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  • This year, 15 premieres are on the schedule, including the opening-night selection of "Lixo extraordin rio (Waste Land)," directed by Lucy Walker with Jo

    Touching Lives (but Not the Hair) 2010

  • I went to Davison, and found him still in bed, having had a severe fit of the gout, and with your letter, which he had just received; and he cried like a child; but, what was very extraordin - ary, assured me that, from the instant he had read your letter, all pain had left him, and that he felt himself able to get up and walk about.

    The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

  • Any life-supporting world as cold as Tran-ky-ky was bound to produce some extraordin-ary furbearing creatures.

    Mission to Moulokin Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1979

  • Here among the metallurgical workers, who have just scored an extraordin success, who have just made an important contribution to our agriculture to our economy, it is a great satisfaction for us to be able to hold for on these problems, never forgetting that the workers are the most revolutionary class and must therefore be the revolutionary vanguard of people during these years. (applause)

    CASTRO ADDRESSES STEELWORKERS IN HAVANA 1967

  • He is extraordin ­ary and really knocked my socks off with his exceptiona ­lly dimensiona­l and chilling management of his character in that show.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2012

  • I live in a cow town that has electronic ­, I don't know, Blue Ray signs popping up all over the place, it destroys the character of the community and diverts our vision from what is extraordin ­ary to what is base, to what advertiser­s scream at us.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com E. Nina Rothe 2012

  • That should be reserved for truly extraordin ­ary individual­s.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • The wealth of well-being ­, of plenty, of gratitude, of generosity­, of the extraordin ­ary gifts for wealth that each of us are.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Dr. Cara Barker 2011

  • He was by all reports an absolutely extraordin ­ary man.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Mark B. Salomon 2012

  • Unless, of course, some extraordin ­ary situation arises...

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

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