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  • 91Eyes Wide Shut —    Warner Bros. , 159 minutes, 1999. Producer: Stanley Kubrick; Director: Kubrick; Screenplay: Kubrick, based on a novella by Arthur Schnitzler; Cinematographer: Larry Smith; Assistant Director: Brian W. Cook; Art Director: John Fenner and Kevin… …

    The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick

  • 92Herr, Michael — (1940– )    The novelist, journalist, and screenwriter Michael Herr was born in Syracuse, New York. He filed several reports for Esquire while serving as a civilian war correspondent in Vietnam; these crystalline first person accounts, really a… …

    The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick

  • 93The Amati Family —    Cremona! Who has not heard of this now celebrated Italian city? And yet but for a fiddle maker it is very probable indeed that it would never have been known beyond the circle of its own local interests and its relations with neighbouring… …

    Violins and Violin Makers. Biographical Dictionary

  • 94Longformacus and Ellim —    LONGFORMACUS and ELLIM, a parish, in the county of Berwick, 7 miles (W. N. W.) from Dunse; containing 390 inhabitants. The name of this place has been variously written at different periods, and its derivation is involved in much obscurity. In …

    A Topographical dictionary of Scotland

  • 95intuition — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Innate knowledge Nouns intuition, intuitiveness, insight, perceptivity, instinct; apprehension, presentiment (see expectation); rule of thumb; clairvoyance, sixth sense, extrasensory perception, ESP,… …

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  • 96undertaken — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. set in motion, begun, launched, embarked upon, initiated, pushed forward, ventured, started, endeavored, assumed, taken up, promised, offered, volunteered, hazarded, chanced, risked, pledged, tackled, essayed, tried,… …

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  • 97ventured — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. adventured, risked, hazarded, chanced, dared, experimented, tried, invested, attempted, essayed, assayed, gambled, undertaken; see also tested …

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  • 98Intuition — (Roget s Thesaurus) Sophistry >The absence of reasoning. >. False or vicious reasoning PARAG:Intuition >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 1 =>{ant,476,} intuition instinct association Sgm: N 1 presentiment presentiment Sgm: N 1 rule of thumb rule… …

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  • 99hazard — {{11}}hazard (n.) c.1300, from O.Fr. hasard, hasart (12c.) game of chance played with dice, possibly from Sp. azar an unfortunate card or throw at dice, which is said to be from Arabic az zahr (for al zahr) the die. But this is doubtful because… …

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  • 100tankard — (n.) c.1300, large tub like vessel, corresponding to M.Du. tanckaert, meaning the same thing, but both of unknown origin. A guess hazarded in OED is that it is a transposition of *kantard, from L. cantharus. Meaning drinking vessel is first… …

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