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The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon

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The Manchurian Candidate Summary
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A highly successful, popular novel written in the late 1950s and brought to the screen in the early 1960s shortly before the death of John F. Kennedy, The Manchurian Candidate outlines the assassination of the United States president. Its limited...
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The Manchurian Candidate is a 1959 thriller novel written by Richard Condon, later adapted into films in 1962 and 2004. The central concept of the book and the subsequent 1962 film is that the son of a prominent political family has been brainwashed...


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Facts about AFI's top-100 movies
6/21/2007: 289 words, approx. 1 pages
Here are some facts and trivia about the American Film Institute's new list of top-100 U.S. movies, with some comparisons to the institute's first such list in 1998:_ Out of the 43 newly eligible films released from 1996 to 2006, only four made the new...
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1998 AFI list of top-100 movies
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The American Film Institute's original 1998 list of the top-100 American movies:1. "Citizen Kane," 1941.2. "Casablanca," 1942.3. "The Godfather," 1972.4. "Gone With the Wind," 1939.5. "Lawrence of Arabia," 1962.6. "The Wizard of Oz," 1939.7. "The Graduate," 1967.8. "On the Waterfront," 1954.9. "Schindler's List," 1993.10. "Singin'...
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Celebrity birthdays
9/26/2007: 886 words, approx. 3 pages
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 30-Oct. 6:Sept. 30: Actress Deborah Kerr is 86. Actress Angie Dickinson is 76. Singer Cissy Houston is 74. Singer Johnny Mathis is 72. Actor Len Cariou is 68. Singer-drummer Dewey Martin of Buffalo Springfield is 65. Singer Marilyn...
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Let\'d5s Go, Mets! That\'d5s the Paris Mets\'d1 French Baseball and Me
11/6/2005: 1,142 words, approx. 4 pages
Last month was bittersweet for me: My Yankees were eliminated from another postseason, while, just days before, my Mets walked off with another championship under their belt. No, I’m not one of those fantasy-baseball shut-ins, or a minor leaguer playing for the Mets AA Binghamton...
 


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The suspense thriller "The Manchurican Candidate" was, in part, a critique of sociopolitical messages from the early '60s Cold War era. The movie is about a government conspiracy involving a former Korean POW, Sergeant Raymond Shaw, who was thought to have been brainwashed by the Communists to be an assassin.


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