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The Last Question by Dorothy Parker

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Name: Dorothy Rothschild Parker
Birth Date: August 22, 1893
Death Date: June 7, 1967
Place of Birth: West Bend, New Jersey, United States
Place of Death: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: writer

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Biography of Dorothy Rothschild Parker
400 words, approx. 1.3 pages
Dorothy Rothschild Parker (1893-1967), American humorist, was known for her biting prose and verse satires. Numerous critics expressed admiration for her unique talent. Born in New Jersey to Scottish-Jewish parents, Dorothy Parker attended Miss Dana's Sc...
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Biography of Dorothy (Rothschild) Parker
8200 words, approx. 27.3 pages
There was a time when it seemed that all things bright, clever, or malicious spoken in New York were ascribed to Dorothy Parker. That time was the 1920s, when wit was as plentiful as bathtub gin and, when dispensed by her, just as lethal. "You know," she...
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Biography of Dorothy (Rothschild) Parker
5072 words, approx. 16.9 pages
In the 1920s and 1930s Dorothy Parker, the pampered, yet feared, darling of the New York smart set, was the most quotable, quoted, and misquoted person in America. She earned this reputation by creating humorous and satiric verse, writing trenchant and b...
 


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The Last Question Information
633 words, approx. 2 pages
"The Last Question" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the November 1956 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly and was reprinted in the collections Nine Tomorrows (1959), The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973) and Robot Dreams...


News and Journals
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Last-minute poll questions appalling
03/19/1996: 655 words, approx. 2 pages
At best, it was a politically motivated attempt to throw a monkey wrench into grass-roots voter registration efforts on the eve of an important election. At worst, it was a slap in the face of every African-American man, woman and child in the...
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The Sunday Telegraph London
At last, the answer to all your questions
08/20/2006: 862 words, approx. 3 pages
We politicians don't see much of each other during the long summer recess, so I was taken aback to run into Tony Blair last week. It wasn't really my fault. I just didn't notice him: he was on the tiny, rickety yacht he'd borrowed...
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Ducks' Kunitz cleared to play in Game 3
6/2/2007: 286 words, approx. 1 pages
Anaheim Ducks forward Chris Kunitz has been cleared to play three weeks after breaking a bone in his right hand and could return Saturday for Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals.Kunitz, part of the team's top line, would provide an added boost to a...
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Romney pessimistic about Mideast summit
11/26/2007: 341 words, approx. 1 pages
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said Sunday he does not expect much to come from this week's Middle East peace talks in Annapolis, Md."I always like people to talk to each other and I'm hopeful, but I'm not terribly optimistic about it," Romney, a GOP...
 


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