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  • Through her stage perform ances, books and the musical "Gypsy" based on her life story, she became not only a legendary show- business figure but part of the American mythos.

    More Than a Girl With a Gimmick CARL ROLLYSON 2011

  • On the anniversary of the magician's death, every Halloween, fans hold s é ances to try to contact him.

    Houdini Trunk Reappears, 2010

  • She showed him some of the nu - ances of melody, and taught him simple harmony.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • Current account balances are merely indicators of deeper imbal ances and difficult to target due to differences in various countries ' circumstances, he said.

    Obama, Hu Stake Positions on Yuan, Rebalancing Ian Talley 2010

  • In teh sebenties, mai scissor bot a haws wif awl PINK ply ances.

    no, u furst - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Promoting the record is going to keep Blige busy with appearances on late-night talk shows and perform - ances at both the MTV awards and the NFL season kickoff -- too busy, in fact, to do much planning on that wedding.

    MUCH OBLIGED 2008

  • There's neither coyness nor self-importance in "Brokeback Mountain" -- just close, compassionate observation, deeply committed perform-ances, a bone-deep feeling for hardscrabble Western lives.

    The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter 2007

  • So he looked like an eminently respectable, sweet-natured ances can be.

    Grave Surprise Harris, Charlaine 2006

  • The Ericssons had tricked his ances - tors with stories of grapes and endless fields of wheat.

    The Skrayling Tree Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 2003

  • One minute he had been the one with all the griev - ances, the next Antonia had been spilling hers out all over him.

    The Bellini Bride Reid, Michelle 2002

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