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Games site lands VC funding, aims to expand brand. (Media & Technology).(WorldWinner Inc.)(Brief Article)
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Zorik Gordon wants to build the next eBay.
While he won't be going head to head with the online auction behemoth, he sees its business model as one worth emulating in his three-year-old Internet games site, WorldWinner Inc.
WorldWinner.com, where for a fee players play against other users for cash and merchandise prizes, has just landed $9.2 million in its third round of venture financing, led by Benchmark Capital of Menlo Park.
Benchmark, which has backed an array of technology businesses including eBay, Palm Inc. and RedHat Software, has a 35 ...
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Swinburne.
Magazine article from: Victorian Poetry
; ...This style was linked by contemporary critics with the Euphuism of Lyly and with a foreign, decadent mannerism believed to...VLC 30 [2002]: 455-482) and "The Death of Euphues: Euphuism and Decadence in Late-Victorian Literature" (ELT 45 [2002...
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Shakespeare's anxious epistemology: Love's Labor's Lost and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Texas Studies in Literature and Language
; ...Labor's Lost as parodic--Frances Yates suggests that all "the various literary crazes of the day" come under fire: "euphuism, arcadianism, Gongorism, Guevarism, Petrarchism and the sonneteering fashion, the mania for proverbs and for strange Latinate...
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Nineteenth-century musical agogics as an element in Gerard Manley Hopkin's prosody
Magazine article from: Comparative Literature
; ...used to read: he, I think, is a greater man. He was an accomplished rhythmist . . . He has a very fine style free from Euphuism."4 He was prepared to admit some debt to Dryden: "And my style tends always more towards Dryden. What is there in Dryden...
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Love's Labor's Lost. (Public Theater, New York)
Magazine article from: The Nation
; ...one of the Bard's "problem plays," though the problem in this case is how to bring off its labored lampoons on Lyly's Euphuism, a vein of poetic excess known to us now primarily because of Shakespeare's burlesque. Freedman solves the problem by eliciting...
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ISRAEL TROOPS ENTER BETHLEHEM
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...looking into whether the blast was caused by a remotely detonated bomb. Israel has termed the event a "work accident," its euphuism for someone killed while working with a bomb. Israel's decision to send tanks and troops deeper into Palestinian areas comes...
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Israel troops enter Bethlehem.
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...looking into whether the blast was caused by a remotely detonated bomb. Israel has termed the event a "work accident," its euphuism for someone killed while working with a bomb. Israel's decision to send tanks and troops deeper into Palestinian areas comes...
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Israeli army enter Bethlehem, six dead.
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...targets people suspected of carrying out attacks on Israeli interests. Israel has termed the event a "work accident," its euphuism for someone killed while working with a bomb. With tanks -- at least 30 according to Palestinian witnesses -- and troops...
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A ROSE BY ANY NAME ...
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN)
; ...ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED VERSION. Editorials/Our opinions There are two new new, and related, euphuisms making their appearance in San Francisco these days. Their newness is attested to by a group of journalists from all over...
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COLUMN: A lampoon on language
News Wire article from: University Wire
; ...things every day which, when you stop to think about it, make no sense what so ever. Our language is full of sayings, euphuisms and idioms which contradict one another at every corner. From little sayings on the mind, to expressions expressing how...
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Slaphappy
Newspaper article from: Windy City Times
; ...Byronesque aesthete is inarguably a hackneyed stereotype, Slezak is, himself, sufficiently literate to make our gloomy hero's euphuisms no worse than those of any academic T.S. Eliot-wannabe. Besides, this melancholy pose is precisely what has alienated...
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