In his campaign, Mr. Trump promised to help working stiffs — well, those stiffs are not just in the coal mines.
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I have some idea of what ordinary working stiffs go through.
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Do you ever crave "nice" or what some stiffs might call "clean"?
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Those big "coachable" stiffs, who supposedly make better insurance salesmen than NBA swingmen?
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In truth, today's Democrats aren't much interested in the well-being of working stiffs.
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Your partner grumbles about the check and leaves a bad tip — or stiffs the waitstaff.
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DoorDash uses a shady tactic that stiffs workers out of some tips and customers are furious.
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Interestingly, there is an academic literature hypothesizing that conservatives are humorless stiffs while liberals are superfun.
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These were not working stiffs: cleaners, receptionists, or other service-industry hirelings already humbled by computers.
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Early on he stiffs a cab driver, and is there a more despicable superhuman behavior than that?
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Liz Peek: Obama stiffs Ocasio-Cortez as Democrats weigh whether she hurts or helps them in November.
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This whole election has been about resentment on the part of working stiffs against the nation's elite.
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"Two working stiffs enjoying our last #Sunday before heading back to #ScreamQueens and #CodeBlack," he captioned the shot.
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He benefits from others' labor and then turns around and stiffs small businesses and low-paid service workers.
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The pay gap between company bigwigs and ordinary working stiffs is narrowing, but there's still a major chasm.
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" He still rues that the "stiffs" in Congress insisted on calling it "the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
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They should probably wait out our Election to see if we get one of the Democrat stiffs like Sleepy Joe.
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So, on December 25, working-class stiffs got fall-down drunk and stumbled around cities looking for stuff to loot.
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So could any in a long list of regular working stiffs who've taken to social media to rant against their bosses.
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A switchback of mixed motives and ping-ponging sympathies, "Us and Them" declines to go all in for its working stiffs.
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In reality, Trump routinely stiffs contractors who work for him and wound up paying out an enormous fraud settlement over the university.
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This only strengthens the narrative of Trump as a con man who does not pay his bills and stiffs contractors and employees.
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But at first glance, it appears to fit with a pattern of past accusations that Trump stiffs people of their earned pay.
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That said, at least they got the job done, beating up on some international stiffs and posterizing poor Frederic Weis while winning gold.
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In response to the report, Trump told USA Today in an interview that he only stiffs or shorts bills if the work is unsatisfactory.
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The idea that a businessman who stiffs his workers and doesn't pay taxes has become the voice of blue-collar America is patently absurd.
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And the workaday baseball cap – in vigorous red – suggests empathy with the white working stiffs whose predicaments are at the heart of the election.
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Serving working stiffs from Staten Island, truck drivers from New Jersey, slicing smack through tony, litigious, brownstone Brooklyn, it is a modern American parable.
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But she's so desperate to get out of town that she grabs her money, stiffs Fannie out of the house share and heads for the highway.
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And of course it's not just Wall Street stiffs who would find themselves in that situation: So would doctors, lawyers, engineers, and other well-paid professionals.
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I wrote about this disdain for working stiffs last week; since then we've seen even more evidence of that disdain and disconnect from ordinary American lives.
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Business tax reform has only a modest connection to the economic future of working stiffs, and the small connection that does exist is a second-order effect.
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It is Trump who stiffs subcontractors their last payment (known as the profit payment), causing several to go bankrupt and throwing thousands of workers out of jobs.
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Uber's legions of contractors have long alleged Uber stiffs them on compensation through shady business tactics, rate cuts, and increasing commissions, forcing them to work continually longer hours.
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From communist academics and charming mobsters, to brash movie execs and working-class stiffs, the film oscillates wildly between comedy and melodrama, Borscht Belt humor, and gentle sentimentality.
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The ships represented power and luxury in the midst of a global depression — the freedom to travel the world when most working stiffs were stuck scratching for shift work.
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The Affordable Care Act was paid for in part by taxes on incomes in excess of $200,000, so 400K-a-year working stiffs did pay some of the cost.
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One way of looking at that is the Labor Department's data on average hourly earnings for nonsupervisory employees, a longstanding data series on what working stiffs take home in wages.
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Rudolph Valentino, Nikola Tesla, Judy Garland, Tennessee Williams, Ed Sullivan, Jacqueline Onassis, Joan Rivers, and the Notorious B.I.G. are some of the distinguished stiffs who've been seen there in charismatic repose.
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Reality Check: Trump's economic plans costing jobs and adding to national debt By Tami Luhby, CNNMoney Vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine said Trump tells people to believe him and then stiffs them.
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In an effort to do that, Clinton cast Trump as an outsourcer who wants to "put America first" but who actually makes his products in other countries and stiffs American small businesses.
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"China, along with several other emerging economies, their forward growth path looks much more robust than here in the U.S." Go deeper: China even stiffs tariff-free U.S. goods during Trump trade war
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All of which did a lot of good for the United States of America and all the working stiffs who did not know that losing about a billion dollars is a financial masterstroke.
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Had it aged in the same manner as baseball, there would be no 3-point line — stiffs would be laying it up in the paint over and over again — or annual dunk contest.
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His heroes are often humble or apparently weak: children, working-class stiffs, abused women, the poor, the disabled and the overlooked — people who must summon the courage to fight back against seemingly impossible odds.
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In a strange way, it may actually have been worse to be gainfully employed, because while the rest of us actually knew where we stood, the working stiffs quickly became BFFs with fear itself.
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When not well-defined, tipping is wracked by guilt and insecurity and mushy math: When Hillary Clinton stiffs the tip jar at Chipotle, it's not just news, it's a trend piece about her cheapskate soul.
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As for the rest of us working stiffs, the closest we'll get to the Altwork's feeling of weightlessness is the free sickbed workstation, like the one I set up after contracting my usual post-CES bug.
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I bet Capital One has reams of data proving that the mood level of their working stiffs would improve by 3.4% if they got a cursory discount at a new juice bar opening three cubicles over.
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And maybe parents are amused, and more open to saying yes, when seeing their children doing the ho-hum, middle-aged task of calling a meeting to show off a deck, as working stiffs like to say.
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Back in the decades after World War II, though, when organized labor and organized crime were mighty forces in the land, the name stirred fear and admiration in the hearts of politicians, racketeers and ordinary working stiffs.
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As Kit designs a homemade stable for the animal, "Unicorn Store" establishes a crude binary between her rainbow iconoclasm and the assortment of middle-aged stiffs who nudge her toward a life of coffee-swilling and temp work.
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He stiffs contractors everywhere he goes and is happy to wade into litigation rather than pay, knowing that many people can be bullied into accepting less than 100 percent of what they are owed to avoid high legal bills.
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It's reminiscent of the first act of Alien; the squad of players are like those working stiffs wandering around the Nostromo, joking around, seemingly unaware of what is about to happen to them but somehow still surrounded by dread.
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Practically, your lives as students, especially rich ones without hefty loans and part-time jobs, are a walk in the park compared with most working stiffs: four classes (and homework) versus grueling (and occasionally gruesome) days at the office.
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Their judgment on the technologies they have birthed is being overridden by old people in black robes; their beloved traditions and mythologies around free and open source software are being scoffed at by corporate stiffs in suits as inconsistent hippie nonsense.
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It's a world of complacent and foolhardy managers who fight budgetary and turf wars with more ferocity than they battle the monsters that they are supposed to contain, while a handful of working stiffs try to keep the dam from breaking.
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They're populated by jilted lovers and spurned mothers; moody armed teenagers; desperate working stiffs; irritable babies; even a woman who is "becoming a thoroughly unlikable person" — in short, people on the brink of emotional, physical, psychological and/or financial ruin.
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The business pages of local newspapers feature powerful, wealthy men of South Asian descent and, at the same time, rush-hour NJ Transit trains include people of South Asian descent among the masses of working stiffs commuting to and from New York City.
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I really love exploring this madhouse of a space station, with its believable cast of characters—full of mostly Alien-style working stiffs just trying to get by in a terrible situation, brought on by amoral scientists and shitty, invisible corporate overlords.
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While, sure, some people will try to "beat the snow" -- those are the working stiffs you see trudging 30 blocks uptown to the office jobs they're convinced will fall apart if they don't get there -- it's, in fact, far more productive to work with it.
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Not the stiffs who can do the exams and do it properly that felt like they were doing the right thing—the kids in subcultures are the ones that deep down inside thought, There's something wrong with this: Fuck off, you don't get it.
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Although there are no poor people present, working- and lower-middle-class stiffs reside on the bottom levels while higher-income professional types, such as our hero Dr. Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston), live on the middle floors below the haute bourgeoisie at the top.
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Read more: DoorDash uses a shady tactic that stiffs workers out of some tips and customers are furiousIn light of that news, we asked some of the world's most prominent gig economy startups, many of which function almost exactly like DoorDash, about their tipping policies.
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"Garth can't afford to not make this work, because if he stiffs us he will never work again — he knows that, and we know that, and in many ways that makes him a safer bet to us than anyone we've ever worked with," she said.
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Barflies and hopheads, petty criminals unlikely to kill or maim, working stiffs with a hustle on the side, fuckups milking disability checks and insurance settlements, the musical lifers who bleed into all these categories—none of them are kids anymore, and of course, neither is Finn.
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The weather gods smiled on Houston with barely chill breezes during the cocktail hour, and the 1,000 or so invitation-only guests tried hard not to look like the lucky stiffs they knew they were as they filed into the Baker Institute's tented piazza for dinner.
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We asked Uber, Lyft, Instacart and other gig-economy startups how much of your tips go directly to their workersThis chart shows why your DoorDash delivery worker isn't getting the tip you leaveDoorDash uses a shady tactic that stiffs workers out of some tips and customers are furious
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Read more:DoorDash uses a shady tactic that stiffs workers out of some tips and customers are furiousHow much to tip in every situation, from Uber drivers to your hairstylistlinkThis awesome infographic explains how the 'gig economy' worksThere's some evidence that the experiment to end tipping in restaurants might not work
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Most of us office-bound working stiffs are relegated to lifestyles that don't permit semi-sheer bodystockings or thigh-high-slit slip skirts for daily wear, and while we can add these pieces to our Pinterest boards until the cows come home, our working environments dictate a more restrained approach to dressing.
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"They should probably wait out our Election to see if we get one of the Democrat stiffs like Sleepy Joe...The problem with them waiting, however, is that if & when I win, the deal that they get will be much tougher than what we are negotiating now...or no deal at all," Trump said.
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The unassailable fact is that those taxes that Trump avoided paying means he's like a guy who celebrates breast cancer awareness as an important and worthy cause, but when the Susan G. Komen folks come around asking for a donation for their fundraiser, he stiffs them (or in Trump's case, takes money that other people donated and gives it away in his own name).
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The album has various names from Stiffs Live Stiffs, Stiffs Live and Live Stiffs. The correct name of the original Stiff Records release on 17 February 1978 was Live Stiffs Live. The album was later re-issued on Music for Pleasure (MFP 50445) as simply Live Stiffs. The album entered the UK Albums Chart on 11 March 1980, eventually peaking at number 28.
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Live Stiffs Live is a live album released in 1978 by Stiff Records. It compiles concert performances by several of the record label's artists recorded during the "Live Stiffs Tour", which ran from 3 October to 5 November 1977.
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Stiffs, Inc. was an American, Victorian-themed New York City punk band, formed in 1992. Brought together in New York City under the name 'Stiffs, Incorporated', the group were active between 1992 and 1998. Their early material is influenced by 1970s English punk.
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Credits found at the end of Aqua TV Show Show episode "Banana Planet". Jim Florentine voiced the unseen manager in "Working Stiffs", which also features Dana Swanson and Wendy Cross.Credits found at the end of Aqua TV Show Show episode "Working Stiffs". "Skins" features Josh Warren, Thomas Decoud, Mary Kraft, T.M. Levin, and Rob Kutner.
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A CD version was issued in the Stiff Singles 1976–1977 boxed set by Castle Music in 2003. "Help!" also appeared on Hits Greatest Stiffs.
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Hansen is the second drummer, coming into the lineup in 1991, after Randy America relocated the project Punk Rock band, Jake and the Stiffs, from Detroit to Newark, Delaware. Hansen has appeared on numerous Jake and the Stiffs recordings including Love So Deep and Steal This Record. Hansen left the band in 1994, and later returned to the lineup for random reunion appearances and recordings.
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Death has been prohibited in the Andalusian town of Lanjarón."Spanish Mayor Outlaws Death". Stiffs. 2 October 1999. Archived from the original on 26 August 2012.
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In 2001, all the members of the Bhopal Stiffs (including Vince & Ron) did reunion show at the Fireside Bowl. In 2010 they played a show at Subterranean as part of Riot Fest.
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In late 1986 Liverpool drummer Mark Coleridge (Afraid Of Mice, Glass Torpedoes) and bassist Steve Fielding joined with Hendriks and Barnes in a powerful 'glam punk' line up that went on to record several strong tracks and play over 250 live dates throughout Europe, finally splitting in 1988. 13 years after the Stiffs last record had been released, two of the group's songs finally appeared on CD, courtesy of Anagram records, who released a compilation of EMI's Zonophone singles entitled 'The Zonophone Punk singles collection'. March 1999 saw the release of the first ever complete album of Stiffs material, when 'Captain Oi!' records issued the "Stiffs-the Punk Collection" on CD. The album was a collection of the band's singles plus many hitherto unreleased demos and masters, covering the band's entire history.
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They went back to CRC with Iain to record the EPA EP. After Vince left the spark and dedication for the band waned rapidly and the band was going through the motions, eventually breaking up in 1989. Larry, Steve and Dave started jamming with John Haggerty, who had just left Naked Raygun and joined a few of the Stiffs practice sessions. When things fizzled with the Stiffs the earliest incarnation of Pegboy was formed. It was not to be for Dave however, as John wanted to play with his brother Joe Haggerty, who became the drummer for the band.
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An experienced stage actor, Clarke has worked with the Sydney Theatre Company in productions such as The Man with Five Children, Trelawny of the Wells, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Herbal Bed, Hedda Gabler, Stiffs and Muriel's Wedding, and for Belvoir Company B in Michael Gow's Toy Symphony.
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Dead Letter Dept., formerly known as The Stiffs, are a Canadian punk band from Toronto, Canada. The band consists of Rob Moir - (Guitar/vocals), Mike Leblanc - (Drums), Andrew Sparks - (Bass), Danny Complex - (Guitars).Rock3 The band announced their break up on their Myspace blog in 2008.
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John Peel played the record incessantly on his show, quoted as saying on air that 'Inside Out' was 'the greatest record in the history of the universe'. Championing the band Peel, interrupted DJ Mike Read's show on air to insist that he play the record. The Skids and The Ruts had enjoyed Peel's patronage in 1978 and '79 respectively, and similar was forecast for The Stiffs. Following Peel and Read radio sessions the single became an indie chart hit, the single was reissued by EMI's Zonophone subsidiary label in early 1980. The Stiffs signed a long term deal with EMI in mid 1980, the band now managed by Hedley Leyton, brother of 60's legend Johnny Leyton.
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Robinson and Riviera had arranged package tours ‒ such as the 1975 Naughty Rhythms tour ‒ for acts they managed before forming Stiff. The first tour, known as the Live Stiffs Tour or 5 Live Stiffs (3 October – 5 November 1977), comprised five bands: Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Wreckless Eric and The New Rockets, Nick Lowe's Last Chicken in the Shop, and Larry Wallis's Psychedelic Rowdies. Having signed all the named artists as individuals, bands had to be formed in order to tour: these were largely based on the session musicians used for the artists' solo records. There were 18 musicians on the tour, several doubling up, e.g.
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Chicago hardcore outfit the Bhopal Stiffs was formed in 1985 by singers/guitarists Larry Damore and Vince Marine, bassist Steve Saylors, and drummer Dave Schleitwiler. The band name is a reference to an ecological disaster which took place in Bhopal, India in 1984. Honing a melodic, mid- tempo approach very much in tune with the prevailing Windy City punk sound of the period, the group gigged steadily, in time becoming the de facto house band at the Chicago bar Exit. In 1987, the Bhopal Stiffs recorded a ten-song demo tape, with the single "Not Just My Head" following on the Dazit label later that year and played gigs in Indiana, Wisconsin, St Louis and many shows in Chicago.
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Industrial Worker. 20 Apr 1911: 3. Industrial Workers of the World 1916 advertisement for "stickerettes" Professor Eric Margolis has written about the history of such media, > Wobbly organizers were revolutionary fish swimming in the sea of bindle > stiffs and tramp workers. The Wobbly card was a ticket to ride the rails.
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The Life played for 466 performances on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.Tams-Witmakr. "The Life" In 1999 Isaacs played a plastic-molding machine worker in the revival of Working, based on Studs Terkel's identically titled book.New York Times. "Angst of Working Stiffs From Mason to Waitress" by Peter Marks.
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John Haggerty (born October 17, 1960, Chicago) is an influential Chicago guitarist. A key member of Naked Raygun during their heyday (1983–1989), Haggerty formed the band Pegboy, with brother Joe Haggerty on drums and Steve Saylors (bass) and Larry Damore (vocals) of the Bhopal Stiffs, upon leaving Naked Raygun.
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Wallis took part in the Live Stiffs Tour in 1977 and appears as 'Larry Wallis' Psychedelic Rowdies' on the album, Live Stiffs Live, that was released later that year. Wallis also produced albums for a number of Stiff Records artists including Wreckless Eric, The Adverts and Mick Farren's EP Screwed Up (November 1977) and album Vampires Stole My Lunch Money (August 1978). His song, "As Long As The Price is Right", first appeared on Dr. Feelgood's 1977 album, Be Seeing You; and a live version of the track was later issued as a single in April 1979. In 1980, Wallis recorded an album for Stiff Records but it was left unreleased when Wallis refused to sign a seven album contract with the label and was consequently dropped.
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Marine exited the lineup in early 1988, with guitarist Ron Lowe stepping in and Larry Damore assuming sole vocal duties; the reconfigured group recorded the six-song E.P.A. record, issued on the Roadkill label. After contributing "Too Much Pain" to the There's a Fungus Among Us compilation, the Bhopal Stiffs disbanded in 1989; Larry Damore and Steve Saylors later formed Pegboy with former Naked Raygun guitarist John Haggerty, while Dave Schleitwiler went on to play drums for local groups Buzzmuscle and The Indicators, amongst others, and Ron Lowe became a recording engineer at the Chicago Recording Company. Harmless Records later compiled the Stiffs' complete recorded output on the CD 1985-1989. The band played reunion shows in 2001 and 2010.
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" Fearnet critic Alyse Wax wrote "This episode made my brain hurt. And I mean that in the nicest way possible. They were throwing a lot of weird shit at us. It was great because I feel like we are finally getting answers, like we will finally get some closure, and just maybe get rid of the Red universe stiffs.
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At the encouragement of her brother, Marshall became interested in directing. While starring on Laverne and Shirley, she made her debut as a director and directed four episodes of that showAbramowitz, p. 295 as well as other TV assignments. In 1979, she directed several episodes of the short-lived sitcom Working Stiffs, starring Michael Keaton and James Belushi.
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In addition to its release on My Aim Is True, "Less Than Zero" was released as Costello's first single. The single featured the B-side, "Radio Sweetheart". The single did not chart. "Less Than Zero" also appears on the first Stiff Records compilation; A Bunch of Stiff Records, "Radio Sweetheart", appears on their second; Hits Greatest Stiffs.
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Hichens gained notoriety after the disaster because of his conduct in Lifeboat No. 6, of which he was in command. Passengers accused him of refusing to go back to rescue people from the water after the ship sank, that he called the people in the water "stiffs," and that he constantly criticised those at the oars while he was manning the rudder. Hichens was later to testify at the US Inquiry that he had never used the words "stiffs" and that he had other words to describe bodies. He would also testify to have been given direct orders by second mate Charles Lightoller and Captain Edward Smith to row to where a light could be seen (a steamer they thought) on the port bow, drop off the passengers and return.
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The song was intended as a commentary on the Stiffs Live Tour, which Costello had participated in. The tour had been notable for its debauchery; Ian Dury's "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" served as the setlist's official closing song. Costello later said of the lyrics, "It was a satire. If you listen to the lyrics, it kind of goes against the grain of hedonism".
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In 1989, John Haggerty left Naked Raygun to form Pegboy with his younger brother Joe (formerly of Bloodsport and The Effigies) and Steve Saylors and Larry Damore of the Bhopal Stiffs (Pierre Kezdy would later replace Steve Saylors). Jeff Pezzati is also the lead singer of The Bomb, which is a different and later band than the San Francisco group, known as "Bomb".
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The Stiffs are an English band, variously referred to as Punk rock, Power Pop, and Pop Punk, hailing from Blackburn, Lancashire. Championed by Radio 1 DJ John Peel, their most successful singles were 'Inside Out' and 'Goodbye My Love'. Band members are Phil Hendriks (vocals, guitar), Ian 'Strang' Barnes (guitar, vocals), 'Big' John McVittie (bass guitar, vocals) and Tommy O'Kane (drums).
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Having discovered their car stolen, Doc and Dickie begin offering a reward for its recovery. Obie and Scam return to the pawn shop to buy back Obie's watch. However, Keegan stiffs them by taking the money and refusing to give Obie his watch. Plus he makes a horrible comment about Obie's dad, sending him running out the pawn shop upset.
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In his story "Two Thousand Stiffs" (published in hardcover as part of the 1907 collection The Road), Jack London describes his experiences as a member of Kelley's Army. The story gives a vivid account on a personal level of the motivations of the unemployed "stiffs", the military style organization of their army, and the more and less willing support given them by more fortunate Americans who were still sympathetic to their cause. In London's description, he joined Kelley's Army at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and remained with it until its dissolution at the Mississippi River, a dissolution caused primarily by the inability to capture trains for transportation from an alerted railroad industry.Jack London, The Road, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2006 In the 1955 play Inherit the Wind, Meeker (the jailer/bailiff) mentions Coxey's Army when talking to Rachel Brown in an early scene.
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Bigger sales followed, and a distribution deal with Island Records through EMI was set up. After arranging for Costello and Lowe to be signed directly to CBS Records' Columbia label, a similar deal was made with Arista who released Ian Dury's first album and the Live Stiffs Live album. The deal was short-lived and Stiff then made a deal with CBS Records for Stiff releases in the United States, at both the Columbia and Epic subsidiaries on the Stiff/Columbia and Stiff/Epic labels. Robinson and Riviera were a fiery management combination, and after a series of disagreements, Riviera left Stiff in early 1978 to form the short- lived Radar Records, taking Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe and Yachts with him as a settlement package. Riviera's departure coincided with the end of the "5 Live Stiffs Tour", which showcased emerging star Ian Dury.
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Kevin Hardcastle (born August 8, 1980) is a Canadian fiction writer, whose debut short story collection Debris won the Trillium Book Award in 2016 and the ReLit Award for Short Fiction in 2017."Carellin Brooks, Kevin Hardcastle and Sue Goyette win 2016 ReLit Awards". CBC Books, March 9, 2017. The collection, published by Biblioasis in 2015,"Jacked up myths for working stiffs: Kevin Hardcastle’s Debris, reviewed".
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Samantha 'Sam' Craft's first day as a pizza delivery girl is going poorly, as customers aren't giving her tips. When she is assigned a delivery in the affluent Mill Basin neighborhood, she is hopeful that her luck will change. However, the delivery recipient, Gary Neumieir, also stiffs Sam on a tip. Frustrated and needing gas money, Sam enters the mansion to demand a tip.
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In the final portion she was attired in only the wraparound. Her small body looked slimmer without clothes, a perception which was emphasized by the dwarfing effect of her breasts. At the time she was taking dance and voice lessons but had no definite plans for her future. During the 1980s, Doda performed throughout Bay Area dance night clubs with her band The Lucky Stiffs.
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Working Stiffs is an American sitcom which starred James Belushi and Michael Keaton as brothers Ernie and Mike O'Rourke. The pair were janitors who aspired to work their way up in the field of business. The brothers worked in an office building owned by their Uncle Harry. Ernie and Mike also were roommates in an apartment over a cafe where they befriended the owner Mitch and waitress Nikki.
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Darius Olavi Koski (born January 3, 1971) is the US-American lead guitarist and songwriter of the punk rock band Swingin' Utters, the alternative punk rock bands Filthy Thievin' Bastards and the Re-volts. He also works as a plumber. Koski has produced such acts as the Workin' Stiffs (Liquid Courage, 1999), Reducers SF (Backing the Long Shot, 1999), and The Truents (Every Day of the Week, 1999).
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It excludes non-BUY singles catalogue numbers such as DAMNED 1 ("Stretcher Case Baby" by The Damned), DEV 1 ("Jocko Homo" by Devo) and NY 7 ("Fairytale of New York" by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl) and non-SEEZ album catalogue numbers such as FIST 1 (Hits Greatest Stiffs), GET 1 (Live Stiffs Live), and LENE 1 (Lene Lovich Speaks by Lene Lovich). Just under a quarter of all BUY singles releases charted in the UK Singles Chart and 22 of these have gone on to receive either a silver or gold disc from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Over one third of all SEEZ albums releases charted in the UK Albums Chart and 13 of these have gone on to receive either a silver, gold or platinum disc from the BPI. Damned Damned Damned (SEEZ 1) by The Damned was the first full-length album released by a UK punk group and "New Rose" (BUY 6) was the first single by a UK punk group.
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In 2009, Martin flirted with the idea of heading a planned Austrian list of the pan-European eurosceptical alliance Libertas.eu, but later rebuffed Libertas' advances."Martin stiffs Irish ´Libertas´" , Austrian Times, 5 March 2009 While Libertas finally didn't manage to set up a list at all, Martin successfully competed in the election with his independent list. He even surprised many by increasing his vote share to 18%, leading to three seats in the European Parliament.
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I sent them out to all these A&R; guys and record company stiffs that I had known over the years and got absolutely no reply. I followed up with phone calls and they'd say they weren't interested or weren't signing anything. I realised that because of the digital age you make your own records in the back garden and do a lease deal. It is a real drag but that's what you have to do.
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In 2009, Martin flirted with the idea of heading a planned Austrian list of the pan-European eurosceptical alliance Libertas.eu, but later rebuffed Libertas' advances."Martin stiffs Irish ´Libertas´" , Austrian Times, 5 March 2009 While Libertas finally didn't manage to set up a list at all, Martin successfully competed again with his independent Hans- Peter Martin's List. He even surprised many by increasing his vote share to 18%, giving his list three seats in the European Parliament.
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This meant that the Stiffs still had no follow-up record to 'Inside Out'. At this point, their A&R; man Chris Briggs left EMI for Phonogram, leaving the band unrepresented. New songs were being demo'd but no-one at EMI seemed in any hurry to release any product by the band. Eventually, EMI booked the band into Rockfield studios with production duties by engineer Pat Moran and former Rockpile and Love Sculpture bassist, John David.
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The four of them began as a cover band called Blue Youth - doing covers of bands like The Cure. After decided they wanted to play their own music they briefly entertained the name The Shuttle Stiffs before deciding to go with Bhopal. For a while the band was practicing 5 days a week yet never playing out. They finally played their first show was at Exit, where the band members were regulars and friends of the staff.
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Four Stiffs and a Trombone () is a Canadian crime comedy film, directed by Roger Cantin and released in 1991.Charles-Henri Ramond, "Assassin jouait du trombone, L’ – Film de Roger Cantin". Films du Québec, December 26, 2008. The film stars Germain Houde as Augustin Marleau, a nighttime security guard at a film studio who entertains fantasies of being a film noir detective, and becomes involved in a murder investigation when a killer begins murdering employees of the studio.
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The Revenge of the Woman in Black () is a Canadian crime comedy film, directed by Roger Cantin and released in 1997.Charles-Henri Ramond, "Vengeance de la femme en noir, La – Film de Roger Cantin". Films du Québec, June 23, 2009. A sequel to his 1991 film Four Stiffs and a Trombone (L'assassin jouait du trombone), the film revisits Augustin Marleau (Germain Houde), now a successful comedian who is framed for murder by his manager Édouard Elkin (Marc Labrèche).
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With this incident Hari becomes the local leader and within a short span Chottu and others join his gang. Hari, thus becomes Hari Anna, who also becomes a negotiator in land disputes, financial matters and local business stiffs. Amar Bakhia is now in serious efforts to end the gang of Hari, but Hari on the other hand is getting stronger day by day. Shekhar, now gets a job at a Marwari business group and ditches the sister of Mani.
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After the nurse and priest copulate and produce a zombie baby, Lionel breaks up with Paquita to keep her safe. Shortly afterward, Lionel's uncle Les arrives to wrangle with Lionel over Vera's estate. Discovering the zombies, which he believes to be "stiffs", in the basement, Les blackmails his nephew into giving up the house and his inheritance and invites his friends over for a housewarming party despite Lionel's objections. During the party, Paquita arrives to try to make amends with Lionel.
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Black Face was an American hardcore punk band. The group featured bassist Chuck Dukowski formerly of Black Flag and SST Records, drummer Tom Dobrov, formerly of Oxbow and The Stiffs, guitarist Milo Gonzalez of Insects vs. Robots and The Chuck Dukowski Sextet, and vocalist Eugene Robinson of Oxbow and formerly Whipping Boy. They officially disbanded in February 2012 Writing for the zine The Birth of Tragedy, Robinson first met Dukowski when he interviewed Black Flag for an article he was writing.
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Mike Leblanc was the bassist and vocalist for the Chicago, United States, Indie-rock group The Hush Sound during the band's "Dance Across the Country Tour" in April, May, and June 2008. Leblanc joined the band after original bassist Chris Faller decided to leave to pursue other musical interest. He was formerly a drummer for the band Dead Letter Dept. (formerly known as The Stiffs) which broke up in 2008, as well as the short lived Chicago based group Till This Day.
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Deb Aoki of About.com wrote: "Dorohedoro is violent and surreal, but it's also infused with Hayashida's dark and goofy sense of humor. Between their killing sprees, Caiman and Nikaido bicker and flirt like workin' class stiffs who appreciate a laugh and a good meal after a hard day at the office". On the other hand, Carlo Santos from Anime News Network has criticized the series, saying that the story "never develops a sense of flow" and that Q Hayashida "cannot draw the human body at all".
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That's 'cause stiffs are very scarce at this time of the > year.Lyle Saxon, Edward Dreyer, Robert Tallant, Gumbo Ya-Ya, Houghton- > Mifflan: Boston, 1945 Students at Charity Hospital were also referred to as "Black Bottle Men". The black bottle would be a poison given upon entrance to Charity Hospital, and the resulting death would allow dissection. It is now thought that the black bottle referred to cascara (Rhamnus purshiana) mixed with milk of magnesia, a laxative commonly given to admitted patients of the era.
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By the time this became the television series Love, Sidney, she had won the lead role in the 1981–1983 television version of the film Private Benjamin, so her Sidney Shorr role was played in Love, Sidney by Swoosie Kurtz. Earlier, she had been a regular on two short-lived series, Working Stiffs and Goodtime Girls.Dan Lewis, "Lorna Patterson Salutes Private Benjamin'", Sarasota Journal, September 2, 1981. She also played Liz Drever in 1984, in The Flying Doctors, episodes 2, 3 and 4, in Australia.
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Peter has only ever interacted with his mother through robotic avatars which she controls – her private quarters in the statue's head are inaccessible. Peter spends much of his time socializing with other wealthy children, including his best friend Stennie, who has been twanked to resemble a "grapefruit yellow stenonychosaurus". The children indulge in orgiastic gatherings such as "smash parties", where they destroy valuable antiques and kill animals. Peter and his social circle look down on members of the working class, referring to them as "stiffs".
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In 2002, Knight released his solo album Mysterious Day with various guest vocalists. In 2006, he was involved with the band Van Eyken. He recorded and co-produced their album Stiffs Lovers Holymen Thieves, from which the track "Barleycorn" won Best Traditional Track in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2007. In 2007, The Waterson Family were asked to create a show to be performed at The Royal Albert Hall and later that year Knight, along with James Yorkston, coordinated the show A Tribute To Lal Waterson for the BBC Electric Proms.
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In the divorce, she received the condominium they bought with the casino winnings. When Alan changed his mind and decided that he wanted to have children with Kandi, they had not officially signed their divorce papers. Kandi then heard that she had a main role on the TV series Stiffs and said that "nobody wants to see a pregnant 'forensic' investigator" before signing the papers that ended their marriage. Their married life was never shown in episodes, inferred to have lasted only between the end of the third season and beginning of the fourth.
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Pegboy is an American punk band from Chicago, Illinois with a relatively large cult following. They were founded in 1990 by John Haggerty (ex-guitarist for Naked Raygun), along with his brother Joe Haggerty (drums, formerly of The Effigies), Larry Damore (vocals/guitar), and Steve Saylors (bass). Both Damore and Saylors had been members of Chicago-based hardcore band Bhopal Stiffs, whose 1987 demo had been produced by John Haggerty. Pegboy's 1990 debut EP, "Three-Chord Monte", was also the first release by Quarterstick Records, an offshoot of Touch and Go Records.
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Case of the Full Moon Murders (also known as The Case of the Smiling Stiffs) is a 1973 sexploitation comedy film directed by Sean S. Cunningham and Brud Talbot and starring Fred J. Lincoln, Harry Reems, and Sandra Peabody. It features many of the same cast and crew as the 1972 horror film The Last House on the Left, though is wholly disparate in terms of its tone and content. It was advertised with the tagline "The First Sex-Rated Whodunit," reflecting the film's mix of softcore pornography and mystery film elements.
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Later that month, Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez removed Coates from his post and transferred him to the U.S. attorney's office in South Carolina. Perez subsequently disallowed Coates from testifying before the Civil Rights Commission, stating this was because his post in South Carolina caused him to not be "the appropriate witness to testify regarding current [Civil Rights] Division policies." His dismissal led the Washington Times to accuse Perez of transferring Coates specifically in order to remove him from the commission's subpoena jurisdiction.Justice stiffs Civil Rights Commission.
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When the Skulls broke up and hobbled back to Vancouver, Joey Shithead formed DOA with Victorian Pork drummer Chuck Biscuits (Dimwit's younger brother) and former Victorian Pork drummer, Randy Rampage, who moved to bass. Meanwhile, Dimwit and Wimpy formed the Subhumans with Brad Kent on guitar (this original version was a trio, Wimpy played bass and sang). Later, the more recognized line-up was formed with former Victorian Pork bassist Gerry Hannah AKA Gerry Useless and guitarist Mike Graham AKA Mike Normal. Mike and Gerry were in the Stiffs with Zippy Pinhead & Sid Sick.
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All four original of the Bhopal Stiffs lived in the general Brookfield/Riverside/LaGrange area growing up. Vince and Larry, despite being on the wrestling team together in high school, weren't close friends until they both met by chance at Illinois State University. There Vince & Larry would jam and after Larry dropped out of ISU they met up with Dave (who went to grade school with Vince) to get a band started. In the process of trying to find a bassist, one of the women who tried out suggested Steve to the group.
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Knight guest starred in The Penguins of Madagascar as Max the Cat, in the episodes "Launchtime" and "Cat's Cradle". In November 2009, Knight reprised his role as the Seinfeld character Newman, for the seventh season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. He also guest starred on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 10, Episode "Working Stiffs". Knight guest starred on an episode of 2010, of Fox TV's drama series Bones, in the first season of the TV Land comedy series Hot in Cleveland (2010), where he became a recurring character for season two, and on an episode of The Whole Truth in the fall of 2010.
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"Pump It Up" is a 1978 song by Elvis Costello. It originally appeared on Costello's second album This Year's Model, which was the first he recorded with the backing group the Attractions. Written as a sarcastic response to his time during the Stiffs Live Tour and inspired by "Subterranean Homesick Blues" by Bob Dylan, "Pump It Up" features a stomping rhythm and sarcastic lyrics. Released as a single, the track reached number 24 in the UK. It has since become one of Costello's most well-known songs, appearing on several compilation albums and being listed by critics as one of Costello's greatest songs.
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A Bunch of Stiff Records, also known as A Bunch of Stiffs, is a various artists album to promote some of the first acts to be signed by Stiff Records. It is subtitled Undertakers to the Industry – If They're Dead - We'll Sign 'Em. One of the tracks, Elvis Costello's "Less Than Zero", had been issued as single only a week prior to this album being released, although this is an unusual and otherwise-unavailable mix of the song, which has keyboards overdubbed over the intro. Motörhead's "White Line Fever" had been scheduled for release in December 1976, but the issue was cancelled.
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In Austria, Libertas was rejected by both Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) as well as by the independent Hans-Peter Martin. Martin announced after talks and serious considerations, that he would rather remain independent,"Martin stiffs Irish ´Libertas´" , 5 March 2009, from Austrian Times which he successfully did. FPÖ harshly rebuffed Ganley's advances associating his activism with an alleged American conspiracy."Mölzer: In Österreich gibt es nur eine EU-kritische Partei, und das ist die FPÖ" The initially noncommital BZÖ later also declined, preferring a loose cooperation in the European Parliament.
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Overall, the majority of feedback from music critics was favorable for the tour. Ben Ratliff (The New York Times) describes Parton's performance at the Radio City Music Hall as nothing short of uplifting. He further comments, Between the songs and her nonstop patter — she is an assassin of dead air — the show was a seminar on the peril of accepting received wisdom, whether the subject was drag queens, the rural poor, working stiffs, politicians, Pentecostalists, young media stars or bosomy women. She granted pretty much everybody a complex interior life, and the power of independent thought.
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Temple II is most liveable still with retaining walls and terraces stiffs, first stage the oval terrace was built in local stone, but after an enlargement it was built in limestone which must have been carried by boat from nearby Jidda island where stone was hewn out by hand and carefully dressed into remarkably neat masonry blocks. The skill with which this task was carried out may be clearly seen in the temple walls and especially around the sacred well. A double circular altar and an offering table stood in the center of the shrine. To the south were three cult stones shaped like the anchors of the merchant ships.
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Common working stiffs and cow-punchers > were in the majority, with a little sprinkling of "outlaws," whatever that > is. [...] Well, it is about time that every rebel wakes up to the fact that > "the people" and the workingclass [sic] have nothing in common. Let us sing > after this "The Workers' flag is deepest red" and to hell with "the people." "The Red Flag" has been the British Labour Party's official anthem from its founding; its annual party conference closes with the song. "The Red Flag" was first sung in the House of Commons on 1 August 1945, when Parliament convened after Clement Attlee's Labour defeat of Winston Churchill's Conservatives.
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He has earned a number of award nominations for his work, including two, 2003 and 2004 Emmy Award for CSI, a 2005 PGA Award and a 2006 Writers Guild of America Award nominations, shared with his fellow producers. He served as executive producer on CSI until 2010, and continues to write for the series, including the Trek-spoofing episode "A Space Oddity" featuring Liz Vassey, Wallace Langham, Kate Vernon, and Ronald D. Moore. Shankar also made his directing debut with the tenth season episode "Working Stiffs" (2009) for which he also wrote the story. This episode features Trek alumni Wallace Langham, Liz Vassey, Tracy Middendorf, and Tom Virtue.
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With help from Lowe and Terry Williams, Edmunds recorded a new solo album, Get It. Lowe and Edmunds then formed a new version of Rockpile, with Williams returning on drums and Billy Bremner joining as rhythm guitar and third vocalist. Despite the pressures from having its two leaders signed to different labels, Rockpile toured in 1976-77 as the opening act for Edmunds' new labelmates Bad Company, and Edmunds also provided some archive tracks to Stiff for release on Stiff compilations. However, as Lowe and Stiff became increasingly popular, Rockpile went into an on-again, off-again status. In 1977, Lowe became part of the "Five Live Stiffs" tour without Rockpile.
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Hits Greatest Stiffs is a various artists compilation album, drawn from ten of the first eleven Stiff Records singles, BUY 1 to BUY 11. The tracks follow the numerical order of the singles, but feature mostly the B-sides, although several singles were originally issued as double A-sides. The other sides of the Motörhead and Elvis Costello tracks had appeared on the previous compilation album, A Bunch of Stiff Records. The missing single from the sequence (BUY 10) was "Neat Neat Neat"/"Stab Your Back"/"Singalongascabies" by the DamnedStiff Records Catalogue Retrieved 31 March 2009 whereas both sides of the Tyla Gang's single were included on this album.
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TKO Records was founded by Mark Rainey in 1997 in San Francisco, California. Early on the label rose to prominence with releases from the Dropkick Murphys, Lower Class Brats, Anti-Heros, Swingin' Utters, The Templars, Pressure Point, Workin' Stiffs, U.S. Bombs, and The Forgotten. The label helped to establish a sound and aesthetic for the street punk scene in the United States that was then rising in popularity. As TKO's prominence within the punk rock scene increased, the label also began releasing records from veteran punk bands such as Cocksparrer, Angelic Upstarts, the Partisans, Slaughter and the Dogs, The Bruisers, Chelsea, The Business, The Real Kids, and Antiseen.
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Iain Burgess (24 November 1953 – 11 February 2010) was an English record producer and audio engineer. He helped define the sound of the Chicago post- punk music scene in the 1980s and early 1990s, working with a number of key underground bands, including Big Black, Naked Raygun, The Effigies, Get Smart!, Ministry, Green, Bloodsport, Pegboy, Poster Children, and Bhopal Stiffs. A native of Weymouth, Dorset, England, Burgess defined a "Chicago sound", described by the Chicago Tribune as "built on no-nonsense elements: powerhouse drumming, prominent bass lines, bold guitars that split the difference between anthemic and anarchic"; the Chicago Sun-Times described it as a "massive, crunching, live-and-in-your-face sound".
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While Shepard states that his story is not politically motivated, he did intend it to be a rebuttal to Barbara Ehrenreich's books Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch on a socio-economic level. He writes, "Ehrenreich attempted to establish that working stiffs are doomed to live in the same disgraceful conditions forever … my story is a search to evaluate if hard work and discipline provide any payoff whatsoever or if they are, as Ehrenreich suggests, futile pursuits." In achievement of his goal, Shepard resolved not to use his college education, credit history, or any of his previous contacts to help himself. Additionally, he would not beg for money or use services that were not available to others.
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Walsh was the leader of the overalls brigade, a group of Wobblies who referred to themselves as "red blooded working stiffs."Philip Sheldon Foner, History of the labor movement in the United States, 1980, 4th edition, page 108 In 1908, they rode the rails from Portland to the Industrial Workers of the World convention in Chicago. They held propaganda meetings at each stop, singing IWW songs and selling literature to finance their trip.Melvyn Dubofsky, We Shall Be All, A History of the Industrial Workers of the World, University of Illinois Press Abridged, 2000, page 78 They traveled over 2,500 miles in their "Red Special" cattle car, ate in hobo jungles, and preached revolution in prairie towns.
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Kosmo Vinyl (born Mark C. Dunk, 9 February 1957, England) was a longtime associate and sometime manager for The Clash, as well as being associated with Ian Dury & the Blockheads and The Jam, three seminal English bands of the 1970s and 1980s. He can be heard introducing The Clash at Shea Stadium on The Clash's live album, Live at Shea Stadium, as well as many bootlegged performances such as Kingston Advice. His impressionistic reading of quotes from Travis Bickle in the film Taxi Driver can be heard on The Clash's "Red Angel Dragnet". Prior to his association with the Clash, he had acted as MC on the Stiff Records tours, appearing on the 1978 LP Live Stiffs Live.
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The song received a big-budget video, directed by Jeff Richter. Based on elements from The Wiz and The Wizard of Oz, a woman (played by Rah Digga) stiffs a cab driver (played by Posdnuos) out of a tip for a $27.00 ride (some versions of this video cut out the cab ride part for time reasons). When she heads for the front of the line to the dance club Brick City, the doorman (played by Dave Chappelle in a character similar to Sir Smoke-a-Lot from Half Baked and Tyrone Biggums from Chappelle's Show) denies her entrance because he doesn't see her name on the list. He then makes fun of her style of dress and the chihuahua in her purse.
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In his autobiography White Line Fever, Lemmy mentions being blown away by Taylor's ability to overdub drums during the On Parole sessions, noting that it was "quite a feat, because the drums are what you usually base a song on – it's kind of like going ass- backwards". Conversely, Lemmy also recalled the moment he realized Taylor was not a singer, noting that "he sounded like two cats being stapled together" while trying to sing "City Kids". The lyrics to "Iron Horse", "Vibrator" and "Fools" were written by Derek "Dez" Brown, a road-crew member from Wallis' pre-Motörhead band The Pink Fairies. Brown would manage the Live Stiffs tour in 1977, which included Nick Lowe's band on the bill featuring both Wallis and Edmunds.
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In the late 1970s, drummer Zippy Pinhead (Bill Chobotar) formed The Stiffs with Gerry Useless, aka Gerry Hannah (who later formed the Subhumans) and Mike Normal; later forming "Sgt. Nick Penis and the Brassball Battalion" with D.O.A. founders Randy Rampage and Chuck Biscuits. Duane met Zippy and Randy while playing bass for Chrissy Steele and became friends. Zippy moved to San Francisco to play with the influential band K.G.B. before returning to Vancouver to join D.O.A. Over the next six years, Zippy shifted between Vancouver and California, playing in some well-known bands (The Dils, Art Bergmann, The Mutants, Los Popularos, Black Molly's, The Beat Farmers and The Fiends), and appeared on music videos with Sheena Easton and Rick Springfield.
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The auditors were instructed to review the books and examine accounting procedures within the agency. According to The Washington Post, their investigation "found sloppy record-keeping, inattention to detail, and accounting problems," but no direct "evidence that Aramony had enriched himself".Shepard, Charles E.: "United Way Head Resigns Over Spending Habits" Washington Post, February 28, 1992 In fact, all of Aramony's travel expenses were supposed to be reviewed before approval by the United Way's board of directors, whose chairman was Robert E. Allen, then the CEO of AT&T.;Shenk, David: "Board Stiffs: United Way of America's Board of Governors", Washington Monthly, May 1992 The auditor's biggest criticism was that documentation was lacking to distinguish business expenditures from personal charges.
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Spindrift is an American psychedelic rock band, created by singer-songwriter- composer-producer-actor Kirpatrick Thomas. Founded in 1992, the band originated in Newark, Delaware along with such other local bands of the period including Jake and the Stiffs, The Verge, Boy Sets Fire, Zen Guerilla and Smashing Orange. Heavily influenced by The Doors, My Bloody Valentine, Hawkwind, Bruce Haack, and Chrome, Spindrift's early stages were experimental and differed greatly from their present sound though the band's musical style is ever in a period of flux. In the summer of 2001, band members Kirpatrick Thomas, Joe Baluta and Zachary Hansen re-located to Los Angeles. The band re- formed to include Bobby Bones, Dave Koenig, Frankie "Teardrop" Emerson and Rob Campanella of The Brian Jonestown Massacre and Jason “Plucky” Anchondo of The Warlocks.
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For Eye of God, he received the Tokyo Bronze Prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival (1997) and the American Independent Award at the Seattle International Film Festival (1997); for O, the Best Director Award at the Seattle International Film Festival (2001); and for The Grey Zone, the National Board of Review's Freedom of Expression Award (2002). He is on the Board of Directors for The Actors Center in New York City, as well as Soho Rep Theatre. Nelson guest-starred on the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation season 10 episode "Working Stiffs". In the episode "My Brother's Bomber" (aired September 29, 2015) of the PBS investigative series Frontline, he talked about the loss of his friend David Dornstein in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
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With Jankel fashioning Dury's lyrics into number of songs, the two began recording with Charles, Watt-Roy, Gallagher, Turnbull and former Kilburn and the High Roads saxophonist Davey Payne. An album was recorded, but was of no interest to major record labels. Next door to Dury's manager's office, however, was the newly formed Stiff Records, a perfect home for Dury's maverick style. The band was invited by Stiff to join the "Live Stiffs Tour", and the band Ian Dury and the Blockheads was born, with the name ostensibly taken from the song of the same name which portrayed a drunken Essex Untermensch stereotype: The tour, which also featured Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Nick Lowe, Wreckless Eric and Larry Wallis, was a great success, and Stiff launched a concerted Ian Dury marketing campaign.
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This session featured ex Mott The Hoople drummer Dale Griffin, who also took up producing duties. In December 1984 the EMI line-up reunited for a one off gig, which had to be rescheduled for February 1985 at a larger venue, after enthusiastic fans caused the gig to be curtailed after 15 minutes due to fears for everyone's safety. Between these dates, the Stiffs recorded a fifth single, 'The Young Guitars', Hendriks and Barnes recruiting John Mayer and Mark Hurlbutt (bass) with additional guitarist John Wade on the b-side 'Yer Under Attack'. Tommy O'Kane joined this five-piece line up on some dates throughout '85 and '86 in a two drummer format, and John McVittie rejoined with the band back to a four- piece with Hendriks, Barnes and Mayor.
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Stiff Records organised a joint tour for Nick Lowe, Ian Dury, Wreckless Eric, Larry Wallis, and Elvis Costello, five of their biggest acts at the time, with the intention of having the bands alternating as the headlining act. Ian Dury and the newly formed Blockheads soon became the stars of the tour (it was surmised that Elvis Costello would be the main attraction, having had chart success) and the nightly encore became "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll". A version can be heard on the Live Stiffs Live (1978) compilation live LP released after the tour called "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll & Chaos", credited to Ian Dury and Stiff Stars. It features four drummers and four keyboard players, plus vocals by Wallis, Wreckless Eric, Edmunds, Lowe, and Dury, and by the end (at 5 minutes and 22 seconds).
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As of 2009, Kendall was a member of Megasus, a heavy metal supergroup which started in Providence in as a side project formed by ex-members of Amazing Royal Crowns. In 2006, Kendall was joined Ryan Lesser (from the band Laurels), Paul Lyons (from the band Scared Stiffs), and Dare Matheson (from the band Made In Mexico) to record the song "Red Lottery" for the PlayStation 2 game Guitar Hero II. After this initial recording, Matheson was replaced by Brian Gibson (from the band Lightning Bolt) and their music has appeared on subsequent Harmonix games.CD Baby:7 Inches of SorceryMegasus official pageLast FM: Megasus Early demos of Guitar Hero II used "King Kendall" as the name for the character who eventually became Eddie Knox. Rock Band 2 features Jason "King" Kendall as an in-game band manager.
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When the Stiffs broke up Zippy & Sid formed Rabid. A little while later, Brad Kent would join DOA, expanding them to a four-piece, right after the release of DOA's Disco Sucks EP. You can see this Brad Kent version of DOA on the DOA DVD compilation Greatest Shits, which shows DOA & Kent blazing through a version of Disco Sucks on the back of a flatbed truck in Stanley Park at an anarchist/punk "festival" in 1978. This is the version of DOA that toured down to San Francisco's Mabuhay Gardens on 2 separate trips, impressing the scene down there and making lifelong fans out of the Dils, Dead Kennedys and the Avengers. After getting kicked out of DOA, Brad Kent formed the Wasted Lives, with singer Phil Smith, guitarist Colin Griffiths, drummer Andy Graffiti, and future Modernettes bassist Mary Armstrong.
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Rolling Stone. Retrieved 18 September 2014 Following a tour with other Stiff artists – captured on the Live Stiffs Live album, which includes Costello's version of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David standard "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself" – the band recorded This Year's Model (1978). Some of the more popular tracks include the British hit "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea" and "Pump It Up". His U.S. record company saw Costello as such a priority that his last name replaced the word Columbia on the label of the disc's original pressing. The Attractions' first tour of Australia in December 1978 was notable for a controversial performance at Sydney's Regent Theatre when, angered by the group's failure to perform an encore after their brief 35-minute set, audience members destroyed some of the seating.
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Odd items bought and sold by the shop or featured on the show have included a mummified cat, a rhesus monkey skull, art made from nail clippings, and a straitjacket. Celebrities appearing on the show have included Jonathan Davis of the band Korn, Whitey Sterling, singer for the New York band Stiffs, Inc., musician Genesis P-Orridge, actress/comedian Amy Sedaris, actor Matthew Gray Gubler, artist Ann Hirsch, actress Chloë Sevigny, musician Natalia Paruz ('Saw Lady'), video game designer and commercial space flight enthusiast Richard Garriott, director Lloyd Kaufman, nerdcore rapper Schaffer The Darklord, musician Voltaire, musician Moby, artist Cynthia von Buhler, actor/comedian Paul Dinello, burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese, and "High Pitch Eric" of The Howard Stern Show. New York playwright Edgar Oliver has appeared on the program multiple times and appears in the show's title sequence admiring a straitjacket.
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It features a combination of Boston and San Francisco punk bands, including The Unseen, Dropkick Murphys, The Outlets, The Ducky Boys, Swingin' Utters, The Working Stiffs, and Showcase Showdown. Mr. Butch enjoying sushi, celebrating the end of a profitable day's work with Japanese cuisine near Kenmore Square, Boston, Massachusetts. —photo by David Henry In the late 1990s, the Boston University campus police, extending their authority over an increasingly gentrified Kenmore Square, exiled Mr. Butch to Allston, a neighborhood of Boston west of the Square. Mr. Butch sought refuge from the elements wherever he could by sleeping in U-Hauls, the homes of his many friends, a practice space where friends' punk bands played, and occasionally in ATM lobbies. He had low income apartments from time to time, but he never enjoyed the trappings of it, such as he “didn't want to buy trash bags”.
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Dumbfounded as to why an original song had not been chosen 'Goodbye My Love' was released in February 1981 and declared by journalist Carol Clerk 'Pop with steel toe caps' and became a 'turntable hit', spending several weeks in the National Airplay charts. But despite radio and press promotion and a national tour with the UK Subs and Anti-Pasti, distribution problems ensued, in addition the single was difficult to obtain and sales were not sufficient to interest Stiff Records in a follow up. By mid 1981, 6 months after being hailed as a 'Slade for the 1980s', The Stiffs were now '2 years too late', by mid '81 the original line-up split. In 1982 a short lived line up emerged featuring Hendriks and Barnes with John Mayor (drums) and Nick Alderson (bass) recording a new Peel session but it lasted less than a year.
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Dury playing drums for Wreckless Eric while the last two "bands" had the same line up (Nick Lowe, Larry Wallis, Dave Edmunds, Terry Williams, Pete Thomas and Penny Tobin). The original idea was that the running order would rotate each night, but Dury and Costello were clearly the strongest acts. Costello played mostly new material and cover versions, rather than numbers from his recently released album My Aim is True, so the gigs usually ended with most of the artists on stage performing Dury's "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll". A live album entitled Live Stiffs Live and a video of the tour were produced, but the tour only covered the UK. After the departure of Riviera, Robinson arranged a second tour, the Be Stiff or the Be Stiff Route 78 tour, from October to November 1978 (UK), again comprising five acts; Wreckless Eric, Lene Lovich, Jona Lewie, Mickey Jupp, and Rachel Sweet.
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The single "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll", released 26 August 1977, marked Dury's Stiff debut. Although it was banned by the BBC it was named Single of the Week by NME on its release. The single issue was soon followed, at the end of September, by the album New Boots and Panties!! which, although it did not include the single, achieved platinum status. Live at The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London, 1978 In October 1977 Dury and his band started performing as Ian Dury & the Blockheads, when the band signed on for the Stiff "Live Stiffs Tour" alongside Elvis Costello & the Attractions, Nick Lowe, Wreckless Eric, and Larry Wallis. The tour was a success, and Stiff launched a concerted Ian Dury marketing campaign, resulting in the Top Ten hit "What a Waste", and the hit single "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick", which reached No. 1 in the UK at the beginning of 1979, selling just short of a million copies.
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WKNR's shorter playlist ensured that they played more hits and fewer "stiffs" and that listeners would hear one of the top hits whenever they tuned in. WKNR also played the hits 24 hours a day, as opposed to the other hit stations in Detroit which were loaded with non-music full-service features (especially on weekends). WKNR officially launched on October 31, 1963, with the "Battle of the Giants," an attention-grabbing promotion that invited listeners to call in to vote for their favorite oldies. The station quickly gained momentum, and in an unprecedented "worst-to-first" move, three months later "Keener" was a solid across-the-board number one in the ratings. Until the spring of 1967, despite a weak signal which missed most of the east side of the metro area (especially at night, although the station could be heard market-wide on its more powerful FM simulcast at 100.3), WKNR was the preeminent rock radio station in the Motor City.
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Robert Perkinson, author of Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire (2010), wrote that the Offender Orientation Handbook "encapsulates the weary institutional dream of imposing perfect discipline on potential chaos" and that the "sweeping and tedious rules" "cover a bewildering range of restrictions and obligations." As examples Perkinson referred to the "no fighting," "offenders will brush their teeth daily," and "horseplay is prohibited," which he refers to, respectively, as "sensible," "well meaning," and a "catchall." Perkinson said that in practice, "totalitarian order" is not established in the prison because the "churlish" inmates do not have the inclination and "often," the reading ability to follow the "finer dictates" of the handbook, and the correctional officers, "moderately trained, high- turnover stiffs earning Waffle House wages," do not have the energy and time to enforce the rules strictly. According to Perkinson, the handbook is never consistently or fully enforced, but it is invoked by officials whenever a daily conflict occurs.
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" Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that after Top Gun, Scott "found his commercial niche as a brash, flashy, sometimes vulgar action painter on celluloid," citing Beverly Hills Cop II, Days of Thunder, The Last Boy Scout, True Romance, and The Fan as examples. McCarthy concluded that Unstoppable, Scott's final film, was one of his best. Apart from having "its director's fingerprints all over it—the commitment to extreme action, frenetic cutting, stripped-down dialogue"—McCarthy found "a social critique embedded in its guts; it was about disconnected working class stiffs living marginal lives on society's sidings, about the barely submerged anger of a neglected underclass," something which "always had been lacking from Tony Scott's work, some connection to the real world rather than just silly flyboy stuff and meaningful glances accompanied by this year's pop music hit." Betsy Sharkey of The Los Angeles Times wrote that Denzel Washington—who starred in Crimson Tide, Man on Fire, Déjà Vu, The Taking of Pelham 123, and Unstoppable—was Scott's muse, and Scott "was at his best when Washington was in the picture.
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The Stiffs were formed in 1976 by 14-year-old school pals Phil Hendriks (lead vocals, guitar) and Ian 'Strang' Barnes (guitar, vocals), joined by Tommy O'Kane (drums) and Mark 'Ossie' Young (bass guitar), and played their first gig at East Lancs Cricket Club in 1977. Following several local church hall and youth club bookings playing a mixture of covers and original Hendriks/Barnes compositions, Young was replaced by 'Big' John McVittie (bass guitar, vocals). Their first single 'Standard English' b/w 'Brookside Riot Squad' / 'DC-RIP' was released on their own Dork Records label in early '79, now regarded as rare and collectible. In December '79 the band, having tightened by this time into a powerful live act despite being legally unable to order a pint at gigs, released their second single 'Inside Out'/ Kids On The Street, recorded at Oldham's Pennine Sound Studios on a budget of £75, produced by engineer Paul Adshead and the band, embodying the band's musical progress, amalgamating melody, power and energy. A mistake at the pressing plant led to the first 1,000 copies having the labels printed on the wrong sides.
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