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A Beautiful Mind
Director:Ron HowardWriter:Akiva GoldsmanUniversal Pictures; PG-13; 129 minutesRelease:12/01Cast:Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris A Beautiful Mind tells the incredible story of…Amy Lowell: A Japanese Wood-Carving
A Japanese Wood-CarvingHigh up above the open, welcoming door It hangs, a piece of wood with colours dim. Once, long ago, it was a waving tree And knew the sun and shadow through the leaves…Asian Food Primer: Japanese Food
by David Johnson Asian Foods Guide Common ingredients and popular dishes of various cultures. IntroductionEast Asia ChinaJapan KoreaMongoliaTibetPacific Region FijiHawaiiPapua New…larch
(Encyclopedia) larch, any tree of the genus Larix, conifers of the family Pinaceae (pine family), which are unusual in that they are not evergreen. The various species are widely distributed in the…The Devil's Dictionary: Beauty
by Ambrose Bierce BEARDBEFRIENDBEAUTY -n. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.Beauty Queen of Leenane
By: Martin McDonagh Director: Garry Hynes Sets/Costumes: Francis O'Connor Lighting: Ben Ormerod Music: Paddy Cunneen Opened: 3/98 at the Walter Kerr Theatre Cast:…Brewer's: Beautiful Parricide
Beatrice Cenci, the daughter of a Roman nobleman, who plotted the death of her father because he violently defiled her. (Died 1599.) “Francesco Cenci (xvi. siècle) ... avait quatre fills…Brewer's: Beauty and the Beast
The hero and heroine of Madame Villeneuve's fairy tale. Beauty saved the life of her father by consenting to live with the Beast; and the Beast, being disenchanted by Beauty's love, became…Brewer's: Beauty of Buttermere
Mary Robinson, married to John Hatfield, a heartless impostor, executed for forgery at Carlisle in 1803. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Beauty SleepBeauty…Brewer's: Beauty Sleep
Sleep taken before midnight. Those who habitually go to bed, especially during youth, after midnight, are usually pale and more or less haggard. “Would I please to remember that I had…