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Kitti was thirty years younger than Stanley, taller than Stanley, prettier than Stanley had any right to hope for, much less expect.
According to The Rodgers and Hammerstein Story by Stanley Green, " For three minutes, on the night of September first, the entire Times Square area in New York City was blacked out in honor of the man who had done so much to light up that particular part of the world.
The film was known as The Soldier's Wife for much of the production, but Stanley Kubrick, who was a friend of Neil Jordan, counselled against the title saying that audiences would expect a war film.
A graduate student, M. Stanley Livingston, did much of the work of translating the idea into working hardware.
LSD manufacturer Owsley Stanley lived in Berkeley during 1965 and provided much of the LSD that became a seminal part of the " Red Dog Experience ", the early evolution of psychedelic rock and budding hippie culture.
Later, he would write that his adoptive parent had died only two years after their meeting, but in fact the elder Stanley did not die until much later, in 1878.
Oilers players such as Gretzky and Mark Messier said that they realized at that moment how much it would actually take to win the Stanley Cup.
The Bankses ' first meeting with Doris and Herbert, Buckley's parents, gets off to an awkward start, and goes from bad to worse when Stanley drinks too much and falls asleep in the wealthy Dunstans ' living room.
Pecchio went on to become a founding member of the highly-popular Michael Stanley Band, while Sferra remained very much in demand as both live and studio musician, at the same time writing and producing his own music.
In the words of Luther E. Stanley, " When Isaac Ingle Stevens was ordered to Fort Owen in 1853, he came to what he supposed would be a military fort but much to his surprise, it was a trading post.
Stanley described the scene as, " Tatum played so brilliantly and so much.
The historians Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick note that in conventional diplomatic terms, as a " piece of adversary bargaining ", Jay " got much the worst of the ' bargain '.
Cheung portrayed 1930s Chinese screen icon Ruan Lingyu in Stanley Kwan's 1992 film Center Stage, for which she wore qipao, the elegant, tight-fitting, dresses worn by stylish Chinese women throughout much of the first half of the 20th century.
During the 1980s two-handed tapping developed much further with many players such as Stanley Jordan and Enver Izmaylov using a 2 or more finger tapping technique.
From now on, most outdoor taping was on the outdoor Stanley Street set, reducing the number of time-consuming location shoots while confining much of the action to the one street.
Gary Costello ( Gary Webster ) was a businessman who lost a lot money in a failed business deal, and was forced to move from a far more expensive neighbourhood in Chigwell, Essex to the comparatively modest Stanley Street, much to the shame and embarrassment of his snobbish, socialite wife Chrissy ( Kazia Pelka ).
May, in particular, had a reputation for shooting as much raw footage as Beatty himself or Stanley Kubrick.
He was much tempted by the proposal, and hurried down to Knowsley to consult his father, who called out when he entered the room, " Halo, Stanley!
Many critics ( such as Stanley Wells for example ) interpret this to mean that Valentine is indeed handing Silvia over to her would-be rapist, but another school of thought suggests that Valentine simply means " I will love you with as much love as I love Silvia ," thus reconciling the dichotomy of friendship and love as depicted elsewhere in the play.
The novel was successfully published in America as well, though Waugh had feared lawsuits so much that he employed his friend Lord Stanley of Alderley to add a codicil to his will instructing that he be buried at Forest Lawn .. Waugh also claimed that American morticians would refuse to service his body should he die in the US.
The first included appointing him as Governor of Stanley Falls, an arrangement much criticized in Europe as a deal with a slave-trader, and the second agreement regarding the provisions of carriers for the expedition.
According to anthropologist Stanley Ambrose, such events diminish populations to " levels low enough for evolutionary changes, which occur much faster in small populations, to produce rapid population differentiation ".
Initially, imported oil was taxed much more than British-produced coal, but in 1934 Oliver Stanley, the Minister for Transport, reduced taxes on fuel oils while raising the Road Fund charge on road locomotives to £ 100 per year, provoking protests by engine manufacturers, hauliers, showmen and the coal industry.

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Bicycles can also be hired, though because of the unsealed roads and hilly terrain, these are more suitable for use around the Stanley area.
* Aronowitz, Stanley, The Crisis in Historical Materialism, ( American criticism of orthodox Marxism and argument for a more radical version of historical materialism that sticks closer to Marx by changing itself to keep up with changes in the historical situation ), 1981
The Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, which later became more famously known as the Stanley Cup, was first awarded in 1893 to the Montreal HC, champions of the AHAC.
Stanley Wolpert has argued, The " plan to carve up British India was never approved of or accepted by Gandhi ... who realised too late that his closest comrades and disciples were more interested in power than principle, and that his own vision had long been clouded by the illusion that the struggle he led for India's freedom was a nonviolent one.
That summer Ruth fell deeply in love with Stanley as he began to visit her more, and accepted his proposal for marriage.
Stanley suffered an injury that made him want to spend more time away from the city, and Benedict was not happy when the couple moved to Bedford Hills far away from the city.
Winterbottom was then responsible for leaving Stanley Matthews out of the England team that lost 1-0 to the USA: the manager had hoped to rest the team's star player so that he would be fresh for later, supposedly more demanding games.
King Leopold II demanded that Stanley take the longer route, via the Congo river, hoping to acquire more territory and perhaps even Equatoria.
Erle Stanley Gardner " had spent more than twenty years practicing law in California, and the knowledge he gained was put to good use in the Perry Mason stories, which hinge on points of law, forensic medicine or science as clever as a watch mechanism ... and also the total lack of characterization ".
The next year, although the Islanders had won three straight Stanley Cups, more attention was being paid to the upstart Edmonton Oilers, whose young superstar Wayne Gretzky had just shattered existing scoring records.
During their run of four Stanley Cup championships and a fifth finals appearance, the Islanders won 19 straight playoff series, the longest streak in the history of professional sports ( one more than the 1959 – 67 streak by the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association ).
As well, they are the first NHL team in history, and only one of two teams to lose nine or more games in a year's playoffs, yet still win the Stanley Cup.
In Game 4, during the third overtime and after more than 100 minutes of play with no goals, defenseman Uwe Krupp scored to claim the franchise's first Stanley Cup.
Competing against the Islanders – the Stanley Cup champions of the previous two years who had finished with 41 points more than Vancouver in the regular season standings – Vancouver took the first game to overtime.
Mike goes hunting with Axel, John and Stanley one more time, and after tracking a beautiful deer across the woods, takes his " one shot " but pulls the rifle up and fires into the air, unable to take another life.
Morgan Stanley operates in 42 countries, and has more than 1300 offices and 60, 000 employees.
In March 2009, FINRA announced Morgan Stanley was to pay more than $ 7 million for misconduct in the handling the accounts of 90 Rochester, NY-area retirees.
" Time also liked Holden's performance, describing it as his best since Stalag 17 ( a 1953 film that earned Holden an Oscar ), said Robert Ryan gave " the screen performance of his career " and concluded that " The Wild Bunch contains faults and mistakes " ( such as flashbacks " introduced with surprising clumsiness "), but " its accomplishments are more than sufficient to confirm that Peckinpah, along with Stanley Kubrick and Arthur Penn, belongs with the best of the newer generation of American film makers.
Apparently “ in preparing the ground for the usurpation and in consolidating his position, Richard found it more expedient to appease than to alienate the house of Stanley .” Thus, Lord Stanley was soon at liberty and continued as steward of the royal household, apparently flourishing at the heart of the new regime.
" As costs for the June event spiral out of control, Stanley calculates that he can afford to accommodate no more than one hundred and fifty guests.
He added 3 more in 12 playoff games as the Red Wings reached the 1966 Stanley Cup Final.
Boyoma Falls, formerly known as Stanley Falls, consists of seven cataracts, each no more than 15 ' high, extending over more than along a curve of the Lualaba River between the river port towns of Ubundu and Kisangani / Boyoma in the Orientale Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In 1903, partly as a result of a dispute with Princeton president Woodrow Wilson, partly due to an offer involving more pay and less teaching, he moved to a professorship of philosophy and psychology at Johns Hopkins University where he re-opened the experimental laboratory that had been founded by G. Stanley Hall in 1884 ( but had closed with Hall's departure to take over the presidency of Clark University in 1888 ).

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