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  Lillian Gish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gish was born in Springfield, Ohio, the elder sister of actress Dorothy Gish.
Gish, herself, was more complacent, remarking that it saved her the trouble of "losing to Cher" (who did, in fact, win the Oscar for her performance in Moonstruck).
Gish's association with Duell was something of a tabloid scandal in the 1920s after he sued her and made the details of their relationship public.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lillian_Gish   (1030 words)

  
 BIOGRAPH The oldest movie company in America Liilian and Dorothy Gish
Gish was a firm believer in art as a higher ideal; she did not consider acting to be a mere profession.
Gish excelled at playing the victim in the early two-reelers, but as Griffith began experimenting with longer pictures her roles assumed a different function.
Gish perfected her skills in such memorable films as THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915), HEARTS OF THE WORLD (1918) and TRUE HEART SUSIE (1919), but her greatest work with Griffith was in BROKEN BLOSSOMS (1919), in which she portrayed Lucy,the wharf rat daughter of a cockney fighter.
www.biographcompany.com /celebrity/gish.html   (1284 words)

  
 Wicked Toast - Gish review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Gish's ability to make himself heavy and land on their heads will eliminate them - with a nasty squishing sound - but the trick is to be above them and drop at the right time.
Gish's astonishingly fluid nature lets you hop up to grab a suspended block, slither around to the top, bounce to the next one, push it into a wall to make a crack and then pour through the gap.
Gish changes appearance slightly based on which action he's performing, but it's a bit too subtle, especially in well-lit areas (white cilia on a white background don't work too well).
www.wickedtoast.com /article.php?id=164   (1117 words)

  
 Annabeth Gish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Annabeth Gish (born March 13, 1971 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is a contemporary American actress known for starring roles in The X-Files, Scarlett and Double Jeopardy.
Gish was born to Robert and Judy Gish.
During the eighth and ninth seasons, Gish and fellow newcomer Robert Patrick were designed to be the replacements once Duchovny and Gillian Anderson left.
www.cedarfalls.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Annabeth_Gish   (333 words)

  
 Debates: Saladin-Gish II Debate: First Rebuttal for the Affirmative
He described Gish's treatment of the Second Law as being, and I quote, "on a kindergarten level." The problem with Gish's treatment of it is that he ignores that when you have an open system, you can have things going to a higher degree of order.
Gish is going to object to this, I know, by saying it's not enough to have an open system, you also have to have an energy conversion mechanism and a program to direct the change, like an automobile engine or a genetic code.
This paper, often cited by Gish, is a discussion of the controversy between phyletic gradualism and punctuated equilibrium, and concludes that a decision between these models will have to be made on some grounds other than the fossil record because the fossil record does not clearly support one over the other.
www.infidels.org /library/modern/ken_saladin/saladin-gish2/saladin2.html   (3729 words)

  
 Debating the ICR's Duane Gish
Gish has debated enough (far over 300 times) to know what to expect from a scientist unfamiliar with him, and his presentation was expectedly formulaic and extraordinarily successful.
Gish strode to the podium to thunderous applause.
Gish noted that Geoff Stevens was on a Kutztown University hockey team which had just won a championship of some sort, and he therefore commended Kutztown University for at least having a fine athletic program.
www.talkorigins.org /faqs/debating/gish.html   (1239 words)

  
 Dorothy Gish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dorothy Gish (March 11, 1898 - June 4, 1968) was an American actress.
Born Dorothy Elizabeth de Guiche in Dayton, Ohio, she was the sister of actress Lillian Gish.
On her passing in 1968, Dorothy Gish was interred in Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church cemetery in Manhattan, New York.
brea.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Dorothy_Gish   (299 words)

  
 American Masters . Lillian Gish | PBS
She has been called "the first lady of the silent screen," and film director D.W. Griffith extolled her "exquisite, ethereal beauty." She was Lillian Gish, the star of movies, television, radio, and the stage for nearly all of the 20th century.
From that young age Gish loved the theater, calling it a "beautiful, kind, generous, unselfish world." Before she was ten she had danced with Sarah Bernhardt in New York, and debuted in D.W. Griffith's AN UNSEEN ENEMY (1912).
Gish's ability to dazzle viewers with a complex range of emotions gave them insight into each character and a sense of intimacy.
www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/gish_l.html   (598 words)

  
 Drury University: Duane Gish - The Fossil Record
Gish repeatedly and emphatically states that one of the biggest issues which the scientific community must contend with in dealing with the question of origins is that of the fossil record.
Gish argues that "most of the important geological formations of the earth can be explained as having been formed as a result of the Noachian flood" along with various other local catastrophic events (Gish, 1985, p.50).
Gish argues that the evolutionary model in all its various forms, is both unproven and unprovable, and as such, can only "serve as a postulate and.
www.drury.edu /multinl/story.cfm?ID=2525&NLID=166   (1677 words)

  
 Game : GISH :. GarageGames
Gish is well equipped to manipulate his gelatinous body through dangerous levels filled with deadly spikes and twisted abominations as he solves mind-boggling puzzles and sloshes his way through hours of wild gameplay.
Using his jello-like body GISH is able to adapt to his surroundings, becoming sticky to climb walls, slick to slide through tight cracks and heavy to break through walls, bad guys, and the like.
By expanding his body at a rapid rate Gish is able to quickly project himself into the air and attach to almost anything in his path.
www.garagegames.com /pg/product/view.php?id=40   (968 words)

  
 gotoAndPlay() Game reviews: Gish
Gish is a platformer game,so basically like mario and millions of others, what turns the game into something special is the main character, his powers and the game engine and the crazy things it allows the player to do.
Gish is a ball of tar, not the average heroic character.
Gish is a game in which the player is confronted with puzzle like level setups (and endbosses) and you have to get to the goal in a way you want.
www.gotoandplay.it /_reviews/review.php?r=76   (1315 words)

  
 Creationism: Bad Science or Immoral Pseudoscience? An Expose of Duane Gish
Gish Impaled on the Horns of a Dilemma
Gish claims that it is impossible for this beetle to slowly evolve its mechanism, as a partially evolved system would be either useless or dangerous.
Gish excused the booklet on the grounds that it had been written 17 years ago and was scientifically accurate at the time.
www.holysmoke.org /gish.htm   (5663 words)

  
 Gamasutra - Features - "Indie Postmortem: Chronic Logic's Gish"
Gish started out as an idea thought up by artist and designer Edmund McMillan, as we were trying to figure out a simple game that could use the same physics as our previously released puzzle game Triptych, which relied heavily on the Tetris-style blocks in it obeying the laws of physics.
Gish originally was going to have an arm that he could swing on, be able to shoot goo, and a variety of other ideas.
Gish was the first Chronic Logic game where sound was really a factor, so I could blame its downfall on lack of experience in the sound department.
www.gamasutra.com /features/20041213/austin_01.shtml   (2046 words)

  
 Extravagant Crowd | Lillian Gish
Her father had abandoned the family when Gish and her sister, fellow actress Dorothy Gish, were very small, and their mother continually struggled to support them.
Her early stage appearances proved that Gish was a talented actress on the boards as well on the silver screen.
Gish died in 1993 at the age of ninety-nine.
highway49.library.yale.edu /cvvpw/gallery/gish1.html   (428 words)

  
 Duane Gish's Bullfrog Lie
Duane Gish, a protein biochemist with a Ph.D. from Berkeley, is vice-president of the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) and creationism's most well-known spokesperson.
A veteran of perhaps 150 public debates and thousands of lectures and sermons on creationism, Gish is revered among creationists as a great scientist and a tireless fighter for the truth.
Gish tried mightily to evade and to obfuscate, but I was firm.
www.holysmoke.org /gishlies.htm   (820 words)

  
 Becoming American: The Chinese Experience . Gish Jen Transcript | PBS
GISH JEN: Yeah, it was one of things that was very complicated about the time and what not many people realize is that a lot of the Chinese technical students were held here illegally against their will.
GISH JEN: Well, by that time of course, they had begun to think that well, if nothing else I was going to have to have enough skills to support myself.
GISH JEN: Well, I didn't tell them that I wasn't going to class but by the time second year rolled around and it was just clear to me that I was-- I think I over- slept the first day of class and then I overslept the second day.
www.pbs.org /becomingamerican/ap_pjourneys_transcript1_print.html   (6162 words)

  
 Gish for PC Review - PC Gish Review
Gish uses a well-worn genre as the launching pad for some exuberant and largely successful experimentation.
Gish flows across and is deformed by objects in an utterly believable, unique, and satisfying way.
Gish is one of those rare games that actually manages to integrate realistic physics into its gameplay in a way that's both meaningful and, more importantly, enjoyable.
www.gamespot.com /pc/action/gish/review.html   (729 words)

  
 Gish @ MoFunZone.com
Gish isn't your average hero, in fact he's not your average anything..
Following Brea's calls for help Gish suddenly finds himself in the subterranean sewers of Dross, a long forgotten city filled with twisting corridors, evil traps and some of the most demented creatures imaginable.
With his gelatinous structure as his only means of defense Gish must follow the echoing cries of his damsel in distress deep into the earth bellow.
www.mofunzone.com /gish   (140 words)

  
 The following is a pagebypage critique of Gish's book I started working on during the summ
Gish is not a particularly good speaker, and there is little variation in his presentations.
Gish's previous reference is to Roger Lewin's 1982 review of the first edition in the journal Science, and it is apparent that Gish has not read the book.
Gish, on the other hand, manages to ignore most of the content of anti-creationist works, even though there is a significantly smaller number of them.
www.skepticfiles.org /evolut/criticsg.htm   (3986 words)

  
 GishPuppy | About Gish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Gish is a Guide Dog Puppy that my wife and I raised from May 2002 to July 2003.
Gish's puppy days expired when she was 16 months old and was called up to the Guide Dogs School to begin her formal training as a guide dog.
As Gish grew up as a San Francisco city dog, she was not probably accustomed to the "elements." Plus, I am certain that she was not happy unless she was the center of attention.
www.gishpuppy.com /gish.html   (445 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | Sheila Gish
Sheila Gish, who died on Wednesday aged 62, epitomised the Tennessee Williams heroines she played on stage: a frail, delicate beauty with a spine of steel.
The eye-patch was embraced as a reason for Arkadina's otherwise inexplicable provincial tour, and Sheila Gish was the centre around which all the other performers circled, much as Arkadina was the focus of attention on her estate.
Sheila Gish was an actress of the old school: serious, dedicated to bringing the text to life on stage, undeviatingly true to the playwrights' intentions.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/12/db1202.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/03/12/ixportal.html   (855 words)

  
 GamersInfo.net - PC - Gish
Gish recaptures that feeling of elation, and abject anger and frustration and does it with style.
Gish's main enemies are basically little round dog-like guya with big teeth, and "human" shaped wierdos with big eyes.
With Gish I was reliving the glorious "platformer rage" of my youth, and if I had a gamepad, it probably would have gone into the wall.
www.gamersinfo.net /index.php?art/id:201   (1283 words)

  
 Gish, Lillian on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Her sister, Dorothy Gish, 1898-1968, was also an actress, who co-starred with Lillian in such films as Hearts of the World (1918) and Griffith's Orphans of the Storm (1921) and did a good deal of work on the stage.
The Ohio roots of Dorothy and Lillian Gish.
Gish projected an air of sweet girlish innocence that made her the preeminent star of that era, noted especially for her work with D.W. Griffith.actors.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/G/Gish-L1il.asp   (489 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Lillian Gish
Born in Springfield, Ohio, she was the sister of actress Dorothy Gish.
The main street in Massillon, Ohio is named after Gish, who had lived there during an early period of her life.
Her estate was valued at several million dollars and went to provide prizes for artistic excellence.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Lillian_Gish   (385 words)

  
 Gish - Ferrago
I've used the word gish in relation to sobriety, as it's a colloquialism for being drunk, as in 'I was totally gished when I was a pilot'.
But from now on when I use the word gish I shall be referring to a glob of tar who has to enter the long-lost underground city of Dross to rescue his kidnapped girlfriend Brea.
Gish will bounce highest if the space bar is released when he at his most compact, so timing is all important.
www.ferrago.com /story/4306   (1076 words)

  
 CAC Manuscripts: MS 741
Lillian Diana Gish was born in 1893 in Springfield, Ohio to Mary Robinson McConnell Gish and James Gish.
Gish kept her two daughters from starving by taking in boarders and working at various jobs.
As Miss Gish (she most often was referred to as Miss Gish reflecting the great respect given to her by critics, directors, producers and fans) grew older, roles became more difficult to obtain, especially in the films.
www.bgsu.edu /colleges/library/cac/ms0741c.html   (3445 words)

  
 MMI Tribute: Lillian Gish
During Miss Gish's long movie career, (1912-1987) she specialised in playing gentle heroines who were tougher than they looked.
Miss Gish's decade-long association with D.W. Griffith continued through his two early epics "Birth Of A Nation" and "Intolerance" and she became a life-long defender of Griffith when audiences of later eras attacked her mentor as a racist, as a sentimentalist and as an old-school pioneer unable to adjust to a rapidly-changing industry.
When the movies began to talk, Miss Gish's film career faltered, although as a stage-trained actress, there was no real reason why her career had to be limited to just twenty films over a sixty-year period.
www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/lilgish.html   (539 words)

  
 "X-Files" Get New Blood--Annabeth Gish - Jan 03, 2001 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Annabeth Gish, who recently costarred in Double Jeopardy and Beautiful Girls, has agreed to conspire with Fox's paranormal hit for a three-episode arc this season, with an option to return as a regular FBI agent next year, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Gish's character will go somewhere Gillian Anderson's well-traveled Agent Dana Scully character never explored: romance.
Gish's first episode, which will air February 25, will coincide with Duchovny's return to the series this season.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,7604,00.html   (480 words)

  
 Biography - Duane Gish
Duane Gish is a man who, in addition to his accomplishments as a speaker and writer, is known by many as the foremost creationist debater in the world today.
Gish's travels have taken him to virtually every state in the continental U.S. and into 25 foreign countries, including the Soviet Union.
Gish is not only a distinguished scientist, but also a gracious Christian gentleman.
www.answersingenesis.org /home/area/bios/d_gish.asp   (264 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Lillian Gish : Her Legend, Her Life: Books: Charles Affron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Lillian Gish was the greatest actress of the silent era, but Affron's book, though informative, misses something about her, for he is stuck in his own time.
Not having this insight, Affron loses patience with Gish and begins to snipe about her "victorian values." He does not even understanding that she was a part of the American EDWARDIAN era and her values display the emphasis on art and beauty and education that was so much a part of that time.
Gish's work but feels he sees through her "simple facade", in terms of her beliefs and self-portrayal, and, if so, I think that reader would be correct.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684855143?v=glance   (2514 words)

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