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Jerry built: the success of 'Seinfeld' was an implicit rebuke to PC pieties - and a confirmation of America's unpredictable spirit. (political correctness and the success of Jerry Seinfeld's television program)
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February 9, 1998|
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HOLLYWOOD
YEARS ago, at lunch with an NBC executive, I happened to mention a promising new series on his network. The Seinfeld Chronicles, it was called. It had aired three times in a terrible time slot in the middle of summer -- the boneyard, the death trap, the place, in other words, where networks dump their least promising shows.
"Oh, that," he said, with a dismissive swat of his hand. "That show is dead. We shoulda just flushed the money down the john. Woulda been faster."
Nine years and billions of dollars later, Seinfeld, as it was renamed, has not ...
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Eleanor of Provence: Queenship in Thirteenth Century England.(Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History
; ...personal and political dimensions. Eleanor's relationship with her eldest...neither she, nor his own wife, Eleanor of Castile, were to be permitted any overt...during his reign. One aspect of Eleanor's abilities which impressed both...
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Dame Eleanor Hull: the translator at work.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; ...Bolingbroke, later Henry IV. Eleanor Hull's mother, Joan Hylle...times, and certainly by 1413, Eleanor Malet married John Hull, esquire...Gaunt and later ambassador to Castile for both Henry IV and Henry V. Eleanor bore him one son, Edward...
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CORPORATION COMMISSION
Newspaper article from: The Journal Record
; ...Oxy Oil and Gas USA, Inc., Phoenix Company, Ltd., S-P Exploration, Inc., Michael Shearn, Eleanor Castile, formerly Eleanor North, Celia Gill Crump, Dorothy John E. Eckel, John Essex, Mildred Guyot, Raymond Paul Francis F...
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A powerful queen on the chessboard of Europe
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE by Alison Weir Cape, L20...achievements have always been recognised, Eleanor on the whole had an unjustly bad press...visit her only surviving daughter, Queen Eleanor of Castile, and to select her grand-daughter...
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Uncommon Readers: St Margaret Of Scotland To Queen Elizabeth I - World Book Day at the Bodleian Library.
M2 Presswire
; ...and Tudor queens: St Margaret of Scotland, Queen Eleanor of Castile (first wife of Edward I), Queen Katherine Parr...almost unharmed. The future Edward I and his wife Eleanor of Castile owned a Book of Revelation, a masterpiece of English...
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ENGLAND HISTORY-RICH LEEDS CASTLE MAKES A PERFECT DAY TRIP FROM LONDON
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...accustomed to receiving the famous and powerful: Eleanor of Castile and Henry VIII are numbered among its royal owners...the 13th century, King Edward I and his queen, Eleanor of Castile, took over Leeds, which became to their royal...
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DIARY
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...I had assumed that it came through the marriage of Eleanor of Castile to King Edward I, a marriage from which Colin Powell...Langley, the fifth son of King Edward III, to Isabel of Castile in 1372. She was the daughter of Pedro the Cruel...
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Dear Mirror: Question Time.(Letters)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England)
; ...amp; Castle so called? Jean Scarry Harlow, Essex A KING Edward I's Spanish wife was Eleanor of Castile and her official title was Infanta De Castile. She lived in a large house in the area which would later be called a corrupted form of...
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GARDENING: Within a secluded arbour
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...though, when she designed Queen Eleanor's Garden, behind the Great Hall...hollyhocks, may have been introduced by Eleanor of Castile (d 1290), queen of Edward I...other is her mother- in-law, Eleanor of Provence, who also lived in...
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The misanthrope's corner.(film 'Braveheart')(Column)
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...come to life. The first concerns the "Eleanor Crosses." When Edward's adored wife, Eleanor of Castile, died on the Scottish border while accompanying...famous title. Early in their marriage Queen Eleanor accompanied Edward on his Welsh campaigns...
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