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- noun A place that seems
magically transient .
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My two cents worth: I didn't care for dogs muc h after several disasterous tries, but when we owned Bonnie Jean (as in Brigadoon) I was converted.
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The premise of Brigadoon is that of a small town which, centuries ago, allowed itself to be suspended in time so that it only came to life once every hundred years.
Día de los Muertos Maggie Jochild 2007
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The festival headquarters is called Brigadoon, and the event has an ephemeral, miragelike quality.
NYT > Home Page By A. O. SCOTT 2011
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Another in-world island, known as Brigadoon, is a place created for sufferers of autism and Asperger's syndrome to try out the social interactions that are so hard for them in the real world.
Web 2.0 Accessibility and Disability Christina Madden 2008
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Another in-world island, known as Brigadoon, is a place created for sufferers of autism and Asperger's syndrome to try out the social interactions that are so hard for them in the real world.
Archive 2008-02-01 Chihiro Ikegami 2008
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Another in-world island, known as Brigadoon , is a place created for sufferers of autism and Asperger's syndrome to try out the social interactions that are so hard for them in the real world.
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Another in-world island, known as Brigadoon , is a place created for sufferers of autism and Asperger's syndrome to try out the social interactions that are so hard for them in the real world.
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She co-starred with her then-husband, James Karen, in regional productions of "Brigadoon" and "Finian's Rainbow."
Coffee cup designer Leslie Buck, 87; economist Angus Maddison, 83; singer Susan Reed, 84 2010
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Mitchell had a long-standing collaboration with renowned choreographer Agnes de Mille working with her as dancer and assistant choreographer in various film and stage productions, including the Broadway productions of 'Bloomer Girl', 'Brigadoon' for which he won the Theatre World Award, 'Paint your Wagon', 'Come Summer', and perhaps most notably in the 1955 film 'Oklahoma' where Mitchell starred as Dream Curly.
Archive 2010-01-17 Bill Crider 2010
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Gillam was softly singing the overture from "Brigadoon", but since the only word he knew was brigadoon, he made it fill in for all the lyrics.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES -- LIFE WITH SMALL CHILDREN, 1991 TO 1993 Maggie Jochild 2007
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