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Trophy
Trophy Background Trophies are a category of awards given primarily for academic, work, and sport contests or events. They are physical evidence that one person or group has bested another in some contest. Imposing and sculptural, trophies often include a figure, sports... Read more |
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Robert Coover
Coover, Robert [Lowell] (1932–), Iowa‐born author, winner of a Faulkner Award for the best first novel in 1965 with The Origin of the Brunists, which fuses realism, satire, and fantasy in telling of a mystic cult founded by the survivor of an accident in a coal mine. It was followed by... Read more |
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He and She
He and She (1920), a play by Rachel Crothers. [Little Theatre, 28 perf.] Ann Herford (Crothers) and her husband, Tom ( Cyril Keightley), are architects whose seventeen years of happy marriage seem threatened when each submits a separate entry to a contest for a frieze design. Ann wins the $100,000... Read more |
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Gary Burton
Gary BurtonVibraharpist, composer, bandleader Jazz musician and Percussive Arts Society Hall of Famer Gary Burton has spent more than three decades playing the vibraharp and is credited with both revolutionizing the instrument's sound and broadening the jazz audience as a whole. While he was still... Read more |
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Robert Guillaume
Robert Guillaume 1927family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">— Actor, singer, producer Before Robert Guillaume became a popular television actor and Broadway musical star, he was Robert Williams from St. Louis, Missouri: a young man with a golden voice and a future in the accounting field. Fortunately... Read more |
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parimutuel betting
parimutuel betting , system of cooperative wagering invented (c.1870) in France by Pierre Oller. According to the system, the holders of winning tickets divide the total amount of money bet on a race (the pool), after deductions for tax and racetrack expenses. The uniqueness of parimutuel betting... Read more |
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Peter OToole
Peter O'Toole 1932-, British actor, b. Connemara, Ireland. A classical stage actor, he appeared (1955-58) with the Bristol Old Vic, debuted in London in 1956, and has played a variety of Shakespearean roles. Tall and handsome, he made his screen debut in The Savage Innocents (1959) and catapulted... Read more |
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Atalanta
Atalanta , in Greek mythology, huntress famous for her speed and skill. She took part in the Calydonian hunt and was rewarded by Meleager with the pelt of the boar. Later, warned by an oracle not to marry, she demanded that each suitor run a race with her, on the condition that the winner would... Read more |
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Of Thee I Sing
Of Thee I Sing (1931), an operetta satire by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind (book), George Gershwin (music), Ira Gershwin (lyrics). [Music Box Theatre, 441 perf.; Pulitzer Prize.] While campaigners march and sing “Wintergreen for President,” the staff for presidential candidate... Read more |
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Steven Curtis Chapman
Chapman, Steven Curtis Singer, songwriter The fast-growing popularity of contemporary Christian music has been greatly helped along by the songs and albums of Steven Curtis Chapman. The winner of four Grammy awards and numerous Gospel Music Association Dove awards, Chapman has gathered a large... Read more |
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