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In "The Secret Agent," he portrays a pack of revolutionaries and down-at-the-heels utopians, living in London under the protection of English law, with masterly irony.
To the Barricades! Revolutionaries in Novels Joseph Epstein 2011
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In June, the slightly down-at-the-heels Brooklyn Heights Cinema was sold to musician Kenn Lowy, whose ambitious plans include a regular silent-film series set to live music.
Beyond Popcorn and Nachos Alexis L. Loinaz 2011
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One multidenominational ministry, M.U.S.C.L., is working with utility companies to help pay the bills of its down-at-the-heels neighbors.
Diane Sawyer's Hometown Bands Together To Face Recession Victoria Fine 2010
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One multidenominational ministry, M.U.S.C.L., is working with utility companies to help pay the bills of its down-at-the-heels neighbors.
Diane Sawyer's Hometown Bands Together To Face Recession The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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One multidenominational ministry, M.U.S.C.L., is working with utility companies to help pay the bills of its down-at-the-heels neighbors.
Diane Sawyer's Hometown Bands Together To Face Recession The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The film opens with his Ivan Vanko in a down-at-the-heels Moscow flat, seeing Tony Stark's apotheosis as the man-boy wonder of the world as Vanko's brilliant wreck of a father dies, bequeathing the only thing he has left, a gift of technology.
William Bradley: Iron Man 's Post-Modern Howard Hughes Is Back and Confused 2010
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One multidenominational ministry, M.U.S.C.L., is working with utility companies to help pay the bills of its down-at-the-heels neighbors.
Diane Sawyer's Hometown Bands Together To Face Recession The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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It's an odd story involving a faded seaside resort, a plucky public relations man who lives in his office, a fascistic cult leader, a down-at-the-heels detective, and a latter-day Houdini who, at the point I have reached, has vanished into the ocean chained in a trunk.
Archive 2010-03-01 Peter Rozovsky 2010
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What I needed was a shot of rye whiskey to start my nightly slide into oblivion, to be completed in Bill's Bar, a down-at-the-heels drinking establishment voted "Boston's Worst Ambience" for three years running.
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Steinhilber's angels are a sign that he's embracing that idea, ceding some aesthetic control to the audience in a down-at-the-heels corner of Queens, and giving them a subject they're likely to respond to.
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