And then there's the Reaganite crowd, hand-wringing about layabouts getting their tax dollars.
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He suggests that there is "some truth" to the stereotype that artists are layabouts.
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"You have a lot of deadbeats and layabouts who drag it out until they retire," he said.
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But if spending on the poor is branded as "welfare", conjuring up images of layabouts, support for it plummets.
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The Swiss initiative does not look likely to pass, both because of its expense and the fear of subsidising layabouts.
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That sounds like a good thing, certainly compared with the common public image of undergraduates as a bunch of pampered layabouts.
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Good news for the layabouts, though, as the band have released a demo version of "Losing My Religion" in advance of the reissue.
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It was not an auspicious start for The Rain, a band of layabouts in their 20s who couldn't even afford a microphone stand.
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"My ideal clientele would be layabouts, prostitutes and ex-cons, but we'll probably attract models, writers and a few judges," Mr. McNally said.
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Polling shows that Germans consider Greeks and Italians to be untrustworthy layabouts; anecdotal experience suggests that belief is shared by Austrians, Dutch and Scandinavians.
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Just a few feet separate the chunky Balenciaga Triple S sneakers ($895) from the earth-tone Rainbow flip-flops ($8433) favored by Malibu layabouts.
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Meanwhile, the Republican Party is filled with leaders and pundits who respond to wage earners' concerns about the economy by often calling them whiners or layabouts.
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New Zealand needed to allow immigrants in to do even low-skilled jobs because some unemployed locals were drug-taking layabouts, according to Prime Minister John Key.
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The stereotype of pot smokers in Canada has shifted from lazy, forgetful layabouts to doctors, entrepreneurs and lawyers — many of whom have started up boutique cannabis firms.
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He's still hectoring layabouts, chronicling toilers, and mocking nouvies, although these days he's also skewering the bogus trappings of Irish patriotism and the porousness of the Ulster border.
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Hatch here states that other unnamed programs designed to direct "billions and billions and trillions of dollars" to people in need are ill-conceived giveaways to do-nothing layabouts.
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"The material contained blatant racial stereotypes that portrayed black women as 'prolific child bearers' and black men as layabouts, thieves and drunks," The Globe and Mail reported in 1994.
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But the film, from the sadly departed genius animator Satoshi Kon, has nothing but compassion for her and the rest of its cast of drunks, runaways, criminals, and assorted layabouts.
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"All these people seem to be celebrating our misfortune," said Michael Kulis, a NASA chemist, who had seen comments on social media portraying federal workers as layabouts enjoying their vacations.
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An important reference for the exhibition, which is not mentioned in the gallery press materials, comes from the Red Scare Podcast, hosted by self-described "bohemian layabouts" Anna Khachiyan and Dasha Nekrasova.
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The cast of the show may be a bunch of layabouts with a lack of sense, financial security, and reality, but that's part of what makes People Just Do Nothing so great.
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"Friends" made most of its social bets on gender differences, the way men get away with being chauvinists and lust buckets and layabouts, and the women have to pick up the slack.
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That there is simply no overlap in decile consumption between the two countries is not because Tanzanians are all layabouts who made poor life choices, but because they live in a poor country.
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Is their timidity, their cautiousness, in some sense a betrayal of American values?) and contrarianism (ACTUALLY, Zs are idlers and layabouts in the Romantic vein, deeply impractical and almost militantly committed to whimsy).
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Mocking the young as shiftless layabouts who text all the time would further polarize the electorate along generational lines, and might earn the GOP even broader support among Baby Boomers than it currently enjoys.
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It is also true that in any immigrant population there will be thieves, rapists, killers, scallywags and layabouts — though, by the way, did you also know that the incarceration rate of illegal immigrants is nearly half that of U.S. citizens?
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R.E.M.'s 25th anniversary edition of 1991's Out of Time comes out on November 18, a fact that probably means a great deal more to people who collect physical reissues than it does to layabouts who just want to hear cool outtakes.
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It's very sweaty business on a hot Sunday in early June, and you would be forgiven for hating the job-shy hipster layabouts drinking Bloody Marys outside the window once you're ordered to coordinate your lunges with lifting 5.5 pound tricep weights.
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Nevertheless, it's not hard to imagine how the attention, however minimal, of being included on a debate stage can be leveraged into a better paycheck down the line—whether it's hopping on a corporate board, or grabbing a luxe lobbying gig, or being absorbed within cable news' elite coterie of green-room layabouts.
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Augmenting the naturalism of his early work with a slapstick absurdism pitched somewhere between the worlds of Luis Bunuel and Wile E. Coyote, the Georgian populated the City of Light with an assortment of layabouts, vagabonds, and ne'er-do-wells, concentrating their personal storylines into elegant vignettes that he wove into a larger network of intersections and juxtapositions.
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Toronto Star. July 30, 2011. In response to the late July executive committee meeting, Mammoliti launched a "Save the City...Support the Ford Administration" Facebook group in August 2011.Patrick White. Facebook group not for layabouts and ‘communists:' councillor.
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To leave for surfing was radical at a time when surfers were regarded as long-haired layabouts. The deal with his father was that if it didn't work out in a year then he had to get a trade.
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These staff were supported by an official surgeon, a chaplain and could, on occasion, call upon the services of a local midwife to assist pregnant prisoners.Bournon, pp. 66, 68. A small garrison of "invalides" was appointed in 1749 to guard the interior and exterior of the fortress; these were retired soldiers and were regarded locally, as Simon Schama describes, as "amiable layabouts" rather than professional soldiers.
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During the Cultural Revolution of 1966 to 1976, the members of the Layabouts Lodge were denounced and many were imprisoned. Yu Feng and Huang Miaozi were imprisoned separately for seven years. Yu Feng made paintings out of readily available materials like toilet paper, soap, and candy wrappers. Both artists were politically rehabilitated after the Cultural Revolution and continued to exhibit art in China and throughout the world.
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Robert Rankin held a position as the Writer in Residence of Watermans during the 1980s and organised a regular poetry event which he claims was the largest in Britain. Rankin's The Brentford Trilogy is a series of nine novels humorously chronicling the lives of a couple of drunken middle-aged layabouts who confront the forces of darkness in Brentford. In that decade. there were several reported sightings of a Griffin near Watermans.
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He became a teacher and taught at one of the Bray Schools,Loyalists and Layabouts, p. 219, note 68 for which he received a favorable review by the inspector of schools. After many of the blacks left Nova Scotia for Sierra Leone in early 1792, there were few students left and the schoolhouse closed in 1796. The remaining blacks, about one fifth of the original residents, left Birchtown for other areas, as there were few jobs or prospects by staying in Birchtown.
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In 1988 Susz formed a "stylish soul / R&B;" group, The Mighty Reapers, with Archibald, Brewer and Ruhle. That group recorded three albums, The Mighty Reapers (1993), Trouble People (1994) and The Hurt Is On (1997). Susz was later in the group, Continental Blues Party. Bruce Allen later toured &/or recorded with The Allniters, Eurogliders, The Eddys, Glenn Shorrock, Doug Parkinson and Ross Wilson, and currently performs with a number of Sydney-based bands including The Layabouts, The Bellhops and The Hollywood Hombres.
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A modern edition describes it as "a cutting comedy about hard times, bad jobs, lousy marriages, little magazines, high principles, and the morning after" with "a cast of litterateurs, layabouts, lotharios, academic activists, and fur-clad patrons of protest and the arts." She helped to establish the Screen Writers Guild in 1933. Her first husband was Herbert Solow, who was a staff writer on the Menorah Journal. After marrying her second husband, screenwriter Frank Davis, she moved to California in 1935; with Davis she had two children.
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I vitelloni (; lit. "The Bullocks/The layabouts") is a 1953 Italian comedy- drama directed by Federico Fellini from a screenplay by Fellini, Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli. The film launched the career of Alberto Sordi, one of post-war Italy's most significant and popular comedians, who stars with Franco Fabrizi and Franco Interlenghi in a story of five young Italian men at crucial turning points in their small town lives. Recognized as a pivotal work in the director's artistic evolution, the film has distinct autobiographical elements that mirror important societal changes in 1950s Italy.
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In a run-down Edo tenement, an elderly man (Rokubei) and his bitter wife (Osugi) rent out rooms and beds to the poor. The tenants are gamblers, prostitutes, petty thieves and drunk layabouts, all struggling to survive. The landlady’s younger sister (Okayo) who helps the landlords with maintenance, brings in an old man (Kahei) and rents him a bed. Kahei quickly assumes the role of a mediator and grandfatherly figure, though there is an air of mystery about him and some of the tenants suspect his past is not unblemished.
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Frank Bennett was born as David Wray in 1959 and grew up in the Sydney suburb of Birrong (from an Aboriginal word for star) where he attended Birrong Primary and Birrong Boys High School. He played drums in his early teens. After leaving school in 1975 he found work as a store man and labourer. He started learning saxophone in 1977 and within a year began playing in various bands on the Sydney pub and club circuit from the late 1970s through to the early 1990s: the Layabouts, the Eddys, the Zarzoff Brothers, the Foreday Riders, the Allniters, Club Ska, Paris Green and Bellydance.
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The wish is soon granted: Socrates appears overhead, wafted in a basket at the end of a rope, the better to observe the Sun and other meteorological phenomena. The philosopher descends and quickly begins the induction ceremony for the new elderly student, the highlight of which is a parade of the Clouds, the patron goddesses of thinkers and other layabouts. The Clouds arrive singing majestically of the regions whence they arose and of the land they have now come to visit, loveliest in all being Greece. Introduced to them as a new devotee, Strepsiades begs them to make him the best orator in Greece by a hundred miles.
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At its establishment, Osuna set aside funding for twenty colegiales: six in theology, six in canon law, four in civil law, and four in medicine. This number proved excessively ambitious: neither the University of Seville nor the University of Granada ever hosted so many colegiales, and, in practice, neither did Osuna: the largest number ever at one time was eight, in 1596. Positions were also endowed for 36 sopistas or capigorrones (the names mean, respectively, "eaters of thin soup" and "layabouts"), 12 each in grammar, arts, theology. These positions—again, as in other Spanish universities of the time—were reserved for poor young men of ability; they received a modest scholarship and their bread and board.
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At 16, he played drums with Stevie Wright (Easybeats), Sea of Clouds, Atlantis, the Northbridge Jazz Band and formed experimental funk band Hot Dogma with Craig Learmont (guitar, The Layabouts, Klezma Orcheztra), Peter Astley (bass) & Anthony Smith (keyboards, Flowers, Icehouse). In 1979, Prior formed Matt Finish with singer/guitarist Matt Moffitt and through to the end of the seventies, they played regular residencies in clubs and pubs around Sydney every night of the week, often double-gigging on weekends. In November 1979, a few months after forming, radio station 2JJ broadcast Matt Finish live-to-air from the Civic Hotel in Pitt Street, Sydney and continued to broadcast the raw live performances for a year.
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Prior to his death, Lockwood oversaw preparations for the reissue of Tully's original recordings on CD, as well as his own compilation album, In the Doorway of the Dawn, a 2-CD collection of solo recordings.Mess and Noise, Richard Lockwood obituary, 21 September 2012 Terry Wilson moved on to Space (1971), Lepers Abandon, Original Battersea Heroes (aka Heroes) (1973), Slack Band, Leroy's Layabouts (1975), Doyle Wilson Band (1975), Wasted Daze (1976–77) and The Magnetics (1983) Shayna Stewart joined the cast of the original Australian production of Jesus Christ Superstar and performed on the original Australian cast soundtrack LP. She also contributed to the debut LP by Jon English, Wine Dark Sea.
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The band went on to open for a number of major international acts, including The Layabouts, Reel People, Tortured Soul, and YMCMB's Canadian hip hop recording artist Drake. Their second single from the album, "Heavenly Sent", also made every major South African radio and music video chart, and earned them South African Music Awards (SAMA) nominations for "Best Dance Album", "Album of the Year", "Group of the Year", "Newcomer of the Year", and "Record of the Year". Mi Casa's Newcomer of the Year nomination was met with controversy when some people mentioned that the group's producer, Dr. Duda, was clearly not a new artist. This single was remixed by Charles Webster, marking the first international recognition for the band.
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Brentford's industrial status and the Great West Road are notable facets of Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World. Set in London in AD 2540 (632 A.F.—"After Ford"), the influential dystopia anticipates changes in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that combine to change society profoundly. The BBC Three sitcom People Just Do Nothing is set in and around Brentford. The Brentford Trilogy, a (ten-book) series of "far-fetched fiction" novels by Robert Rankin, humorously chronicle the lives of a couple of drunken middle- aged layabouts, Jim Pooley and John Omally, who confront the forces of darkness in the environs of western Greater London, usually with the assistance of large quantities of beer from their favourite public house, The Flying Swan.
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One example of her wartime work is the 1938 cartoon "Let the Gunfire of National Salvation Smash This Pair of Shackles", which depicts both nationalistic and gender liberation with its woman breaking the chains of shackles. In 1955, Yu Feng was deputy editor of the magazine Xin Guancha ("New Observer") when it held a fourm on the future of Chinese fashion. Yu Feng was placed in charge of a national campaign for "dress reform", focusing on matters such as economic frugality, traditional folk dress, and national identity. Beginning in the early 1940s, Yu Feng and Huang Miaozi were part of a group of artists, writers, and other cultural figures in Shanghai and Chongqing later known as "The Layabouts Lodge" (Erliu Tang 二流堂).
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In the 1980s, Gunther Strobbe (Kenneth Vanbaeden) is a thirteen-year-old boy living with his father, Celle (Koen De Graeve), his three uncles Petrol, Breeze, Koen, (Wouter Hendrickx, Johan Heldenbergh, and Bert Haelvoet respectively) and his mother Meetje (Gilda De Bal). Celle works part-time as a postman, while his brothers are boozing layabouts who live off their mother's pension. The men of this family spend their days drinking beer and eating sausage, breaking things, playing pranks on people, and chasing women. In the present day, Gunther has made a career as a writer when his girlfriend suddenly falls pregnant with a son—apprehensive of his new responsibilities, Gunther seeks out his father and his uncles for some advice on fatherhood.
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Underworld page After centuries of militaristic discipline, having served as a Death Dealer of the vampire clan, Selene had long since developed a near-impervious, stoic external demeanor. Selene is not known for a sense of humor and is actually one of the most honest vampires in the franchise. She is also something of an idealist, believing in certain ideals as justice. Although a vampire for six centuries, Selene only really willingly interacted with other Death Dealers and has never fit in with her own kind (most of whom are too absorbed in their own pursuits of self-gratification) unlike them, Selene has never forgotten why she became a vampire and that they are at war with the Lycans, which leads her to consider them layabouts and dead weight, so she cares little for what they all think of her.
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In January 1985, David Porter of current affairs magazine, Third Way, criticised Coronation Street's attitude towards employment, stating that being unemployed seemed to not be a problem for some characters as they were either "loved layabouts" or "acknowledged rogues", like Jack. In Dorothy Catherine Anger's book Other worlds: society seen through soap opera she brands Jack as one of the "middle aged men" who "over the years have, stymied their wives' efforts to be accepted as respectable". Dorothy Hobson in her book Soap Opera stated that marriages never seem to last in the genre, but added that Jack and Vera were an exception, in her opinion it was because although he loved her, he was terrified of sex. Ian Wylie of The Guardian branded Jack and Vera as "one of TV drama's most enduring – and real – double acts".
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One morning, the little town of Newnan, Georgia, is thrown into hysteria when a UFO is reported over the nearby lake; even the personnel from the nearby Air Force base is mobilized. The only one remaining untouched by this hubbub is Sheriff Hall (Spencer), the big and punchy keeper of the local law; indeed, he does not believe in aliens, especially since layabouts like Brennan (Joe Bugner) use the excitement to commit all sorts of mischief. Still, strange things begin to happen to some of the citizens who share his point of view: a barber's chair begins to spin rapidly around its axis – along with its customer – and an ice cream cart suddenly disgorges its entire load (and more) onto the street after the vendor makes a joke about the aliens being hungry for his ice cream. The same night, a blackout hits the city.
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