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* Smiley, Jane, The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer, Random House Digital, Inc., 2010.
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Smiley and Jane
* Another satire of academia is Moo, by Jane Smiley, which satirizes life and work at a midwestern university.
* Jane Smiley, 1992 Pulitzer for A Thousand Acres, MA, 1975 ; MFA, English, 1976 ; PhD, English, 1978.
Controversially, after Smiley sold an exclusive interview of Sara Jane Olson to ABC News in 2001, BET declined to renew Smiley's contract that year.
Smiley countered with the assertion that he had offered the story — an interview with Sara Jane Olson, an alleged former member of the Symbionese Liberation Army — to CBS, which, along with BET, was owned by Viacom.
* A Thousand Acres ( 1991 ) by Jane Smiley: A retelling of Shakespeare's King Lear, set in rural Iowa.
Smiley and Man
Another example of counter-culture-jamming was Smiley Man, a neon prank installed secretly on the Man at Burning Man 1996, the last year that Cacophony founder John Law was Director of Operations at Burning Man, before control of the festival was taken over by a new corporation headed by one of the other founders, Larry Harvey.
Smiley and Who
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold misleads the reader, by changing a key plot element of its predecessor, Call for the Dead, wherein Hans-Dieter Mundt escaped capture by Smiley and Guillam and returned to East Germany.
In her essay Is Common Human Decency a Scarce Commodity in Popular Literature ?, Margaret Compton contrasts the ending of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold with the ending of Call for the Dead: " Le Carré's début book ends with Smiley feeling deeply guilty about having killed Dieter Frey, the idealistic East German spy who had been Smiley's agent and friend ( and, in effect, his adopted son ) during the Second World War.
* Rupert Davies, of Maigret fame, played Smiley as a minor although important character in the film version of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, made in 1965, and which starred Richard Burton.
Smiley and John
The sidekick was a regular presence in westerns, where Fuzzy Knight, Al " Fuzzy " St. John, Smiley Burnette, and Andy Devine had longer careers than some of the heroic singing cowboys for whom they took pratfalls.
Years after the success of his Cold War spy novels, novelist and Lincoln graduate John le Carré, himself a one-time spy, revealed that fictional spymaster George Smiley was partly modelled on former Lincoln rector Vivian H. H. Green.
" Dust in the Wind " has been covered by: Sarah Brightman, Scorpions ( Acoustica ), Christian artists Acappella and Billy Smiley, former New York Yankees center fielder and jazz guitarist Bernie Williams ( The Journey Within ), and ex-Kansas lead singer John Elefante ( 2006 ).
* George Smiley, a fictional character from the popular book of John Le Carré, movie franchise who is said to work for MI6
She also appeared opposite then-husband Peter O ' Toole and Richard Burton in Becket ( 1964 ); as Ursula Mossbank in the musical film Goodbye, Mr. Chips ( 1969 ), again starring O ' Toole ; once more opposite O ' Toole in Murphy's War ( 1971 ); as Emmeline Pankhurst in the TV mini-series Shoulder to Shoulder ( 1974 ); as Lady Ann, the unfaithful wife of Alec Guinness's character George Smiley, in the BBC1 espionage dramas Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy ( 1979 ) and Smiley's People ( 1982 ), adapted from John le Carré's novels of the same names ; in Nijinsky ( 1980 ); and as the queen Cassiopeia in Clash of the Titans ( 1981 ).
Studio One has recorded and released music by ( and had a large hand in shaping the careers of ) artists such as The Skatalites, The Ethiopians, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Lee " Scratch " Perry, Burning Spear, Toots & the Maytals, John Holt, Horace Andy, Ken Boothe, Freddie McGregor, Dennis Brown, Jackie Mittoo, Gladiators, Michigan & Smiley, Wailing Souls, Dillinger, Delroy Wilson, Heptones, Johnny Osbourne, Marcia Griffiths ( of the I-Threes ), Sugar Minott, The Abyssinians, Culture, Soul Vendors, Lone Ranger, Carlton and The Shoes and Alton Ellis.
Oldfield himself believed that, although Green probably inspired le Carré, the character of Smiley was primarily based on John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris, who had been le Carré's boss when he originally joined MI5, prior to his career in MI6.
Nobody who knew John and the work he was doing could have missed the description of Smiley in my first novel ".
Smiley's People was dramatised by John Hopkins for television for the BBC in 1982, as a sequel to Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy ( 1979 ), again starring Alec Guinness as George Smiley.
Smiley Versus Karla ( 1982 ), by John le Carré, originally published as The Quest for Karla, is an omnibus edition of three novels concerning George Smiley's fight against Karla, his counterpart in Moscow Centre ( the Soviet KGB ).
Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and graduated from John Burroughs School.
The climax of John Le Carre's novel The Honourable Schoolboy ( the second in the ' Karla trilogy ', featuring George Smiley ) takes place on Po Toi.
* John le Carré's numerous books featuring George Smiley are more novelistic in their technique than most genre fiction, but, apart from the " Karla Trilogy ", the organisation is too lax to consider them a sequence, in intent or execution.
* John Smiley ( baseball ) ( born 1965 ), American baseball left-handed pitcher 1980's and 90's, most notably with the Cincinnati Reds and the Pittsburgh Pirates
Rick Ankiel, Magglio Ordóñez, Barry Bonds, Bobby Bonilla, Bernie Williams, Andy Pettitte, Albert Pujols, Coco Crisp, Braden Looper, Brad Ausmus, Jorge Posada, Kevin Maas, Hensley Meulens, Gerald Williams, Edwin Encarnacion, Jack Wilson, Dimitri Young, Dan Haren, Carmen Cali, John Smiley, Scott Kamieniecki, José Lind, Jeff King, Félix Fermín, Mike Cameron, Sterling Hitchcock, Joey Votto, John Lannan, Justin Maxwell, Josh Whitesell, Danny Espinosa, and Ross Detwiler.
With the Series tied at one game apiece, John Smoltz faced off against the Pirates ' twenty-game winner, John Smiley.
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