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| | Richard Wright |
 | | Wright solved the problem by forging notes to pretend he was collecting the books for a white man. During this period he was particularly impressed by the work of H. | | | Wright argued that the word Negro is a white man's word that artificially limits the scope of a black man's life and helps to set it apart from other Americans. | | | Native Son assaulted the most cherished of American vanities: the hope that the accumulated injustice of the past would bring with it no lasting penalties, the fantasy that in his humiliation the Negro somehow retained a sexual potency--or was it a childlike good nature?--that made it necessary to envy and still more to suppress him. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAwrightR.htm
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| | Richard Wright, Mississippi writer and haiku poet |
| | Richard is now able to live by his own judgment, save money, and expand his mind through books all for the first time. | | | Wright stated in his contribution to the book The God That Failed, "It seemed to me that hear at last, in the realm of revolutionary expression, Negro experience could find a home, a functioning value and role." His newfound happiness in the Communist party temporarily caused his loneliness to subside. | | | For both Granny and Aunt Addie force Richard to believe in God and "save his soul." After years of conflict in religious values, Richard leaves the household to be on his own. |
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http://www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us/mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/writers/Wright.html
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| | Richard Wright's Life |
| | While Wright made blacks proud of his success, he also made them uncomfortable with the protagonist, Bigger, who is a stereotype of the "brute Negro" they had been trying to overcome with novels of uplift by the "talented tenth" since the Gilded Age. | | | Wright had published his first short story, "The Voodoo of Hell's Half-Acre," in three parts in the Southern Register in 1924, but no copies survive. | | | In a famous passage in the autobiography that has bothered critics and set Wright apart from the African-American sense of community, he asserts the "cultural barrenness of black life": ". |
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http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/r_wright/wright_life.htm
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| | Richard Wright |
| | Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. | | | This new edition gives us a Native Son in which the key line in the key scene is restored to the great good fortune of American letters. | | | As they do in his classic novels, the themes here reflect Wright's views on racism and his fascination with what he called "the struggle of the individual in America." |
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http://aalbc.com/authors/richard.htm
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| | RICHARD WRIGHT - BLACK BOY - A Teacher's Guide |
| | One portion of Wright's original Black Boy manuscript was published as the essay, "I Tried to be a Communist" in The God That Failed (New York: Harper, 1950). | | | If one understands this novel as one segment of Wright's intellectual autobiography, it is easier to understand why and how he situated himself in non-fiction works and why he was so fascinated by modern psychology in Lawd Today, Savage Holiday, and The Long Dream. | | | This hunger to be, to know, and to understand was pervasive, formative, and motivating throughout his lifetime. |
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http://www.newsreel.org/guides/richardw.htm
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| | Richard Wright |
| | Because Wright's protagonist is highly educated and articulate, the author can introduce lengthy philosophical discussions throughout the book, either as interior monologues or as debates with Damon's alter ego Ely Houston. | | | Psychologically, Damon has developed in reaction to the Christian guilt of his mother and the oppressive tedium of his work. | | | Characters' names, natural phenomena, colors, and pervasive biblical references are used to strengthen Wright's messages. |
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http://lfa.atu.edu/Brucker/Wright.html
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| | Heath Anthology of American LiteratureRichard Wright - Author Page |
| | Though Native Son will probably remain Wright’s best-known work, it bears close relationship to all of his subsequent writing, and in Wright’s entire canon we are able to see a powerful consistency along with a broadening recognition of the significance of black experience. | | | Rather he took the experiences of being black in the South during the early years of the twentieth century and made them the material for literature that would strip away all pretense of rationality from racism, all justification, and expose the harsh brutality that lay beneath its ideology. | | | To broaden the social context of the volume, Wright prepared an expanded edition of Uncle Tom’s Children, including an autobiographical account entitled “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow” and the short story “Bright and Morning Star.” |
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http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/modern/wright_ri.html
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| | Alibris: Richard Wright |
| | This novel, told in diaries, is set in the mid-1930s and tells the story of Clara (the diarist) and her sister Nora. | | | As in his classic novels, the themes here reflect Wright's views on racism and his fascination with what he called "the struggle of the individual in America". | | | This book explains how to draw lines, points, and polygons in space; move around in a virtual... |
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http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Richard-_Wright
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| | NONZERO by Robert Wright, author of The Moral Animal |
| | Wright's first book, Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information, was published in 1988 and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. | | | The Moral Animal was named by the New York Times Book Review as one of the 12 best books of 1994 and has been published in 12 languages. | | | Nonzero was named a New York Times Book Review Notable Book for 2000 and has been published in nine languages. |
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http://www.nonzero.org/author.htm
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| | Richard Wright |
| | The 1986 version was directed by Jerrold Freedman and adapted by Richard Wesley. | | | For the most part, the book was rendered in the present. | | | At the age of fifteen, he wrote his first story, 'The Voodoo of Hell's Half-Acre'. |
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http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rwright.htm
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| | Richard Wright (author) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | American Hunger, (published posthumously in 1977) was originally intended as the second book of Black Boy and is restored to this form in the Library of America edition. | | | In 1949 he contributed to the anti-communist anthology The God That Failed; the essay had been published in the Atlantic Monthly three years earlier. | | | Wright is also renowned for the autobiographical Black Boy (1945), which describes his early life from Roxie through his move to Chicago, his clashes with his Seventh-day Adventist family, his difficulties with white employers and social isolation. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wright_%28author%29
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| | Richard Wright (1908-1960) |
| | I would recommend for study of "The Man Who Was Almost a Man" some consideration of how Wright revised his work to make it less and less "realistic," more and more symbolic. | | | On revisions and the author's personal investment in "The Man. | | | Addresses critically the protest versus sym-bolism in Wright's work with "The Man. |
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http://college.hmco.com/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/wrightr.html
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| | Richard Wright: Author of Native Son and Black Boy |
| | Strongest when his own words are used to describe events, the book seamlessly weaves those words into a coherent and effective story line. | | | Readers will gain knowledge not only of Wright's all too brief life, but will also get a sense of how the times impacted on the evolution of a gifted African American. | | | The second book does an excellent job of placing Wright within the context of his times. |
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http://www.booksmatter.com/b0766017699.htm
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| | Wright, Richard on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Author: Pascal Le Segretain Publication: Getty Images Source: PICS | | | Other works include Twelve Million Black Voices (1941), a folk history of African Americans; American Hunger (1977), a two-part autobiography; The Outsider (1953) and The Long Dream (1958), two novels; Black Power (1954), an account of his trip to the Gold Coast (Ghana); and Eight Men (1961), a collection of stories published posthumously. | | | His Black Boy (1945), also regarded as one of his finest works, is an account of his childhood and youth. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/W/Wright-R1i.asp
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| | MWP: Richard Wright (1908-1960) |
| | Richard Wright Papers, a detailed description of the collection of papers and manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. | | | Soon after, his father left the family for another woman and his mother was forced to work as a cook in order to support the family. | | | Wright is seen as a seminal figure in the black revolution that followed his earliest novels. |
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http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/wright_richard
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| | AUTHOR RESOURCES (ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHIES & BIOGRAPHIES)Richard Wright Biography |
| | Wright wasn't famous because he was a black writer, but because he was a good writer (Easterling, 2000). | | | This move would be the first of many to come in their lives. | | | Wright did return to his home when his daughter came down with scarlet fever, but only stayed briefly. |
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http://www.nhti.edu/library/authorresources/wrightbio.htm
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Wright Richard (author) |
| | Race : quotations: Race: Richard Wright wrote famously that the negro… | | | Richard Wright wrote famously that the negro is America's metaphor. | | | Wright, Richard (author) (1908-1960), American writer, whose novels and short stories helped redefine discussions of race relations in America in... |
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| | Richard Wright Biography / Biography of Richard Wright Author and Artists for Young Adults Biography |
| | Often called the father of African-American literature and among the most influential black American authors of the twentieth century, Richard Wright was one of the first African-American writers to win a major reputation in U.S. letters. | | | The southern-born Wright was the first black novelist to write of life in the ghettos of northern cities and of the rage felt by blacks at the white society that excluded them. | | | "I would hurl words into this darkness," Wright wrote in American Hunger, "and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to |
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| | Dissertations, Essays on Black Boy --- author Richard Wright |
| | Although he was looked down upon by his peers for still trying to make a name for himself, he didn’t let that ever stop him, and he continued to pursue his career in writing. | | | The book gave the readers a glance at the harsh realities of life that Richard Wright, the author, been through. | | | Black Boy was an autobiographical piece written from the perspective of an ordinary African-American living from the era of the Jim Crow South. |
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http://www.essayboom.com/essay/Black_Boy__author_Richard_W-124231.html
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| | Richard Wright - Author Find |
| | AuthorFind.com is a reasource to find author information and all their published works. | | | Richard Wright's Native Son and Black Boy (Barron's Book Notes) | | | Richard Wright : Early Works : Lawd Today! |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books |
| | Link to Amazon.co.uk from your website and earn money. | | | The Farm: The Story of One Family and the English Countryside ~ Richard Benson | | | A profitable way for authors, publishers, labels, and studios to enhance their sales. |
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http://Amazon.co.uk/books
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| | Richard Wright -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Information on the life of this influential African-American author. | | | Includes an excerpt of this novel and a list of his selected works. | | | (1894–1962), U.S. theologian and educator, born in Wright City, Mo.; brother of Reinhold Niebuhr; Protestant advocate of theological existentialism; authority on theological ethics and American church history; professor Eden Theological Seminary 1919–22, 1927–31; president Elmhurst College 1924–27; professor of theology and Christian ethics Yale Divinity School from... |
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| | RICHARD WRIGHT - BOOK HELP WEB AUTHOR PROFILE |
| | Wright’s first work was published by a local black newspaper in 1924. | | | It was during that fellowship that he wrote his most famous work, Native Son. | | | He then lived with his grandmother who enrolled him in a Seventh Day Adventist school. |
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| | Jazz/Jerry Jazz Musician/African American History |
| | Jazz on the River author William Kenney on the history of Fate Marable and the riverboat jazz bands | | | Neil Lanctot, author of Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution. | | | on the life of the author of Native Son. |
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| | Humbul full record view for -- Richard Wright |
| | This straightforward modern literature resource offers a biography of Wright by Matthew Duffus, detailing his rise from a poor background to prominence as a writer who responded to the political, social and intellectual currents of his time. | | | The 'Richard Wright' page of the Mississippi Writers Page website is devoted to the life and works of Richard Wright, author of 'Black Boy' and 'Native Son'. | | | The site has a full publications list of Wright's prolific output, under the sub-headings of 'Drama' ('Native Son'), 'Fiction' (including 'Bright and Morning Star' and 'Savage Holiday'), 'Non-fiction' (including 'Pagan Spain' and 'White Man, Listen!') and 'Poetry' ('Haiku: This Other World'). |
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| | Award winning author Richard Wright to read at UNB Saint John -- November 1, 2004 - News@UNB |
| | Of Wright's nine other novels, his 1995 novel The Age of Longing was shortlisted for both the Giller Prize and the Governor-General's Award. | | | Wright was named Author of the Year by the Canadian Booksellers Association. | | | Richard Wright's 2001 novel, Clara Callan, won not only the Governor-General's Award and the Giller Prize, but also the Trillium Book Award, the CBA Libris Fiction Book of the Year Award, and the Pearson Canada Readers' Choice Award. |
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| | Richard Wright - eBooks - New Releases! |
| | Richard Wright is an English actor and author living in the magical kingdom of Glasgow, Scotland. | | | Despite the atrocities wreaked on the nation by his ancestors at Bannockburn, Culloden and more, he finds his half-Scot heredity sufficient deterrent to the hordes of vengeful highlanders still roaming the streets, except when the World Cup is playing, which is to be expected. | | | Some eBooks even contain pictures, criticisms, quotes, portraits, and a brief biography of the life of the author. |
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http://www.ebookmall.com/alpha-authors/Richard-Wright.htm
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| | Richard Wright Biography |
| | His father, Nathan Wright, was a sharecropper and his mother, Ella Wilson, had left the teaching profession to farm with him. | | | For the next few years, Ella did her best to feed and clothe the boys, but her first of a series of paralytic strokes... | | | Richard was born on September 4, 1908, the first of two boys. |
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| | Hurston-Wright Foundation: Richard Wright |
| | Richard Wright (1908-1960) as novelist, journalist, short story writer, political essayist, was a witness to and participant in most of the major political and philosophical movements of the twentieth century from Communism to Pan Africanism. | | | Along with his other works which include Black Boy, Uncle Tom's Children, and The Outsider, Native Son earned Wright an important place in the literary canon of this country. | | | Washington, D.C. © 2001-2004 The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation. |
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| | Richard Wright @Web English Teacher |
| | Scroll down on the page to find questions and writing ideas for Richard Wright's "The Man Who Was Almost a Man." | | | This reading group guide includes background, 6 discussion questions, an author biography and an online excerpt. | | | This reading group guide includes background, 5 discussion questions, an author biography, and an online excerpt. |
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| | Richard A. Wright - HarperAcademic |
| | Richard Wright won international renown for his powerful and visceral depiction of the black experience. | | | He stands today alongside such African-American luminaries as Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison, and two of his novels, Native Son and Black Boy, are required reading in high schools and colleges across the nation. | | | Want to receive notice of Richard A. Wright's new books, tour dates, and promotions? |
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| | AWG Richard Wright |
| | This site is made up entirely of links to "background and contextual material" on author Richard Wright. | | | However, one link to a list of important dates in the author's life would be "great for establishing context." | | | Also included is a "chronology of important dates in Wright's life," and a good bibliography of "works by and about Wright." |
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http://www.ncteamericancollection.org/awg_wright_richard.htm
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| | Random House Authors Richard Wright |
| | Like all great writers, Richard Wright never failed to create works of breathtaking originality, depth, and beauty. | | | With Native Son he gave us Bigger Thomas, still one of the most provocative and controversial characters in fiction. |
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http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=33805
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| | Richard Wright - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. | | | Richard Wright (musician), Pianist and Keyboard player of Pink Floyd |
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| | Richard Wright |
| | In 1911-1912 Ella Wright leaves the farm with her children and goes to Natchez to live with her family. | | | (Richard Wright’s “The Library Card”) The power or neglect | | | In 1910 his brother Leon Alan Wright born on September 24. |
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| | - SHOP.COM |
| | Richard Wright - Author, Framed Art Print by National Archive Print Size: 8 x 10 in. | | | Find all your favorite Richard Wright - Author posters, art prints and framed art at Barewalls.com, the Web's leading art retailer. |
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| | Richard Wright, U.S., author, Native Son, Uncle Tom's Children September 4 in History |
| | Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. | | | Richard Wright, U.S., author, Native Son, Uncle Tom's Children September 4 in History | | | Richard Wright, U.S., author, Native Son, Uncle Tom's Children |
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http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1908/september_4_1908_72415.html
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| | Richard Wright Interviewees |
| | Essayist/editor/professor at the Sorbonne, Paris/Wright biographer, Richard Wright: Books and Writers | | | Literary critic/author, Richard Wright's Art of Tragedy; 1986 | | | Wright's eldest daughter/freelance journalist/special consultant to the documentary |
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http://www.itvs.org/richardwright/intervi.html
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| | Richard Wright |
| | "Richard Wright's Life and Career," by Ann Rayson | | | A PBS Photo Archive of Richard Wright |
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http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/r_wright/r_wright.htm
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| | The Zora Neale Hurston - Richard Wright Foundation |
| | © 2001-2004 The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation. | | | The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation was established in September 1990 by novelist Marita Golden. | | | The Zora Neale Hurston - Richard Wright Foundation |
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| | A Wright Native Son |
| | He was a novelist, short-story author, and one of the first african american writers to protest, most notably in Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945), white american treatment of black americans. | | | Richard Wright was born September 4, 1908 in Roxie, Mississippi (near Natchez). |
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http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/wright/wright0.html
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| | ichim 2001 : Author |
| | Richard Wright was educated at the University of Michigan, USA and Southampton University, UK. | | | Richard will present Broadcast Archives: Preserving the Future | | | Degrees: BSc Engineering Science 1967, MA Computer Science 1972, and Ph D in Digital Signal Processing (Speech Synthesis) 1988. |
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http://www.archimuse.com/ichim2001/bios/au_100011264.html
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| | Dissertations: Richard Wright |
| | Author: JENNINGS, LA VINIA DELOIS Degree: PH.D. Institution: THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL 0153 Year: 1989 | | | Author: KUMASI, KANDI BABA Degree: PH.D. Institution: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT 0063 Year: 1980 | | | Author: SCOTT, DARIECK BRUCE Degree: PH.D. Institution: STANFORD UNIVERSITY 0212 Year: 1999 |
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