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2001 Grammy Awards

The 44th Annual Grammy Awards were presented at Los Angeles' Staples Center on February 27, 2002. Record: “Walk On,” U2 Album: O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack, Various Artists (Lost…

2002 Grammy Awards

The 45th Annual Grammy Awards were presented at New York's Madison Square Garden on February 23, 2003. Record: “Don't Know Why,” Norah Jones Album: Come Away with Me, Norah Jones Song…

Our Foreign Correspondent

Our Foreign CorrespondentLondonDearest People, Here I really sit at a front window of the Bath Hotel, Piccadilly. It's not a fashionable place, but Uncle stopped here years ago, and won't go…

William Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew, Act V

Act VScene IPadua. Before Lucentio's houseGremio discovered. Enter behind Biondello, Lucentio, and BiancaBiondelloSoftly and swiftly, sir; for the priest is ready.LucentioI fly, Biondello:…

200 Cigarettes

Director: Risa Bramon Garcia Writer: Shana Larsen Paramount Pictures/MTV Productions; R Release: 2/99 Cast: Christina Ricci, Courtney Love, Ben Affleck, Janeane Garofalo,…

Brewer's: Gotch

A large stone jug with a handle (Norfolk). Fetch the gotch, mor—i.e. fetch the great water-jug, lassie. “A gotch of milk I've been to fill.” Bloomfield: Richard and Kate. Source:…

Brewer's: Skeleton Jackets

Jackets on which the trousers buttoned, very commonly worn by boys in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. In the illustrations of Kate Greenaway, The Pickwick Papers, Nicholas…

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, established in 1980, annually honors an American fiction writer with a $15,000 prize. Three judges choose five finalists before…

Brewer's: Durden

(Dame). A notable housewife. Dame Durden, of the famous English song, kept five serving girls to carry the milking pails, and also kept five serving men to use the spade and flail. The…