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Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus

Opened: 1/97 at the Gershwin TheaterWith: John Gray It might have been preferable to fight with your lover than attend Gray's flinchingly embarrassing stage version of his best-selling guide…

The Celtic Twilight: Into the Twilight

by W. B. Yeats By the RoadsideInto the Twilight Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the gray twilight;…

Neutral Colors

Neutral (NOO-trul) colors don't usually show up on the color wheel. Neutral colors include black, white, gray, and sometimes brown and beige. They are sometimes called “earth tones.” Circus by…

Vachel Lindsay: The Chinese Nightingale

The Chinese NightingaleVachel Lindsay"How, how," he said. "Friend Chang," I said, "San Francisco sleeps as the dead — Ended license, lust and play: Why do you iron the night away? Your big…

The Yards

Director/Writer:James GrayMiramax Films; 115 minutes; RRelease:10/00Cast:Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Joaquin Phoenix Americans hold an unshakable fascination with gangster flicks. Mobmen…

2015 Year in Review Slideshow: U.S. News

Top events for the nation and the world in 2015 Jennie Wood Prev Next Campaign 2016 Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Remain Frontrunners After multiple debates, Donald Trump remained the…

Ruskin, John

(Encyclopedia) Ruskin, John, 1819–1900, English critic and social theorist. During the mid-19th cent. Ruskin was the virtual dictator of artistic opinion in England, but Ruskin's reputation declined…

plutonium

(Encyclopedia) plutoniumplutoniumpl&oomacr;tōˈnēəm [key], radioactive chemical element; symbol Pu; at. no. 94; mass no. of most stable isotope 244; m.p. 641℃; b.p. 3,232℃; sp. gr. 19.84 at 20℃;…

semiconductor

(Encyclopedia) CE5 N-type and P-type crystals: In a pure silicon crystal each silicon atom (Si) is surrounded by four valence electrons. In the N-doped semiconductor, illustrated in the left-hand…