Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They call it Glorious Living They call it Glorious Living And baby, where does that leave you? You and your kind- Miserere Nobis You and your youth and your mind Nowhere, Nowhere, Nowhere
...glorious, pious and immortal memory of King William the Third, who saved us from Rogues and Roguery, Slaves and Slavery, Knaves and Knavery, Popes and Popery, from brass money and wooden shoes; and whoever denies this toast may he be slammed, crammed and jammed into the muzzle of the gun of Athlone and the gun fired into the Pope's belly, and the Pope into the Devil's belly, and the Devil into Hell, and the door locked and the key in an Orangeman's pocket; and may we never lack a brisk Protestant boy to kick...
...Crowds turn out from all over the state-and, it is eventually implied, from all over the country -to watch his harebrained heroics. The film ends with him jumping over 19 cars on his chopper and promising an assault on the Grand Canyon. His death, he swears, will be "glorious...
...Banham sees it, Los Angeles' hall-mark is a glorious spontaneity. Certainly the city fostered a self-confident new architecture unlike any other elsewhere. A good example is Simon Rodia's famous Watts towers, which are "unlike anything else in the world." A true Southern California building recognizes the outdoors to such an extent that it has five entrances, Banham notes, "none of which is the main one." He also celebrates the riot of commercial structures that have sprouted under the hot sun like exotic weeds: restaurants shaped like hats, milk cans or owls, and squat concrete structures...
King Henry VIII fulminated and fornicated across the landscape of 16th century England, leaving behind a legacy both glorious and gory. Henry expanded his realm by bringing in Wales and Ireland. He gave England poetry, music, art and literature. Henry also gave it Protestantism, six queens, two royal beheadings, three heirs, countless bastard children-and nearly bankrupted the country in the process...