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121The Parliaments — were a doo wop quintet from Plainfield, New Jersey, formed in the back room of a barbershop in the late 1950s and named after the cigarette brand. After some early personnel changes their lineup solidified with George Clinton, Ray Davis, Fuzzy… …
122The Golden Turkey Awards — is a 1980 book by film critic Michael Medved and his brother Harry Medved. This book is credited with giving the movie Plan 9 from Outer Space by Edward D. Wood, Jr. the reputation of being the worst movie ever made .The book awards the fictional …
123The Balloon-Hoax — is the title now used for a newspaper article written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844. Originally presented as a true story, it detailed European Monck Mason s trip across the Atlantic Ocean in only three days in a hot air balloon. It …
124The Sentinel (short story) — The Sentinel is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, famous for being expanded (and extensively modified) into the novel and movie . Clarke actually expressed impatience with the common description of it as the story on which 2001 is based. He was… …
125The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas — Author Ursula K. Le Guin Country  United States Language …
126The Abduction of Figaro — is a comic opera, described as A Simply Grand Opera by P. D. Q. Bach, which is actually the work of composer Peter Schickele. It is a parody of opera in general, and the title is a play on two operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Abduction from …
127The Paradoxical Commandments — is both a poem and a book by Kent M. Keith. He wrote the poem as an undergraduate, and it has spread around the world often in slightly altered form. Two decades after writing the original poem, Dr. Keith wrote a book of the same title expanding… …
128The Sound Pattern of English — (frequently referred to as SPE) is a work on phonology (a branch of linguistics) by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle. It presents a comprehensive view of the phonology of English, and stands as a landmark both in the field of phonology and in the… …
