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I Love You…Don't Touch Me!

Director/Writer/Editor/Producer:Julie DavisDirector of Photography:Mark PutnamMusic:Jane FordProduction Designer:Carol StroberOrion/MGM; NR; 90 minutesRelease:2/98Cast:Marla Schaffel,…

Christian Groups That Don’t Celebrate Easter

Christians against Easter Although Christmas gets top-billing in the United States and in media in a very big way, for much of the Christian world Easter is a comparatively--some say more--…

Don SHERWOOD, Congress, PA (1941)

SHERWOOD Don , a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Nicholson, Wyoming County, Pa., March 5, 1941; attended Lackawanna Trail High School and Wyoming Seminary Preparatory School; B.A.,…

Antirent War

(Encyclopedia) Antirent War, in U.S. history, tenant uprising in New York state. When Stephen Van Rensselaer, owner of Rensselaerswyck, died in 1839, his heirs attempted to collect unpaid rents.…

Bush, John Ellis ("Jeb")

(Encyclopedia) Bush, John Ellis ("Jeb"), 1953- , American politician and businessman, b. Midland, Tx, Univ. of Texas, Austin (B.A., 1974).…

Weiss, Peter

(Encyclopedia) Weiss, PeterWeiss, Peterpāˈtər vīs [key], 1916–82, German-Swedish dramatist, novelist, film director, and painter. Weiss's early novels Abschied von den Eltern (1961; tr. Leavetaking,…

Güiraldes, Ricardo

(Encyclopedia) Güiraldes, RicardoGüiraldes, Ricardorēkärˈdō gwērälˈdās [key], 1886–1927, Argentine writer. He spent his boyhood on a ranch where he learned the ways of the gauchos, later traveling to…

Guareschi, Giovanni

(Encyclopedia) Guareschi, GiovanniGuareschi, Giovannijōväˈnē gwärĕsˈkē [key], 1908–68, Italian journalist and novelist. Guareschi edited a humorous weekly before World War II and in 1945 helped to…

Chodowiecki, Daniel Nikolaus

(Encyclopedia) Chodowiecki, Daniel NikolausChodowiecki, Daniel Nikolausdäˈnēĕl nēˈkōlous khôdôvyĕtsˈkē [key], 1726–1801, German painter and engraver, b. Danzig. He was the most popular illustrator of…