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But when former Gov. Marvin Griffin and Lt. Gov. Byrd accepted the invitations of the Georgia State Chamber of Commerce to join the tour next November, the situation was aggravated.
Though there was an occasional good-natured chuckle about Marvin Goulding, the Jewish officer from Chicago, singing tearfully about the ould sod, no one really thought it was strange.
For Marvin Goulding, like Giovanni Martini, the bugler boy who carried Custer's last message, or Margarito Lopez, the one-man Army on Leyte, was a Garryowen, through and through.
Marvin Goulding saw what was happening.
Marvin Harris theorizes that it happened during a famine period coincident with the arrival of Europeans and was rationalized as a religious rite.
At one extreme, anthropologist Marvin Harris, author of Cannibals and Kings, has suggested that the flesh of the victims was a part of an aristocratic diet as a reward, since the Aztec diet was lacking in proteins.
However, with the exception of the Grammy Award-winning " Nightshift " (# 3 in the U. S., a tribute to Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson ; in 2010 a new version was recorded dedicated to Michael Jackson ), the band never achieved the same level of success it had enjoyed with Richie.
Marvin Lewis was rewarded for the accomplishment with the NFL Coach of the Year Award.
The early disco sound was largely an urban American phenomenon with producers and labels such as SalSoul Records ( Ken, Joe and Stanley Cayre ), West End Records ( Mel Cheren ), Casablanca ( Neil Bogart ), and Prelude ( Marvin Schlachter ) to name a few.
Wilfrid Sellars, an influential figure in the so-called " Pittsburgh school " ( Robert Brandom, John McDowell ) had been a student of Marvin Farber, a pupil of Husserl, and was influenced by phenomenology through him:
The film also featured such acts as The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Gerry & the Pacemakers, James Brown, Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, Lesley Gore, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, and The Beach Boys ( whose sequence was later cut from the film, due to contract issues ).
Lee Marvin ( February 19, 1924 – August 29, 1987 ) was an American film actor.
Marvin was born in New York City.
He was the son of Lamont Waltman Marvin, an advertising executive and the head of the New York and New England Apple Institute, and his wife Courtenay Washington ( née Davidge ), a fashion writer and beauty consultant.
His father was a direct descendant of Matthew Marvin, Sr., who emigrated from Great Bentley, Essex, England in 1635 and helped found Hartford, Connecticut.
Marvin studied violin when he was young.
After the war, while working as a plumber's assistant at a local community theatre in Upstate New York, Marvin was asked to replace an actor who had fallen ill during rehearsals.
As a decorated combat veteran, Marvin was a natural in war dramas, where he frequently assisted the director and other actors in realistically portraying infantry movement, arranging costumes, and the use of firearms.
Marvin had a small but memorable role in The Wild One ( 1953 ) opposite Marlon Brando ( Marvin's gang in the film was called " The Beetles "), followed by Seminole ( 1953 ) and Gun Fury ( 1953 ).
In the 1960s, Marvin was given prominent supporting roles in such films as The Comancheros ( 1961 ), John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ( 1962 ), and Donovan's Reef ( 1963 ), all starring John Wayne, with Marvin's roles getting larger with each film.
The Killers was also the first film in which Marvin received top billing and the only time Ronald Reagan played a villain, rendering an extremely convincing performance in his last movie role before entering politics.
In the wake of these two films and after having received an Oscar, Marvin was a huge star given enormous control over his next film.
Marvin was originally cast as Pike Bishop ( later played by William Holden ) in The Wild Bunch ( 1969 ), but fell out with director Sam Peckinpah and pulled out in order to star in the Western musical Paint Your Wagon ( 1969 ), in which he was top-billed over a singing Clint Eastwood.

Marvin and offered
The definition offered by the Oxford English Dictionary incorporates suffering as a necessary condition, with " the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma ", and this approach can be seen as a part of other works, such as Marvin Khol and Paul Kurtz's " a mode or act of inducing or permitting death painlessly as a relief from suffering ".
Marvin actually accepted the role but pulled out after he was offered a larger pay deal to star in Paint Your Wagon ( 1969 ).
In 1959 Philadelphia businessman Marvin Leonard " Babe " Chivian ( born 24 August 1925 ; died January 1972 ), " a body-and-fender man ," and real estate speculator, offered Burke a red Lincoln Continental convertible if Burke would agree to a management contract with him.
Bruce Welch of The Shadows claimed in his autobiography that McCartney offered the tune to Shadow's lead guitarist Hank Marvin prior to the Beatles ' recording.
The group revealed that the Americommando had approached a group of young comic book collectors at a convention ( Marvin, Lennie, Arch, and Roy ) and had offered to recreate them as his former teammates, using a special device to transform them into their superpowered identities.

Marvin and role
Marvin received the role after guest-starring in a memorable Dragnet episode as a serial killer.
As the vicious Liberty Valance, Marvin played his first title role and held his own with two of the screen's biggest stars ( Wayne and James Stewart ).
Marvin won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Actor for his comic role in the offbeat Western Cat Ballou starring Jane Fonda.
Marvin, who had selected Boorman himself for the director's slot, had a central role in the film's development, plot line, and staging.
Director Sam Peckinpah considered many actors for the Pike Bishop role ; Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck, Sterling Hayden, Richard Boone and Robert Mitchum were all considered before William Holden was cast.
Marvin was also cast as the referee in Space Jam ( though he did not stay to referee the whole game due to Bupkus beating him up ), and then later had a major villainous role in Looney Tunes: Back in Action where he was hired by the ACME chairman, Mr. Luther J.
The movie stars Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, who won an Oscar for his dual role, Michael Callan, Dwayne Hickman, and singers Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye, who together perform the movie's theme song.
One of the original cast members on the sketch comedy series MADtv, he is also known for his small, but memorable role as Marvin in Pulp Fiction, where he got shot in the face.
Carter later discussed at a lecture how he fell in love with Washington's portrayal of him during auditions for The Hurricane, noting that boxer Marvin Hagler and actors Wesley Snipes and Samuel L. Jackson were all vying for the role.
He also played the role of Marvin Eriksen, Sr. in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother.
In 1967 he created the role of Captain Adam Brant in the world premiere of Marvin David Levy's Mourning Becomes Electra at the Met.
The role can be seen as a prototype for Marvin.
His last featured role was as Marvin Acme in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
* Originally director Frank Oz had Woody Allen in mind for the role of Dr. Leo Marvin, given Allen's reputation for quirkiness in his films.
Zien's first major role was as Marvin in William Finn's first musical, In Trousers.
Her debut with the Metropolitan Opera came with the creation of the role of Lavinia Mannon in the world premiere of Marvin David Levy's Mourning Becomes Electra in 1967.
Garlin spent three seasons on NBC's Mad About You in the role of Marvin.
Several online sources indicate Besser was approached for the role of " Irwin ," one of the gas station attendants at war with Jonathan Winters, in " It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World "; however, his schedule requirements for " The Joey Bishop Show " prevented this, and Marvin Kaplan played the role.
Other noteworthy actors to play the role of Hickey include Lee Marvin, in a 1973 film adaptation directed by John Frankenheimer ; James Earl Jones, in a 1973 revival at the Circle in the Square Theatre that was edited for length and criticized for the weakness of its supporting cast ; and Kevin Spacey, who was lauded for his 1998 – 1999 stage rendition of the part in London's West End and then on Broadway.
Marvin received the 1965 BAFTA Award for Best Actor for this role as well as for his role in Cat Ballou.

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