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Truthfully, I'm not a member of the 700 club, nor do I toil against the pursuit of verdant uncentered portraits of dead presidents in the name of Big Government and Che Guevara. Get yours, if you must; I will not be a red octagon for the capitalist driver or passenger. However, as a long-time hip-hop fan, I do hate two things: lies and wack-ness. Both of which seem to permeate mainstream...

Author: By Andres A. Ramos, | Title: ETHNOGRAPHIC WRITING: The MC's Job, Apparently | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...name is currently cutting linguistic capers in the Broadway hit Travesties. The discovery of some exam papers Joyce wrote while seeking a teaching certificate in 1912 was recently headlined in the New York Times. Going on sale next week is a facsimile of the Ulysses manuscript (three volumes; Octagon Books). Price: $150. For a writer who labored half his life in seething obscurity, Joyce has achieved a renown that might sate even his massive Irish appetite for irony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: James in Nighttown | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

...homes for consideration. Among the top contenders: Tregaron, the late Joseph E. Davies' 7½-acre wooded estate (the setting for the ballroom-party scene in the movie Advise and Consent); Dumbarton Oaks, a Georgetown estate where the conference that hatched the United Nations was held; Octagon House, a Georgian-style Washington landmark on New York Avenue; Hitt House, the headquarters of the Pan American Health Organization; and Bonnie Brae, a barnlike Tudor house of fieldstone and brick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vice-Presidency: A Home for Hubert | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

...need for extra caution caused by icy or rocky slopes is indicated by a red diamond and a closed slope is heralded by an orange octagon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New System of Trail Markers To Appear On Nation's Ski Slopes This Season | 2/11/1965 | See Source »

...need for extra caution caused by icy or rocky slopes is indicated by a red diamond and a closed slope is heralded by an orange octagon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New System of Trail Markers To Appear On Nation's Ski Slopes This Season | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

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