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Rip Torn
TORN, Rip 1931– PERSONAL Full name, Elmore Rual Torn, Jr.; born Febr... Read more |
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Rip Current
Rip current A rip current is a narrow, river-like channel of water moving away from the surf (breaking) zone and back toward sea. Rip currents can travel up to 3 mph (4.8 kph) and stretch 100 ft (30.5 m) wide. Some cease just past the breaking surf; others extend a thousand feet offshore. In some... Read more |
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Maelstrom
maelstrom, a term commonly accepted as meaning a whirlpool, or a great storm. In fact, it is a strong current which rips past the southern end of Moskenaes Island in the Lofoten group off the west coast of Norway. Also known as the Maskenstrom, it is marked on a map of the area which appears in the... Read more |
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William Bayle Bernard
Bernard, William Bayle (1807–75), dramatist who helped popularize the stage type of the eccentric rural American. Among the 100 successful plays that he wrote were The Dumb Belle (1831); The Kentuckian; or, A Trip to New York (1833), a revision of Paulding's Lion of the West; His Last Legs... Read more |
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George Whitefield Chadwick
George Whitefield Chadwick 1854-1931, American composer, b. Lowell, Mass., studied in Germany. In 1882 he joined the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music, of which he was director from 1897 until his death. His chief compositions are the overtures The Miller's Daughter (1884) and Rip... Read more |
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Till
Till Till is the general term for any sediments that were deposited solely by glacial ice . Till is distinguished from other glacial deposits formed by forces other than ice, such as glaciofluvial (or glacial melt water ) deposits. A similar term is moraine, but it connotes more specific... Read more |
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David Dubinsky
DUBINSKY, DAVID 1892-1982 P RESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL LADIES GARMENT WORKERS UNION Leadership In the early months of 1933 the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) stood virtually in ruins. Internal factionalism had ripped the union apart. By the end... Read more |
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R. Crumb
Grunge Grunge fashions, inspired by the look of popular Seattle-based rock bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam, were a fashion sensation of the early to mid-1990s. The casual street look eventually became incorporated into the designs of high fashion. The term grunge was originally a slang term for... Read more |
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National Beverage Corp
National Beverage Corporation One North University DriveFort Lauderdale, Florida 33324U.S.A.Telephone: (954) 581-0922Fax: (954) 473-4710Web site: http://www.nbcfiz.com Public Company Incorporated: 1985Employees: 1,400Sales: $516.8 million (2006)Stock Exchanges: AmericanTicker Symbol:... Read more |
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Face of the Day: Tim Roth; Career built on a close shave
...being dubbed or wagging his own tonsils. Never one to shy from a challenge Roth let rip. "I just fancied it," he says. "You know those moments when Fred Astaire pauses then launches into a song? I wanted to have a go at that." A directorial... |
 "The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)")
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IT TAKES TALENT, TELEVISION-STYLE, TO BE THIS STUPID
...should be exercised in the scene in which George pulls Martha down on the bed and rips her clothes off." Who could beat the network veep who, after seeing a Fred Astaire special, complained to the producers that there was "too much dancing"? For... |
 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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IT HAD TO BE HORSES.. HURRICANE DEAD HIS FINAL JOURNEY.(News)
...YOUR TEXT TRIBUTES "Alex RIP you were the best. The...best snooker player...RIP Alex." Terry Kircubbin...Davy O'Doherty, Derry "Fred Astaire on the snooker table...Irish fans over the years. RIP." Jim, Antrim "I only... |
 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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TIME TRAVELLER: Let us take you back to 1974.(Features)
...INFERNO Disaster movie inspiring countless others. Fire rips through a skyscraper endangering starry cast Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Richard Chamberlain, Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner... |
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FILM REVIEW: 'Coyote Ugly': All they want to do is dance
...twirl, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire popularized a 1930s dance...collaborations of Rogers and Astaire), it appears as if the...Coyote Ugly is just one big rip-roarin', foot-stomping...The biggest problem Fred Astaire and ... |
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Knock wood; Disney's flat-footed new musical "Gepetto" proves you can't wish...
...Everyguy pretending to be Fred Astaire. But in a big-budget Disney musical we really do want Fred Astaire. Instead, we get Fred Flintstone. Carey isn't pushed...cross between Captain Hook and Rip Taylor. Of course, only ... |
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Woody Allen's rambling replies drive lawsuit judge to distraction
...Little Words, where Red Skelton and Fred Astaire have to be tricked into a reconciliation...their wives - by the way, I'd be Fred Astaire in that example." Allen told the...Allen admitted that he sometimes rips up the final version, or ... |
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Sarah Sounds Off
...A. hoofers get together to "rip clips"-that is, watch historic...as well as ballet and jazz.) "Fred Astaire, Ann Miller, Gene Kelly, Eleanor...constantly hearing it." Last book: Fred Astaire's autobiography, Steps in Time... |
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EXHIBITION SHOWCASES JFK'S BRIEF TIME AT PRINCETON.
...top hats and tails in homage to Fred Astaire's film "Top Hat," which opened...with Kirk LeMoyne Billings and Rip Horton Jr., classmates from his...top hats and tails in homage to Fred Astaire's film "Top Hat," which opened... |
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Easter on film
...Easter 1911 and a famous dancer (Fred Astaire) is stunned when his partner (Ann...To prove he doesn't need her, Astaire decides to turn a nobody (Judy Garland...include Shirley Knight, Ed Begley and Rip Torn. "Michael Collins" (1996... |
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