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  • Fans braved the autumn chill to see Washington rap hero Wale, R&B songbird Dondria, eye-patched icon Slick Rick, throwback hero Doug E.

    Searching for tomorrow's hip-hop stars at Howard University's Yardfest Chris Richards 2010

  • Brenda Starr's circle included Hank O'Hair (her city room "reporter pal who helps keep our gal's feet on the pavement"); Flash managing editor Atwell Livwright ("a tough boss with a heart of gold, reinforced with steel"); and her eye-patched longtime beau, Basil St. John ("Brenda's mystery man" whom she married in 1976).

    Farewell, BRENDA STARR: 70-year-old reporter faces her final deadline Jan. 2 [UPDATED] Michael Cavna 2010

  • They may well have decided, courteously and charmingly, that the game was, officially, a bogey: shaken hands warmly enough and snuck out the french windows to evaporate, to get mild anonymous elsewhere jobs – ebullient Tirana nightclub doorman, say; prim yet mysteriously eye-patched deputy harbour master in Coimbra – and leave this country to rot, as perhaps it should.

    The Fairy Jobmother; Don't Stop Believing; The Cove 2010

  • In the first two films she played Elle Driver, the eye-patched Deadly Viper Assassin that we last saw losing her one good peeper.

    Daryl Hannah Says There’s Going To Be a Third Kill Bill, and That She’s Going to Be In It | /Film 2010

  • An eye-patched Emily Deschanel and a fur-sleeved, mustachioed David Boreanaz -- at the circus!

    Jamie Frevele: George's Last Gasp Spoils my Bones Fun! 2009

  • Bazooka Joe has been wrapped up in bubble gum since the 1950s – the eye-patched Joe has adventures with friends Pesty, Mort, Toughie, Hungry Herman, Jane and a dog named Walkie Talkie.

    “Where’s Waldo” Movie – A Good Idea? 2009

  • Oh, and French dvd also includes a 2nd disc with hours of interviews, vintage advertisements and a behind the scenes documentary of an eye-patched Nicholas Ray directing 'We Can't Go Home Again' with a bunch of hippie film students acting as cast and crew and, um ... "muse".

    GreenCine Daily: Interview. Farley Granger. 2007

  • I found myself directly across from Mangrove, the eye-patched novelist, and on my right was a short, little fiction writer, about my age, a fellow named Alan Tinkle.

    Wake Up, Sir! Jonathan Ames 2004

  • Unfortunately, eye-patched Reginald Mangrove came into the room at that very moment and saw me throw the punch.

    Wake Up, Sir! Jonathan Ames 2004

  • He groped for his sword, flinched from a stab of pain that seared in his bandaged head, then recognized the eye-patched face in the light of the horn-lantern that Frederickson carried.

    Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987

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  • with an over-easy egg laying on top

    September 21, 2009

  • Cf this list.

    September 21, 2009