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And it was only a few years later that we have the first recorded use of the phrase "as bold as brass."
To make himself useful that day, he started polishing all the brass, the railings on the fire truck, the fittings on the walls, and one of the fire hose nozzles, a giant, heavy piece of metal, toppled off a shelf and hit him.
The noble lie he proposed was that we're all born with gold, silver, or a mixture of brass and iron in our souls, which determine our roles in life.
(Glass breaks) Scientists believe that dissonant sounds, for example, brass or wind instruments played very loud, may remind us of animal howls in nature and therefore create a sense of irritation or fear.
(Brass and wind instruments play) So now we've spoken about on-screen sounds.
By then, larger, more varied ensembles were the rule with woodwinds, brass, and percussion to help tell the tale.
Somebody was hitting somebody else with brass knuckles.
her tongue, all brass knuckle slipping in between her lips her hips, are all laughter and wind clap.
Then we made these legs that are cast in soil with a potato root system growing in them, and beetroots out the top, and a very lovely brass toe.
The architect spent hundreds of hours designing the burnished brass switchplates for his new office tower.
They figured out that some of the metal coming out of the ground was naturally magnetic, and so they fashioned this magnetized metal into this kind of ladle-looking thing, put it on a brass plate and then it would point north.
If you're up the scale a little bit more, why, a brass thali.
And you can see the photoetched brass detailing, and the painted acrylic facade.
Probably not one made of brass.
They had this old brass and copper.
Karen and her boyfriend Jerry move into their new Los Angeles apartment.They discover an old brass bed that Karen takes a liking to,unfortunately it has a really sinister history involving kinky sex murders."Deathbed"
Brass pictures (movies is not a fitting word for them) really are somewhat brassy.
I wonder if Kristy Swanson got hit across the face with hot brass - because it damn seemed so!
OK, so some of the sight gags were in fact recycled vaudeville 'schtick', but how was this 'barefoot boy with cheeks of brass' to know that at the time?
Then wait for brass to plan a way to knock out their stronghold, and then end up killing a few civilians in the process of doing it.
Sima Qian explicitly mentions both the head of General Fan and the dagger rolled up into the map, as well as the dagger being thrown into the brass column.
The huge commercial success of that Mae West vehicle convinced the studio brass that Gay '90s melodramas were a viable proposition.
Famously deemed "too cerebral" and "too cold" by NBC brass and rejected, "The Cage" was nevertheless the most ambitious and costly pilot ever made in the history of the network at the time, and Gene Roddenberry did not want to let all that effort and expense go to waste, with the result being this truly classic Star Trek episode, which embeds "The Cage" into a frame story which deepens and extends the emotional and philosophical depth of this haunting tale, a landmark in TV history and one of the first truly serious sci-fi stories ever filmed for the small screen...Star Date 3012: The USS Enterprise diverts to Starbase 11 after Mr. Spock receives an urgent message from the former commander of the Enterprise.
I won't illustrate it - you can see a remarkably long list of quotes on this thread - but any film that can make subjects like the defense of using expensive copper piping rather than brass for plumbing purposes into memorable dialog is amazing to me.
Off track though, down to brass tax, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, deviants of all ages, this is Cindy and Donna, by far the most pornographic of the 2-disc 8-movie set of "Drive-in Cult Classics" released thanks to Crown Entertainment.
I just don't understand why (other than the fact that it doesn't have major star power), the studio brass don't realize that it could be a major hit and enthusiastically received by movie audiences around the world who are hungry for this type of entertainment.
The plot is not important, really, and the film gets right down to brass tacks after about 2-min of backstory.
Some have said that they thought the first story with Gena Rowlands and Wyonna Ryder was weak ,but I disagree.That story was about someone being content with who they are not looking for the brass ring.
One of the detectives, George (Lorne Brass) is a homosexual steeped in sadism and it is Marcel's determined efforts to keep the hidden money from the duo while fiercely struggling physically against them that comprise about half of a plot line which also focuses upon the young man's endeavour to repair a severed relationship with his dying father (Roger Le Bel).
Any one of those jobs can be a supreme undertaking, and here he has accomplished all four with integrity, wit, humor, intelligence, and undeniable brass.
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