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Lamont Library also provides synopses of great works, under the name of Masterplots. This collection, which condenses many classic novels into brief two-to-three page synopses, is a crunch-time godsend for many students...
...they waited so long, Kilauren said, "Because they loved me. They wanted me to be comfortable." Pregnant with her own child, she filed an application with a public agency to find out who her birth mother was. Then she waited. And waited. Finally, this January she received a brief "nonidentifying" description of her mother. She was a folk singer born in the prairie town of Saskatoon, of Norwegian-Scottish descent, who suffered polio as a child. Encouraged by friends who had heard of Mitchell's search and who thought that she resembled the singer, Gibb found a Joni Mitchell Website...
...NYRO, 49, intense and lyrical singer-songwriter whose free-form musical emotionalism captured for many the passions of the 1960s and 1970s; of ovarian cancer; in Danbury, Connecticut. Her unique blend of folk, soul, gospel and Broadway influenced many artists, some of whom turned her tunes into hits. A brief playlist: Wedding Bell Blues (Fifth Dimension), And When I Die (Blood, Sweat and Tears) and Stoney End (Barbra Streisand...
...coverage. While the piece seems slanted against Gingrich, it is Gingrich's arguments--not the art-lovers'--which get voiced. Author Jerry Gray quotes Gingrich: "This is not about money, this is about an elite group who wants the government to define that art is good." Even in this brief clip we get the full sense of his argument: art is undemocratic...
...brief remarks Russell mistakenly thanked Kennedy for coming to the "Kennedy" Elementary School...