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Brewer's: Best

At best or At the very best. Looking at the matter in the most favourable light. Making every allowance. “Life at best is but a mingled yarn.” At one's best. At the highest or best point…

Best in Show

Director:Christopher GuestWriters:Christopher Guest and Eugene LevyCastle Rock Entertainment; 89 minutes; PG-13Release:10/00Cast:Christopher Guest, Parker Posey, Jennifer Coolidge Sometimes…

The Best Man

Director/Writer:Malcolm D. LeeUniversal Pictures; R; 118Release:10/99Cast:Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Morris Chestnut The latest Taye Diggs movie takes off from where The Wood left him, moving up a…

Best Defense:

AnkylosaurusMeaning of Name:“bent; crooked lizard”Period:Cretaceous Period (138 million to 65 million years ago)Size: 4 - 9 meters long Location: Texas, Antarctica, Utah, and Argentina Not…

Charles Best

Charles BestBorn: 1899 Purified Insulin. Canadian scientists Banting, Best, and Collip determined that insulin injections would help keep diabetics alive and developed techniques for extracting,…

Lear, Norman

(Encyclopedia) Lear, Norman, 1922–2023, American television and film producer, director, and writer, b. New Haven, Conn. He wrote for comedians and…

Pete Vichi DOMENICI, Congress, NM (1932)

Senate Years of Service: 1973-2009 Party: Republican DOMENICI Pete Vichi , a Senator from New Mexico; born in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, N.Mex., May 7, 1932; graduated, University of New…

Seeger, Ruth Crawford

(Encyclopedia) Seeger, Ruth Crawford, 1901–53, American composer and folklorist, b. East Liverpool, Ohio, as Ruth Porter Crawford, studied American Conservatory, Chicago; stepmother of Pete Seeger…

Fitzgerald, Ella

(Encyclopedia) Fitzgerald, Ella, 1917–96, American jazz singer, b. Newport News, Va. Probably the most celebrated jazz vocalist of her generation, Fitzgerald was reared in Yonkers, N.Y., moving after…