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In his aimless wanderings about the city he is given a book which describes the two natures of man: one " high ", spiritual and " human "; while the other is " low " and animal-like.
In his aimless wanderings about the city he encounters a person carrying an advertisement for a magic theatre who gives him a small book, Treatise on the Steppenwolf.
It does not include any curse, it is without regional / sexual / between band provocations, without any detailed descriptions of heroic deeds on the edge of the law or without any aimless wanderings about forbidden substances.
His next film, Days of Being Wild ( 1990 ), produced by Alan Tang, a drama about aimless youth set in the early 1960s, established his trademark form: elliptically plotted mood pieces, with lush visuals and music, about the burden of memory on melancholic, misfit characters.
Akhtar's next project was Lakshya ( 2004 ), a film about an aimless youngster finally setting a goal for himself, starring Hrithik Roshan and Preity Zinta.

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* Stringer-An aimless, unsociable drifter who always speaks his mind and cares little what others think of him.

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Helva's hum then had a curious vibrancy, a warm, dulcet quality even in its aimless chromatic wanderings.
", written by Jim Poyser and broadcast in June 2004 had aimless aristocrat Viscount Belport ( Paul Rider ) and his servant Ned ( Jason Done ) joining the police force under Sir Robert Peel and encountering demon barber Sweeney Todd ( Jonathan Keeble ) on their first case.
All the years when life had been hard I had found it natural, if not easy, to fight ; but when life became easy and happy I was faced quite unexpectedly with a problem: I could not accept aimless happiness.
While he was perceived as idle and aimless by his neighbors during his teen years, and had no formal art training, Davenport ended up becoming one of the highest paid political cartoonists in the world at the time.
She described the aimless job she worked at an office where rooms full of people had nothing to do but file their fingernails.

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Randy's life appears to be drifting down a somewhat aimless path when he receives a telegram from his older brother, Colonel Mark Bragg, an Air Force Intelligence officer currently serving with the Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) at its headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base outside of Omaha, Nebraska.
Firing the imagination of struggling families, many with low-paying inner city jobs and an aimless future, the book described a way to seek out a good agrarian lifestyle and graphically detailed his own family's experiences and accomplishments at homesteading in Suffern.
Other characters may set out with no more definite aim that to " seek their fortune ", or even be cast out instead of voluntarily leaving, but learn of something that could aid them along the way and so have their journey transformed from aimless wandering into a quest.
On an aimless run through the jungle he stumbles across the village where his adopted mother Messua is now living with her two-year old son, and is torn between staying with her and returning to the jungle.
In ancient Greece and Rome, madness was associated stereotypically with aimless wandering and violence.
Unfortunately, A-Mei's father died before her victory, leaving her sad and aimless until she began to sing in pubs with a rock band formed by her musician cousin.
Since yoga nidra involves an aimless and effortless relaxation it is often held to be best practised with an experienced yoga teacher who verbally delivers instructions.
Kahuna and Gidget enjoy each other's company with Gidget questioning how he can survive an aimless and lonely existence without a job.
Looking back now, we can see that the great motive-power of the change was a longing for freedom and equality, akin if you please to the unreasonable passion of a lover ; a sickness of heart that rejected with loathing the aimless solitary life of the well-educated men of that time: phrases, my dear friend, which have lost their meaning to us of the present day ; so far removed we are from the dreadful facts which they represent.
Interspersed with these scenes were scenes involving Dr. Katz's daily life, which included his aimless, childish 24-year-old son, Ben ( Jon Benjamin ), his uninterested and unhelpful secretary, Laura ( Laura Silverman ), and his two friends: Stanley ( Will LeBow ), and the barmaid, Julie, voiced by one of the show's producers, Julianne Shapiro.
After the prom, Jenda wants to have sex with Bart, but Bart has no plans for the future and wants Jenda to marry him and live an aimless life, so she breaks up with him.
Instead, he wastes his day hanging around with other unemployed and aimless " losers ".
It can be played either as a game, with score kept in a manner similar to baseball, or played simply for aimless fun.
subUrbia is a play by Eric Bogosian chronicling the nighttime activities of a group of aimless 20-somethings still living in their suburban New Jersey hometown and their reunion with a former high school classmate who has become a successful musician.
* Capitalist society is of itself aimless and amorphous with regard to the purposes of human life, lacking any shared, consensual ethic.
Old Fred travels to Liverpool ( whose scene is set by " Eleanor Rigby "), where he follows the depressed and aimless Ringo and persuades him to return to Pepperland with him.

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The men were at first puzzled, then angered by the aimless tacking.
And so he walked, aimless again.
Jones was not allowed to choose his songs or producer, resulting in several lackluster and aimless records.
At first, only those freed prisoners who could raise the fare for their return passage to France were able to go home, so French Guiana was haunted after the official closing of the prisons by numerous freed convicts leading an aimless existence in the colony.
He begins as a wanderer, aimless on a sea he does not understand and ends as a pilgrim, crossing a final mountain to enter the promised land.
Bertie's description of the two aunts makes them appear exact opposites, although both criticize him heavily for his aimless life.
" Christgau wrote that the songs " sure do boogie ", although he ultimately found it musically aimless, stating " even if Duane Allman plus Dickey Betts does equal Jerry Garcia, the Dead know roads are for getting somewhere.
Matt Maranian, author of ' Pad: The Guide to Ultra-Living ,' a guide to making your own home decor specifically intended not to look like it was purchased in any store, illustrates another aspect of DIY culture: " Pad is not a book for the helpless, the aimless, or the clueless, Pad is a book for the empowered, the inspired, and the creative.
" Matt articulates the sense of community and subculture present in DIY culture, perhaps even hinting at a kind of intellectual succession from a society deemed " helpless ... aimless ... clueless.
The only known Italian reaction after the shocking surprise was a fruitless torpedo charge by some destroyers and the aimless fire of one of Zaras 40 mm guns in the direction of the British warships.
* Scott Jacoby as Dorothy's aimless musician son Michael Zbornak who appeared in three episodes.
Inspired by the Lettrist-Situationist urban drift or dérive -- a seemingly aimless wandering through the city whereby pyschogeographers go in search of heightened emotional experiences — Radio Blissett allowed players to interact at a distance in real time.
They wanted rollback and the peaceful end of the Communist threat rather than aimless negotiations, diplomacy, and arms control.

milling and about
He had first-hand knowledge of the patent wars which had driven about ninety per cent of the milling equipment makers out of business in the mid-1890's.
WC is used to make wear-resistant abrasives and cutters and knives for drills, circular saws, milling and turning tools used by the metalworking, woodworking, mining, petroleum and construction industries and accounts for about 60 % of current tungsten consumption.
In 1992 a number of MPs registered an official complaint about this practice, with some commenting that it " has undoubtedly been retained to deter honourable Members from raising points of order during divisions by making them appear ridiculous and feel acutely embarrassed ".< Ref > Early day motion 1623 In 1998 it was recommended that the opera hat be abandoned, since " although some Members may feel that they look particularly fetching in it, it makes the House of Commons look ridiculous when someone wearing the hat is trying to raise a point of order from a seated position while everyone else is milling around and going to vote.
It was not at all unusual for this bench to be filled, with several persons standing or milling about in front.
It was first called California, from Jacob Neighbor's enthusiasm in the milling business about the time the California Gold Rush broke out.
Cotton spinning and milling were introduced to Oldham when its first mill, Lees Hall, was built by William Clegg in about 1778, the beginning of a spiralling process of urbanisation and socioeconomic transformation.
Swarm behaviour, or swarming, is a collective behaviour exhibited by animals of similar size which aggregate together, perhaps milling about the same spot or perhaps moving en masse or migrating in some direction.
Whirlow Wheel was situated on the brook, and was used for milling corn between about 1586 until 1803, when a grinding wheel was added.
Ham Mills was a site of milling activity from mediaeval times until about 1914.
Colonel Hayes kept his head and organized a force of about 500 men from the soldiers milling about the site of their victory.
John and Aleyn pack an even larger amount of wheat than usual and say they will watch Simkin while he grinds it into flour, pretending that they are interested in the process because they have limited knowledge about milling.
The cluttered sculpture workshops have always remained open for visitors to peek at the dozens of workers milling about.
Unable to maneuver because of the infantry milling about the Roman cavalry broke into small groups, some dismounting and fighting as infantry.
Sizable groups of gay men could be seen milling about outside these establishments especially on weekends.
Unfortunately, Forbes knew nothing about flour milling.
Sugarcane is the major crop, which produces about more than 30, 000 metric tons of sugar per milling season.
Delegates and advisors begin arriving in early afternoon, and registration lasts all afternoon, with people usually milling about while they wait for everyone to arrive.

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