Believe it or not, though, Hiddles does a bang-up job.
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The makeup department did a bang-up job on this one.
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St. Louis Police doing a bang up job improving their imagepic.twitter.
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I especially liked the long Downs, BANG UP JOB and SUSHI ROLL.
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"I think Dr. Shulkin has done a bang-up job," Roe said.
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And they did a bang-up job capturing the event in real-time.
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Plus, I think I'd do a pretty bang-up job with the part.
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By many measures, Cuba is doing a bang-up job of fighting HIV.
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On [prescription] drugs they can use the issue to bang up on Republicans.
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And JPMorgan has absolutely had a bang-up year in terms of profitability.
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On Rudy, I think he&aposs doing a bang-up job for Donald Trump.
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Better still is the interior, where Volvo has once again did bang-up job.
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The phone's got a great lens and does a bang-up job processing HDR images.
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The damage Clay caused is far worse than James Otis' bang-up work in 2016.
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Unbuttoned On Friday, Wonder Woman turns 75, and she is getting a bang-up party.
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If it's a bang-up amazing show, with a huge reception, all of this could change.
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Now, this is gonna hurt a bit ... but truth is, she kinda did a bang-up job.
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It's the day the drink goes public (IPO day) and the stock is soaring, just doing bang up numbers.
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After a Fed decision and bang-up Apple earnings, stocks still managed to close the day just little changed.
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"Sundar&aposs been running a bang-up job … so that&aposs not a surprise to me," said another insider.
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Lookit, ICE has been doing a bang-up job ever since 2003, when it was created from the old INS.
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They're called persistent organic pollutants (POPs), and they do a bang-up job obstructing the human body's chemical defense system.
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The announcement comes as Amazon reports bang-up first quarter earnings that sent its stock soaring 7 percent after-hours.
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In any case, the orchestra rewarded Mr. Dudamel and a packed house with a bang-up performance of the work.
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Ezersky and Walden do a bang-up job below explaining their theme: cheerful puns of phrases with flattering first parts.
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People are doing these bang-up stories and then with one ... Sort of landing with a thud or not landing.
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Republicans in Pennsylvania did a bang-up job of capitalising on their power after taking control of the legislature in 2010.
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In Milan, Gucci will start things off with its first combined men's and women's show in its bang-up new headquarters.
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Your manners are awesome and your spirit burns bright; my compliments to your daddies on a bang-up parenting job thus far.
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At the same time, companies are doing a pretty bang-up job of pocketing the economic expansions' rewards as cold, hard profit.
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It went beyond his bang-up job of walking and pointing that multiple news crews captured in the moments after the attack.
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Ending a veteran series was once more a matter of crafting a bang-up finale episode than plotting a multiseason story arc.
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"All I know is this: every major supplier into Macy's has told us that they're having a bang-up quarter," he said.
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State ID documents often say who you were as much as who you are; self-sovereign ones could be bang up-to-date.
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Stocks have had a bang-up year so far, and they're heading straight into the month that is often the best of all.
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In one mode, the plume particles can bang up against the walls of the instrument's chamber, causing chemical reactions that wind up producing hydrogen.
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"I think Dr. Shulkin has done a bang-up job," House Veterans Affairs Chairman Phil RoeDavid (Phil) Phillip RoeWant to solve surprise medical bills?
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The U.S. media is doing a bang-up job of reporting the Erdoğan government's crackdown on dissidents, but it's not putting it into perspective.
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Concentrating more on characters than big bang-up stunt scenes, Logan is the kind of comic book movie even the pickiest cinephile can love.
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If you include the deaths of Joffrey and Roose Bolton, "Game of Thrones" has done a pretty bang-up job of eliminating the bad guys.
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And, lucky for you — whether you're expecting or just plain lookin' for some bang-up (eheh) announcement inspiration — a guide exists, even if you're not famous.
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It's got a handful of nice entries (my personal favorites are JOHN HENRY and BANG UP JOB), and hopefully just A FEW not-so-nice entries.
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"The US media is doing a bang-up job of reporting the Erdoğan government's crackdown on dissidents, but it's not putting it into perspective," Flynn writes.
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Zeus -- who's in town for the Globetrotters game on Saturday -- did a pretty bang-up job before dropping some life knowledge on the kids inside the classroom.
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A 911 that has been modified by Singer is a bang-up of old and new, the 911 that exists in our minds but never existed in reality.
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Whether or not Trump did a bang-up job, lauding him is not -- and should not be -- the main focus of people (or the press) at the moment.
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This ceramide-rich cream is a twofer — it can be used to hydrate facial skin and does a bang-up job of fixing cracked skin near the nails, too.
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Turns out, Vega did a bang-up job ... 'cause Whiteside had him make ANOTHER badass Jeep exactly like the first -- that means 22-in Avorza rims, massive 37-in.
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In this delightful sneak-lesson in geometry, physics, and helping your friends when they're in a jam, some colorful shapes have a bang-up time when Circle starts rolling.
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The financial crisis in 2007-08, when many banks had to be rescued by governments, shows that finance does not always do a bang-up job of providing safe custody.
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There have been some rumors that Snap had a bang-up Q4 that could push the total closer to $600 million, but even that would mean in excess of 33x.
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The film focuses on the dogs, who are voiced by a bang-up cast of mostly American stars: Bryan Cranston, Scarlett Johansson, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, and the like.
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As a male, I'm sort of hoping they manage to take over the place, since my gender hasn't exactly been doing a bang-up job when it comes to human rights.
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I just like the option to plug in a wired set of cans — the same option I am afforded on my latest-model iPad Pro and bang-up-to-date MacBook.
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Galactic collisions are a relatively common occurrence in the universe, but every once in a while an entire cluster of galaxies will smash into another one in a massive celestial bang up.
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Calls for "extreme vetting" or sweeping bans don't just fail to reduce the already nonexistent risk to Americans, but also impugn the work of the employees already doing a bang-up job.
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" Northern Ontario MP Charlie Angus was more equivocal about Mulcair's chances: "I have absolute confidence that Tom is going to go into that meeting in April and do a bang-up job.
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ACE has done a bang-up job monitoring space weather, but one of its instruments is also very good at getting the precise masses of rare, heavy elements from beyond the solar system.
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Driverless cars will help eliminate crashes and insurance need Although the prospect of using driverless cars may be scary to some, we humans aren't doing such a bang-up job behind the wheel.
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As we reported ... Austin says he doesn't regret the bang-up job he did on Trump's star -- which will remain in place despite all the violence and vandalism it's seen in recent months.
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"You need bang-up earnings and super guidance to get over the hump of a rising 10-year.... That's the competition," said Siegel, who believes the next interest rate hike will happen in December.
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I love Michelle Fairley as an actress, and I think she did a bang-up job, and I think the Red Wedding came off incredibly, but they made some big changes with her character.
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Now Trump's desire to have a bang-up military parade on the model of the one he witnessed in Paris on Bastille Day during his state visit to France last July dominates the news.
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Mournful Congregation did a bang up job of closing out Migration with gloom and grace, but for me, the end of Migration truly hit after False played, as I was scraping myself off the floor.
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That said, the makeup and design team that helped put this together did an amazing job adapting the characters like Professor Farnsworth and Leela, while their props department did a bang-up job with Bender.
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Greenspan insisted to Mallaby that he refused, but Mallaby offers ample evidence that Nixon and Co. believed that Greenspan had not only talked to Burns but had also done a bang-up job of it.
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Snapchat and Facebook are racing to rack up video views, and if you've watched their respective video view counts climb over the past six months, it seems as though they're doing a pretty bang-up job.
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After starting out as a printer's assistant, he lucked into an emergency assignment covering a lurid local murder, and he did such a bang-up job that his story was republished in papers across the country.
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MSC, the world's biggest privately owned cruise company, already had a bang-up roster of chefs, including Carlo Cracco (two Michelin stars), Jean-Philippe Maury (known as one of France's best pastry chefs), and Jereme Leung.
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Washington (CNN)The World's Greatest Deliberative Body (the US Senate) has had a bang-up start to its "freewheeling debate" over immigration, with battles over process and which amendment votes destined to fail get taken when.
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While there's not a lot of nuance in this world of moral certainties, Pon does a bang-up job packing in skyscraper-scaling, flying (on airborne mo-peds), hand-to-hand combat and high-tech espionage.
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Just don't read the jacket copy: That did a pretty bang-up job of making me stay away from it for years — a shame because it's one of the few true masterpieces of this young century.
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By now, I've been drafted into photographer duty more than once by packs of women who, it must be said, all appear to be having a bang-up time and are friendly to the lone grouch dressed in black.
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While most fashion houses have a seriously hard time tickling our whims while also staying true to their brands' traditions, Alessandro Michele has done a bang-up job being both novel and classic — and he owes it to consistency.
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Donald Trump gave Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte a late-night ring in April to tell him what a bang-up job he's doing with his war on drugs — which has taken more than 8,000 lives in just a year.
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To Thompson, the likeliest explanation wasn't that the Times did a bang-up job covering the final days of the election—like everyone else, they failed to anticipate Trump's victory—or that readers were looking to hedge against fake news.
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For the former, social media has done a bang-up job of replacing public relations representatives as an everyday way to communicate en masse with interested parties — just look at the Kardashians, pioneers of the #nofilter overshare, whatever the platform.
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Unfazed, Democrats have done a bang-up job of souring the public on a tax overhaul that would significantly reduce taxes for 85033 percent of working-class families and result in 25 percent of the country paying no taxes at all.
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Now, I think also that social media companies dropped the ball in 2016, and they've been doing a bang-up job since then to make every mistake they can, and so that has also generated some of the focus here.
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A demand from a lawyer for the president that publisher Henry Holt cease and desist from disseminating Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury," a new exposé on the Trump White House, brings the story of "The Post" bang up to date.
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For Trump, all that matters is that Sisi is a tough leader who has done what Trump seems to think is a bang-up job of fighting terrorism in Egypt and who is one of Israel's closest allies in the Middle East.
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This week, the biggest tech topic at hand from the big companies was probably Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency, I'd normally dig into that but my colleague Josh did such a bang-up job breaking down Libra and why it's important that I don't feel the need to.
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The show promises to be bang-up cool with attention paid to the hardware and software that will enable the next generation of experiences in the augmented reality and virtual reality worlds, as well as some more metaphysical chit-chat about how we all go about building these worlds.
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Going back in time, this light is the sum of all of the light emitted by stars from the Big Bang up until the moment and distance you look—remember, distance is the same as time in space, so looking at a farther region of space means looking at fewer stars.
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And just in case you missed WIRED's bang-up end-of-year coverage: Alex looks at how we learn from history (specifically, the 1939 New York World's Fair) to avoid making the transportation mistakes of yore; Jack argues the age of the electric car has finally arrived; and I zoom in on the subtle scaling back of self-driving car promises, and the hard engineering problems ahead.
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"Republicans are doing a bang-up job ensuring they are properly blamed for health care rate hikes this fall," Matt House, a spokesman for Senate Democratic Leader Chuck SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Appropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid Colorado candidates vying to take on Gardner warn Hickenlooper they won't back down MORE (N.
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This is the man who built a political career by fanning the fringe of American politics with fevered insinuations or allegations, including, but not limited to the baseless theories that: Barack Obama wasn't born in the US A rival's father was in on the John F. Kennedy assassinationThe 2016 presidential election was rigged against him even though he wonMillions voted illegally for Hillary ClintonThe US government spied on his campaignThere's a deep state of bureaucrats organized against himThe special counsel appointed by his Justice Department was actually a witch hunt organized by Democrats He's done a bang-up job on Twitter using the term "fake news" as a weapon against media organizations that deal in reporting and fact.
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The programme was described as "a ratings hit for Challenge TV". Rob Leigh of the Daily Mirror stated that "the show's post-reality show format is bang up to date".
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" Rolling Stone called the album "A bang up album. Her balance of excellent pop thrills and writing remains singular. The Carly Simon of The Bedroom Tapes shines." NY Daily News raved "One of her best albums.
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" The New York Times, September 3, 1928. Retrieved: March 20, 2017. The Film Daily said the film was well-acted with "a bang-up youth cast from all angles" and a "thrill finish.""Review: 'The Air Circus'.
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Sinking began in the 1880s and the Colliery had five shafts with exotic names: Bang Up, Fair Lady, Clarkes, Harrisons and Woodburn. The Pit closed on 21 September 1957. There is nothing left of the site nowadays and it is used for agriculture. Madeley has a shopping parade.
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"The winner ran a bang-up race. We got outrun. If I had to do it all over again, I would have rode her a little differently and got brave early." On September 29, Royal Delta showed her dominance while winning the grade I Beldame Stakes by 9 1/2 lengths over It's Tricky.
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In 2005, the Criterion Collection released Banned in Oklahoma on DVD with The Tin Drum (1979). The documentary – which the Dallas Morning News called a “worthy mate” to the German masterpiece – also shared the award for best film at the 2004 Deadcenter Film Festival in Oklahoma.Chris Vognar, “A Bang-Up Job,” Dallas Morning News, May 28, 2004, 8H.
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The Captain of Vega Platoon. After graduating from SDF training, he was assigned to the Acrux Platoon. He was rewarded with the Captainship of Vega Platoon after he killed the leader of a notorious band of Space Pirates. He rushes headlong into battle without thinking much of it, and is not afraid to bang up the Iron Burger in the process.
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Sportswriter Morgan Blake called Strupper "probably the greatest running half- back the South has known." Bernie McCarty writes "Strupper ranks among the greatest broken-field gallopers in Southern football history. And he caught and threw passes, returned kicks, blocked well, punted and played a bang-up defensive game." He was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1972 and the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1974.
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The Split Squad has performed at both the 2013 and 2014 South By Southwest music festivals. From Nov. 9 - Nov. 15, 2013 the band launched the "West Of Wherever Tour 2013" with The Fleshtones, touring cities in California, Seattle WA, Vancouver BC Canada, ending with a Big Bang-Up in Portland OR. From early March through late April 2014, the band played venues on the East Coast, with appearances at SXSW sandwiched between.
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Priebe once said, "Unless you're allowed to find the most qualified people, it's a literal misuse of tax money.""Judge McConnell's Appointee Does Bang-Up Job With Jefferson County Personnel." The Portland Anchor (Louisville) 26 February 1981: 23. Print. After working as the Director of the Civil Service Board, Priebe worked for then-Judge Mitch McConnell as Jefferson County Personnel and Executive Council Agency Member-At-Large for the International Personnel Management Association.
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During the 1930s and 1940s Yager created multiple comic book features in addition to his newspaper comic strip work. Among them were Land O' Nod, Mystery Island, Wild Bill, Buzz Balmer, and Ace Kelly. These were published in Krim Ko Komics (Drovers Journal Press), Tops in Comics, Komik Pages (Chesler/Dynamic), and Bang Up Comics (Progressive Publishers). In the late 1940s Yager also illustrated noted psychologist Albert Edward Wiggam's Let's Explore Your Mind daily feature for the National Newspaper Syndicate.
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Baldinger was eventually replaced by Anne Rogers of The Crowd Scene. In December 1989, the British music magazine NME reported that the Popinjays, along with others such as Power of Dreams, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine and The Charlatans, were their pick as 'stars of tomorrow'. Their debut album, Bang Up To Date With The Popinjays, was released in April 1990, and was followed by a live tour in May and June 1990 with One Little Indian label mates Kitchens of Distinction.
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"Toyota Site Delegation is Given Real Bang-up Welcome by Collins". Lexington Herald-Leader The agreement with Toyota was contingent upon legislative approval of $125 million in incentives promised to Toyota by Collins and state Commerce Secretary Carroll Knicely. They included $35 million to buy and improve a tract to be given to Toyota for the plant, $33 million for initial training of employees, $10 million for a skills development center for employees, and $47 million in highway improvements near the site.
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"Miss Saigon" Official Site, article on the UK 2003 tour and the "new" 2004 revised tour production The first US tour started in Chicago, Illinois in October 1992 and was then expected to travel to those cities that could accommodate the large production. The tour also played venues such as the Wang Center in Boston from 14 July to 12 September 1993,Taylor, Markland. "Wang Boasts Bang-Up B.O.", Variety, October 4, 1993 – October 10, 1993, p.74 the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Florida in the Spring 1994,Erstein, Hap.
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But the real showstopper - the > song that earned the standing ovation - was No Time for Love (if they come > in the morning). This too was fairly right on, name-checking an > international roll-call of outlaws, from Sacco and Vanzetti to Connolly and > Pearse. It was the mention of Bobby Sands that, in 1981, brought the > sentiment bang up to date. And just to underline it, Christy Moore ousted > "Newton and Seale" from the original lyrics to make room for Patsy O'Hara, > the INLA man who also died in the hunger strikes.
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Scene 1 The story begins by commenting on the riches of the Matchless Mine and on how Horace Tabor owns the whole town of Leadville, Colorado. Horace sings "It's a Bang Up Job" to the townspeople, praising his new opera house and sharing his disenchantment with his wife Augusta. During intermission at a performance at the opera house, Augusta chides Horace for not acting in accordance to his station in life. Horace pleads with her not to insult the common people, equating the prostitutes' and bar girls' work to the work her committee did in helping build the opera house.
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With the release of their first extended play, Always in 2007, Big Bang began to experiment more with their sound, moving away from their original hip hop roots, and experimenting with electronic music and dance music. Their second EP, Hot Issue, released that same year, built on that its predecessor's momentum. "Last Farewell," the lead single, was described by Billboard as one of the most blatant pop songs in the group's repertoire, with a "trance-tinged hip pop" sound. KpopStarz noted that the single included "some of the clubbiest sounds seen from Big Bang up until this point".
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Davies had a positive impression of the concert overall, praising her stage presence for "her ability to keep every pair of mostly-female eyes on her at all times" and for presenting an "expensive-looking big bang-up stage show combined with lowest common denominator pop". David Burger from The Salt Lake Tribune criticized Kesha's stage presence and charisma blaming it on the venue. The review highlighted songs such as "Tik Tok" and "Your Love Is My Drug" but criticized the middle third of the show which featured ballads. Matt Farley and Erica Boniface from KUSA gave credit to Kesha's performance and live band for "sticking to her R-rated guns".
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Ross McNeilage of MTV News described the single as a "90s house-influenced [...] total banger, through and through, that gets the party started while letting Nadine's incredible voice shine". Lewis Corner of Gay Times described it as a "pop banger ready for the weekend" and Justin Myers of Official Charts Company says that the single's "infectious housey piano and incessant beat recalls the golden era of the '90s, while the bang up-to-date production includes elements any pop fan of 2017 would be familiar with – tropical house influences are present and correct, even if the overall vibe is nowhere near as laid-back".
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Brian Hinton's review of the whole concert: > They open with "Moondance", Katie Kissoon taking a verse, then a slightly > ponderous "And It Stoned Me", then flow gracefully "Into the Mystic". As > this is not 1970, they then come bang up to date with a rocky "Wavelength", > the "poised blues" of "Don't Look Back" and a rolling "Wild Night". Katie > Kissoon sings "Crazy Love", "with Kyle's flute circling, dipping and gliding > off Peter Bardens' delicate piano phrasing". Van is back for "Checkin' it > Out", with John Altham on baritone sax, then it's "Kingdom Hall" and a raft > of classics, a jangly and ragged "Moonshine Whiskey", a controlled "Tupelo > Honey".
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All good things, but what's a road warrior to do when the battery barely lasts four hours? Something tells us the Twist will still appeal to Lenovo loyalists, folks who trust ThinkPad's build quality and wouldn't be caught dead using any other keyboard. If you're more brand-agnostic, though, there are other Windows 8 convertibles with comfortable keyboards -- not to mention, sharper screens, faster performance and longer battery life." A review published by the Financial Mail states, "The bang-up-to-date five-point multitouch screen measures 12.5 inches, with an HD resolution of 1366 x 768, topped with Gorilla Glass — protective and pretty.
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Peter settled in Parr and his coaches ran from the Golden Lion in Dale St. Francis (c 1770 – 1833) lived at Maghull, where he owned stables and had a small coaching business. He had coaches (one called The Rocket) running from the Crown Inn, Redcross St and from the White Horse Inn, Dale St. Later Peter moved his business to the Birmingham area and settled in Yardley, Worcestershire. Joseph ( 1781–1810) lived at Sharples, near Bolton, Lancashire, where he had a small coaching business, but he was never part of the Liverpool traffic and died aged 29. Bartholomew operated from the Saracen's Head, Dale St and his coaches included Alexander, Bang Up. Lord Exmouth, North Britain, Defiance, Regulator, Royal Mail, Telegraph and Umpire.
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Mining in Leycett was first mentioned back in Roman times and continued into the nineteenth century which is when in 1801, a leasehold agreement was taken out for thirty three years to mine coal on land at Leycett, between John the First Lord Crewe, Walter Sneyd of Keele, Thomas Breek of Keele and James Breek of Newcastle. By 1834 local industrialist Thomas Firmstone had taken over the lease and in 1838 constructed a three and half mile tramline from the colliery to link up with the mainline at Madeley Station to help transport his coal all over the country. Leycett Collieries became known as Madeley Colliery in 1947 under The National Coal Board, until its closure in 1957. Pits included Fair Lady and Bang Up.
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UNIVERSAL, the debut album, was released through the Message Trust, with who Galactus Jack has been working with full-time since 2014. Featuring collaborations with Lucy Speakman (Brightline), Crown Freedom (Vital Signs), Geek Boy, Lucy West (Vienna; Blush UK), and Jonathan Ogden (Rivers and Robots), UNIVERSAL embraced various styles within the EDM genre, from the commercial house sounds of Captured and Heaven, to the big room sound of Existence. Released on July 29, once again the critical response was overwhelmingly positive with Louder Than The Music heralding it as "modern, dance inspired, cool and fresh" and awarding it 5/5, and OneManInTheMiddle saying "this is a release that is bang up to date for the EDM crowd. If that’s your thing then my suggestion is get this album, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed" in their 8.9/10 review.
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" Despite believing that Andrews could have voiced the character well, Bill Beyrer of Cinema Blend felt that Saunders "did a bang up job", but found the character's appearance to be too realistic at times. In a more negative review, the San Francisco Chronicle film critic Mick LaSalle found the character too distracting from Shrek and Fiona's storyline, continuing, "The filmmakers invest too much time and faith in the idea of the fairy godmother as being wickedly amusing, but she's no Cruella De Vil, and the movie suffers." However, LaSalle enjoyed Fairy Godmother's performance of "Holding Out for a Hero" nonetheless. Michael Sragow, film critic for The Baltimore Sun, wrote that "Not even ... Saunders can add zing to the script's rough sketch of a sorceress", dismissing her as "a female impersonator caught in a female body, promoting specialties that are the fairy-tale equivalents of super-extreme makeovers.
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He wanted to get the right result, but also wanted to carve out a good career for himself – and he knew from experience the advantages of cultivating links with Uniform, who could supply much of the information he needed. Daly was delighted to have a keen new DC on board who was bang up to date with the law – and this put Skase's nose right out of joint. Proctor made friends with the people he was trying to nick so that they opened to him, and showed a great deal more tact and insight in his dealings with the public than Skase ever did, which provoked a natural rivalry between the two men. Proctor was not usually abrasive and would bide his time before passing judgement, but he occasionally clashed with officers like Carver and Lines whom he considered "dinosaurs" – and was not afraid to tell them so.
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British critic Phil Hardy calls The Woman Eater 'an improbable shocker' and writes that 'the direction, acting and scripting are all questionable and totally lack the silliness required to get away with such a motif, best seen in Roger Corman's Little Shop of Horrors (1960) with its carnivorous piece of flora'. At the other end of the spectrum, American critic Bryan Senn gives Saunders a nod for doing much with little. 'Though the production is definitely on the cheap, director Charles Saunders makes the most of both the English countryside (often going outside to shoot to give the picture a more expansive - and authentic - feel) and the huge old manor house that stood in for Moran's mansion', he writes. He compliments the film's art director, Herbert Smith, for his 'bang-up basement/dungeon lab set, its medieval-style stone staircase, pillars, dank walls and iron gates contrasting nicely with the tables of shining glass beakers and medical apparatus, generating an atmosphere of ominous menace'.
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Although 22 years old during principal production, North was still largely known to audiences as the impish child he had played 10 years before on the CBS family series Dennis the Menace. Prior to the release of the film, columnist Jack O'Brian reported of the "vulgarity" of North's first adult feature film role: "Nice little Jay North (TV's Dennis the Menace only a few smiles ago) has a bang-up role in 'The Teacher' flick -- an explicit porn-scene with Angel Tompkins." While not impressed with what he deemed to be a "ludicrous" storyline, Los Angeles Times critic Kevin Thomas expressed appreciation for the portrayal of the film's two lead characters, writing: > The plot of 'The Teacher' isn't worth outlining, yet it develops a > relationship between a 28-year-old woman and an 18-year-old high school boy > with sensitivity and credibility unusual for an exploitation film. [...] > Avedis displays much concern for his people and allows Miss Tompkins and > North plenty of room to give fresh, spontaneous performances.
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McConnell Stott, p. 203 In an attempt to recover the costs incurred by the rebuilding, Kemble raised the theatre's seat prices, causing audiences to protest violently for more than two months, and the management was forced to reinstate the old prices.McConnell Stott, pp. 206–07 Grimaldi's 1809–10 productions included Don Juan, in which he appeared as Scaramouche, and Castles in the Air, as Clown.McConnell Stott, p. 209 Later in 1810, he appeared in Birmingham in a benefit performance in aid of his sister-in- law.McConnell Stott, p. 211 The following year, Grimaldi sang "Tippitywitchet" for the first time at Sadler's Wells in Charles Dibdin's pantomime Bang up, or, Harlequin Prime; it became one of his most popular songs. By 1812, despite Grimaldi's success as a performer, he was close to bankruptcy as a result of his wife's extravagant spending, a number of thefts by his accountant and the cost of maintaining both an idyllic country lifestyle and his son JS's private education.McConnell Stott, p. 230 The strain on Grimaldi's finances caused him to accept as many provincial engagements as he could. That year, he travelled to Cheltenham and appeared again as Scaramouche in a revival of Don Juan.
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