Custom
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Having the opportunity to see it in "re-release," several years after the 1946 opening (a common studio
custom
in those years), answered (even to my very young mind)oh-so many questions I had...being surrounded by our returning Vet heroes.
Since my first viewing of USA it had grown on me like a
custom
fit dream where life on earth is nothing but a weird experience.
As was to be expected, A Mazursky film made in the 70s would be counter-culture, sympathetic towards the hippies - and have a lot of hippies in it - and, naturally, it is childishly anti-authoritarian (e.g. the scene on the Mexican border, when Sutherland provokes a
custom'
s officer by showing little respect and then accuses the latter of making him open his luggage only because he (Sutherland) has long hair).
The big names voted off just happened to already have received money for their charity and got a
custom
tailored exit.
The writing also leaves much to be desired, some of the 'memorable' lines such as "earpeircing a barbaric
custom"
are just shocking.
Cheap, mediocre sequel to the successful "The Mummy's Hand" has presumably dead evil Professor Andoheb(George Zucco)preparing his predecessor Mehemet Bey(Turhan Bey)for the quest of revenge overseas to America using mummy Kharis(Lon Chaney, Jr who has no reason being in the disguise..any stunt man could do the same credible work lumbering around and choking victims)in the goal of killing the surviving members of the Banning family whose patriarch Stephen(Dick Foran)and assistant Babe Hanson(Wallace Ford)retrieved the mummified corpse of Princess Ananka from her tomb in Egypt..Andoheb considers this an outlandish act of desecration and wants the family to suffer for doing such an awful deed towards an ancient Egyptian
custom.
In the spiritual limbo of the I-15 desert (see "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas") he gets into a
custom
van (yes, this was the tail end of the van craze, too) tricked out as a mobile bordello & driven by sassy, aspiring hooker Vanessa (Potts), on her way to Sin City to make her, well, whatever it is ambitious hookers make.
The poet-compiler of the Nibelungenlied didn't know a Hun from his right ball, and as a result they are, more or less, the same as the Burgundians in
custom.
Emy decides to do away with custom, and she gives herself to her Western man.
David Gulpilil plays one of the suspects, who does his best to guide Chamberlin thru the realm of 'Dreamtime', an alternate reality/timeline central to native Australian history and tribal
custom.
As said, it is difficult to believe in this cell phone affluent age that such an archaic
custom
as an arranged marriage still take place.
Simple-minded but good-natured drive-in movie about a simple-minded but good-natured high school graduate who has dreams of owning the coolest
custom
van in the world to use as his "ballroom".
Yet this strictly American
custom
is employed in the film.
James Taylor and Dennis Wilson portray two car fanatics on the roads of America racing their
custom '
55 Chevy.
I was informed that there is an old Eskimo
custom
where the guest in an Eskimo couple's home has to sleep with the wife as a sign of gratitude for the hospitality.
I wonder if it is a
custom
to be so close to neighbors and care for them like family, or if it has to do with the small size of their community.
In this "page from the history and lives of the most bloodthirsty pirates who ever infested the southern seas," the title cards explain, "it was the
custom
of these pirates to subdue their prey, loot the ship, bind their captives, and blow them up."
In this village, it is
custom
to bargain and pay the father of the bride in dairy cows.
This one at least has
custom
score and actors who talk when their mouths move.
The grandfather makes a
custom
virtual reality game in hopes of bringing the father and son closer together again.
They will wave at you or nod as you pass them, if that's the
custom
in your area, or perhaps they will just stroll quietly by you and you will never know the horrors they commit.
Though Indian politics is hardly immune to the appeal of sectarianism, its people have come to accept the idea of India as one land embracing many differences of caste, creed, color, culture, cuisine, conviction, costume, and custom, yet still rallying around a democratic consensus.
The Judeo-Christian
custom
of burial is rapidly being replaced - not by the ritual of an Indian pyre, but by a crematorium, i.e., the destruction of a corpse by means of high-temperature machines, a procedure from which the public is excluded.
The citizens of today’s free societies are (almost always) democrats out of conviction, custom, and habit.
Feminists, including some women from Muslim backgrounds, have backed the ban, because they regard the
custom
as degrading.
In his words, companies should “make as much money as possible while conforming to the basic rules of the society, both those embodied in law and those embodied in ethical custom.”
One of my childhood memories is asking my mother about a curious
custom.
The fact that religious leaders condone and sanction it in many societies owes more to
custom
and tradition than doctrine.
But we cannot allow the distortion of faith or long-standing
custom
to be used as an excuse to ignore the rights of girls and women, and to hold their communities in poverty.
Other areas that need to be plugged include money laundering and other proceeds of crime, wealth hidden in offshore tax havens, tax avoidance, and the dodging of
custom
duties.
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