Word: twain
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...schemers to the American Wild West, but there's a mother lode of adventure to be mined out there. Many of the old towns are alive and well, still surrounded by soaring forests and roaring rivers--and mapped for all posterity by the likes of John Muir, Mark Twain and other great 19th century writers...
...Lauryn Hill wins five Grammys, record for a woman artist; Shania Twain wears skimpy outfit, Madonna kimono...
...people whom they've rewarded in the past, simply because they're supposed to be acclaimed artists. But this gives me hope for the future of the Grammys." Of course the industry's pundits may have some trouble decoding the genre-bending messages from Wednesday's award ceremony -- Shania Twain's close-cropped black-leather stylings confirmed that country music has wandered far from the range; Burt Bacharach picked up his third pop Grammy in as many decades; and Best Hip-Hop Album went to Jay-Z, who combined ghetto-reality lyrics with a chorus from the musical "Annie...
JOURNALIST DU JOUR Then: Mark Twain (1), who later abandoned the trial out of boredom Now: Dominick Dunne (2), trial-hardened by O.J. Simpson...
...program, which Mansfield dubbed "P.C. to the core," a quick examination of the offerings affirms his characterization. In a mandatory program designed to hone the writing abilities of each incoming class, one would think an emphasis might be placed on the great maestros of the English language--Dickens, James, Twain, Austen, Woolf and Wharton...