Mates
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Liz Dunn (Thora Birch) has a huge crush on Mike Steel (Desmond Harrington) the son of an American rock star so arranges the unorthodox gathering & invites her friend Frankie (Keira Knightley) & her boyfriend Geoff (Laurence Fox) who happens to be best
mates
with Mike, Liz reckons she'll score with Mike no problem.
The horrible thing is that the director hasn't even tried to convince you as the main character suddenly learns geometry (ok) and teaches it to his barbarian
mates
(huh?) who immediately appreciate the essence of it all (they ate raw meat as they have just learned what fire is).
I'm from Scotland, & the Kelly version just didn't have it, even although it was entertaining, but the 1966 Goulet version was more realistic & caught the essence of the highlands, I know because, I was a youth hostel member & my happiest memories are when my group of
mates
& I would travel all over the highlands, magic.
Just as the peacock signals his strength and fitness by displaying his enormous tail – a sheer waste of resources from a practical point of view – so costly public acts of benevolence signal to potential
mates
that one possesses enough resources to give so much away.
They can biochemically castrate their hosts, so that they don't waste energy making eggs or finding
mates
when they could be feeding the parasites.
Thus, Darwin argued, they must increase the probability of more offspring by making the males more attractive to female
mates.
They should therefore be preferred
mates.
He urges women to try side-by-side activities, not only face-to-face verbalization, to experience closeness with their
mates.
A benign interpretation of these results is that college
mates
know each other better; thus, a portfolio manager has an advantage in judging the quality of the CEO if they spent time with him or her in college.
Both countries are his neighbors, and in theory at least, their leaders are his ideological soul
mates.
But, instead of gaining an advantage from traits that enhance one’s ability to survive, one gains an advantage from qualities that potential
mates
have evolved to find appealing.
Fifteen metres higher they came on the first secondary passage, but they had to continue, as the cutting of Maheu and his
mates
was in the sixth passage, in hell, as they said; every fifteen metres the passages were placed over each other in never-ending succession through this cleft, which scraped back and chest.
Besides, among all his
mates
of the settlement it was the hour for stupidities, when more children were planted than were wanted.
They could have a game at skittles, lounge about for a while with the mates, and then come back to dinner.
Now, like his mates, he got up at three o'clock, drank his coffee, and carried off the double slice of bread and butter which Madame Rasseneur had prepared for him the evening before.
In fact, behind the bar, in the little garden shut in by a hedge, Levaque was having a game of skittles with some
mates.
But suddenly Zacharie became angry, for he discovered that a nail-maker, who had come in with his
mates
out of curiosity, was pinching his sister's thigh.
The young man accepted at once, anxious to live in the settlement with the idea of being nearer to his
mates.
Up till then he had only felt an instinctive revolt in the midst of the inarticulate fermentation among his
mates.
No matter, by adding the ninety francs of Zacharie and the two mates, that would surely make more.
Pierronne was the only one who seemed fairly calm, for that sneak of a Pierron always arranged things, no one knew how, so as to have more hours on the captain's ticket than his
mates.
Besides, he now thought nothing of possible accidents; he forgot himself there with his mates, careless of peril.
When the first men tumbled against the landslip, they shouted out and called their
mates.
The hour for ascent had come, and no one had touched food; but they could not go up for their soup while their
mates
were in peril.
"A fine thing to leave the
mates
now!
"It is just because I am a quiet man, sir, whom no one has anything against, that my
mates
have chosen me.
He spent the nights reading, and received a large number of letters; he even subscribed to the Vengeur, a Belgian Socialist paper, and this journal, the first to enter the settlement, gained for him extraordinary consideration among his
mates.
Perhaps it required a lawyer, a learned man, able to speak and act without compromising the
mates?
It was sensible to recommend calmness to the mates, to force them to keep indoors, and to use your power to maintain order.
And first I warn you that the meeting will take place even if Pluchart does not come, and the
mates
will join in spite of you.""Oh! join!" muttered the innkeeper; "that's not enough.
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