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New York Review of Books
NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS Starting Up First published in February 1963 during a New York newspaper strike, the New York Review of Bookswas intended to fill the void left by the absence of the reviews usually published by The New York Timesand the New York... Read more |
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Bailey Willis
WILLIS, BAILEY(b. Idlewild-on-Hudson, New York, 31 March 1857; d. Palo Alto, California, 19 February 1949)geology.The early schooling of Bailey Willis, son of poet Nathaniel Parker Willis, was a haphazard mixture of private tutoring, some classroom instruction, and listening to the literary repartee... Read more |
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Willie Howard Mays Jr
Willie Howard Mays, Jr. ( "Say Hey" Willie Mays), 1931-, American baseball player, b. Fairfield, Ala. He began his professional career at 17 with the Black Barons of the Negro National League. In 1951 he joined the New York Giants of the National League and led them to a world championship in... Read more |
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Arundhati Roy
ROY, Arundhati Nationality: Indian. Born: Kerala, India, c. 1960. Education: Attended architectural school. Career: Sold cakes on a beach in Goa, India; worked as an architect; actress, screenwriter, and novelist. Lives in New Delhi, India. Awards: Booker prize, 1997. Agent: c/o Random... Read more |
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Willie Mays
Willie Mays 1931- American baseball player He hit more than 600 home runs. He could reach base almost at will. He had defensive skills that boggled the mind. Willie Mays was one of the finest baseball players to ever step on the baseball field. In a twenty-two-year professional career with the... Read more |
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Faith Ringgold
Ringgold, Faith 1930–PersonalBorn October 8, 1930, in New York, NY; daughter of Andrew Louis Jones, Sr. and Willi Jones; married Robert Earl Wallace (a jazz pianist), 1950 (divorced, 1956); married Burdette Ringgold, May 19, 1962; children: (first marriage) Barbara, Michele. Education: City College... Read more |
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Ralph Lauren
LAUREN, Ralph American designer Born:Ralph Lifschitz, Bronx, New York, 14 October 1939. Education:Studied business science, City College of New York, late 1950s. Military Service:Served in the U.S. Army, 1962-64. Family:Married Ricky Low-Beer, circa 1964;... Read more |
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Nathaniel Parker Willis
Nathaniel Parker Willis 1806-67, American author, b. Portland, Maine, grad. Yale, 1827. He was editor of the periodical the Legendary and later of the Token before founding (1829) the American Monthly Magazine in Boston. In 1831 he merged his magazine with George Pope Morris's New-York... Read more |
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Lee J Cobb
Lee J. Cobb 1911-76, American actor, b. New York City. He first performed with the Pasadena (Calif.) Playhouse in 1929 and made his Broadway debut in Crime and Punishment (1935). Cobb created the role of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (1948-49; repeated for television in... Read more |
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Willie Doherty: Alexander and Bonin.(New York)
...more. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Willie Doherty's NON-SPECIFIC THREAT, 2004...am the face of evil." Here, Doherty presents us with a real individual...and matching us move for move. Doherty is a native of the Northern Irish... |
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Willie Doherty
NEW YORK Willie Doherty ALEXANDER AND BONIN In Willie Doherty's new video PASSAGE (all works 2006), two young men stride determinedly along a riKidside path at night, ... |