Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deeply involved in a mysterious way. It's deeply mysterious," said Higgins Professor of Physics Sheldon A. Glashow, who has won a slightly less "Ig" Nobel Prize in Physics. "I'll try to get excited next week...
Tickets for the "Fifth First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony," a spoof of the Nobel Prize Awards, go on sale at 9:00 a.m. this morning in Holyoke Center...
Following the critical and popular successes of Fences and The Piano Lesson, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson once again captures the music and the mood of Pittsburgh's Hill district with Seven Guitars...
...brick home with an American-flag wreath on the door. Bingo! "That looks like a Nellye Hall house," Sayer says with approval. The team doubles back into town to meet up with the car dealer who has brought the Jag in from Harrisburg. And then: Showtime. But alas, Prize Patrol history is not to be made. Hall turns out to be a great-grandmother of preternatural calm. Confronted by cameras, hysterical Patrol members, the huge check and the Jaguar, she demurs sweetly: "I don't believe this--I never won anything in my life." No amount of insistent rephrasings...
...Prize Patrol's trip back to their New York base is the bittersweet journey of the weekend hunter who has bagged no game. Talk turns to past successes--crying seniors, joyful children captured on film--and an upcoming 30-winners-in-30-days promotion that brims with potential. But for now, Emma Taylor rules...