Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Italy. But the old union is doomed. Giovanna has a lover, a bambino (Carlo Ponti Jr.) and a job sandpapering the rumps of clothing dummies. Henry Mancini's calorific music sounds the knell for Antonio. He gets its message and entrains to Russia, to Mascia and the glorious new housing project where the balalaikas play...
...sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph...
...this whole book. It was a fiery little speech directed at girls, witty and tart and stuff like that-at least I thought it was. I used to listen to it rhapsodically on tape. It needed a job of editing, but at the time, I thought it was glorious...
...finally comes into his possession, finds that he has "won the harp" but "lost in sin." His fate is proved to him when "he looked to the ground" and "noticed no shadow did he cast." Robbie also turns his hand to a lullaby (All La Glory) and to a glorious description of a traveling carnival, The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show, which features "saints and sinners, losers and winners, all kinds of people you might wanna know." It embarrasses The Band to have one member singled out over the others. Yet at one time or another it is hard...
...house is a terror souse, house-proud is assprad, and sacks of potatoes are sex apertaters. Such metamorphoses particularly baffle Australia's many visiting Asian students, who arrive Down Under speaking textbook Hong Kong or Pakistani English, only to confront linguistic anarchy on their very first gloria sty (glorious day) in the country...