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The Devil's Dictionary: Electricity

by Ambrose Bierce ELECTORELEGYELECTRICITY -n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else. It is the same thing as lightning, and its famous…

Dar Williams

The Green WorldRazor & Tie Say this much about Dar Williams. She is taking the road less traveled. After all, who else is writing songs based on Isaac Bashevis Singer's book Satan in…

Boys and Girls

Director:Robert IscoveWriter:the DrewsDimension Films; PG-13; 90 minutesRelease:6/00Cast:Freddie Prinze Jr., Claire Forlani, Jason Biggs In an ongoing quest to be light and lighter still,…

The Whole Nine Yards

Director:Jonathan LynnWriter:Mitchell KapnerWarner Bros.; R; 100 minutesRelease:2/00Cast:Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Rosanna Arquette It's a dog-eat-dog world in The Whole Nine Yards, a…

Human Traffic

Director/Writer:Justin KerriganMiramax; R; 84 minutesRelease:5/00Cast:John Simm, Lorraine Pilkington, Shaun Parkes Human Traffic, the debut movie written and directed by Welsh filmmaker…

Psy

Name at birth: Park Jae-sangPsy is the energetic and off-kilter singer and rapper whose 2012 hit "Gangnam Style" became the most-viewed YouTube video ever. He was born Park Jae-sang in the affluent…

Louis Farrakhan

Name at birth: Louis Eugene WalcottLouis Farrakhan is the longtime head of the African-American religious organization the Nation of Islam. Louis Farrakhan is known as a powerful speaker who has…

Jon Stewart

Name at birth: Jonathan Stuart LeibowitzJon Stewart became the host of Comedy Central's comedy and news show The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in 1999. In his role as a anchor, he delivered satirical…

telephone

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Hand telephone telephone, device for communicating sound, especially speech, usually by means of wires in an electric circuit. The telephones now in general use evolved from…

Walt Whitman: I Hear America Singing

I Hear America SingingI hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong, The carpenter singing his as he measures…