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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Director/Writer:Jim JarmuschArtisian Entertainment; R; 116 minutesRelease:3/00Cast:Forest Whitaker, John Tormey, Isaach de Bankole It takes a post-modern cowboy like Jim Jarmusch to pull off…

Sentence Agreement: Walk This Way

Walk This WaySentence AgreementIntroductionCollective NounsIndefinite PronounsWalk This WayAgree to Disagree Now you know the main rules of agreement, so the rest of this business must be a piece…

"It Cuts Both Ways"

  "There was for a long time what used to be called, euphemistically, the 'colored elite'... light skinned black folks who descended from masters and slaves and who got educated and…

Alternative Ways to Avoid Obesity

Fun activities for a healthy lifestyle by Elizabeth Olson and Catherine McNiff Related Links Maintain a Healthy Weight Ten Tips for Staying Lean…

Brewer's: By-the-way

is an incidental remark thrown in, and tending the same way as the discourse itself. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894ByronBy-the-by A B C D E F G H I…

Brewer's: Walk not in the Public Ways

The fifth symbol of the Protreptics of Iambichus, meaning follow not the multitude in their evil ways; or, wide is the path of sin and narrow the path…

Grant, Cary

(Encyclopedia) Grant, Cary, 1904–86, British movie actor, b. Bristol as Archibald Alexander Leach. He began on stage in 1923 and made his first film in 1932. An almost immediate hit, Grant was a…

norm

(Encyclopedia) norm, authoritative rule or standard by which something is judged and on that basis approved or disapproved. Examples of norms include standards of right and wrong, beauty and ugliness…

West, Mae

(Encyclopedia) West, Mae, 1893–1980, American stage and movie comedienne, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., as Mary Jane West. The unparalleled mistress of double entendre, West began in burlesque and continued in…

criminal law

(Encyclopedia) criminal law, the branch of law that defines crimes, treats of their nature, and provides for their punishment. A tort is a civil wrong committed against an individual; a crime, on the…