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Dunne

[ duhn ]

noun

  1. Fin·ley Peter [fin, -lee], 1867–1936, U.S. humorist.
  2. John Gregory, 1932–2003, U.S. writer.


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Walking through the center of town near Dunne Park offers keen observers a hidden funfair of skewed geometry.

There's a scene in which a nude Amy Elliott-Dunne, played with committed gusto by Rosamund Pike, is washing off in the shower.

Griffin Dunne directed that episode and he wanted me to feel like a caged animal.

"Nothing here but Oxy and coal," says one of the subjects of Sean Dunne's mournful documentary Oxyana.

Dunne and the crew were threatened on the Internet and by email before even arriving in Oceana to film.

Dunne went away still unsatisfied, promising that he would come back and try it again.

Dunne went to prison,” he mused, “and the farm was mortgaged to defray the expenses of the trial.

David Dunne,” demanded Little Teacher, “did you bring that mouse to school?

“Dunne has grown a little gaunt-eyed since he first came here,” said one of his chosen friends to a classmate one evening.

To be sure the jury were all his friends; they had known him when he was little “barefoot Dave Dunne.”

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