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#1 The IBM team that designed Deep Blue made the brilliant decision to design the machine to appear more uncertain than it was. During the six-game match, the machine would occasionally hold off from declaring its move for several minutes. From Kasparov's end of the table, the delays made it look as if the machine was struggling.
#2 The story of Deep Blue defeating the...
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#1 I had walked holding my thumbs folded into my fists, a Russian superstition: hold your thumbs and think of someone to bring them good luck. I had watched as Mama went down into the metro station with the stench of burned rubber.
#2 I was placed in a children's asylum, and while I was there, I didn't speak about my mother. I was numb, and I wanted to free myself from...
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#1 I was born in 1976 in New York. My parents, Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, loved me, or at least they grew to love me. My father told me when I was a teenager that he didn't want me at first, but my mother insisted on having me.
#2 My mother and her sisters were performers, and I was brought up in the music business. I was never baptized, but I went to...
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#1 Rock stars were extremely popular in the 1960s, and teenage girls like Pamela were obsessed with them. She was especially fond of the Beatles' Paul McCartney, and she began daydreaming about him sexually.
#2 The rules of this world had been codified by the 1980s, and MTV was thriving. Rock stars outlived the Los Angeles scene that Des Barres chronicled, and they outlived...
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#1 The two questions that should be asked at a reading are: Am I in the light. And can I be heard. The auditors will always be happy to tell you where the light is, since it's a lot easier for them to see you than search for you in darkness.
#2 The two legitimate questions an actor may ask at an audition are: If you are asked to read cold, should you have time to go...
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Get the Summary of Dolly Parton and Robert Oermann's Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics is a landmark celebration of the remarkable life and career of a country music and pop culture legend.
As told by Dolly Parton in her own inimitable words, explore the songs that have defined her journey. Illustrated...
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#1 I named the book Last Chance Texaco because I spent most of my life in cars, vans, and buses. I watched life approach and recede. I was always running away from and moving to new life, but I could never lay down roots.
#2 I did drugs like I did everything else. On fire, with no back door. I escaped, of course, and I carried my heart out in a birdcage. But she was...
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#1 In 1494, King Charles VIII of France entered an Alpine pass with an army of more than thirty thousand men, intent on marching through Italy and seizing the throne of Naples. The French king was short, myopic, and so ill proportioned that he seemed more like a monster than a man.
#2 The city of Milan was the center of Lodovico's empire, and it was a huge fortress with...
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#1 In 1969, the Stooges released the definitive collection of punk classics with their eponymous debut album. The Stooges' songs punched, spat, and kicked against the pricks, but above all, they pointed an accusatory finger at the middle-class indulgences of the West Coast's hippy scenesters and the arty habits of Warhol's Factory fops.
#2 Following the divorce, Virginia...
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Get the Summary of Maria Tatar's The Heroine with 1001 Faces in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: The Heroine with 1,001 Faces dismantles the cult of warrior heroes, revealing a secret history of heroinism at the very heart of our collective cultural imagination. Maria Tatar, a leading authority on fairy tales and folklore, explores how heroines, rarely wielding a sword and often deprived...
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#1 The mob scene at the Copa was always chaotic, and the club was packed with people betting their rent money just to feel as big as the ones who could. It was like flying for Dean and his band, and they would stop time with their songs.
#2 The casino was packed with people, and the dealers were nervous. Dean knew how to play, and he was able to push aside the blackjack...
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#1 The idea of being something is not as real as the act of doing something. When you're in the act of creating, you don't have to worry about competing with someone else's image of who you are.
#2 You want to be heard, and that means making a sound. So as stupid as it sounds, the only way to be heard is to make a sound. Many songwriters have aspired to be Bob Dylan,...
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Get the Summary of Casey Wilson's The Wreckage of My Presence in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Casey Wilson has a lot on her mind and she isn't afraid to share. In this dazzling collection, each essay skillfully constructed and brimming with emotion, she shares her thoughts on the joys and vagaries of modern-day womanhood and motherhood, introduces the not-quite-typical family that...
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#1 The 4th Viscount Townshend was a good choice for raising alarm bells about what British troops could expect from the Americans. His plump face and the bags under his eyes made him look like George III, but he was far fiercer. He had served in the British Army in Canada under Gen. James Wolfe, assuming command of the troops laying siege to Quebec City after Wolfe was...
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#1 I was quiet in the middle of the middle seat, sandwiched between my two younger siblings, who were dragged along for the epic journey from Altoona, Pennsylvania, to Lincoln Center. My mother always sat in the back on any long drives.
#2 I was sent to the School of American Ballet in New York City, which was the only way a dancer could get into New York City Ballet....
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#1 I went to see a medium in 1977, to ask about a naughty dog. She told me that it was my dad who was behind the antics, and that he wanted me to have a few things: his watch, his wallet, and the family cricket bat.
#2 My father, Greville Philip Austin Collins, was not a faithful husband to my mother, June Winifred Collins. He had used his mundane, bowler-hatted, nine-to-five...
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#1 The Stones were taking a risk by going on tour with the same show they had in 1969. They knew that one day they would go out on stage and play to an audience that just sat there, resembling nothing so much as a still-life portrait of the House of Lords.
#2 By the summer of 1972, the Rolling Stones had already become very tame, ancient history. Rock singers were working...
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#1 Don't worry about making your art make sense to others. The faster your art makes sense, the faster people will lose interest. Let go of being good and start thinking about creating.
#2 The imagination is an endless lens that enlarges life. It's a tool that animates your own Cambrian Ocean of past, present, and potential future forms. It adds what Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
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#1 God can get tiny if we are not careful. We all have an image of God that becomes the touchstone, the controlling principle, to which we return when we stray.
#2 I was told that I would get Good Mike on the show, but instead, I was subjected to the insensitivity of Mike Wallace, a 60 Minutes film crew, and a parishioner who was there to interview me. In the end, Wallace turned to...
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#1 The oldest cemetery in the country is in Salem, and it's also where the town's ghosts tend to gather. However, the city's cemeteries aren't necessarily the most active places.
#2 The most active graveyard in Salem is St. Mary's Cemetery in Peabody, which has a reputation for being haunted. Visitors have reported seeing faint white lights that move around and experienced...
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