Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Faster your disappearing beer than lately mine: Your naked passion for the floor...
...English tour, the group returns to home base for dance-hall engagements through Christmas. No American tour has been booked as yet, but that seems only a matter of time. So far, however, The Dubliners have betrayed no hankering after Clancy-sized wealth. "It's no ambition of mine," croaks Drew, "to be a part of a pop industry. I don't want my individuality to be taken away by any success...
...stage career. Down to his last peseta, he desperately accepts a dare by the local impresario (Adolfo Celi), who agrees to book him into his theater on one condition: Sellers must seduce Britt Eklund (Mrs. Peter Sellers offstage), an ice-cold big-league golddigger whose favorite phrase is "Mine...
Once again the scenario follows the gang of small-time thieves breezily intent on bringing off the biggest caper of them all. "Money breeds money," theorizes one. Replies his colleague: "Mine must be on the Pill." Audaciously, they work out their gentlemanly battle plans, forsaking guns-it's hard-cheese for the armed robber who gets caught-recruiting specialists in such arcane subjects as railroad engineering and advanced electronics. After the loot is lifted, the film collapses into a text-bookish story of police procedure, as Scotland Yard tries to run the thieves to earth...
...whose real father ran away when he was an infant, identified with his master and set himself apart from the Sambos--the field Negroes. He felt disgust at having to use their outhouse. But, as one slave infomred him, "Yo' ass black jes' like mine, honey chile." In this way Styron shows how Nat's relationship with Samuel Turner was tormented and complicated; the condition became radically worse when Nat was denied his promised freedom by a Baptist preacher in whose hands Samuel Turner had entrusted...