Killing Them Softly [SEP] based on
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Killing Them Softly


a lesser amount and Jackie insisting on the full sum. Referring to Obama's speech, Jackie angrily declares: , "This guy wants to tell me we're living in a community? Don't make me laugh. I'm living in America, and in America, you're on your own. America is not a country; it's just a business. Now fucking pay me." "Killing Them Softly" is based on the 1974 novel "Cogan's Trade" by George V. Higgins, a best selling
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score of 64 out of 100, based on 42 critics. indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a rare grade of "F" on an A+ to F scale. Peter Bradshaw of "The Guardian" gave 'Killing them Softly' 5 stars, saying the film is a "compelling comment on economic bloodletting in the real world". Tim Robey of "The Daily Telegraph" gave the film 4 stars describing it as "bleakly electrifying". "Total Film" awarded it
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$6,812,900. The film made $15,026,056 domestically and $22,904,409 internationally for a worldwide total of $37,930,465. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 74% based on reviews from 220 critics, with an average rating of 6.9 out of 10. The site's critical consensus reads, ""Killing Them Softly" is a darkly comic, visceral thriller that doubles as a cautionary tale on capitalism, whose message is delivered with sledgehammer force." On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score, the film received a
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Killing Them Softly


Killing Them Softly is a 2012 American neo-noir black comedy gangster film directed by Andrew Dominik and starring Brad Pitt, based on George V. Higgins' novel "Cogan's Trade" (1974). On May 22, 2012, the film premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and received positive early reviews. The film is about three small-time crooks who rob a Mob-protected illegal gambling operation, which prompts the Mob to send in two hitmen, Jackie (Pitt) and
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Killing Me Softly (film)


had fate not led her to Adam one morning. She wonders if the passion between them could ever have lasted, and if a "flatlander" like her could ever have stayed at such a high altitude . At least that's what she tells herself anyway. Filming commenced on October 29, 2000, and was mostly based in or around London and Cumbria, England. "Killing Me Softly" was released on June 21, 2002, in the UK. MGM initially planned a 2002 wide release in the US, but
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Killing Us Softly


for the book of the same name Killing Us Softly (book) Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women is an American documentary by Margaret Lazarus, Renner Wunderlich, Patricia Stallone, and Joseph Vitagliano, based on a lecture by Jean Kilbourne and distributed by Cambridge Documentary Films, Inc. The documentary, first released in 1979 and since revised and updated four times, focuses on images of women in advertising, in particular on gender stereotypes, the effects of advertising on women's self-image, and the objectification of women
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Pilling Them Softly


"Pilling Them Softly" is the first episode of the fourteenth season of the animated sitcom "Family Guy", and the 250th episode overall. It aired on Fox in the United States on September 27, 2015, and is written by Hayes Davenport and directed by Jerry Langford. The title is a play on the 2012 film "Killing Them Softly". Lois is informed by Stewie's teacher Miss Tammy that he has an attention problem. She takes him to Dr. Hartman, who promptly gives him a prescription to treat
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travels to Florida to sell the dogs. While in Florida, he inadvertently informs a man named Kenny Gill of his involvement in the heist while trying to recruit him as a drug dealer. Kenny informs Jackie, who deduces that Russell, Frankie, and Squirrel were the perpetrators. Jackie carries out the hit on Markie himself but brings in another hitman named Mickey Fallon, who is on parole in New York, to kill Squirrel. Jackie explains to Driver how he prefers "killing them softly"—shooting his victims from a distance, without
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crime novelist whose works include "The Friends of Eddie Coyle". "Cogan's Trade", like Higgins' other novels, takes place in Boston; although filmed in the New Orleans area, characters in "Killing Them Softly" make several references to Boston area suburbs from the original novel. The film was written and directed by Andrew Dominik, who chose to update the setting of the story, saying "as I started adapting it, it was the story of an economic crisis, and it was an economic crisis
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Killing Them Softly


production beginning in January. Additional roles were cast in early 2011. According to Garret Dillahunt, the film's first cut was two-and-a-half hours long. Dillahunt, who had a cameo in the film, did not make the final cut for the theatrical release. "Killing Them Softly" was scheduled to premiere on September 21, 2012; however, the US release date was delayed until November 30, 2012, to avoid competing with "The Master" and to improve its chances for award nominations
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Killing Them Softly


. The film kept its original release date in other parts of the world, with the somewhat unusual result that it opened in the UK and India more than two months before the US opening. The Weinstein Company distributed the film in the United States and Canada. The film was released on Blu-ray & DVD March 26, 2013. The film was released in Australia earlier, on February 13, and on February 25 in the UK. In its opening weekend, "Killing Them Softly" grossed a domestic total of
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Brad Pitt


the drama "Moneyball", which is based on the 2003 book of the same name written by Michael Lewis. "Moneyball" received six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor for Pitt. His next role was as mob hitman Jackie Cogan in Andrew Dominik's 2012 "Killing Them Softly", based on the novel "Cogan's Trade" by George V. Higgins. In 2013, Pitt starred in "World War Z", a thriller about a zombie apocalypse, based on Max Brooks's novel of the
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Killing Me Softly (film)


this was cancelled in favor of a direct-to-DVD launch on March 25, 2003. "Variety" later characterized the film's international release as "a painful failure". On August 13, 2013, Shout! Factory released "Killing Me Softly" on Blu-ray along with "The Hot Spot" as part of a double feature. The film received a 0% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 22 reviews, with a weighted average of 3.39/10. The site's consensus is: "Respected
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Killing Me Softly with His Song


lyrics or something that struck him at different times. And he pulled out the book and he was looking through it, and he says, 'Hey, what about a song title, 'Killing Me Softly With His Blues'?' Well, the 'killing me softly' part sounded very interesting, 'with his blues' sounded old fashioned in 1972 when we wrote it. So he thought for a while and he said, 'What about 'killing me softly with his song'? That has a unique
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The Score (Fugees album)


Rap Songs chart. The song was produced by Salaam Remi and includes elements of "Ooo La La La" as performed by Teena Marie. The second single, "Killing Me Softly" was released May 31, 1996. Proving to be the most successful single from the album, it instantly reached number two on the "Billboard" Hot 100, as well as number one on the UK Singles Chart. Initially, the song was to be titled "Killing Them Softly", and though alluding to Charles Fox and Norman
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Fugees discography


the "Billboard" Hot 100 as they were not released for commercial sale, making them ineligible to appear on the chart, although they all received sufficient airplay to appear on the Hot 100 Airplay and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay charts. "Killing Me Softly", a cover of the Roberta Flack song "Killing Me Softly with His Song", performed strongly in other territories, topping the singles charts in Australia, Austria, Germany and the United Kingdom, among several others. "Ready or Not" also
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Wyclef Jean


and "No Woman, No Cry" – did not appear on the "Billboard" Hot 100 as they were not released for commercial sale, making them ineligible to appear on the chart, although they all received sufficient airplay to appear on the Hot 100 Airplay and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay charts. "Killing Me Softly", a cover of the Roberta Flack song "Killing Me Softly with His Song", performed strongly in other territories, topping the singles charts in Australia, Austria, Germany and the
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Jean Kilbourne


, Kilbourne and some of her work, the "Killing Us Softly" series and "Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising" were used for "Reaffirming the Ideal: A Focus Group Analysis of the Campaign for Real Beauty". Recalling Kilbourne's idea that advertisers would not spend the supposed billions of dollars on ad campaigns if consumers felt advertisements had no effect on them, which the relationship between advertisers and consumers is documented in her "Killing Us Softly" series, particularly with women
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Jean Kilbourne


Us Softly" from 1987 was a near duplicate film from the 1979 original, so much so that she said "["Killing Us Softly"] was casually reissued in almost identical form as "Still Killing Us Softly". At the time, the third and most recent entry, "Killing Us Softly 3" was called a "movie sequel" to further criticize the series. Additionally, Scott pointed out the cost to purchase or rent the films and the amount of stickers warning that the content was under copyright protection
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Killing 'em Softly


Killing em Softly is a 1982 Canadian thriller film directed by Max Fischer, starring Irene Cara, George Segal, Clark Johnson and Nicholas Campbell. It is most noted for production problems which led to it becoming one of the first Canadian films ever to be released direct to video, and led to a court case over production funding which was not resolved until 1995. Based on Laird Koenig's novel "The Neighbor", the film's plot centres on the girlfriend of a murdered man, who falls in love with her boyfriend
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1000 Ways to Die (season 3, 2011)


2011 Originally aired February 23, 2011 Title reference: Play-on words for the phrase used in the popular hide-and-seek game. Originally aired March 2, 2011 Originally aired March 9, 2011 Title references: Spoofs the popular song "Killing Me Softly with His Song" (or the Dave Chappelle comedy special "Killing 'Em Softly"). Originally aired March 16, 2011 Note: This is the fifth episode not to feature the death of a female. Title References: The phrase "Better them
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Killing Me Softly (film)


Killing Me Softly is a 2002 American-British erotic thriller film directed by Chen Kaige and starring Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes. Based on the novel of the same name by Nicci French, it introduces several substantial changes to the story and focuses heavily on the intense sexual relationship between the two lead characters. It is Kaige's first and only English-language film . Alice is a young American woman living in London who believes she is happy in a secure job and a relationship with her boyfriend. After a chance encounter with
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United States hydrogen policy


programs. Each states energy office gets SEP funding and manages all SEP funded projects. For more information about the SEP, including project descriptions, visit the SEP website. Clean Ports USA is an incentive-based program designed to help reduce emissions by encouraging port authorities to redesign and replace older diesel engines with new technologies and cleaner fuels. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Clean Diesel Campaign offers funding to port authorities to help them overcome the obstacles that prevent the adoption of cleaner diesel technologies. Clean Construction USA promotes the reduction
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CinemaScore


Shutter Island" had a 3.1 revenue multiple despite a C+ grade, and Cruise's "Vanilla Sky" had a 4 multiple with a D grade.) Vulture cited as examples of such F-graded films Steven Soderbergh's "Solaris" with George Clooney, Andrew Dominik's "Killing Them Softly" with Brad Pitt, and Darren Aronofsky's "Mother!" with Jennifer Lawrence. CinemaScore's forecasts for box-office receipts based on the surveys are, according to the "Los Angeles Times", "surprisingly accurate
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Scoot McNairy


in director Andrew Dominik's film "Killing Them Softly" (2012), playing opposite Brad Pitt. The film is based on the 1974 novel "Cogan's Trade" by George V. Higgins, re-envisioned to take place during the 2008 election. The role led to a string of high-profile roles, including Ben Affleck's "Argo" (2012), Gus Van Sant's "Promised Land" (2012), and Lynn Shelton's "Touchy Feely" (2013) opposite Rosemarie DeWitt, which
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Ray Liotta


the independent drama "Snowmen", and "The River Sorrow", which stars Liotta as a detective alongside Christian Slater and Ving Rhames. He starred alongside Brad Pitt and James Gandolfini in the 2012 Andrew Dominik film "Killing Them Softly" and the 2013 Ariel Vromen film "The Iceman" features Liotta as the character of Roy DeMeo. He had a supporting role in "Muppets Most Wanted" (2014). In 2014, Liotta played a preacher in the faith-based film "The Identical". Liotta starred
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Killing Me Softly (Roberta Flack album)


Killing Me Softly is a studio album by American singer-songwriter Roberta Flack, released on August 1, 1973, by Atlantic Records. She recorded the album with producer Joel Dorn for 18 months. "Killing Me Softly" reached number three on the "Billboard" Top LPs & Tape and number two on the Soul LPs chart. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the album gold on August 27, 1973, and double platinum on January 30, 2006, denoting shipments of two million copies in the
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Softly, Softly: Taskforce


Softly, Softly: Task Force is a police based drama series which ran on BBC 1 from 1969 to 1976. It was a revamp of "Softly, Softly", itself a spin-off from "Z-Cars". The change was made partly to coincide with the coming of colour broadcasting to the BBC's main channel BBC1. The programme was due to be called simply "Task Force", but reluctant to sacrifice a much-loved brand the BBC compromised this so it became "Softly, Softly:
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Cogan's Trade


Killing Them Softly", directed by Andrew Dominik and starring Brad Pitt, is based on the novel. Markie Trattman is the proprietor of a criminal poker ring operating in a New England neighborhood. He decides to orchestrate an inside job by paying two men to rob his poker room; although he later openly admits his involvement to various criminal figures, he suffers no retaliation. In the fall of 1974, a man named Johnny "Squirrel" Amato plans to rob Markie's next poker game, anticipating the mafia will blame Markie
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Andrew Dominik


Andrew Dominik (born 7 October 1967) is an Australian film director and screenwriter. He has directed the crime film "Chopper", the Western drama film "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" and the neo-noir crime film "Killing Them Softly". Dominik has lived in Australia since he was two years old and graduated from Melbourne's Swinburne Film School in 1988. His career in films began in 2000 when he directed "Chopper" based on notorious Australian criminal Mark Brandon "Chopper"
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Softly, Softly (TV series)


Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It was created as a spin-off from the series "Z-Cars" which ended its fifth series run in December 1965. The series took its name from the proverb "Softly, softly, catchee monkey", the motto of Lancashire Constabulary Training School. "Softly, Softly" centred on the work of regional police crime squads, plain-clothes CID officers based in the fictional region of
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Leucospermum


which the plant can regrow after fire has killed the above ground biomass. In a larger group of species, specimens are killed by fire, and their survival depends on the seeds. In all species, seeds are collected by ants, which take them to their underground nests to feed on their ant breads, a seed dispersal strategy known as myrmecochory. This ensures that the seeds do not burn, so new plants can grow from them. "Leucospermum" species mostly seated, simple, mostly leathery, often softly hairy leaves
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Jean Kilbourne


dangerous teen dieting trends. While Kilbourne's work, specifically her "Killing Us Softly" documentary series, is often generally well-regarded for documenting the ways advertisements and the media shape women's perception of body and the standards they should hold themselves to, there has also been backlash in the way the series itself is delivered. In the 2006 article "Market Feminism: The Case for a Paradigm Shift" by Linda M. Scott, the "Killing Us Softly" series was criticized since the second entry, "Still Killing
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The Score (Fugees album)


Gimbel's "Killing Me Softly with His Song", it was originally not intended to be a cover; however, the original writers refused permission for the rewrite of their song, but did allow the Fugees to do a cover version. In 1997, "Killing Me Softly" won the Fugees a Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by Duo or group. The third and final single released for the album was "Ready or Not", released September 2, 1996. In the US the song was the least successful
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Renner Wunderlich


on rape, "Rape is" and "Rape culture", films on body image and media culture, "BirthMarkings", "Killing Us Softly", and "Still Killing Us Softly", and films on labor history, "Eugene Debs and the American Movement". In addition to the Academy Award, his films have won numerous awards and prizes, and have been screened at many of the major film festivals around the world and in the United Nations General Assembly, the White House, the Office of the
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Killing Me Softly with His Song


[The song] wasn't written that way.". In actuality, the only changes by Flack were the chorus chord under "Fingers" - changed from Major to Minor, and the sung note for "me" in the second "killing me softly" in the chorus differs from Lieberman's. Flack plays electric piano on the track. The bass is played by Ron Carter, the guitar by Hugh McCracken and the drums by Ray Lucas. The single appeared as the opening track of the album of the same
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Terry Plumeri


Odeon of Herodes Atticus (Athens), Tchaikovsky Concert Hall (Moscow), as well as the Newport, Monterey, and Montreux jazz festivals. He performed, toured, and recorded with Roberta Flack from 1969 to 1974, playing electric and acoustic bass. He appears on the albums "Chapter Two", "Killing Me Softly" and "Quiet Fire". In addition, he wrote the song "Conversation Love" on the album "Killing Me Softly". Later, he moved to Los Angeles to work in
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Lalo Schifrin (then of "" fame) and began writing songs to a number of Schifrin's films. Both Gimbel and Schifrin made a suggestion to write a Broadway musical together, and Schifrin gave Gimbel an Argentinean novel—"Hopscotch" by Julio Cortázar—to read as a possible idea. The book was never made into a musical, but in chapter two, the narrator describes himself as sitting in a bar listening to an American pianist friend "kill us softly with some blues". Gimbel put the phrase in his "idea
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Killing Me Softly with His Song


number 44 on its list of the "100 Greatest Songs of the '90s". "Killing Me Softly" was the last song the Fugees recorded for "The Score", after member Pras made the suggestion to cover it. They wanted to "see how we can create break beats. And of course, we all love A Tribe Called Quest and we went in like 'Okay, let’s cut that sample.'" They then added a bass reggae drop. Initially, the Fugees wanted to change the
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Killing Me Softly (Roberta Flack album)


United States. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, which it lost to Stevie Wonder's 1973 album "Innervisions". The album's title track was released as a single and topped the "Billboard" Hot 100. It won the 1974 Grammy Award for Record of the Year. In a contemporary review for the "Chicago Tribune", Clarence Page said "Killing Me Softly" has a hit title track and "other potential hits, adding up to one of [Flack's] better
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Killing Them Softly


anticipates that Markie will be the obvious suspect because of this, and the Mafia will simply have him killed without investigating further. Frankie and Russell, although obviously amateurs, do the holdup and leave with the money. Afterwards, a mafioso named Driver hires hitman Jackie Cogan to deal with the situation. Although Jackie correctly intuits that Markie was uninvolved with the recent heist, he believes Markie still needs to die since he looks guilty, and an example needs to be made to discourage further robberies. Upon completing the crime, Russell
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Gulliver's Travels (miniseries)


the normal kingdom of England. He eventually gains the despise of the court dwarf Grildrig (Warwick Davis), who is envious of not being considered the "smallest man in the kingdom". The dwarf sends him some giant wasps to kill Gulliver, but Gulliver is swift enough to kill them. He then extracts a wasp's sting and makes a dagger from it. Meanwhile, Glumdalclitch eventually falls in love with Gulliver and wishes to marry him. Gulliver softly rejects her advances and asks her to free him. So,
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Sikh Light Infantry


30 troops from D Coy were progressively annihilated throughout the night. Maj Birendra Singh and Sub. Samparan Singh were killed sometime in the morning, and by 11:30 am there were only 3 troops left. When they ran out of ammunition, they fixed bayonets and charged. 2 of them were killed by LTTE fire and the third, Sep. Gora Singh, was taken prisoner. In total, 29 out of the 30 troops from D Coy who landed were killed. When reinforcements reached the university after a week of heavy fighting,
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Killing Me Softly with His Song


"Killing Me Softly with His Song" is a song composed by Charles Fox with lyrics by Norman Gimbel. The song was written in collaboration with Lori Lieberman, who recorded the song in late 1971. In 1973 it became a number-one hit in the United States and Canada for Roberta Flack, also reaching number six in the UK Singles Chart. The song has been covered by many artists; the version by the Fugees won the 1997 Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. According to
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in Kingston, Jamaica, but did not then record it. In September 1972, Flack was opening for Marvin Gaye at the Greek Theater; after performing her prepared encore song, Flack was advised by Gaye to sing an additional song. Flack later said, "I said well, I got this song I've been working on called 'Killing Me Softly...' and he said 'Do it, baby.' And I did it and the audience went crazy, and he walked over to me and put his arm
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singer Anne Murray included her version of "Killing Me Softly" on her album titled "Danny's Song". Charles Fox suggested that Flack's version was more successful than Lieberman's because Flack's "version was faster and she gave it a strong backbeat that wasn't in the original". According to Flack: "My classical background made it possible for me to try a number of things with [the song's arrangement]. I changed parts of the chord structure and chose to end on a major chord.
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of all time. Hip hop group Fugees covered the Flack version of the song (as "Killing Me Softly") on their album "The Score" (1996), with Lauryn Hill singing the lead vocals. Their version became a hit, reaching number two on the U.S. airplay chart. The song topped the charts in the United Kingdom, where it became the country's biggest-selling single of 1996. It has since sold 1.36 million copies in Britain. The Fugees recording won the 1997 Grammy for Best R&B
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to retailers whilst the track was still in the top 20 so that attention could be drawn to the next single, "Ready or Not". Propelled by the success of the Fugees track, the 1972 recording by Roberta Flack was remixed in 1998 with the vocalist adding some new vocal flourishes: this version topped the Hot Dance Club Play chart. Flack and the Fugees have performed the song together since then. In 2008, "Killing Me Softly" was ranked number 25 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop and
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Killing Me Softly (Roberta Flack album)


albums". John S. Wilson, writing in "The New York Times", felt that Flack and producer Joel Dorn "have resisted the pitfalls of overproducing that you would suppose such a long gestation period would induce". "Billboard" called the record a "delicate, introspective work" by Flack, whom the magazine deemed a "masterful interpreter of clean lyrics fusing a sophisticated pop sound with that dark side of the blues". Robert Christgau was less impressed in "Creem", giving "Killing Me Softly"
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Killing Me Softly with Her Song (album)


Killing Me Softly with Her Song is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released on May 25, 1973 by Columbia Records and leaned heavily on covers of the latest radio favorites. The album made its first appearance on "Billboard" magazine's Top LP's & Tapes chart in the issue dated June 30, 1973, and remained there for seven weeks, peaking at number 120. One of the two original songs on the album, "Show and Tell", began a three-week run on "
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Killing Us Softly


, up to the point that it has been positively correlated with boycotts of products whose advertisements were seen as offensive. The documentary has also evoked some negative reactions. Paul Rutherford criticized Kilbourne for a "crusade against advertising", arguing that in the documentary she is conflating pornography and erotica, not noticing the satirical and artistic values of advertising, and ignoring the influence of the world of fashion. Cambridge Documentary Films created two other films on this subject; the first is "Beyond Killing Us Softly: The Strength to Resist"
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List of Hannah Montana characters


identical twin brother, Peter Allen Vogt, has performed the role ever since in the episodes "Torn Between Two Hannahs", "The Idol Side of Me", "Bad Moose Rising", and "Killing Me Softly with His Height". Paul returned in the episode "Killing Me Softly with His Height" in the role of Dontzig's sister, "Donna", who is a huge Robbie Ray fan. Dontzig also has a cousin named "Francesca" (Lisa Rinna) who is also a Robbie Ray
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Don McLean


after she, also a singer-songwriter, saw him singing his composition "Empty Chairs" in concert. Afterwards (according to Lieberman) she wrote a poem about the experience and shared it with Norman Gimbel, who had long been searching for a way to use a phrase he had copied from a novel badly translated from Spanish to English, "killing me softly with his blues". Allegedly, Gimbel and Charles Fox reworked the poem and the phrase into the song "Killing Me Softly with His Song", originally
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Susan Boyle


. In 1998, Boyle recorded three tracks—"Cry Me A River", "Killing Me Softly", and "Don't Cry for Me Argentina"—at Heartbeat Studio, Midlothian. She used all her savings to pay for a professionally cut demo, copies of which she later sent to record companies, radio talent competitions, local and national TV. The demo consisted of her versions of "Cry Me a River" and "Killing Me Softly with His Song"; the songs were uploaded to the Internet after her "BGT" audition
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Reunion (M83 song)


the evil girl, and the SUV is flung back into the agents, presumably killing them. Back in the monitoring station, the girl slumps in her chair, defeated, but also suddenly alert. As the handlers continue staring into the monitors, she pulls the cables off of herself, gets out of her wheelchair, and walks away. The escaped children, with their new friends, take refuge in an abandoned cathedral. Each of them stands in a circle near the altar, hands outstretched. They begin to glow softly
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Signal Transfer Point


A Signal Transfer Point (STP) is a router that relays SS7 messages between "signaling end-points" (SEPs) and other signaling transfer points (STPs). Typical SEPs include "service switching points" (SSPs) and "service control points" (SCPs). The STP is connected to adjacent SEPs and STPs via signaling links. Based on the address fields of the SS7 messages, the STP routes the messages to the appropriate outgoing signaling link. Edge STPs can also route based upon message body content using
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Vettai : Pledged to Hunt


affect her relationship with Seelan? And after a botched attempt on the stakeout, the unit is stranded in a sea of self-recriminations and guilt! Will they drown or dive deeper to find the parasite? Episode 36: “Watch Me Watching You” Radha goes as a human bait to lure Pravin out. But Pravin outsmarts them. How? Watch him watching them! Episode 37: “Killing Me Softly” Radha is in the clutches of manic Pravin. If you think you know how sick Pravin can get,
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Killing Us Softly


revisions have been developed from lectures that Kilbourne has been delivering at American universities since early 1970s. The documentary has had four editions, each updating the previous release: "Killing Us Softly" has often been used in university lectures. Its various editions have been described as "extremely popular" and have attracted praise; Bakari Chavanu, for example, notes that the documentary is "an engaging and even humorous analysis of how images and ads shape our values". Ford, et al. noted that the documentary raises feminist consciousness
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Killing Me Softly (film)


a mysterious stranger, she seeks him out, taking a taxi with him to his house and having passionate sex. She returns home to her boyfriend and unsuccessfully attempts to bring out the same feelings between them that she had with the strange man. The following day she seeks the stranger out again, discovering his name is Adam - a mountain climber who is considered a hero after saving six people in a tragic event that killed several others, including the woman he loved. Alice leaves her boyfriend and begins a relationship with Adam
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Patricia Norris


B Entertainment on "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (2007), "Killing Them Softly" (2012), and "12 Years a Slave" (2013). She was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design: for "Days of Heaven", "The Elephant Man", "Victor/Victoria", "", "Sunset" and "12 Years a Slave". She won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Costume Design for a Series for the
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Ray Liotta


, Officer Gary Figgis in "Cop Land" (1997), Paul Krendler in "Hannibal" (2001), Fred Jung in "Blow" (2001), Tommy Vercetti in the video game "" (2002), Chief Gus Monroe in "John Q" (2002), Samuel Rhodes in "Identity" (2003), himself (Ray Liotta) in "The Bee Movie" (2007) Markie Trattman in "Killing Them Softly" (2012), and Peter Deluca in "The Place
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Killing Me Softly (novel)


Killing Me Softly is a psychological thriller by writing team Nicci French from 1999. Alice Loudon, a pharmaceutical researcher who lives in London, leaves her boyfriend Jake to marry Adam Tallis, a mountain climber she met only recently. When Adam shows violent behaviour, Alice starts asking questions about his past. She finds out that he saved people's lives during an expedition on the Chungawat in the Himalayas. Several people had died on this expedition, including his former girlfriend Françoise. A woman who read an article about the rescue claimed
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Killing Them Softly


warning, giving them no opportunity to experience fear or despair—and that his acquaintance with Squirrel risks complicating this approach. Mickey postpones going through with his assigned hit, and instead indulges in drunkenness and sex with prostitutes in a hotel room. During conversation with Jackie, Mickey reveals that he has violated his parole, and doesn't seem to either care about nor really comprehend the consequences; instead he goes off on drunken tangents. It becomes clear to Jackie that the respected hitman has lost his nerve and ability to do his
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Killing Me Softly with His Song


Lori Lieberman, who performed the original recording in 1971, the song was born of a poem she wrote after experiencing a strong reaction to the Don McLean song "Empty Chairs", writing some poetic ideas on a napkin at the Troubadour Club after seeing him perform the song, and then relating this information to Norman Gimbel, who took her feelings and converted them into song lyrics. Gimbel passed his lyrics to Charles Fox, who set them to music. According to Gimbel, he was introduced to the Argentinian-born composer
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job. Jackie eventually decides to carry out the hit on Squirrel himself. He convinces Driver to arrange Mickey's arrest before the job has been completed. Russell is arrested on a drug possession charge and deported; meanwhile, Jackie confronts Frankie and convinces him to trade Squirrel's whereabouts for his life. Jackie has Frankie drive him to Squirrel; upon reaching Squirrel's apartment complex, he kills Squirrel with a shotgun. After confirming Squirrel is dead, Jackie has Frankie drive him to get his car several hours away. Frankie becomes
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Scoot McNairy


John Marcus "Scoot" McNairy (born November 11, 1977) is an American actor and producer known for his roles in films including "Monsters", "Argo", "Killing Them Softly", "12 Years a Slave", "Frank", "Gone Girl", and "". In television, he starred in the AMC period drama "Halt and Catch Fire", "True Detective" and the Netflix western miniseries "Godless". McNairy was born in Dallas, Texas, to Alicia
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Andrew Dominik


which was scheduled to start shooting in January 2011 but the project was put on hold when he announced "Killing Them Softly". In 2014 Jessica Chastain was in talks to play Monroe. In the 2012 Sight & Sound Poll of the greatest films of all time, Dominik chose "Apocalypse Now", "Badlands", "Barry Lyndon", "Blue Velvet", "Marnie", "Mulholland Drive", "The Night of the Hunter", "Raging Bull", "Sunset Boulevard", and
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Ellsworth Air Force Base


in 2008. Ellsworth AFB was established in 1941 as Rapid City Army Air Base (AAB). It was later renamed for Brigadier General Richard E. Ellsworth (1911–1953), a 28th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing commander killed when his RB-36 Peacemaker aircraft crashed near Nut Cove, Newfoundland, during a training flight. On 2 January 1942, the U.S. War Department established Rapid City Army Air Base to train B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber units to fight the Axis in Europe. The control tower opened on 30 Sep 1942; runways, quarters,
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Brian Graham (actor)


2011) ... Jesse – Today's Special: Death (2011) ... Gus – Killing Them Softly (2011) ... Gus – Me. Coli (2011) ... Repo Man (uncredited) – The Eviction (2011) ... Thor – The Hustler (2011) ... Thor – Turas (2010) ... SAMBEL Chapter Member (uncredited) – Five Stages of Grief (2010) ... Repo Man – Attila the Hun vs. Alexander the Great (2010) ... Warrior – Brush with Death (2010) ... George – Rat
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Tread Softly in This Place


Tread Softly in this Place is a novel set in the town of Ross, located in a remote part of rural Ireland, and written over the course of 1970/71 by the Irish-based author, Brian Cleeve. The narrative takes place over four days and charts the interconnecting lives and loves of a disparate collection of characters. "Tread Softly in this Place" is a further exploration of Irish themes following Cleeve's successful "Cry of Morning", although it did not sell as well as the latter. A year before
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Lotus Elan


racing but eventually created a racing version of the Elan. Robinshaw/Ross quote Colin Chapman:""When we announced the Elan we said 'This is a touring car, it is not intended for racing and have done no competition development on it.' The fact that customers bought them and tried to race them was originally no concern of ours, but in the second year we thought, well, if these people insist on racing them then we'd better get down to some proper development. They were too softly sprung, too softly
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N'Djamena International Airport


the runway is always open, and that excellent primary radar coverage is provided, as well as other facilities (military hospital, rescue and fire services, assistance with ATC) On Sep 7, 1987 a Tupolev Tu-22 of the Libyan Arab Air Force was shot down as it was bombing the French base. French Army Hawk missiles downed this aircraft, three crew members being killed - and the bombs missed their targets, falling in sandy areas. The French base is also shared by the Chadian Air Force with Su-25 Frogfoot, Mi-24
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in an economy that was funded by gambling—and the crisis occurred due to a failure in regulation. It just seemed to have something that you couldn't ignore." The project was first announced in November 2010, when Brad Pitt was reported to be in talks to star in it. Dominik asked Pitt if he was interested in a role via a text message; he replied "yes" and the matter was settled over half an hour. Production was scheduled to begin in Louisiana in March 2011, with pre-
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Brian Graham (actor)


Poison (2009) ... George – Battle of Britney (2001) ... Hunk Bodybuilder – Save the Judge (2001) ... SWAT Team Leader – Today's Special: Death (2011) (stunt performer) – Killing Them Softly (2011) (stunt performer) – Turas (2010) (stunt driver: motorcycle) – Lochan Mor (2010) (precision driver) – Attila the Hun vs. Alexander the Great (2010) (stunt performer) – Episode #1.8 (2007) (stunt driver) - BlogTalkRadio.com
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Gabry Ponte


well received in both Italy and Spain, followed by a remake of Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly", which had also been remade by the Fugees. This track became one of Sangwara's most well known and was made into a music video. This was followed by a release called "Bohemian Rhapsody", a cover of Queen's classic, also remade by The Braids. This release wasn't such a big hit for them and is now hard to find as a result. In early 1997 they produced their
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Toru Kitajima


in Stone featured on the album. Kitajima's second release was prefaced by the single "Unravel", which acted as the opening for the popular anime series "Tokyo Ghoul" and the mini-album "Contrast". "Unravel" had three versions to note, one of them featuring artwork inspired by the series it fronted, the other featuring a DVD titled "Killing You Softly" (an acoustic live DVD) featuring the track "Jewel of Sin", which would be featured on TK's third album "
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World Qualification Series (2009)


18 - Aug 23" 30th Anniversary of the Lacanau Pro and good conditions this year. Surf, concerts, events scheduled. Check out the video for a summary of the event http://vimeo.com/6994555 "Aug 25 - Aug 30" "Sep 01 - Sep 06" "Sep 01 - Sep 06" "Sep 04 - Sep 06" "Sep 09 - Sep 12" "Sep 10 - Sep 13" "Sep 08 - Sep 13" "Sep 15 - Sep 20" "Sep 16 - Sep 22" "Sep
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Andrew Dominik


. The film was renamed "Killing Them Softly". Shooting began in January 2011 and wrapped in May 2011. The film competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. and was released through the Weinstein Company. In 2016, Dominik completed "One More Time with Feeling", a documentary about his friend Nick Cave and the emotional consequences of the tragic death of Cave's son. The film premiered at the 2016 Venice Film Festival. The critical aggregator website Metacritic awarded the film a score of 91,
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List of 1982–83 NBA season transactions


1982 Oct 2, 1982 Oct 1, 1982 Sep 30, 1982 Sep 29, 1982 Sep 28, 1982 Sep 27, 1982 Sep 24, 1982 Sep 22, 1982 Sep 20, 1982 Sep 19, 1982 Sep 18, 1982 Sep 17, 1982 Sep 15, 1982 Sep 14, 1982 Sep 13, 1982 Sep 10, 1982 Sep 9, 1982 Sep 7, 1982 Sep 2, 1982 Sep 1, 1982 Aug 31, 1982 Aug 27, 1982 Aug 26, 1982 Aug 16, 1982 Aug 8,
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poignant kick". Celebrating the album's 20th anniversary in February 2016, "Billboard" reviewed the song, saying: "It's a lovely cover that maintains the spirit of the original while taking the material in new directions." The video, directed by Aswad Ayinde and based on Lauryn Hill's ideas, never came out commercially in America. It features Roberta Flack. The Fugees recorded a dancehall version with Bounty Killer rapping and Hill singing a rewritten chorus. However, they did not receive permission to release it on
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Kashief Lindo


Kashief Lindo is a Jamaican reggae singer. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Kashief is the son of guitarist and producer Willie Lindo. He moved with his family to Miami as a child. Kashief's first recording was produced by his father in 1992. He had a successful Jamaican single in 1993 with "Hard Times", based on the "Satta Massagana" rhythm, and recorded a popular version of "Killing Me Softly with His Song" in 1996. In 1999 he released the album "We Need Love",
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Christopher Hancock


the musical "Billy" (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1974). He was then best known for playing conman Charlie Cotton in the popular BBC soap opera "EastEnders" from 1986 until 1990. His character was killed off in July 1991 but his death was not shown on-screen. He also appeared in other television series such as "Z-Cars", "Softly, Softly", "The Gaffer", "The Upper Hand" and "The Bill. He reprised his "EastEnders" role
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Robert Gibbings


). "Trumpets from Montparnasse" (1955) was based on his travels in France and Italy. His final book, based on the area around Long Wittenham, was "Till I end my Song" (1957). The somewhat prophetic title is the second half of the couplet from Spenser's "Prothalamion" that begins: "Sweet Thames run softly ...". Writing his own books and producing the wood engravings for them kept him busy, but he did illustrate other books too, the most notable being an
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John Weir (loyalist)


of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA); who were responsible for the vast majority of murders and as such they considered the republican paramilitaries to be the main threat although they often came under attack from the so-called " loyalist paramilitaries. By the end of 1973, members of the SPG decided that due to the political " softly softly " stance of mainly but not exclusively Labour government policies they would have to "break the rules to curb the terrorists", by which they meant republican paramilitaries. Following the killing
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's bodies. Kilbourne is critical of the advertising industry, accusing it of misconduct. She argues that the superficial, objectifying and unreal portrayal of women in advertising lowers women's self-esteem. Sexualized images of women are being used to sell virtually all kinds of goods, and Kilbourne argues that they degrade women, encourage abuse, and reinforce the patriarchal, sexist society. Kilbourne also draws a connection between advertising and pornography, stating that "the advertisers are America's real pornographers". "Kiling Us Softly" and its
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Love Comes Softly


Love Comes Softly is a 2003 made-for-television Christian drama film set in the 19th century, based on a series of books by Janette Oke. It originally aired on Hallmark Channel on April 13, 2003. It was directed by Michael Landon Jr., and stars Katherine Heigl as a young woman named Marty Claridge. It is the first in a series of television movies made for Hallmark Channel based on the books and produced for Hallmark by Larry Levinson Productions. The order of the films to follow are: 1.
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Marc Streitenfeld


Television Music Awards and two International Film Music Critics Association award nominations. Streitenfeld has worked with numerous other highly regarded directors, including Marc Forster on "All I See Is You" (2017), Joe Carnahan on the action drama "The Grey" (2011), and Andrew Dominik the neo-noir crime film "Killing Them Softly" (2012). Streitenfeld has recorded many of his scores at Abbey Road Studios, in London. From 2007 to 2012, Streitenfeld was in a relationship with French-American actress
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Turban Cowboy


" send-up of "Killing Them Softly" instead." Carter Dotson of "TV Fanatic" gave the episode 2-1/2 out of 5 stars, saying, "I don't expect "Family Guy" to be as revolutionary as its earlier days, when its humor went to shocking places yet still had a heart to it. Remember the outrage over the "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" episode that was ultimately benign and surprisingly respectful to Judaism while still making joking references to the religion? It had
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Skin (Japanese band)


However, massive interest led to flooding of the servers, causing them to crash, and in a few hours ticket reservations were temporarily stopped. On Thursday night of June 28, Skin performed for the first time at Long Beach Arena, supported on bass by Ju-ken, at the time a member of Gackt's live band. The concert began almost two and a half hours late, for unknown reasons. They performed around five songs, of which four were "Gei-Sha", "Killing you softly"
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Claudia Reinhardt


moved back to Berlin. In 2000 she started her teaching job at the Art academy in Bergen/Norway. She held that position as associated professor until 2012. Nowadays she lives and works as an artist in Berlin and Oslo. "Killing Me Softly- Todesarten" is a series of ten photographs depicting the suicides of ten female artists, with Claudia Reinhardt as the model for all of them. The series includes Sarah Kane, Unica Zürn, Clara Immerwahr, Sylvia Plath, Adelheid Duvanel, Ingeborg Bachmann, Anne Sexton, Diane
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Earthsuit


introduced them to future band member David Rumsey. In 1997 they released a self-titled EP, which is sometimes called the "Headless Clown EP" due to its album cover. The record featured an early version of "One Time" (of which they later made a music video) as well as portions of live performances where Earthsuit covered Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly", albeit with re-written lyrics. Rumsey helped produce the EP and played guitar; however, the official band lineup only comprised LaClave
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Fugees


of which, "The Score" (1996), was a multi-Platinum and Grammy-winning success and contains their hit single "Killing Me Softly". Hill and Jean each went on to successful solo recording careers; Michel focused on soundtrack recordings and acting, though he found commercial success with his song "Ghetto Supastar". In 2007, MTV ranked them the ninth greatest hip-hop group of all time. Lauryn Hill and Pras first met at Columbia High School, in Maplewood, New Jersey, New
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Jean-Paul Marat


a leading proponent of the September Massacres (2-7 Sep 1792), which took place out of a fear that foreign and royalist armies would attack Paris and that the inmates of the city's prisons would be freed and join them. He called on draftees to kill the prisoners before they could be freed. The action was undertaken by mobs of National Guardsmen and "fédérés" and, by 6 September, half the prison population of Paris had been summarily executed: some 1200 to 1400 prisoners. Of these, 233
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Advanced Composition Explorer


, the SEP sensors on ACE detected solar events that had unexpected characteristics. Unlike most large, shock-accelerated SEP events, these were highly enriched in iron and helium-3, as are the much smaller, flare-associated impulsive SEP events. Within the first year of operations, ACE found many of these “hybrid” events, which led to substantial discussion within the community as to what conditions could generate them. One remarkable recent discovery in heliospheric physics has been the ubiquitous presence of suprathermal particles with common spectral shape. This
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Jean Kilbourne


Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D. (born January 4, 1943) is an public speaker, writer, filmmaker and activist who is internationally recognized for her work on the image of women in advertising and her critical studies of alcohol and tobacco advertising. She is also credited with introducing the idea of educating about media literacy as a way to prevent problems she viewed as originating from mass media advertising campaigns. She also lectures about the topic, and her documentaries (such as the "Killing Us Softly" series) based on these
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Claudia Reinhardt


Arbus, Pierre Molinier, and Karin Boye "No Place Like Home" is a series of 25 photographs based on the town, Viernheim, which Reinhardt grew up in. "Dødspar, Liebespaare" is a series of 23 photographs where Reinhardt stages the suicides of couples. Like in her series "Killing Me Softly - Todesarten" she uses authentic histories to visualize the last moment of these peoples lives. The series includes Stefan Zweig and Lotte Zweig, Heinrich von Kleist and Henriette Vogel, André Gorz and his wife Dorine,
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Music of Washington, D.C.


The Orioles (based out of District of Columbia, though from Baltimore), The Clovers, The Rainbows Scott McKenzie (known for "If You're Going to San Francisco"), Sinbad, R&B singer Ruth Brown, and country star Roy Clark. During this period, Washington began to develop its own music scene, with a number of styles evolving by the end of the century. Some popular singers from later decades include Roberta Flack (#1 hit "Killing Me Softly with His Song"), Root Boy
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Tread Softly (1965 film)


Tready Softly/The Violin Case Murders (German title:Schüsse aus dem Geigenkasten) is a 1965 German thriller film directed by Fritz Umgelter and starring George Nader, Heinz Weiss and Sylvia Pascal. It is the first in the Jerry Cotton series of films. A prolific bunch of safe crackers retrieves a great deal of booty. They work all over the USA and kill everybody standing in their way. Once it is brought to the notice of FBI director Mr. High that these crimes are committed by the same gangsters, he does
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Richard Mattern Montgomery


staff. Sep 1956-Aug 1959 In 1956 he was assigned as deputy commander of the 2d Air Force (SAC). Following this two-year tour, he became commander of the 3d Air Division at Guam, with responsibility for SAC Forces West of the 180th meridian. Sep 1952-Sep 1956 The assignment which did most to shape his subsequent career was that of chief of staff, Headquarters, Strategic Air Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, in September 1952, a post he held until September 1956. As a principal staff
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Leucospermum conocarpodendron


The common base of the flowers of the same head is narrowly cone-shaped with a pointy tip, 2½–3 cm (1–1.2 in) long and 1–1½ cm (0.4–0.6 in) in diameter. The bracts that subtend the flower head are oval in shape with a point tip, 1¼–1½ cm (0.5–0.6 in) long and approximately wide, tightly overlapping, with a rubbery consistency and softly hairy. The bracts supporting the individual flowers enclose them at their base, have a suddenly pointed tip, and are about long, and about
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