Word: mateyness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wooden leg is not exactly comfortable. Filming has been taking place in the Seychelles islands and Tunisia for seven months, and the end is still over the horizon. So far, Matthau, despite a 1966 heart attack, has remained unscathed. "I'm looking for wood," he jokes, "and knocking." Arrgh, matey, you don't have to look any farther than that blasted...
...patterned. But whereas Clark reflected an older, more urbane sensibility, Hughes, 42, is as brash and electric as his subject. He is sometimes seen in shirtsleeves; his blond hair is always unruly. Instead of Clark's patrician, High Church accent, Hughes speaks in a matey, sometimes too hearty Australian that lapses easily-and quite appropriately-into slang. Talking about Chicago's pioneering building developers, for instance, he says that their policy was to "grab the block, screw the neighbors...
...known for three weeks, then abandoned him on their wedding night. In her first eight years in England she had 29 postal addresses, not counting excursions to Europe. She compartmentalized her life, playing different roles to different people: the reckless bohemian, the exalted votary of art, the matey colonial. Paraphrasing Polonius in her journal, she wrote: "True to oneself Which self?" -Christopher Porterfield