After Lt Androzzi leaves, Shaft spots one of the men waiting for him in his office building.

After a quick fight, Shaft throws one of them out the window ; while the other surrenders and reveals to him that Bumpy, the leader of an uptown gang, wanted to meet Shaft and knock him out at his office.

Bumpy states that the reason for turning him on to Ben's is because Shaft is going to need an army to get his daughter back, and " Ben's got one ".

After spending the night with one of the ladies from the bar, Shaft visits Vic and the two mafioso the following morning.

Marcy is spirited out of the hotel into one of the waiting taxicabs ; as the others get away in the remaining cabs, Shaft walks to a phone booth to call Vic.

Shaft was well received by film critics and is considered by many as one of the best films of 1971.

Others, probably influenced by the electric folk pioneered by Fairport Convention from 1969, moved towards more traditional material, a category including Dando Shaft, Amazing Blondel, and Jack the Lad, an offshoot of northern progressive folk group Lindisfarne, who were one of the most successful UK bands of the early 1970s.

During one expedition, in 1958, the Finch Shaft ( Finkenschacht ) was discovered.

For creating the Shaft books, he became one of the few white individuals to win an NAACP Image Award.

Shaft admits that he planned to end the threat of the Belmont clan by controlling one as the master of the castle and forcing them to fight each other.

The accident was one of the most fatal ; it occurred while digging the tunnel's 1, 028-foot ( 313 m ) vertical exhaust shaft, called ' Central Shaft.

An unusual feature was the external Cardan Shaft drive from the gearbox on the rear of a horizontally-mounted engine to road-vehicle style reduction boxes outboard of the two axles on one bogie.

In 1840, one of the mining companies reported that 300, 000 bushels of coal were extracted from the-deep Pump Shaft alone, one of the more active mines, using the labor of approximately 150 men and 25 mules.

His first role was on the soap opera The Edge of Night, and one of his first movie starring roles was in Shaft.

Suddenly, Drive Shaft became extremely popular for their song " You All Everybody ", although they were a one hit wonder.

One of the leading directors of the time, Gordon Parks Sr. – father of Gordon Parks Jr. and director of one of the genre's most famous films, Shaft – takes offense to the term " blaxploitation " and the classification of his films as such a movie.

Shaft starts his investigation by looking for a man named Ben Buford, who is revealed to have been part of " the movement " with Shaft years ago, and eventually finds out that Ben's group is holding a meeting.

Shaft and Ben escape from the carnage while Ben's group and the fingerman are murdered by unknown assailants.

As Shaft plan goes on it resembles a military commando-style operation, Ben's men all dress as workers at the hotel ( cooks, waiters, elevator operators, etc.

Ben and Shaft go to the apartment where Marcy Jonas is being held to make sure she's alive.

At home where Shaft is getting medical attention from a doctor working underground with him ( Shaft refuses to go to any hospital because the hospital will notify police about his gunshot wound.

Police Lt Vic Androzzi meets Shaft outside the parlor ; and unsuccessfully tries to get information from him on the two gangsters.

It turns out Bumpy's daughter has been kidnapped, and Shaft is asked to get her back safe.

Once there, a gunfight ensues during which two hoods get killed and Shaft takes a bullet in the shoulder.

), Shaft tells Ben to round up his men and meet him at the hotel where Marcy has been taken, to prepare to get her back.

Meanwhile, members of " The Pit " ( a party-frat which split from Balls and Shaft years ago, currently led by James " Droz " Andrews ( Jeremy Piven ) and living in the dilapidated former Balls and Shaft frat house ( the eponymous " Pit ")) just want everyone to get along.

" Ms. Garcia-Thompson conspires with Balls and Shaft to get The Pit, their mutual nemesis, kicked off campus, giving Rand control of the house.

Ben confronts Shaft, thinking he was set up, but they refrain from fighting and move on.

Metro Cammell set up business in Wednesbury after buying the Old Park Works near the border with Darlaston from Patent Shaft in 1949, where it produced railway coach bodies, railway wagons and pressings for other factories in the group.

When Shaft returns home, he wakes the woman up, and as she leaves his place, she complains about his rotten manners out of bed, leading to a brief verbal spat.

A sampling of Roobarb episodes and theme song made up the basis for the 1992 rave single of the same name by the UK group Shaft.

There was a brief flowering of English progressive folk in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with groups like the Third Ear Band and Quintessence following the eastern Indian musical and more abstract work by group such as Comus, Dando Shaft, The Trees, Spirogyra, Forest, and Jan Dukes De Grey, but commercial success was elusive for these bands and most had broken up or moved in very different directions by about 1973.

* Ben Buford-A black revolutionary who grew up with Shaft.

The bullets start flying when the hoods find they've been played against each other, and Shaft is forced to clean up the mess.

Alford takes as his starting point the golden rule that the pharaoh had to be buried in the earth, i. e. at ground level or below, and this leads him to conclude that Khufu was interred in an ingeniously concealed cave whose entrance is today sealed up in the so-called Well Shaft adjacent to a known cave called the Grotto.

* c. 1550 BC – 1500 BC — Dagger blades with lion hunt, from Shaft Grave IV, Grave Circle A, at Mycenae, Greece, are made.

The Shaft soundtrack album, recorded by Isaac Hayes, was also a success, winning a Grammy Award for Best Original Score ; the " Theme from Shaft " won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and has appeared on multiple Top 100 lists, including AFI's 100 Years … 100 Songs.

Shaft, a private detective, emerges from the New York City subway and walking through Times Square, with scenes characterizing early 1970s New York.

Shaft and Ben later meet Bumpy at his uptown office where Shaft ups the price for the job, based on his new-found information from Vic.

Shaft retires to the " No Name Bar ", across the street from Shaft's apartment in Greenwich Village.

Shaft takes over the bar from the bartender, and calls the cops without the two Mafiosi knowing.

Shaft I – V were used for the burials of royal family members, shaft VI – XI were used as symbolic tombs for the grave goods of royal ancestors from dynasty I – II.

In 1864, Waterman & Beaver Co., owned by industrialists from Danville, Pennsylvania, sank the No. 1 shaft in Kingston, known as " Morgan's Shaft " after superintendent David Morgan.

Bringing in drummer Willie Hall, a Stax session musician who played on many Stax hits ( such as Isaac Hayes's “ Theme from Shaft ”) as an official member, the group recorded the album Universal Language for Asylum Records in 1977.

The film required large and ambitious sets to be constructed, from the Shaft of Hands to the rambling, distorted Goblin City where the film's climatic battle takes place.

*** Isaac Hayes for " Theme from Shaft "

X-Clan is a hip hop group from Brooklyn, New York, originally consisting of Grand Verbalizer Funkin ' Lesson Brother J, Professor X The Overseer, Paradise the Architect, and Sugar Shaft the Rhythm Provider.

In 1995, long-time group member Sugar Shaft died from complications of AIDS.

* Shaft mining, refers to the method of excavating a vertical or near-vertical tunnel from the top down, where there is initially no access to the bottom

*** " Theme from Shaft ," performed by Isaac Hayes