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The premise of the novel is seemingly simple: the plot revolves around the relationship between a housekeeper and a once-famous mathematician, the latter of whom was in a car accident that left him brain damaged.
Chicken Spaghetti: 2009
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The premise of the novel is seemingly simple: the plot revolves around the relationship between a housekeeper and a once-famous mathematician, the latter of whom was in a car accident that left him brain damaged.
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Steven Alan , founder of the boutique clothing brand, said Bedrock would use the ground floor space for the launch or rather re-launch of a once-famous American brand: Shinola, originally a shoe-polish company that is best known today for a salty aphorism about human ignorance.
Buyer Bucks Trend in TriBeCa Conversions Josh Barbanel 2011
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When I set a Google alert to the name of the once-famous doctor, humanitarian and miracle man, "Chevalier Jackson," my e-mail filled with mostly stray references to Michael Jackson.
Mary Cappello: Swallow This! Mary Cappello 2011
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Readers of a certain age will recognize this as the exordium to Henry Miller's once-famous act of literary vandalism, "Tropic of Cancer."
In Praise Of the Gross Lee Sandlin 2012
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The enigmatic center of the novel is Alison Oakley, a once-famous model who left the profession dangerously emaciated.
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Hint: it has something to do with his past as a once-famous soap opera star.
Zorianna Kit: Movie Review: "Rio" Zorianna Kit 2011
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A once-famous European writer disappeared for forty years, and then reappeared.
A Conversation with Jonathan Safran Foer about Everything Is Illuminated 2010
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Hint: it has something to do with his past as a once-famous soap opera star.
Zorianna Kit: Movie Review: "Rio" Zorianna Kit 2011
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When I set a Google alert to the name of the once-famous doctor, humanitarian and miracle man, "Chevalier Jackson," my e-mail filled with mostly stray references to Michael Jackson.
Mary Cappello: Swallow This! Mary Cappello 2011
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