Jane Curtin
1) Great Joy
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Frances is worried about the monkey and organ grinder who play near her window, especially after she sees them sleeping outside on the cold street after midnight. To express her compassion, she finds just the right thing to say at the local Christmas pageant.
2) Maybe Baby
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A 57-year-old business man's yearning to begin settling down and taking things easy gets derailed when his 39-year-old wife, Julia, changes her longstanding stance about having children. The issue becomes a prominent topic of disagreement, ultimately coming to a head when Julia discovers that she is pregnant despite the slim odds.
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Before turning to her life of crime-running a one-woman forgery business out of a phone booth in a Greenwich Village bar and even dodging the FBI, Lee Israel had a legitimate career as an author of biographies. Her first book on Tallulah Bankhead was a New York Times bestseller, and her second, on the late journalist and reporter Dorothy Kilgallen, made a splash in the headlines. But by 1990, almost broke and desperate to hang onto her Upper West...
4) Great joy
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Accelerated Reader
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Just before Christmas, when Frances sees a sad-eyed organ grinder and his monkey performing near her apartment, she cannot stop thinking about them, wondering where they go at night, and wishing she could do something to help.
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Roz Chast brings her brilliant, hilarious artwork to No Fair! No Fair! and Other Jolly Poems of Childhood by Calvin Trillin and The African Svelte: Ingenious Misspellings That Make Surprising Sense by Daniel Menaker, as well as her own memoir Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?. Join us for a conversation moderated by Adam Gopnik (The New Yorker) between the artist and authors, plus readings by Jane Curtin and Reg Rogers (The Knick).
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Sydney Clarke (Sela Ward) is a spoiled famous actress who is shooting a film when she walks in on her cheating fiancé. She storms off the set and finds herself stranded in a small mill town. There, she takes refuge for a while, and in so doing discovers the true meaning of love and friendship. Sydney must decide between wanting a normal life or the high-profile career she's worked so hard for.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 22
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When Sally, Harry and Tommy barely miss being hit by a falling chandelier at a local restaurant, they feel as if their near-death experience has made them view the world in a whole new way. They look at everything with wonder and amazement as if they're seeing things for the very first time.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 12
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When Mary tells Dick that she wants some time apart from him, he thinks it's all over between them until Nina explains that taking time apart is what healthy couples do.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 23
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Harry gets a transmission from the Big Giant Head: the mission has received a sub-standard evaluation, and the BGH is on his way to Earth to check things out. The aliens go into panic mode, each blaming the other for the shortcomings of the mission.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 1
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Dick feels devastated and alone, deserted by his alien crewmates. While sitting in his Rambler convertible in a field, Harry, Sally and Tommy appear beside the car with Janet, a wife for Dick sent by the Big Giant Head. They explain that the BGH thinks that Dr. Albright is distracting Dick from his duties.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 7
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Sally urges Dick to be honest and tell Jennifer that it's over. Dick tries, but Jennifer doesn't get it. Don takes Sally bowling and finds her unorthodox style a bit alarming. Mary blames herself for losing Dick and tells Nina that she's really blown it.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 2
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Dick seethes with jealousy over the many successes of his faculty rival, Dr. Strudwick. However, it's more than Dick can bear when he learns that Strudwick had an affair with Mary before Dick met her. To settle the score, Dick decides he must have an affair with Strudwick's wife Dottie.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 9
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Dick, Harry, Sally and Tommy are enjoying a dinner of ice cream and cake when the discussion turns to the concept of sin. Tommy, who just studied the seven deadly sins in school, begins to list them. When it comes to sinning, it seems that all of the Solomons are equally adept.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 21
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The Big Giant Head and Vicki arrive unexpectedly, and it's immediately clear that the honeymoon is over. The BGH insists that Dick take him out clubbing that night in spite of the fact that Dick has already made plans with Mary.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 14
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Dick walks in while his teaching colleagues are discussing the killings they've made in the stock market. Not to be outdone and without a clue of what they're talking about, Dick invites Mary on a six-day vacation in Cancun to be paid for with his stock-market profits.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 7
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Dick gets called for jury duty and finds the experience baffling from the very beginning. He doesn't want to be on the jury for any case that he finds boring or insignificant, but he is also highly insulted when he's excused several times in the jury selection process.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 3
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With Mary's promotion to dean, Dick soon learns that he's being perceived as Mrs. Albright. While he's a bit uncomfortable with his new status, it doesn't seem to bother Mary at all. When Mrs. Dubcek's grandson opens a lemonade stand, Tommy and Harry open their own but have no success. And when Sally learns that Don has had other women in his life, she tracks down all his ex-girlfriends.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 13
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Because of his pride over a parking space, Dick quits his job at the university and gets one at Rusty's Burgers. Meanwhile, Harry loses his memory and becomes paranoid thinking aliens are taking over the world.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 14
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While in a panic at the Super Bowl, Dick says the big women are angry and things are about to blow. Rutherford has been overrun by breathtakingly beautiful women. As if by magic, suddenly every nerd has his own stunning girlfriend, and the aliens are no exception.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 25
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Dick decides that the aliens are not spending enough time together as a family and proposes a camping trip with just the four of them and no outsiders. Sally, Harry and Tommy are not enthusiastic, but agree to go. When Mary finds out about the trip, she drops so many broad hints that Dick feels compelled to invite her.