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Brewer's: Pig in a Poke
(A). A blind bargain. The French say Acheter chat en poche. The reference is to a common trick in days gone by of substituting a cat for a sucking-pig, and trying to palm it off on…Breakfast at Tiffany's <span class="date" >(1961)</span>
Director: Blake EdwardsCast: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard and Patricia Neal With her little black Givenchys and a cat named Cat, Hepburn turned Manhattan partygirl Holly Golightly into one…Composition Day
Composition Day"Hurry up, boys, it's three o'clock, and Uncle Fritz likes us to be punctual, you know," said Franz one Wednesday afternoon as a bell rang, and a stream of literary-looking…The Brian Setzer Orchestra
The Dirty BoogieInterscope Ex-Stray Cat Brian Setzer has emerged as one of the pompadoured leaders of the neoswing set. Backed by a 17-piece orchestra, Setzer strums his rockabilly rhythms to…Jimmy Williams Biography
Jimmy WilliamsAge: 35 former star linebacker at Arizona State who became an assistant coach at Desert Vista High and helped lead the team to a 14-0 record in 1998 and a state Class 5A…The Devil's Dictionary: Theosophy
by Ambrose Bierce TENACITYTIGHTSTHEOSOPHY -n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science. The modern Theosophist holds, with the Buddhists, that…Scientific Classification
Classification, or taxonomy, is a system of categorizing living things. There are seven divisions in the system: (1) Kingdom; (2) Phylum or Division; (3) Class; (4) Order; (5) Family; (6)…Of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Down the Rabbit-Hole
by Lewis Carroll The Pool of TearsDown the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped…Doug Wickenheiser Biography
Doug WickenheiserAge: 37 St. Louis Blues center from 1983-87, best remembered for his overtime playoff goal in 1986 that became known as the "Monday Night Miracle"; on May 12, 1986 St. Louis…Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: The Honourable Member
The Catted Anarchist The Expatriated Boss The Honourable Member A MEMBER of a Legislature, who had pledged himself to his Constituents not to steal, brought home at the end of the…Trending
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