In Conrad's next Marlow story, " Heart of Darkness " (21914), set in an unnamed colony whose rulers talk exclusively in propagandist falsehoods, Marlow is the one person willing to call a rattletrap a rattletrap.
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Ehrman's banged-up Buick, nicknamed "Old Rattletrap," and began the drive, with Mrs.
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Though the site was locked, "She found a rattletrap, unsecured gate and squeezed herself through," Roger Smith, a close friend, said.
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Queirós devotes a healthy amount of time to WA4 chain-smoking in his cramped rattletrap of a ship and preparing for his hit.
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He lived in a shabby housing block in a field of identical housing blocks, drove a rattletrap Niva and told endless stories about his days as a paratrooper.
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I love that my little rattletrap gets 40 miles per gallon, and now love even more that it's better for the environment than about one third of the hybrids out there.
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If you find yourself in Cartagena, Colombia, and want a boisterous night with powerful drinks, this is what you should do: hop on a rattletrap wooden truck called the chiva bus.
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According to Russian records, General Averyanov lives in a run-down Soviet-era building a few blocks from the unit's headquarters and drives a 1996 VAZ 21053, a rattletrap Russia-made sedan.
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If you find yourself in central Myanmar and want a drink, this is what you should do: Hire a rattletrap truck or dilapidated motorbike to drive you out into the country to a toddy bar.
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The two-lane highway that curves up the coast from Montevideo is rarely crowded, except on Sunday evenings headed back into the capital, and you're more likely to be stuck behind an old rattletrap of a truck than to hit a line of cars.
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She in turn decides that she will desert him as soon as he has made her wealthy. (Airs 4 and 5) Scene 4. Hum, Quadrant, and Rattletrap confer in a street to ensure that all preparations for the treasure hunt have been made, including a spectacular phony display of magic by Rattletrap. Scene 5.
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She missed her husband, however, and wrote to him in November, "I am lonesome nights in this rattletrap house where every wind shakes out as many noises as there are ghosts in Hades—screeching snapping cracking groaning."Hedrick, Joan D. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994: 199.
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Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times called the film a "slow and rattletrap" star vehicle for Wayne and Hepburn, whose pairing was "not so much a relationship as a very good-natured contest in scene larceny. Despite some of the most tongue-numbing dialogue in a long while, Hepburn wins every time with her sweetly devastating underplaying."Champlin, Charles (October 17, 1975). "Kate and Duke in 'Cogburn'".
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The services that "Rattletrap" offered included engine building, custom paint, fabrication, and more. David's career took a turn to "TV land" when, in the late 1990s, he was offered a position to host the TV series Trucks!. Eager to seize the opportunity, David joined Mel Fair to host the show beginning in its 1999 season. In 2000, however, Fair left the show and David remained the only host.
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Scene 1 Three of the humorists meet in a tavern to discuss the forged documents and fabricated story that will convince the dupes that the location of one of Blackbeard's treasures has been discovered. Rattletrap, designated to impersonate a conjurer, joins the others before the dupes arrive. The dupes are then cleverly drawn into the conspiracy, and they delight at the prospect of such a windfall. (Opening Song, Airs 1-3) Scene 2.
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The search party reaches the place where the treasure is buried. Rattletrap impresses the dupes with a mock ritual that is supposed to divine the location of the chest and free the treasure from the spirits of the dead. The dupes, thoroughly frightened but still determined, finally raise the chest from the earth and agree to carry it to Washball's house, where the treasure can be divided on the following day. (Air 14) Scene 3.
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" Colin Covert of the Star Tribune gave the film two out of four stars, saying "A well-oiled machine of visuals, and yet a wobbling rattletrap of storytelling, the sci-fi fantasy Tomorrowland is an unwieldy clunker driven into the ditch at full speed." James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying "For a while, it doesn't matter that the plot meanders. The story seems like a jigsaw puzzle inviting us to solve it. That's the fun part.
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David's desire to own and drive a unique vehicle led him to the best way (in his opinion) to achieve this goal - to build it himself. To fulfill that goal, he became a student of legendary hot- rodders (custom car builders) George Barris, John Buttera and Darryl Starbird. With those skills now in hand, David went to Nashville and opened his own custom car shop named "Rattletrap." He continued to build his reputation by working on whatever was pushed, pulled, or dragged into his shop.
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Many of the reviewers of the series and movie reflect the common in-universe opinion of the ship; describing Serenity as a "battered old jalopy of a space craft", "a rattletrap transport ship ... held together by 26th-century chewing gum and duct tape", or "a ship that seems to be held together with baling wire and paper clips", Some reviewers, while making comparisons between Firefly’s Malcolm Reynolds and Han Solo from Star Wars, invoke the Millennium Falcon when talking about Serenity: "a scrap heap of a spaceship in the Millennium Falcon mold", or "a Millennium Falcon-style rust bucket".
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Fox described the inspiration for the cartoon series in an article he wrote for The Saturday Evening Post titled "A Queer Way to Make a Living" (February 11, 1928, page six): > After years of gestation, the idea for the Toonerville Trolley was born one > day up in Westchester County when my wife and I had left New York City to > visit Charlie Voight, the cartoonist, in the Pelhams. At the station, we saw > a rattletrap of a streetcar, which had as its crew and skipper a wistful old > codger with an Airedale beard. He showed as much concern in the performance > of his job as you might expect from Captain Hartley when docking the > Leviathan.
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Oliver Pollock and Bernardo de Gálvez, the Governor of Spanish Louisiana and Commander of the troops of his Catholic Majesty began organizing military raids against British West Florida and sent over worth of munitions to Fort Pitt. Pollock received a letter from Robert Morris and William Smith who were members of the Committee of Secret Correspondence stating that Willing would be leading an expedition against loyalist settlements along the river above New Orleans. Willing along with twenty-nine men of the 13th Virginia Regiment left Fort Pitt on January 11, 1778 and sailed down the Ohio River on board the gunboat USS Rattletrap. Willing and his party reached Natchez on February 19, 1778, and began raiding British forts, plantations, and other properties of British loyalists.
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" V.A. Musetto of the New York Post wrote, "(Laranas) delivers a maximum of suspense and horror, working wonders with a small budget." Sam Adams of The A.V. Club gave a positive review, saying "The Road spends most of its time going in circles, working and reworking a small set of potent images. There’s a fine line between simple and crude, and The Road weaves back and forth over it like a rattletrap with a sudden flat, but Laranas makes a virtue of his limited means, steering clear of distraction and into the heart of darkness." A mixed review came from Ed Gonzales of Slant Magazine, who gave the film 2 stars out of four, saying, "For a spell, the film gets by on its unpretentious flair for atmosphere, even its disconcerting nonsensicality.
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Its commander expressed a preference for bombardment duty to Brereton, who arranged a transfer so that he himself could take command. His unit had no aircraft on his arrival, and he could only procure a dozen obsolete Dorand AR.IsThe "AR" stood for Avion Renault, but American pilots quipped that it stood for "antique rattletrap". to fly until first-line Salmson 2 A2s became available. The 12th A.S. began combat operations from Ourches airdrome on May 3, patrolling the "Toul Sector" between Flirey and Apremont in support of the U.S. 26th Division Brereton and his pilots moved overland to Vathiménil to receive their Salmsons in the first week of June and carried out extensive operations between Blâmont and Badonviller in the "Baccarat Sector" for three weeks supporting the U.S. 42nd Division.
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Fredo (Cesar Montano) is a fisherman who has endured more than his share of hardship in life; his wife and child both perished in a boating accident, and today Fredo approaches each trip to the sea with the angry determination of a man out for revenge. Fredo commands a crew of young people from poor families as he takes his rattletrap ship into the ocean in search of fish that live along the reefs, snaring catch with an illegal netting system. Not all of Fredo's youthful sailors are willing to put up with his abusive arrogance, however, and even his father Dado (Pen Medina) and close friend Botong (Jhong Hilario) have grown weary of Fredo's tirades. Fredo's body is beginning to betray him as well, and as he and his crew damage the sea's reef beds in search of fish, no one is certain how much longer he will be able to continue.
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The seventh annual Nelsonville Music Festival took place from May 13–15, 2011. The event featured more than 50 acts, including The Flaming Lips, George Jones, Neko Case, Yo La Tengo, Wanda Jackson, Justin Townes Earle, Over the Rhine, The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, Lost in the Trees, Bomba Estereo, Mucca Pazza, The Growlers, Michael Hurley, Drakkar Sauna, Baby Dee, Doug Paisley, Ned Oldham & Old Calf, Southeast Engine, The Honeycutters, Y La Bamba, The Spikedrivers, Sgt. Dunbar & the Hobo Banned, Samantha Crain, Chooglin', Cheyenne Marie Mize, The Black Swans, Mount Carmel, Wheels on Fire, Nick Tolford & Company, Black Owls, Duke Junior & the Smokey Boots, She Bears, Whale Zombie, Scubadog, Jerry DeCicca, Eve Searls, Matt Moore, The Shazzbots, Flyaway Saturn, Chris Biester, Weedghost, The Lovesick Blues, The Dragline Brothers, Octopus & Owl, Shelby Carter, Rattletrap Stringband, Bruce & Gay Dalzell, Bill Wagner & Brett Burleson, Zeb Dewar, and Elemental Revolver.Sarah White appears at Nelsonville Music Festival in Nelsonville, Ohio on May 17, 2008.
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