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Southern Methodist University

(Encyclopedia) Southern Methodist University, at Dallas, Tex.; United Methodist; coeducational; chartered 1911. The school's facilities include laboratories for electron microscopy and stable…

Entertainment News from July 1999

1Ally McBeal star Calista Flockhart puts the media in its place, telling its members obsessed with her weight to “kiss my skinny white ass,” on her appearance on David Letterman's Late Show.…

Entertainment News from September 1998

1Titanic, the multi-Oscar-winning, top-grossing film of all time, goes on sale on video.2The National Constitution Center, a nonprofit education group, releases a telephone survey of 600…

Movie Review: 200 Cigarettes

Related Links 200 Cigarettes: Official SiteParamount PicturesThe Sundance Institute Despite the trove of talent, only a handful of performances stand out. Love and Rudd kindle a pleasant chemistry…

Review: The Ice Storm (1997)

Director:Ang LeeWriter:James SchamusDirector of Photography:Frederick ElmesEditor:Tim SquyresMusic:Mychael DannaProduction Designer:Mark FriedbergProducer:Ted Hope, Ang Lee and James…

seal, in zoology

(Encyclopedia) seal, carnivorous aquatic mammal with front and hind feet modified as flippers, or fin-feet. The name seal is sometimes applied broadly to any of the fin-footed mammals, or pinnipeds,…

Louÿs, Pierre

(Encyclopedia) Louÿs, PierreLouÿs, Pierrepyĕr l&oomacr;ēˈ [key], 1870–1925, French writer of the Parnassian school, whose real name was Pierre Louis. His early poems, collected as Astarté (1891…

Morse, John Torrey

(Encyclopedia) Morse, John Torrey, 1840–1937, American lawyer and biographer, b. Boston. Admitted to the bar in 1862, he practiced law in Boston until 1880, when he turned all his attention to…

McClintock, John

(Encyclopedia) McClintock, John, 1814–70, American Methodist Episcopal clergyman and educator, b. Philadelphia. From 1836 to 1848 he taught at Dickinson College, resigning to edit (1848–56) the…

Entertainment News from June 2001

1 Rick Schroder announces he's through with NYPD Blue. “The long hours required to shoot NYPD Blue would prevent me from being where I really want to be at this time—which is with my family,”…