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Lenny Bruce
Lenny Bruce American comedian Lenny Bruce (1925-1966) made fun of everything held sacred during the 1950s and early 1960s, from the Lone Ranger television character to the Pope and Jesus Christ. His irreverent "anything goes" style eventually caused him to be jailed for public obscenity. ... Read more |
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Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes (1899), a play by William Gillette. [Garrick Theatre, 256 perf.] Alice Faulkner ( Katherine Florence) holds letters written to her late sister by a member of royalty. She believes that her sister died of a broken heart from the man's faithlessness and is determined to use the... Read more |
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Straddle
STRADDLE In the stock and commodity markets, a strategy in options contracts consisting of an equal number of put options and call options on the same underlying share, index, or commodity future. A straddle is a type of option contract that gives the holder of the contract the option to either... Read more |
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Clarence Clemons
Clarence Clemons Saxophonist, singer, songwriter Jammed on the Jersey Shore Productive Partnership With Springsteen Most at Home With His Saxophone Selected discography Sources For almost two decades Clarence Clemons was the source of the driving tenor saxophone riffs in Bruce Springsteen’s... Read more |
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The Roots
The Roots Hip-hop group Since the release of their 1995 major-label debut Do You Want More?!!!??! —considered one of the most groundbreaking works to emerge from the jazz/hip-hop subgenre Read more |
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Four Freedoms
Four Freedoms In his message to Congress proposing lend-lease legislation (Jan. 6, 1941), President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stated that Four Freedoms should prevail everywhere in the world—freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. These... Read more |
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Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk Along with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was a vital member of the jazz revolution which took place in the early 1940s. Monk's unique piano style and his talent as a composer made him a leader in the development of modern jazz. When... Read more |
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Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman, play by Arthur Miller, produced and published in 1949, won a Pulitzer Prize.Willy Loman, a bewildered, well‐intentioned, unsuccessful traveling salesman aged 63, is pleased by the return home for a visit of his sons Biff and Happy, but they are upset by his peculiar... Read more |
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