chain-gang

The story in this version is retrospectively narrated by Dragline, the hardened member of a Florida chain-gang who recalls the inspirational presence of Luke Jackson.

Cool Hand Luke – review 2011

That's the motivation behind the Maricopa County Phoenix, Arizona Sheriff announcing that he will assign his chain-gang to weed duty outside Chase Field during the 2011 All-Star Game.

Palmer Chinchen: All-Star Shame Palmer Chinchen 2011

Kanakas they behaved more like chain-gang prisoners.

A LITTLE ACCOUNTWITH SWITHIN HALL 2010

One of these pieces was a prison chain-gang song, and there was a guy talking about, "Oh I done wrong," just in a matter-of-fact way about everything he had done.

The Red-Nosed Revolution Barbara Chai 2011

So, as a chain-gang can only shuffle at the speed of its slowest member, a critique is of the form of its lowest level of contention.

Ethics and Enthusiasm Hal Duncan 2009

While I hold no particular brief for the Stuart Rosenberg movie, which Pauline Kael dismissed as "a tearjerker for hip high-school students", the stage version cannot compete with it on one simple level: the evocation of a chain-gang's sufferings under a scorching Florida sun.

Cool Hand Luke – review 2011

She said they ought all to be in the chain-gang and made to work.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

Another thing that cheered me up was my belief that Spring, being mad as a weaver to start with, had let his harboured spite get the better of his few remaining wits; if he thought he was dooming me to death or the chain-gang by packing me off to the States, he was well out of reckoning.

THE NUMBERS 2010

Rather, U.S. - East Asia economic relations today resemble a chain-gang linking not only China and the United States but a host of other satellite economies.

Walden Bello: Asia: The Coming Fury 2009

Maoist uniforms and chain-gang labor are a right-wing fear-mongering exaggeration.

The Appeal of Selfishness, the Naivet� of Hubris 2009