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cause 1. a. a ground for legal action; matter giving rise to a lawsuit b. the lawsuit itself 2. (in the philosophy of Aristotle) any of four requirements for a thing's coming to be, namely material (material cause), its nature (formal cause), an agent (efficient cause), and a purpose (final cause) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Live Fast, Die Young: The Wild Ride of Making Rebel Without a Cause * Lawrence Frascella and Al Weisel * Touchstone, $24. A rebel without a cause, Dean only made three movies, but his own life had the arc of a film script: The Indiana native had a tough childhood after his mother's death when he was 9. That fall, Rebel Without a Cause made Dean an icon (idol). |
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