Word: ets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...credo celebrates the "Blanc et Noir" of the penguin; for the Penmaster, the coloring of this seabird potently symbolizes the noir struggle between good and evil. However, as interesting a symbolic figure as the penguin is, the Penmaster pushes the idea quite a bit further than a simple intellectual statement. He presents an annotated list of the "most evil penguins" on the planet; a "Penguin Update" for up-to-the- minute information on the penguin revolution; and a link to a "corporation" called "Penco," which offers "the best in penguin care products and penguin accessories." This company even...
...Bohn's Hand-bk. Games 348 The other chances are also designated on the green cloth.., 'le pair, le passe, et le noir'. 1928 M. CAROL How to play Roulette ii. 21 Among other divisions, or spaces for the stakes, you will find Passe, Pair, Manque, Impair, Noir, Rouge. 1939 T. KING Twenty-one Games to play for Money 31 Even chances are given when a stake is placed on:.. Noir, meaning any black number that turns up. 1964 A. WYKES Gambling ix. 215 The European betting table is divided into six areas labelled pair, impair, passe, manque, rouge...
...black colour in the game of rouge et noir (cf. rouge et noir s.v. ROUGE...
...keep up with the dizzying pace of Internet growth? Neither can your search engine. A new study from the NEC research institute says Excite, HotBot, Infoseek et al are barely able to cover one-third of the 320 million web pages estimated to be out there. ?The engines index only a fraction of the total number of documents on the Web,? wrote researchers Steve Lawrence and Lee Giles in the journal Science. ?The coverage of any one engine is significantly limited...
...your review! This year's thickly lush crop (see the greenery! TOUCH IT!) of art-brand-name directors (Scorsese, Allen, et al) promises to distract you with sometimes sub-par, sometimes legit current works. But what of their pasts? Forthwith some recs, gentle bleeder, color-coded for your convenience...