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 n.— «In my hand are what we in show business refer to as today’s “sides”—the pages of a script to be performed and filmed that day.» —“The Peter principle, revisited” by Chuck Stephens San Francisco Bay Guardian (California) Mar., 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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