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...married and divorced Ronald Reagan and won an Oscar for playing a deaf-mute. That was Jane Wyman. Our Jane was married to the same man, businessman Edgar Ward, until his death in 2000, one day short of their 65th wedding anniversary. Her career spanned just about that length, from Broadway in the early '30s to a last TV movie role in 1996. The year before our first dinner, she had played Mr. Spock?s human mother in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home; and she had a recurring role on St. Elsewhere. But by then acting was a sideline...
...most controversial players on the Israeli political scene, a self-styled populist who, after breaking with Netanyahu in the late 1990s, delighted in blasting the Israeli political establishment. He is a former nightclub bouncer turned politician and businessman whose business dealings have been investigated at length by the Israeli police, although no charges have been filed. His plan to revoke the citizenship of Israeli Arabs and swap the land on which they live for the land on which West Bank settlements are built in order to maintain Israel's Jewish ethnic majority has been deonounced as "ethnic cleansing...
...Atomic number of the newest element on the periodic table. The number refers to the quantity of protons in the nucleus of the element-the heaviest ever detected .001 sec. Length of time that the element existed, according to Russian and U.S. scientists who said last week that they had created it in a particle accelerator...
...song was even reminiscent of beatboxing rhythms. The costumes were exquisitely displayed a panoply of colors and the makeup served to enhance the visual beauty of the performance. The show finished to an extended standing ovation as well as happy exclamations from audience members all around. Despite the length of the show, which ran for almost two hours, the response to it was resoundingly positive. Whether it was your first time watching a classical Indian dance show, or you had grown up with the different dance styles, Kalpanam proved to be an accessible and enjoyable experience...
...Length of time that the element existed, according to Russian and U.S. scientists who said last week that they had created it in a circular particle accelerator...