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Lynne Truss stated that " Samuel Beckett spliced his way merrily through such novels as Molloy and Malone Dies, thumbing his nose at the semicolon all the way ," " James Joyce preferred the colon, as more authentically classical ; P. G. Wodehouse did an effortlessly marvellous job without it ; George Orwell tried to avoid the semicolon completely in Coming up for Air, ( 1939 )," " Martin Amis included just one semicolon in Money ( 1984 )," and " Umberto Eco was congratulated by an academic reader for using no semicolons in The Name of the Rose ( 1983 ).
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* Mentioned in Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss, 2003 ( ISBN 1-86197-612-7 ) as an example of online debate about punctuation.
Lynne Truss attributes an early form of the modern question mark in western language to Alcuin of York.
According to the British writer on grammar, Lynne Truss, many non-writers avoid the colon and semicolon for various reasons: " They are old-fashioned ", " They are middle-class ", " They are optional ", " They are mysteriously connected to pausing ", " They are dangerously addictive ( vide Virginia Woolf )", and " The difference between them is too negligible to be grasped by the brain of man ".
Lynne Truss was born and educated in the village at the Petersham Russell Infant School and Orchard Junior School.
* Lynne Truss – Eats, Shoots & Leaves
According to Lynne Truss, Manutius invented the italic typeface.
The differences of opinion on the use of the serial comma are well characterized by Lynne Truss in her popularized style guide Eats, Shoots & Leaves: " There are people who embrace the Oxford comma, and people who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken.
The British author Lynne Truss observes: " so many highly respected writers observe the splice comma that a rather unfair rule emerges on this one: only do it if you're famous.
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On an October 10, 2007, episode of The Daily Show, Lynne Cheney stated her opposition to a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
Victoria, Peter Sellers ' daughter by his previous marriage to Britt Ekland, last saw Lynne three weeks before her death and subsequently stated, " I was so shocked.
Lynne and Samuel
They have two children: a son Samuel David Cheney and a daughter Sarah Lynne Cheney.
Lynne and way
This homage is apparent in the way he moves on stage in the original Gillian Lynne choreography and the costume styling.
In the spring of 2002, upon completion of the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts, the stage was demolished to make way for the Senior Lounge.
Lynne and through
In July 2003, Weaver lost a daughter-in-law, Lynne Ann Weaver ( who was married to his son, Robby Weaver ), in Santa Monica, California, when a car driven at high speed plowed through shoppers at an outdoor bazaar.
In her book Beyond the Fragments co-written with Hilary Wainwright and Lynne Segal, Rowbotham called for the various fractions of the British left to unite, and work for a socialist Britain through grass-roots activism.
Lynne and such
The roles of Bet Lynch, Ivy Tilsley ( Lynne Perrie ), Deirdre Hunt ( Anne Kirkbride ), Rita Littlewood ( Barbara Knox ) and Mavis Riley ( Thelma Barlow ) were built up between 1972 and 1973 with characters such as Gail Potter ( Helen Worth ), Blanche Hunt ( Patricia Cutts and Maggie Jones ) and Vera Duckworth ( Elizabeth Dawn ) first appearing in 1974.
Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra used the vocoder in several albums such as Time ( featuring the Roland VP-330 Plus MkI ).
In particular, debates over the development of national educational standards in 1994 revolved around whether the study of American history should be a " celebratory " or " critical " undertaking and involved such prominent public figures as Lynne Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, and historian Gary Nash.
Popular books such as Lynne Truss's Eats, Shoots & Leaves, which argues for stricter adherence to prescriptive punctuation rules, have phases of fashion and are authoritative to the extent that they attract a significant following.
The alternative country movement played an important role in the success of future traditionalist country acts such as Robbie Fulks and Shelby Lynne.
Lynne Harvey was the first producer ever inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame, and had developed some of her husband's best-known features, such as " The Rest of the Story.
At one point, he filled in for Lynne Haultain on the breakfast program for that station, where he was such a success that he was retained permanently in that slot.
This is most evident when reviewing the 1987 REAL president, Lynne Schime ’ s, statement that “ REAL women want to look at issues such as how a woman can pick a husband to fulfill her needs ” They believed that women are naturally nurturing, emotional, and dependent beings, suited to motherhood.
The faculty of the Jazz Studies program includes other musicians such as Danny Gottlieb, Dennis Marks, and Lynne Arriale.
Scholar Lynne Viola provides one such example of an anti-religious Soviet rhyme, rendered here in literal English translation:
Meanwhile she also worked as a publisher's reader, for Hurst and Blackett, and from 1859 for Bentley, recommending for instance that Bentley publish Ellen Wood's bestselling East Lynne ( 1861 ), yet turn down such later successful authors as Rhoda Broughton, M. E. Braddon, and Ouida.
Ghost Hunters has attracted various critics and skeptics, such as Joe Nickell of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, Skeptical Inquirer author Lynne Kelly, James Randi, and Benjamin Radford.
Recording artists who employed such techniques include Herb Alpert ( who made many of his Tijuana Brass recordings playing multiple horn parts, overdubbed and grouped together on tape ), Harry Nilsson and The Carpenters ( who did similar with their voices, building what sounded like a large chorus ), future Electric Light Orchestra leader and producer Jeff Lynne ( who overlaid guitar parts on a home machine, before graduating to studio work ), and The Beatles ( who frequently used pairs of four-track recorders linked together ).
By the middle of the 19th century, a situation akin to modern publication had emerged, where most bestsellers were written for a popular taste and are now almost entirely forgotten, with odd exceptions such as East Lynne ( remembered only for the line " Gone, gone, and never called me mother!
McGee's science-based approach to cooking has been embraced and popularized by chefs and authors such as Heston Blumenthal, Alton Brown, Shirley Corriher, Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Russ Parsons.
Harrison wanted to work with other musicians and as such joined the supergroup Traveling Wilburys in 1988, consisting of Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Jim Keltner and his son Dhani Harrison.
Tyler has been the supporting act for many artists and bands such as Emmylou Harris, Nickel Creek, Merle Haggard, Wilco, Shelby Lynne, Dave Wilcox, Shannon Lawson, John Hammond and Willis Alan Ramsey.
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* Mats Berdal and David M. Malone, Greed and Grievance: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars ( Lynne Rienner, 2000 ).
A CBC Life and Times biopic titled Keeping up with Cathy Jones was produced in 2006 by Lynne Wilson, directed by Barbara Doran, and featured several of her co-stars from both CODCO and This Hours Has 22 Minutes including Greg Thomey, Rick Mercer, Greg Malone, and Andy Jones.
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