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...George Formby incensed South African apartheid architect Daniel Malan by refusing to play his uke for whites-only audiences. However, although the instrument has long been revered in countries such as Germany, Finland and Japan, in Britain it has been considered to be rather silly. It has taken the pluck of the willfully eccentric, 21-year-old Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain to move the four-stringed dynamo toward mainstream recognition. From humble beginnings in a room above a London pub, the Ukulele Orchestra is today a regular at British festivals such as Glastonbury and the Hay Festival of Literature...
...football game in Another Sunny Day, Murdoch croons: "I saw you in the corner of my eye on the sidelines/ Your dark mascara bids me to historical deeds." And female rivalry in Dress Up in You: "You got lucky, you ain't talking to me now/ Little Miss Plucky/ Pluck your eyebrows for the crowd." It's still Belle and Sebastian, but more confident, proficient and danceable. It may not turn out to be the record that finally catapults the band to pop stardom. But then, what the hell ever happened to Steps, anyway...
...with a laugh. But she too was looking for something more meaningful in Bali and eventually fell under the spell of John's vision for a more perfect world?a world in which beauty and luxury could be a solution, not just a commodity. It is her ability to pluck the pearls from John's million-ideas-a-minute stream of consciousness and make them work that drives not just the engine of their relationship but also their empire...
...organizing my Magic cards—not. First thing you notice about a girl: Her nice big morals Your best pick-up line: Did you just fart, because you blew me away! Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: My body is the most exquisite violin. Pluck Me!! Favorite childhood toy: My babysitter Stacy Favorite part about Harvard: The conservative attitude Describe yourself in three words: Great Ballsa Fire In 15 minutes you are: In the spotlight In 15 years you are: A star
STEPHEN ROBINSON, astronaut who, in a stunningly simple spacewalk repair job, used his fingers to pluck two pieces of cloth filler dangling from the space shuttle; NASA feared the loose bits would compromise the shuttle's heat shields upon re-entry...