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"I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!"
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Portrait of Palin
I am a not-very-involved member of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists but my fellow PG columnist Samantha Bennett is the organization's much-involved president. Indeed, her latest column concerns how much drinking is involved. Given the...
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Thu, Jul 07 2009 5:19 PM
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The debased meaning of 'celebrity'
The word "celebrity" has to be among the most elastic and debased in the language. It's very root suggests that a celebrity is person who is celebrated, someone who is honored. The definition that I find in my Webster's is a "famous...
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Wed, Apr 04 2009 12:17 PM
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