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Powell's and performance
* Volume 2 of Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time includes a visit to a performance of the play, where the minor character Moreland is in love with the actress playing Julia.
Powell's performance is much debated by fans of Chandler and film noir ; some think it too light and comic ; others consider it the best interpretation of Philip Marlowe on film.

Powell's and was
If you don't leave this country within 3 days, your life will be taken the same as Powell's was.
The first came in an accusation by former United States Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff, Lawrence Wilkerson, who claimed that the Bush administration's foreign policy was run by a " Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal " implying a sinister intent ;
Technically the grant was to Powell's father ( a British subject ) to be passed on by descent.
This claim was repeated several times in the run-up to the war, including in then-Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech to the U. N Security Council on February 5, 2003, which concluded with a long recitation of the information provided by al-Libi.
Powell's speech came less than a month after a then-classified CIA report concluding that the information provided by al-Libi was unreliable and about a year after a Defense Intelligence Agency report concluded the same thing.
By Powell's own account, Ingram was a major influence on him.
It was in Algiers that the beginning of Powell's dislike of the United States was planted.
On one occasion, Powell's yellow skin ( he was recovering from jaundice ), overly formal dress and strange manner caused him to be mistaken for a Japanese spy.
Powell's ambition to be Viceroy of India crumbled in February 1947, when Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced that Indian independence was imminent.
In Powell's view this was " one of the most horrible things that I remember in politics ... seeing the way in which Harold Macmillan, with all the skill of the old actor-manager, succeeded in false-footing Rab.
The New York Times said Powell's speech was " a potential declaration of independence from American policy ".
Lyndon B. Johnson had indeed asked Wilson for some British forces for Vietnam, and when it was later suggested to Powell that Washington understood that the public reaction to Powell's allegations had made Wilson realise he would not have favourable public opinion and so could not go through with it, Powell responded: " The greatest service I have performed for my country, if that is so ".
The biggest argument Powell and Heath had during Powell's time in the Shadow Cabinet was over a dispute over the role of Black Rod, who would go to the Commons to summon them to the Lords to hear the Royal Assent of Bills.
Three days after the speech, on 23 April, as the Race Relations Bill was being debated in the House of Commons, 1, 000 dockers marched on Westminster protesting against Powell's " victimisation ", and the next day 400 meat porters from Smithfield market handed in a 92-page petition in support of Powell, amidst other mass demonstrations of working class support, much of it from trade unionists, in London and Wolverhampton.
The national swing to Labour was 1 %; 4 % in Powell's heartland, the West Midlands conurbation ; and 16 % in his old constituency ( although Budgen won the seat ).
In Powell's later career as an Ulster Unionist MP he continued to criticise the United States and claimed that the Americans were trying to persuade the British to surrender Northern Ireland into an all-Irish state because the condition for Irish membership of NATO, Powell claimed, was Northern Ireland.
" Grim " was Powell's response when he was asked what he thought of Thatcher's victory, because he believed she would renege like Heath did in 1972.
Then on 11 April, was a riot in Brixton and when on 13 April Thatcher was quoted Powell's remark that " We have seen nothing yet " by an interviewer she replied: " I heard him say that and I thought it was a very very alarming remark.
In early September 1989, a collection of Powell's speeches on Europe was published titled Enoch Powell on 1992 ( 1992 being the year set for the creation of the Single Market by the Single European Act of 1986 ).
When Thatcher was challenged by Michael Heseltine for the leadership of the Conservative Party during November 1990, Powell said he would rejoin the party, which he had left in February 1974 over the issue of Europe, if Thatcher won, and would urge the public to support both her and, in Powell's view, national independence.
Powell's final words were a few hours after being admitted to hospital, he asked where his lunch was.

Powell's and by
A poll at the time suggested that 74 % of the UK population agreed with the Powell's opinions and his supporters claim that this large public following that Powell attracted may have helped the Conservatives to win the 1970 general election, and perhaps cost them the February 1974 general election, at which Powell turned his back on the Conservatives by endorsing a vote for Labour, who returned as a minority government in early March following a hung parliament.
However, the Americans were worried by Powell's speech as they wanted British military commitments in South-East Asia as they were still fighting in Vietnam.
Wilson and Haines had ensured that Powell would dominate the newspapers of the Sunday and Monday before election day by having no Labour frontbencher give a major speech on 23 February, the day of Powell's speech.
Powell's speeches and TV interviews throughout his political life displayed a suspicion towards " the Establishment " in general, and by the 1980s there was a regular expectation that he would make some sort of speech or act in a way designed to upset the government and ensure he would not be offered a life peerage ( and thus be transferred to the House of Lords ), which, some believe, had not any intention of accepting so long as Edward Heath sat in the Commons.
The group was led by John Powell's younger brother, Henry, who arrived with 80 settlers and 10 slaves — these first ten slaves were among the sometimes kidnapped and other times runaway English or Irish youth.
The Nazi costumes were genuine and were found in Eastern Europe by Powell's co-designer Joanna Johnston, to whom he gave research pictures and drawings for reference.
The issue was dramatised at the political level by the famous " Rivers of Blood speech " by the Conservative politician Enoch Powell, warning against the dangers of immigration, which led to Powell's dismissal from the Shadow Cabinet.
Under Powell's direction, the President and his chief advisers weathered the Persian Gulf crisis in 1987 and the Reagan-Gorbachev relationship culminating in the Moscow Summit of June 1988 ( the smoothest ever seen by observers at the time ).
It is based in large part on the Weinberger Doctrine, devised by Caspar Weinberger, former Secretary of Defense and Powell's former boss.
The heart of Montclair is Lake Montclair, which was created by damming the waters of Powell's Creek.
Bebop's and Powell's increased visibility by the end of 1948, the latter's celebrity seemingly having accelerated in anticipation of his release, made plain as well that he had a serious problem with alcohol.
A 1953 trio session for Blue Note ( with Duvivier and Taylor ) included Powell's composition " Glass Enclosure ", inspired by his near-imprisonment in Goodstein's apartment.
Three albums for Blue Note in the late fifties showcased Powell's ability as a composer, but his playing was far removed from the standard set by his earlier recordings for the label.
While Colin Powell's statement to the UN may have been accepted as " proof " by many in the US, this was not the case in Europe, where there was widespread scepticism of any links between Iraq and al-Qaeda.
Powell's work on this film was influenced by Noël Coward's film In Which We Serve ( 1942 ).
Justice Kennedy also dissented separately, arguing that the Court failed to apply, in fact, strict scrutiny as required by Justice Powell's opinion in Bakke.

Powell's and what
In particular, Thorgerson & Powell's surreal, elaborately manipulated photos ( utilizing darkroom tricks, multiple exposures, airbrush retouching, and mechanical cut-and-paste techniques ) were a film-based forerunner of what would, much later, be called photoshopping.
Powell's personality is revealed not to have been wholly destroyed yet, and a vision of his father tells him that much of what he believed about the armor was false ; the prior history, even Evilhawk himself, was a lie made up by his own mind, the other armor a second configuration that took control to cover earlier anger issues.
Because collaborative efforts such as Powell's and Pressburger's were, and continue to be, unusual in the film industry, and because of the influence of the auteur theory, which elevates the director as a film's primary creator, Pressburger has sometimes been dismissed as " Michael Powell's scriptwriter ", but Powell himself was the first to say, in many interviews, that he couldn't have done most of what he did without Pressburger.
The word was originally used to describe Powell's views on economics, and Powell offered his own definition: " is an almost unlimited faith in the ability of the people to get what they want through peace, capital, profit and a competitive market ".
Tired of being constantly cold, wet and hungry and not knowing they had already passed the worst rapids, three of Powell's men climbed out of the canyon in what is now called Separation Canyon.
By 1775, when North Carolina merchant Richard Henderson purchased an immense tract of land from the Cherokees to found the short-lived Transylvania colony, in what is today Kentucky, Henderson turned to Martin as his agent in Powell's Valley.
In return for Powell agreeing to direct The Man Behind the Mask, Rock agreed to back the filming of what would become The Edge of the World, Powell's directorial breakthrough.

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