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Species II

DirectorPeter MedakWriterChris BrancatoDirector of Photography:Matthew F. LeonettiEditor:Richard NordMusic:Ed ShearmurProduction Designer:Miljen Kreka KljakovicProducer:Frank Mancuso Jr.MGM;…

Frances McDormand

A versatile character actor since the early 1980s, Frances McDormand is best known as deadpan Sheriff Marge Gunderson in the Coen brothers film Fargo (1996, with Steve Buscemi). The role won her an…

Walt Whitman: Salut au Monde!, Part 7

Part 7I see the battle-fields of the earth, grass grows upon them and blossoms and corn, I see the tracks of ancient and modern expeditions.I see the nameless masonries, venerable…

John Keats: Imitation of Spenser

by JohnKeatsTo HopeWoman! when I behold thee flip...Imitation of Spenser Now Morning from her orient chamber came, And her first footsteps touch'd a verdant hill; Crowning its lawny…

Skip vs. Fancy Ray

Noms de Guerre in the '98 Election by Borgna Brunner This article was posted on November 2, 1998. Teddy, Harry, Ike, Jimmy, and Bill knew the value of a folksy nickname in politics.…

50 Funniest "Family Guy" Quotes

Top of Page Are you a fan of irreverent humor, absurdity, and non-sequiturs? Look no further than "Family Guy", the animated sitcom that has been entertaining audiences for over two decades. From…

Brewer's: Marl

Latin, argill'; German, märgel; Spanish and Italian, marga; Armoric, marg; Irish, Marla; Welsh, marl. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894MarlboroughMarkham A…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Solution

SolutionI am the Muse who sung alway By Jove, at dawn of the first day. Star-crowned, sole-sitting, long I wrought To fire the stagnant earth with thought: On spawning slime my song prevails…

Brewer's: Chic

Fashionable; comme il faut; the mode. This is an archaic French word in vogue in the seventeenth century. It really is the Spanish chico, little, also a little boy, and chica, a little…