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The short was popular at a number of film festivals around the country and eventually caught the attention of creative director Vinny Warren and art director Chuck Taylor at the Chicago based ad agency DDB, who took the idea to August A. Busch IV, vice president of Anheuser-Busch, and signed Stone to direct Budweiser TV commercials based on the film.
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Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.
Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.
He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.
A little man with a `` a dark copper color '' skin, he was wearing `` calico trousers and a white cotton short gown ''.
The total operation was a construction project comparable in magnitude with the Panama Canal, but in 1917 time was in short supply ; ;
There was no time in the short Mexican encounter to evolve a solution but the area provided a proving ground for new departures in the near future.
Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.
But he, as I can now retort, was the man who could see so short a distance ahead that after a visit to Russia he gave voice to the famous exclamation: `` I have seen the future and it works ''.
Upon a visit to a local junior college last week, I was shocked to see the young ladies wearing short shorts and the young men wearing Bermuda shorts.
the days seemed short, perhaps because his routine was, each day, almost the same.
He had preached a short sermon, trying to talk man-to-man to the audience, to tell them who he was, what he had done in Macon and Birmingham, and what he proposed to do here.
Life was a short play of tenebrous shadows.
His steps were short and stiff, and, with his head thrown back, his progress was a supercilious strut.
In the cruel clearness of her memory the boy remained unchanged, quick with the delight of laughter, and the pain with which she recalled that short destroyed childhood was still unendurable to her.
Why it was ever forgotten for even a moment I cannot say because it works perfectly for everyone, no matter whether he has short or long thigh-bone lengths!!
But during the last several years boats were launched in areas where, a short time ago, the only water to be found was in wells and watering troughs for livestock.
From proud pool-owners to perpetual hosts and handymen was a short step -- no more than the change from city clothes to trunks.
He devised a detonating fuse in which a short wire was caused to glow by an electric current.
There was a short pause for reflection.
One growth center in a short bone -- distal phalanx of the second finger -- was chosen as an example for discussion here, primarily because epiphyseal-diaphyseal fusion, the maturity indicator for Completion in long and short bones, occurs in this center for girls near the menarche and for boys near their comparable pubescent stage.
In short, scientific sampling was introduced in place of subjective sampling.
In short, it was centered around learning how to develop a more sensitive empathy.
short and popular
In short order, the general history became his most popular work and has remained, aside from his later Social history, the work most widely favored by the public.
In my short period here I believe that at no time has he been otherwise than the most popular man on both sides of the aisle.
it's a short, light, quick-handling, fast-firing little timber gun designed to push a heavy slug at modest velocity but with lots of killing power and ample range for our most popular big game -- whitetail.
From here is it a short walk to the Silver Sands, Aberdour's busiest and most popular beach.
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, who had made a number of very popular short silent films, used the arrival of sound to deepen their well-formed screen characterizations and enhance their visual humour, and went on to great success in talking films.
This popular synth used a combination of short samples and digital oscillators.
In 1831 he published a short popular account of the philosopher's life in Murray's Family Library ; but it was not until 1855 that he was able to issue the much fuller Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, a work which embodied the results of more than 20 years ' investigation of original manuscripts and other available sources.
The ability for others to create custom levels and otherwise modify the game, in the form of custom WAD files ( short for Where is All the Data ), turned out to be a particularly popular aspect of Doom.
One of Thomas ' most popular works was the short essay A Child's Christmas in Wales, which after being released as part of a recording, in which Thomas read his own work, became his most popular prose work in America.
The baselard was considered an intermediate between a short sword and a long dagger, and became popular also as a civilian weapon.
A debatable yet popular concept is " trace decay ", which can occur in both short and long-term memory.
Notorious examples include the " Slashdot effect ", the " Instalanche " ( when a smaller site gets links by the popular blog Instapundit ), or a website being " Farked " or Drudged ( where the target site is crashed due to the large number of hits in a short time ).
These are popular with foreigners wishing to master Japanese faster and enjoy reading Japanese short stories, novels or articles.
In addition to serious explorations of the Soviet past and present situation relaxation of censorship resulted in an explosion of popular culture including popular Western literature and films and books on astrology, religion, and flying saucers, in short, anything official Soviet publishers had not deemed worth publishing.
GIF became popular because it used LZW data compression, which was more efficient than the run-length encoding that formats such as PCX and MacPaint used, and fairly large images could therefore be downloaded in a reasonably short time, even with very slow modems.
It was most popular in the early days of computing, but applies even more today, when powerful computers can spew out mountains of erroneous information in a short time.
In addition to plastic kits, resin has become a popular material for " short run " productions.
The Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens is a popular recreation area a short distance from the City centre.
Brown was inspired to become an entertainer after watching Louis Jordan, a popular jazz and R & B performer during the 1940s, and Jordan's Tympany Five performing " Caldonia " in a short film.
James Monroe ( 2005 ) superficial, short, popular biography
When jazz guitarists play chords underneath a song's melody or another musician's solo improvisations, it is called " comping ", short for " accompanying " The accompanying style in most jazz styles differs from the way chordal instruments accompany in many popular styles of music.
* Khao San Road, a short road in central Bangkok, popular with backpackers
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