorvo's "The Battle of Algiers," a devastating, documentarylike account...in neorealist style in the streets of Algiers with a largely nonprofessional cast of...
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Algiers businesses cope after Mardi Gras World move
Newspaper article from: New Orleans CityBusiness
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Bomb Explodes in Algiers
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered
; ...00-0000 NOAH ADAMS, HOST: Today in Algiers, a bomb exploded in a crowded downtown...the armed Islamic group operating around Algiers. SARAH CHAYES, REPORTER: The bomb went...HILEY, WITNESS TO TERRORIST BOMBING IN ALGIERS, SPEAKING IN FRENCH CHAYES: He says...
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Maria Antonia Garces. Cervantes in Algiers: A Captive's Tale.(Reseña de libro)
Magazine article from: Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America
; Mara Antonia Garcs. Cervantes in Algiers: A Captive's Tale. Nashville: Vanderbilt...all pointed to Cervantes' five years in Algiers as the central experience of his life...information on the history of the emergence of Algiers as a major center of privateering, relations...
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