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Gemini
Gemini (1977), a comedy by Albert Innaurato. [Circle Theatre, 1,778 perf.] Francis Geminiani ( Robert Picardo) returns to his South Philadelphia Italian family on a college break from Harvard to celebrate his twenty‐first birthday. He is visited by two WASP college friends, Randy ( Reed Birney) and his sister Judith ( Carol Potter). She is supposedly Francis's girlfriend, but Fran, uncertain of his own sexual proclivities, finds he is attracted more to Randy. The chaos that results is complicated by Francis's loud, pushy family, the sluttish neighbor Bunny Weinberger ( Jessica James), and her fat son Herschel ( Jonathan Hadary), who is attracted to Randy as well. The play trafficked in such contemporary concerns as homosexuality and neuroses, and it took a fresh and funny slant and placed its action in a setting, South Philadelphia, usually ignored by New York–centered playwrights. The Circle Repertory Theatre production was quickly transferred to Broadway for a long run. Gemini was successfully revived Off Broadway by the Second Stage in 1999. Albert INNAURATO (b. 1948) is a Philadelphia‐born playwright who first called attention to himself with his one‐act play, The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie (1977), the study of an unloved man who becomes a compulsive eater. Later plays, none running very long, include Ulysses in Traction (1977), Passione (1980), Coming of Age in Soho (1985), and Gus and Al (1989).
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Gemini." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Gemini." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-Gemini.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Gemini." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-Gemini.html |
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Gemini [Lat.,=the twins], northern constellation lying on the ecliptic (the sun's apparent path through the heavens) between Taurus and Cancer, N of Canis Minor; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac . Gemini is traditionally depicted as two men. The two brightest stars in Gemini, Castor and Pollux (north of the bright star Procyon in Canis Minor), are two of the brightest stars in the sky and were identified by the Greeks with two children, in most accounts the twin sons of Zeus and Leda. The Egyptians identified the two stars with a pair of young goats. An annual meteor shower known as the Geminids appears to radiate from this constellation during the second week in December. Owing to the precession of the equinoxes , the summer solstice now lies in Gemini, rather than in Cancer as it did 2,000 years ago. Gemini reaches its highest point in the evening sky in February. |
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"Gemini." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Gemini." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Gemini.html "Gemini." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Gemini.html |
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Gem·i·ni / ˈjeməˌnī; -ˌnē/ 1. Astron. a northern constellation (the Twins), said to represent the mythological twins Castor and Pollux, whose names are given to its two brightest stars. See Dioscuri. ∎ [as genitive] (Gem·i·no·rum / ˌjeməˈnôrəm/ ) used with a preceding letter or numeral to designate a star in this constellation: the star Eta Geminorum. 2. Astrol. the third sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about May 21. ∎ (a Gemini) (pl. -nis ) a person born when the sun is in this sign. 3. a series of twelve manned orbiting space missions, launched by the U.S. in the 1960s in preparation for the Apollo program. DERIVATIVES: Gem·i·ni·an / -ˌnīən/ n. & adj. (in sense 2). |
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"Gemini." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Gemini." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-gemini.html "Gemini." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-gemini.html |
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Gemini (abbr. Gem, gen. Geminorum) A constellation of the zodiac, representing the twins Castor and Pollux of Greek mythology. The Sun lies in Gemini for the last week of June and the first three weeks of July. The constellation's brightest stars are Castor (Alpha Geminorum) and Pollux (Beta Geminorum). Zeta Geminorum is a Cepheid that varies between magnitudes 3.6 and 4.2 in a period of 10.2 days. Eta Geminorum is a red-giant semiregular variable that ranges between magnitudes 3.1 and 3.9. M35 is a 5th-magnitude open cluster; NGC 2392 is the Eskimo Nebula. The Geminid meteors radiate from the constellation every December.
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"Gemini." A Dictionary of Astronomy. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Gemini." A Dictionary of Astronomy. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O80-Gemini.html "Gemini." A Dictionary of Astronomy. 1997. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O80-Gemini.html |
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Gemini a northern constellation (the Twins), said to represent the twins Castor and Pollux, the Dioscuri, whose names are given to its two brightest stars. Also, in astrological thought, the third sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about 21 May.
Gemini was also the name of a series of twelve manned American orbiting spacecraft, launched in the 1960s in preparation for the Apollo programme. Gemini comes from Latin, and means ‘twins’. |
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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Gemini." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Gemini." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-Gemini.html ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Gemini." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-Gemini.html |
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"Gemini." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Gemini." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-Gemini.html "Gemini." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-Gemini.html |
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Gemini the twins Castor and Pollux. XIV. — L., pl. of geminus double, twin.
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T. F. HOAD. "Gemini." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "Gemini." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-Gemini.html T. F. HOAD. "Gemini." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-Gemini.html |
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Gemini
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•personae, tostone
•Brunei • alumni • goldeneye
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"Gemini." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Gemini." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Gemini.html "Gemini." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Gemini.html |
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