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Years later, the boy from that cramped mud hut would grow up to be the man in that cramped capsule on the tip of a rocket who volunteered to be launched into outer space, the first one of any of us to really physically leave this planet.
And so we moved into a cramped, windowless office in Palo Alto, and began working to take our design from the drawing board into the lab.
Pretty cramped up here, with seven million people beside me today.
It's a cramped, tiny space and it's just three feet away from the train tracks.
Many children in this study were born into poor families or into working-class families that had cramped homes or other problems, and it's clear now that those disadvantaged children have been more likely to struggle on almost every score.
The street she lived on was unpaved, her flat, two cramped rooms and a fetid kitchen where she stalked and caught me.
First, I am always amazed that the living conditions of Drake/Josh, Zac/Cody, Hanna, Carly, Derek, Sunny etc. always make most houses look tiny and cramped.
Cramped sentimentality everywhere.
A young woman with two children moves to her mother's cramped apartment, because the husbands flat on top of the workshop where he cuts up stolen cars is aggravating their son's asthma.Husband ends up in jail when an ex pat's stolen car is traced to his shop, ex pat ends up being kind,generous and naive shmoe(and rather cardboard and we learn next to nothing of him ), but ends up with the girl, who "trades up" despite being sexually satisfied only by her husband.
Despite the fact that half the movie is filmed in a cramped cockpit, it is as dynamic as any action flick out there.
I recommend that movie viewers if in the New York City area go to the Intrepid museum and get some idea of how closed in and cramped the living was for the crews of World War II vintage submarines.
"For a Squadron Leader - normally the only guy trained and equipped for navigation in a squadron and very hard to replace - to risk an expensive plane and himself to pick up a crashed fellow pilot, no matter how close a friend he is, in the face of oncoming enemy troops, is hard to believe, especially when they both have to share a cramped Spitfire cockpit - two into a Skyraider, OK, but a Spit?! Come on, this part of the film is a Biggles adventure, not fitting a film that one is supposed to take seriously!"
The cramped quarters of the barracks in the trenches and when Chaplin and his mates are washed out of their bunks by flooding are highlights.
young Finn Earl lives with his Mom Liz (Diane Lane) in a cramped lower East Side New York Apartment.
all kinetic violence and skewed angles and flickering cramped shots of crowds and faces) but the actual movie focuses on the individual, on triumphs and follies small and big.
- Having grown tired of the rat race and cramped living conditions of New York City, Jim Blandings (Cary Grant) finds a property in the country for his wife and children.
The movie meanders through Europe with the father and the young son cramped in a car over 3000 miles.
In small, cramped spaces.
Victor Fleming adds life and mobility to the camera that many directors were struggling to find through the cramped constraints of the early talking picture.
She and her kids live in a cramped apartment in the midst of a squalid slum.
Susan Justin's obscenely heavy-breathing score, the cramped, claustrophobic set design, Holzman's rapid-fire editing and Tim Suhrstedt's appropriately lurid cinematography are all likewise up to par as well.
The minimal sets give the film a cramped, claustrophobic feel.
Robert Scheerer directs as if he were working for television, with a cramped budget that makes the whole thing look junky.
The voice proceeds to send Adam by bus, taxi, motorized tricycle, and on foot through an urban landscape of busy streets, cramped apartments, a squatters' camp, a bank, a cockfighting arena, and a church.
One may feel cramped occasionally due to the strict indoor shots.
Overall, there were roughly 50 customers (who paid nothing) in a set of six cramped rooms, plus a courtyard in the back with another six sheds.
The best option available to Moria’s refugee children are cramped informal education centers, where high teacher turnover is a serious problem.
And conditions in the camp are characterized by cramped and inadequate facilities – an estimated 6,600 asylum-seekers are currently residing in a camp built for 3,000 – not to mention the constant threat of abuse.
Written in a cramped, dank, and putrid cell, where hope was meant to die before the body, Bonhoeffer crafted a book rich in faith, openness, possibility, and, yes, hope – even in humanity’s darkest hour.
These cramped cities are ideal incubators for outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases like Ebola.
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