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But running for office and serving in office is not a flight of fancy.

Such statements are far more dishonest than the statistical flight of fancy promoted by Biden.

His dad said it had just been a flight of fancy, and took it down. At

Sokolow's first sentence is factual and forms the springboard for the artist's carefully choreographed flight of fancy.

Janina insists on the influence of star signs, but it seems now like a flight of fancy.

As rendered in English, anyway, it is efficient, direct, unfussy but not without the occasional flight of fancy.

The no-nonsense biography does allow itself the occasional flight of fancy, but it falls to Earth quickly every time.

She couldn't quite say what she wanted then but described a flight of fancy that had lately crossed her mind.

Trader Joe's unveiled a flowery "Flight of Fancy" float complete with parachuters and a giant banana against a Seussian landscape.

Yet, for every imaginative literary flight of fancy, there's another garment giving voice to the dark, the frank, and the revelatory.

In "Bizarrodale," Veronica finds out her drug-burning flight of fancy put her family in thousands of dollars of debt to Gladys.

Be it air, train, boat or automobile, there was a sack to suit one's flight of fancy both in form and function.

Then, in a flight of fancy, the book closes with the observations of an insightful lion humiliated by life in the zoo.

It could so easily be too much, and somehow isn't, the flight of fancy anchored by precision and a just-suppressed comedy.

But, it's possible the story of Anastasia, who is revealed to be a witch in this world, wasn't merely a flight of fancy for AHS.

Bogart that was Lauren Bacall: So far so revivifying, you might think, if only the domestic drama encasing Cardiff's flight of fancy weren't so routine.

But Rainer Dulger, president of Gesamtmetall, the umbrella association of German metal and electrical industry employers, criticised the union's demand as an unreasonable "flight of fancy".

His obsession with the utterly unfounded theory that Democrats colluded with Ukrainian nationals to delegitimize Trump's 2016 presidential win is only Giuliani's latest flight of fancy.

Researchers at the Swiss bank UBS say the space tourism economy is no flight of fancy and estimate it will become an $800 billion industry by 2030.

More than an academic flight of fancy concerning composition and color, Le Parc's work evolved from the 1940s Buenos Aires avant-garde he knew as a student.

Character Study Perry Ritter's tiny saxophone repair shop in Midtown Manhattan is as much a visual flight of fancy as a jazz solo is an auditory one.

Any purchase, however, apparently would have to wait, as Mr. Smoove took off on another a flight of fancy, about past lives, before heading toward the door.

It hopes that its distinctive blends, such as the "Golden Phoenix King", will get customers hooked: either a flight of fancy—or the rebirth of the tea business.

In contrast, Earn's cousin Alfred, better known as the rapper Paper Boi, goes on a talk show on the fictional "Black Action Network" in the series' biggest flight of fancy.

But the trend toward putting the poetry back into politics ought to be seen as a welcome turn to normalcy, not some kind of objectionable left-wing flight of fancy.

Mike's glacial drift into becoming a murderer for hire — enable the show to stay recognizable and real while simultaneously indulging every crime-genre flight of fancy it can cook up.

While looking out at their yard, where they have begun growing a garden and plan to create a play space for their toddler, Mr. Yanev indulged another flight of fancy.

Martin Schulz, the party's leader, has just proposed a "United States of Europe" by 2025 — and to expel European Union member states that won't join in his flight of fancy.

The women were speaking out again new streetside vendor laws, but it only took a small flight of fancy to imagine that they were actually arguing over their preference for chocolate.

MELBOURNE, Australia — Ann Chisholm contemplated traveling from her Minnesota home to watch the main-draw debut of her cousin Danielle Collins at the Australian Open, but it seemed like a flight of fancy.

Wordplay SATURDAY PUZZLE — It has been an entire business week since I've seen you, and last weekend's flight of fancy has lost altitude and landed in this minefield of a puzzle by Mark Diehl.

It's unclear how many often the Purpleaxxe made appearances at Prince's shows, but a Google image search shows it wasn't just a flight of fancy — the keytar made appearances on stage more than once.

With all the daily vacillations in Bitcoin value, it's hard for me to know if the currency is in a stable, real place with normal people or if it's still a flight of fancy.

Order in a dozen bottles of vino from both old and new worlds and do a self-guided wine flight of fancy (or maybe just a half dozen if you're isolated on your own).

This lively, intriguing and insistently humanistic flight of fancy — imagined conversations between hard-line conservative Pope Benedict XVI and his more progressive successor, Pope Francis — brims with wit, warmth and some tantalizing what-ifs.

In some ways, the movies could not be more different — one tightly controlled, scaffolded by the historical record and exuding a verisimilitude despite the liberties it takes; the other sending a historical character down a fictionalized picaresque flight of fancy.

Britain's surprising referendum vote to leave the European Union in 2016 foreshadowed Trump's victory later that year and was based on some similar populist, anti-establishment trends -- though Trump's repeated claims that he predicted the result are a flight of fancy.

Neatly positioned arabesques and serpentine motifs translate the flight of fancy the characters experience when interacting with the Surreal Woman, those pages look like a maximalist hybrid of Dalí's style, art nouveau, and the anime-like ethereal artworks of artist Yoshitaka Amano.

Whether or not you buy the thesis, so calm and so remorseless is the clarity with which Scorsese charts the events of that day that you somehow yield to them not as a flight of fancy but as the reconstruction of an established truth.

Pop-culture scholar Josh Frank, known for his books on Peter Ivers and the Pixies, has tried to give shape to the most surreal flight of fancy there ever was: a would-be/could-be collaboration in 1937 between Salvador Dalí and the Marx brothers, titled Giraffes on Horseback Salad, or The Surrealist Woman.

Her flight of fancy, combined with some technical and marketing know-how assembled by Matthew Gibson, her stepson, resulted in the LongPen, a robotic device that enables a writer—or anyone—to sign a paper remotely in a manner that replicates the speed and pressure of the original autograph, and is indistinguishable from it.

" Ultimately, Soloway's father's later-life transition didn't just inspire a script; it shifted Soloway's own sexuality and identity (Soloway today identifies as gender nonbinary and prefers the third-person plural pronoun): "There was an evolving sense of reality that said now that I have a queer parent, getting my body in line with my mind was not just a flight of fancy.

Flight of Fancy is a 2000 Puerto Rican film directed and co-written by Noel Quiñones.

The Moth: from flight of fancy to successful arts magazine The Irish Times. 15 August 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2015.

When not driving Ivor or helping the engine with his latest flight of fancy, he enjoys fishing and day- dreaming.

The Ouzel Galley does draw on earlier accounts of the ship, but it is as much a flight of fancy as it is an historical novel.

Wong, Magdalen. "Magdalen Wong artist statement". OV Gallery Although her work can sometimes be viewed as a critique of consumer culture,Tsai, Sylvia. "A flight of Fancy: Magdalen Wong".

X-Panda's debut album Flight of Fancy was released in September 2011X-Panda - Flight Of Fancy BACKGROUND MAGAZINE Review and it has been well received internationally by the critics in progressive music and metal genres.. Metal Storm. Sea of Tranquility The album was nominated for the best metal album of the year at the Estonian Music Awards 2012. Sea of Tranquility X-Panda performed at the Progmotion Festival in 2013 in Uden."X-Panda, Synaesthesia".

X-Panda is a progressive metalReview: X-Panda - Flight Of Fancy (2011) - Podcast Progshine and fusion band from Estonia. Their music is mainly instrumental but a few of their songs also include vocals."Concert Reviews Archive". Dutch Progressive Rock Page.

White grew up in Cambridge, and began learning and writing about aviation as a child,"Is rekindling lost romance of aviation just a flight of fancy?". The Yorkshire Post. before studying Modern History at the University of Liverpool. He graduated in 1992.

The band was founded as a project for a local song competition in Tartu in April 2009.PROG ROCK MUSIC TALK: Review: X–Panda-Flight Of Fancy"X-Panda, Flights of Fancy". Metal Revolution. The newly formed group won the competition with their song “Dickybirds”.

The looped video works are displayed on TV sets installed with propped up the screens facing the ground.Tsai, Sylvia. "A flight of Fancy: Magdalen Wong". Art Asia Pacific Viewers could hear the sounds from the TVs, but as the screens faced the ground, they could only see modulating colors reflected on the floor as the videos looped.

Yet, Robert Hunter, writing for The Hollywood Reporter magazine, thought the film was a "diverting but lackluster romancer" and the story needed the visuals to make it interesting. He wrote, "[T]his flight of fancy needs every glimpse of the location's glaciers, soaring white peaks and stormy skies."Hunter, Robert. The Hollywood Reporter, film review, November 11, 2002.

It seems that this project went little further than a road-going prototype with rudimentary bodywork. Zethrin did not have the technical expertise of Adrian Squire, and failed to ensure sufficient industry interest in what seemed a flight of fancy, in an era of austerity. Lack of funds and backers falling away put paid to the Rennsport becoming available for purchase.

Stray dogs are a significant threat to air safety at the HAL Bangalore International Airport.Dogs' day out at Bangalore airport. It's not a flight of fancy, DNA, 27 September 2010 On 27 March 2008, a Kingfisher Airlines aircraft hit a stray dog on the runway at the airport,Kingfisher flight skids on runway, The Hindu, 28 March 2008. resulting in the aircraft's landing gear collapsing.

The competing New Zealand Truth made much of its rival's error. The paper went on to say that the local Auckland Aero Club had refused the boys permission to use their field at Mangere because they considered the plane a hazard."Was it a flight of fancy?" NZ Truth, Issue 1232, 11 July 1929, Page 2 The boys were aged 20 and 18 respectively at the time.

Herring moved from knitting Mylar to video and participatory performances in 1998. His videos were primarily stop motion. When he was sitting in his knitting chair for hours on end, knitting, his mind would wonder and his stop motion videos expressed his thoughts. In his video Exit, he starts out in his knitting chair, than through stop motion he bounds out of it in a flight of fancy.

In 1958, the company launched the "Designs for Giving" campaign, in which professional artists and designers were hired to create special patterns for gift wrapping. Designs included "Birds and Bees" for baby showers, "Born Lucky, Born Rich" for birthdays, and "Flight of Fancy" for weddings or Christmas. Reynolds Consumer Products went public with an initial public offering on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol REYN on Friday, January 31, 2020.

"Plainly, a power derived from Congress' Art. III control over federal court jurisdiction would not, by any flight of fancy, permit Congress to control proceedings in state courts," O'Connor concluded. "The foregoing cannot be dismissed as 'ambiguities' in the legislative history." The one sentence Burger had quoted directly for the majority referring to "contracts involving commerce" was definitely resolved by other statements in the legislative history, she added.

Damon Knight wrote of the novel: > Timeliner, by Charles Eric Maine, is that sort of amateur flight of fancy > that takes leave of its premises, and its senses, in the second chapter. > Almost anything can then happen except the unexpected. Groff Conklin, reviewing the novel in Galaxy, dismissed it as "without doubt one of the most inconsequential science fiction novels ever written.""Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf", Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1955, p.

When a character looks into the perspicill, he is amazed to view a richly-dressed crowd – which is the audience watching the performance of the play. In a related flight of fancy, Tomkis's fraudulent astrologer produces a comparable instrument for extending the range of human hearing, which he calls the "otacousticon" – and which turns out to be an artificial pair of ass's ears.Hugh G. Dick, "The Telescope and the Comic Imagination," Modern Language Notes Vol. 58 No. 7 (November 1943), pp. 544–8.

It was published the following year by Atomic Quill Press. Stories in this book are connected by recurrent characters and places, as the collection dramatizes various causes and forms of loneliness. In 2008 his novel, After the Floods (Lost Hills Books) appeared. Praised by the New Orleans Times-Picayune as a "thoroughly enjoyable flight of fancy" and "a spiritual comedy," the novel, set partially in post- Katrina New Orleans, combines magical realism and deconstruction in a manner at once imaginative and accessible.

627, 644, 645 King had a notable part in Jilly Cooper's The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous (1997). In the opening scene, her tryst with the anti-hero, Lysander Hawkley, is interrupted by her husband, who chases Lysander out of the house naked with a crossbow.Dave Lanning, Sooper-Stud's Flight of Fancy dated June 8, 1997, in The People (London, England) at highbeam.com, accessed 6 April 2018 She now has a studio in Camden Town and teaches music, theatre, and film students.

Mainwaring commandeering a passing steam roller to tow the van to the exercise. Unfortunately, on arrival at the training camp, Mainwaring and Jones discover that neither knows how to stop the roller, and they end up flattening their tents and equipment. In 'Allo 'Allo!, in one episode (Series 3 episode 4, "Flight Of Fancy"), Colonel Kurt Von Strohm and Captain Hans Geering drive a steamroller to infiltrate an old railway parade but find they cannot stop and accidentally run over and crush Herr Flick's Gestapo staff car.

The building has a modular design consisting of five steel modules prefabricated in the UK by Scott Lithgow Shipbuilders near Glasgow, and shipped to Hong Kong. About 30,000 tons of steel and 4,500 tons of aluminium were used. The original design was heavily inspired by the Douglas Gilling designed Qantas International Centre in Sydney (currently known as Suncorp Place).A flight of fancy becomes a reality The new lobby and its two-part Asian Story Wall were designed by Greg Pearce, of One Space Limited.

The group went on to participate in the Estonian Noortebänd 2010 competition, an annual national competition for musical groups consisting of members that are younger than 26 years old. They won the competition," FOTOD: Noortebänd X-Panda esitles debüütalbumit". September 2011 Noorte hääl with their cover of the song Siren by Malcolm Lincoln, the Estonian representative in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Oslo, Norway. Their critically acclaimed debut album Flight of Fancy (2011) was nominated album of the year in metal category of Estonian Music Awards.

With an emphasis on new topics, Zecca expanded into short films that explored everything from everyday events to fantastic flight of fancy. His other films included comedies, trick films,Paris 1995, p. 11. or fairy tales, such as Les Sept châteaux du Diable, both 1901, and La Belle au bois dormant in 1902, as well as social dramas like Les Victimes de l'alcoolisme (1902), Au pays noir (1905) and reconstructions of actual events, the most famous being La Catastrophe de la Martinique (1902).Lanzoni 2004, p. 42.

While working at the War Office, he was pasting cuttings for a snowcraft manual when he inadvertently pasted together the head of a dog on the body of a camel. From that came the idea of "split" books for children, a series published in many languages. In 1948, with the writer Nevil Shute, he made a six-month flight to Australia and back in a single-engine Percival Proctor monoplane. From that experience, Riddell wrote a travel book, Flight of Fancy, and Shute the novel, A Town Like Alice.

Kemp's fantasy is disturbed when he meets a real-life Jill, or Gillian; his attempts to match his flight of fancy to reality end in embarrassment and humiliation.Motion, pp. 154–56 Reviewing the published Coleman material, The Independent Richard Canning suggests that the influence of these early works is often discernible in Larkin's poetry. Likewise Stephen Cooper, in his 2004 book Philip Larkin: Subversive Writer, argues that the stylistic and thematic influences of Trouble at Willow Gables and Michaelmas Term at St Brides anticipate the poetry's recurrent concern with rebellion and conformity.

The Flight of Fancy butterfly house was constructed in 2007, as was a 300-seat amphitheatre with a 3,700 ft2 covered stage.Strickland, Sandy: "Tree Hill Nature Center in Arlington branches into the art field", Florida Times-Union, August 13, 2009 The following year, the Tree Hill organization was given $150,000 for the 5-year naming rights to the amphitheatre, whereupon the structure was named the Joseph A. Strasser Amphitheatre. Several live displays of animals, including gopher tortoises, possums, goats, chickens, fish and snakes, were added in 2009. The nearby Jacksonville Arboretum & Gardens was organized and is operated like Tree Hill.

A tendon in the rear of the leg running from the underside of the toes to the muscle behind the tibiotarsus will automatically be pulled and tighten when the leg bends, causing the foot to curl and become stiff when the bird lands on a branch. This enables passerines to sleep while perching without falling off.Stefoff, Rebecca (2008), The Bird Class, Marshall Cavendish BenchmarkBrooke, Michael and Birkhead, Tim (1991) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Ornithology, Cambridge University Press . Most passerine birds have 12 tail feathers but the superb lyrebird has 16,Jones, D. (2008) "Flight of fancy".

Grand Avenue is considered the "downtown" area of the city. At the junction of Grand Avenue and Main Street you will find Southwest Missouri bank on the N.E. corner. Current businesses also include Dollar General, Selveys Furniture, Flowers Unlimited Florist, the local post office, 100 Grand Event Center, Judy's Truck Stop, Peggy's Restaurant, McKay's Dairy Kreme, Jasper Tavern, Maneval's Grain, Jasper Grain, S & S Recovery, Towing and mobile road repair, Fleet Paint and Body, Gilster- Mary Lee popcorn company, Flight of Fancy Flea Market, Wampler Plumbing, Grand Styles Salon and a Pete's Convenience Store/ Simple Simon's Pizza.

Without consulting her daughter, Lady Marjorie has engaged a house cook for Elizabeth and her new husband, the effete show- off and moderately famous (but not financially successful) poet Lawrence. On a flight of fancy, Lawrence insists on engaging a valet, rather than the more economical alternative of a mere boot-boy. Despite not being consulted, and not being given a chance to manage the household budget, Elizabeth has to bear the cost out of her moderate dowry. Thomas Watkins applies for the job as valet, and is engaged to start after a superficial interview by Lawrence, whom he quickly assesses as a complete pushover.

Instead, he channeled his energy into scholarly pursuits and the management of his several grand residences and estates, which gave employment and lodging to thousands. He was highly conscientious of his responsibility for the welfare of those who relied upon him for their livelihood. In his mature years, little of his attention seems to have been directed toward women, save that he mentions in a letter of 1910 that he had fallen in love again, as if by some miracle, "imagine that, in love at fifty one". But this one and only mention of anything of the kind in all of his correspondence suggests this flight of fancy did not go far, and that his feelings were unrequited.

Woolworths, ABC Kids, Taronga Zoo, The MLC 'Nest Egg', Perpetual, The Australian Ballet, Free TV Australia, Football Federation of Australia, P&O;,Maria Ligerakis, "P&O;'s cruising with a new look logo", B&T;, 16 November 2000, archived at the Wayback Machine on 27 April 2004. Nylex and Foxtel.Andrew Carswell, "Hans' winning flight of fancy", The Sunday Telegraph, 6 September 2008. He and his company have also designed many of Australia's leading packaging brands such as 'Thins' for Arnotts, 'Windex' and 'Toilet Duck' for SC Johnson, 'Dettol', 'UV Triple Guard', 'Exit Mould' and 'Disprin' for Reckitt Benkiser, 'Kleenex Tissues' and 'Huggies' for Kimberly-Clark, and 'Wild Oats' for Oatley Family Wines.

These films garnered Quiñones fourteen awards in local and international festivals. In 1994, he collaborated with Tom Musca and playwright Mark Kemble to produce Flight of Fancy (2000), which was the winner of Best Film with a Latin theme at the Hollywood International Film Festival and Best Film at The Renaissance City Film Festival in Rhode Island, both in 2001. Quinõnes' film work also includes 17 (original title: Los 17), a documentary about educational transformation in Puerto Rico, which was the winner of Best Short Documentary at the Rincón International Film Festival in Rincón, Puerto Rico in 2012. He also produced 100,000, a documentary about the problem of stray dogs in Puerto Rico.

While touring schools that were screening his film, Flight of Fancy, Quiñones and his wife observed the run- down condition of the classrooms, the dearth of technology, and the lack of disciplinary structure present at these schools. In 2005, after four years of interviewing students, teachers, administrators and parents, he established the philanthropic organization Operation Éxito to improve the quality of Puerto Rico's public education system. Operation Éxito's goal is to use technology and motivational strategies to develop skills and inquisitive attitudes among students towards learning science and mathematics. Since its inception, Operation Éxito has evolved beyond Puerto Rico to other Spanish- speaking countries, as well as the United States of America.

Zethrin did not have the technical expertise of Adrian Squire, and failed to ensure sufficient industry interest in what seemed a flight of fancy, in an era of austerity. Lack of funds and backers falling away put paid to the Rennsport becoming available for purchase. There was a final glimmer, when Zethrin sold the remaining Squire in his possession to an American car dealer, Charles Davison, who was signed up to promote the Rennsport in The USA.Car and Driver October 1967 No more was heard of the car until 2007, when the heavily damaged remnants of Val Zethrin's automotive property came to light, stored in a derelict coachhouse at Sandown, on the IOW.

On stage Whelan has played Horatio in Hamlet and Salisbury in Richard II. He has also appeared in two of the Pink Panther movies and his other film credits include Cry Freedom, Paper Marriage, Moll Flanders and Michael Collins. Recent film roles were O’Connor in Villa of Roses and Declan Murphy in A Flight of Fancy. Among Whelan's other television credits are Glenroe, Angels, Hideaway, Minder, The Royal and Kavanagh QC. Gary has also been seen in the roles of Sam Tilley in Uncle Silas and Charlie Pearch in In Deep. In 2005 he appeared in the BBC hospital drama Casualty@Holby City and in 2006 he starred in Channel 4's Goldplated.

In the opening scene, Lysander Hawkley (Stephen Billington), accompanied by a Jack Russell Terrier which goes everywhere with him, is caught making love to Martha (Donna King), the neglected wife of Elmer Winterton (Mac McDonald). He runs naked out of the house and through a garden, pursued by the jealous Winterton with a crossbow, and hides in a tree, where he is found and trapped by Rottweilers.Dave Lanning, Sooper-Stud's Flight of Fancy dated June 8, 1997, in The People (London, England) at highbeam.com, accessed 6 April 2018 Hawkley is a semi- professional tennis player in his early twenties who is becoming notorious in the gossip columns for affairs with a series of married women.

For smaller brass ensembles his work includes Praeludium and Allegro for trombone, Cavatina and Allegro for E-flat horn, Arioso and Caprice for horn, Flight of Fancy, for cornet and euphonium, the fantasy Alice in Wonderland, The Four Corners of the World, Down Under, Episodes for Brass, Prelude and Rondo and Seven Up for septet, Prelude, Romance and Finale for brass quartet and the cornet quartet Foursome Fantasy. His arrangements of musicals include Calamity Jane, Blossom Time, The Merry Widow, Viva Mexico!, Die Fledermaus, The Chocolate Soldier and La Périchole and his orchestrations of shows for amateur companies remain in demand world wide. Some of his self-composed dramatic cues were featured in The Ren & Stimpy Show, Rocko's Modern Life, SpongeBob SquarePants, Camp Lazlo.

The two meet at the Hackmesser Pass, as von Bek has unknowingly caused a landslide while shooting a hare for his supper. St Odhran expresses his intent of heading to Mirenberg to do 'business'; von Bek, however, does not inform him that he also intends to travel to Mirenberg, but readily agrees to meet with St Odhran if their paths cross again. On arrival in Lausanne, von Bek discovers that the Libussa has already left, and a friend informs him that there is, in fact, no Duchess of Crete. There is, however, an unmarried Duke of Crete, who has been living in Prague for the last five years, though he dresses up as a woman as a flight of fancy.

For humans, maintaining an upside down position, with the head vertically below the feet, is highly uncomfortable for any extended period of time, and consequently burial in that attitude (as opposed to attitudes of rest or watchfulness, as above) is highly unusual and generally symbolic. Occasionally suicides and assassins were buried upside down, as a post-mortem punishment and (as with burial at cross-roads) to inhibit the activities of the resulting undead. In Gulliver's Travels, the Lilliputians buried their dead upside down: Swift's notion of inverted burial might seem the highest flight of fancy, but it appears that among English millenarians the idea that the world would be "turned upside down" at the Apocalypse enjoyed some currency. There is at least one attested case of a person being buried upside down by instruction; a Major Peter Labilliere of Dorking (d.

In 1949 Desmonde appeared on television as a presenter in Rooftop Rendezvous. He was a regular panelist and occasional guest host on the original UK version of the television panel game What's My Line? (1951–1962),; ; and appeared in several TV comedies Holiday Camp (1951) with Arthur Askey, A Flight of Fancy (1952) with Jimmy Young, then a singer working as a comedian, Spectacular (1960) Before Your Very Eyes (1956–58) with Arthur Askey, ; He appeared in Whack-O! (1960) and Bud in 1963 a sitcom with Bud Flanagan and other members of The Crazy Gang. He also appeared in The Dickie Henderson Show (1963) and episodes of the ITV television series A Question of Happiness (1964), The Plane Makers (1964), The Villains (1965), No Hiding Place (1965), The Mask of Janus (1965), The Valliant Varneys (1965), Pardon the Expression (1966) and Vendetta (1966).