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On a somewhat stormy day, Ireland's second city staged a parade that was every bit the reflection of this town's own checkered reputation: shambolic, merry, mean and ultimately grey like the streets it traversed, the skies overhead and the complexions of the windblown spectators (www.lonelyplanet.com....chive.html)
New York57;s taxis are to to be forced to achieve at least 25mpg if bought after October 2008, and 30mpg if bought in 2009. Whether this will just mean older and older taxis on the streets will remain to be see (www.lifegoggles....gory/news/)
"What you've brought to my attention is that this is still a problem," Bass said in a telephone interview Wednesday. "For a middle-class kid, this (type of delay in financial aid) means you borrow from your parents. For a foster kid, this could mean you are on the streets." (www.sfgate.com....KDTED1.DTL)
MORE GUNS ON THE STREET? What do you mean more guns on the streets? Do we allow no guns on the streets? Are you saying that only those people who break the law should have guns on the streets (www.plack.net....p/2005/09/)
Itâs a sense of duty to the deployed men and women that is nagging at him to go back. He said he wants them to know that just because a servicemember is injured doesnât mean he forgets about his buddies who are still patrolling the streets of Iraq. (www.defenselink.mil....x?id=49032)
Sure, you may have gotten around town on a fixed-gear bike, and maybe you even wore an obscure Italian cycling cap with the brim flipped up, but without a Timbuk2 you were nothing. Straight out of the mean streets of San Francisco 's financial district they came, and these bags took no prisoners (www.styledash.com....mber-when/)
De Niro, Robert 1943-, American film actor, b. New York City. After studying for the stage, he acted in films directed by Brian De Palma . In 1973 he made his first major movies, Bang the Drum Slowly and Mean Streets . (www.encyclopedia.com....ixbio.html)
Despite a persistent gray haze, officials said Tuesday an exercise that removed more than 1 million private vehicles a day from Beijing 's gridlocked streets was a success that could mean a clearer sky during next summer 's Olympic (topics.cnn.com....protection)
Arguably, no one can outdo Martin Scorsese as a New York filmmaker. 60;Taxi Driver .61; 60;Mean Streets .61; 60;Who57;s That Knocking at My Door?61; Not only was he born in New York , but he also went to New York University57;s film school. He even had a film called 60;New York , New York61; (though admittedly a box-office and critical failure (cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/)
But this is not Stand and Deliver or Dangerous Minds . These kids will not be enrolling at MIT next fall and they certainly won't be writing autobiographies on how they traded the mean streets for Wall Street . (www.education-world.com....a026.shtml)
As Americans embraced the future after World War II, they entertained themselves with cinematic visions of mean streets and sordid pasts. The tale of film noirâs rise and fall has a few twists of its own. (www.wilsoncenter.org....wq.welcome)
De Niro, Robert 1943-, American film actor, b. New York City. After studying for the stage, he acted in films directed by Brian De Palma . In 1973 he made his first major movies, Bang the Drum Slowly and Mean Streets (www.encyclopedia.com....ixbio.html)
Despite a persistent gray haze, officials said Tuesday an exercise that removed more than 1 million private vehicles a day from Beijing 's gridlocked streets was a success that could mean a clearer sky during next summer 's Olympics (topics.cnn.com....nvironment)
Hear how excited she was that "the crowd was so riled up after our rally was over" and since they were all fired up they had to "take it to the streets, I mean they had some 'tudes going on" so of course they go looking for trouble at the die-in. (She sounds like she envisions some kind of Jets/Sharks rumble . (www.spockosbrain.com/)
“To be very clear: just because this prize has the words Willesden and Zadiehovering over it, it does not mean that I or the other judges want to readhundreds of jolly stories about multicultural life on the streets of northLondon.” (entertainment.timesonline.co.uk....342051.ece)
Sometimes a person just has to take the business to the streets or onto the plane or down the highway to make the pitch face-to-face. But savvy road warriors know that doesn't mean leaving the office behind or being incommunicado. These top business travel accessories run the gamut from (search.bnet.com....iness.html)
But the absence of war does not mean there is peace, says UNICEFs interim Representative in Madagascar, Francisco Basili. Building a world fit for children means building a world where children are safe to go to school, to walk down the streets, to say what they feel and to be treated with respect in their families and by their communitie (www.unicef.org....35985.html)
Years later, the cavalry scout is bruised but battle-hardened by the life he chose. In Iraq, his up-armored Humvee was bombed 12 times during endless patrols up and down the mean streets of Baghdad. He was banged up, but made it home alive (www.defenselink.mil....x?id=48838)
With his signature rat-a-tat style, Richard Price once more breaks through the conventions of the police procedural in "Lush Life," a tale set on the gentrifying-but-still-mean streets of the lower East Side (celebrities.alltop.com/)
Vermin faithful already CAROLYN KELLOGG as the tireless promoter of literary Los Angeles through her podcast Pinky's Paperhaus. But did you know she was recently appointed editor of LAist? Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear her read a hard-hitting account from the mean streets of Koreatow (www.boingboing.net....1/08-week/)
In response to thebobbob.you are the very reason why I would never vote Democrat. Mean spiritedness was birthed from your party. The Democrats speak of unity, but they don't practice what they preach.from Capitol Hill to the streets of suburbi (blog.washingtonpost.com....omney.html)
the stores are parsed out all over the streets and you have to cross very busy intersections and streets to get from one to the other. I mean, you literally have to watch where you're going or you'll be hit with a bus (www.tripadvisor.com....ersey.html)
Sometimes a person just has to take the business to the streets or onto the plane or down the highway to make the pitch face-to-face. But savvy road warriors know that doesn't mean leaving the office behind or being incommunicado. These top business travel accessories run the gamut fro (search.bnet.com....ssory.html)
New York57;s reputation as a tough city took a major hit in the summer of 2006 when it received the highest score of all the world57;s big cities in a courtesy test . Even worse, according London57;s Guardian, 60; New York loses mean streets image as murder rate plunges .61 (www.scholarsand....egory/law/)
Very, I mean, very close to the train station (less then 3 minutes walk) this is very convenient for anybody traveling by train as you don't have to carry your luggage and loose your way in many small streets before getting to your hotel as this happen often (www.tripadvisor.com....scany.html)
Here's what was quite odd about "The walk" in atlantic city.it's in the middle of busy streets. And you have to walk a lot.the stores are parsed out all over the streets and you have to cross very busy intersections and streets to get from one to the other. I mean, you literally have to watch where you're. mor (www.tripadvisor.com....ersey.html)
Having made a name for himself as a guest MC on D.I.T.C. (Diggin' in the Crates) projects such as Diamond D.'s Stunts, Blunts & Hip-Hop and Showbiz & A.G.'s Runaway Slave, the flamboyantly gifted Lamont Coleman (aka Big L) dropped his debut in early 1995. A product of the mean streets of Harlem,. [+] Expand (www.mp3.com....mmary.html)
The village is well supplied with plank walks on all the principal streets, along which are planted numerous shade trees, that in time will add much to the beauty of the place. The business men are vigorous, active gentlemen, who will soon make Dalton city a place of no mean pretensions. The present business is represented in the following: (www.354.com....oncity.htm)
You may know the road rules, but that doesn't mean everyone does. The most abundant obstacles you'll encounter on a bike are pedestrian tourists . They unknowingly walk in bike lanes and cross streets without looking. Watch for them and and use your bell get their attention (goamsterdam.about.com....safety.htm)
the stores are parsed out all over the streets and you have to cross very busy intersections and streets to get from one to the other. I mean, you literally have to watch where you're going or you'll be hit with a bus. (www.tripadvisor.com....ersey.html)
the stores are parsed out all over the streets and you have to cross very busy intersections and streets to get from one to the other. I mean, you literally have to watch where you're going or you'll be hit with a bu (www.tripadvisor.com....ersey.html)
Mean Streets owes a debt to the Stones, Martin Scorsese tells Craig McLean at the Observer , talking about his upcoming Rolling Stones concert doc Shine a Light. (blog.ifctv.com....g/2007/08/)
Actually, I mean it. Imagine if an Oxford -educated pacifistemerged in the Iraqi crowd and said, we will lie on the streets infront of your tanks, we will die from the terrorists and from yourown bullets, but we will no longer hide. Take us down, they wouldsay, and more will replace us (letters.salon.com....dex10.html)
"Producing Taxi Driver " features Michael Phillips briefly discussing how he became a producer and how he got the script for Taxi Driver . When he saw Mean Streets , he knew that he wanted Scorsese to direct and Robert De Niro to star (www.amazon.com....51-6304914)
I think Sam Fox is perfect for that job as ambassador. If he was able to withstand the ruthless glare of Hanoi John sKerry, he'll be well equipped to handle himself in the mean streets of Brussels (jonswift.blogspot.com....50000.html)
While I was indulging myself in Austin , Texas at SXSW 2007, NYC-based music fan Lindsey Chen was braving the mean streets of the Big Apple to see live music so Read More. (altmusic.about.com...._03_30.htm)
Synn Mounier created this neo-noir tableau of her avatar facing down the mean streets of the cyberpunk city called Devil's Moon direct teleport at this link) (nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2007/11/)
Artnet has found someone who claims to be Diane Arbus , and she's walking the streets of NYC. (If that's Diane Arbus, I'm Brad Pitt . I mean, that's Cousin Itt on her head.) (www.artsjournal....n/2005/07/)
"Producing Taxi Driver " features Michael Phillips briefly discussing how he became a producer and how he got the script for Taxi Driver . When he saw Mean Streets , he knew that he wanted Scorsese to direct and Robert De Niro to star. (www.amazon.com....51-6304914)
R.N. Morris has chosen to write a sequel to Dostoyevskyâs CRIME AND PUNISHMENT , and so Porfiry Petrovich walks the mean streets of Russia once again, this time in the adventure of THE GENTLE AXE (www.bookgasm.com/2007/04/)
Er, I mean. Ashing! It's all over everything on the streets, and yes all the crud you see on this car is ash that has fallen in the past few hours. This is in Silver Lake and the whole place. (blogging.la/archives/2005/09/)
In third spot was another debut film Step Up 2: The Streets , sequel to the 2006 hit dance film Step Up, pitting rival dancers against each other and the establishment on the mean streets of Baltimore (news.yahoo.com....0220013616)
But I digress. This is a good idea. I mean, my life really hasn't been the same since they changed the South Street exit on the Schuylkill from "40" to "32179B" or whatever it is now. And I went out and scooped out a clearly misleading sign that I think the Inquirer should clearly cleanse from the streets (willdo.philadelphiaweekly.com....s/2006/02/)
Remember, "connections" needn't involve overt support. "Connections" can simply mean that the majority of your population dances with joy in the streets when terrorists attack Western targets. "Connections" can (and does) also mean "Muslims who consider themselves Muslim first, whatever nationality they are second. (www.insomnomaniac.com....s/2004/03/)
For a trawl through the mean streets of America, try anything by Jim Thompson, James M Cain, Chester Himes or Raymond Chandler. Elmore Leonard and James Ellroy are arguably the hardest-hitting crime novelist (www1.excite.com....53,00.html)
She also put in her two cents as part of the movie-viewing public, and criticized aspects of her son's films that might call his upbringing into question. Scorsese's film Mean Streets (1973), which is riddled with tough guys and obscenities, has the f-word running through it like a mantra (www.infoplease.com....moms1.html)
RE Street View and Privacy: Every filmmaker knows about permits and notices that are required in each city, in the US and Canada and just about everywhere, before shooting on public streets for commercial productions. Just because its on Google and looks cool doesn't mean it's "right" or lega (www.boingboing.net....ort-1.html)
The spider monkey there scared the shit out of me, trying to imagine that I'm distantly related to that thing, as it stretched its hands out for the bread in my hand like one of the beggars on the streets of this mean little hole. Supposedly, FDR toured the farm and Bubba toured when he was governor. (lonewacko.com....03_11.html)
âThey will see that if Musharraf is going to commit more troops to controlling demonstrators and riots in the streets, that will mean less attention to the war on terror, said Haqqani (www.topnews.in....-csm-25395)
Sadly, Mathis gave up the ghost in 1950 and the sleek little 333 never made it onto the mean streets of Paris. Fortunately for us, the prototype is still around (gadgets.boingboing.net....9/02-week/)
My Vote for Van Halen Album.: .after Van Halen , would be Fair Warning . Mean Streets is Diamond Dave's best performance in his first tenure as the VH frontman (www.washingtonpost.com....01352.html)
A quick ferry ride from the teeming streets and gleaming skyscrapers of Central and Kowloon are the Outlying Islands. Just because you're visiting one of the world's busiest cities doesn't mean you can't do a little island-hopping (www.budgettravel.com....00392.html)
Even tough guys on the mean streets of New York admitted to indulging in an array of guilty pleasures, from exfoliating scrubs to women's shaving crea (abcnews.go.com....id=3424487)
At the moment in Ireland our nurses are out on strike - on the streets, the poor things, marching on the streets - looking for higher wages. I mean, if [oil and gas development] were done right they wouldn't have to be out there. The country could afford to pay them their wages and let them do what they're good at doing (www.msnbc.msn.c..../18337160/)
Gathering data is a huge task. NAVTEQ supplies data to many of the competing mapping platforms, as well as to non-public customers. Robert Denaro described the process of Driving the Mean Streets . He explained that it's not enough to just know where the streets are. You need to know which are one-way streets, where there are permissible left turns, et (www.oreillynet.com....re_02.html)
A Pentagon briefing paper shows the United States financed an eight-week training program for new recruits, with two classes totaling 3,000 students who should be hitting the mean streets of Iraq in January (www.gertzfile.com....10204.html)
At first I don't tell my girlfriend about all this symbolic throat-cutting. But eventually I have to mention my goodbye message at the restaurant as we walk off into the silence of the city's 10 p.m. streets. It troubles her, then she says, "Perhaps they mean death to Khamenei? (www.salon.com....7/24/iran/)
5. " The Departed ": Or, "How Martin Scorsese Got His Groove Back." His Martyness relocates the Hong Kong thriller " Infernal Affairs " to the mean streets of Boston and turns this cops-and-mobsters story into a high-voltage crime drama about changing your identity and selling your soul (movies.msn.com....ews=245223)
In Tony Curtis &s filmed tribute to Cary Grant for TCM he made much ofhis well known idolatry of the man who made him want to become anactor. As a kid growing up in the mean streets of New York , youngBernie Schwartz saw in Cary Grant all he ever wanted to be up there onthe silver screen (www.imdb.com/title/tt0053143/)
LOS ANGELES, Calif. They have names such as the Crips, the Bloods, El Rukn, murder . They stalk the mean streets and the graffiti-scarred buildings of city neighborhoods. (www.highbeam.com....21784.html)
But back to clothes. Does this influx of easy-to-wear tones mean our streets will suddenly be as vivid as the runways? As the long, gray days of winter drag on, we can only hope. (nymag.com....ing/44248/)
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