Word: guttered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lapotaire renders Piaf, the diminutive poet-songstress of the pre-dawn city blues, with matchless psychological fidelity. She gives us Piaf, whom the French called the Sparrow, as an eagle in courage. She makes us know Piaf soul-seared, the Paris gutter urchin, the cagey whore whom the world came to hold in the embrace of fame but who could not keep her own life from seeping through her splayed fingers, at 47 in 1963 spent by alcohol, morphine, sex and cancer...
...Harvard Commencement, pick up all of the Coke bottles that were strewn over the Yard, take them to the store, and cash them in for 2 cents apiece. One day as I was walking out of the Yard loaded down with bottles, I looked down into the gutter on Quincy Street, spotted, picked up, and walked home with a $20 bill." --Rich McKinnon city council office...
...lived in Chicago, in the neighborhood where the sutdents lived and the cats played soccer with old pears in the gutter. The movie house in the old man's neighborhood reeked of butter. He warned them not to go out after dark but Sammy was an idiot. No one hurt them. They did not even hear footsteps...
...anything to take pride in, least of all Martin. But unlike Navin, Martin most likely will not be sued for marketing a faulty product (the "Optigrab" causes 10 million consumers to go cross-eyed) and will pocket a tidy sum from this film. Navin winds up in the gutter; Martin will probably purchase a new ski chalet in Aspen. Yet, in the end, Navin may end up the richer man--his adopted family and Marie find him on Skid Row and shower him with affirmation and love. As for Steve, if Martin the Writer continues to dominate Martin and Comedian...
...Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers (Rolling Stones Records, 1971). Great lyric flights and glorious gutter ballads, from Moonlight Mile to Brown Sugar. This is bloodthirsty rock 'n' roll from the Mick Jagger-Keith Richard period...