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A shot of a young McQueen playing craps with a fistfull of $1s during a break on his TV series Wanted: Dead or Alive is followed pages (and years) later by a sick two-page spread of him outside a Blow-worthy mansion, with his Ferrari and first wife parked out front.
Slashfilm Bookshelf: Wonder Women of America and Steve McQueen: A Life in Pictures | /Film 2008
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| Reply how can you forget Once upon a time in the West, good the bad the ugly, fistfull of dollars, a few dollars more. jeez you should know better than to forget those films and some more
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Best western in the last 25 years 2008
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I endo'd to temporal-lobe-plant on my mt bike one night, on a concrete bike path, with no lights, going downhill, really fast, with no helmet, grabbing a fistfull of Paul Motolite, during a flashback of a coyote running into my spokes.
Blanket (Tour) Coverage: Cozy or Smothering? BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Yet hard to digest — Like a fistfull of jacks
Closed Curve 2009
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I don't want to be an apologist for genuinely elitist, jerky behavior or for complacency, and maybe at some point it comes down to one fistfull of anecdotes against another; clearly, my experience at INRU wasn't the same as Deresiewicz's at Columbia and Yale.
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2008
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BTW, if the hot tub party featured David Duchovny, Grant Petersen, and the Fat Cyclist, I'm not sure what got served up, but I'm guessing there was lots of sex, abundant amounts of turtle pie, and roughly a fistfull of steel seatpost crammed up under somebody's butt.
Shades of Marketing: The Art of Salesmanship BikeSnobNYC 2008
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All organic foods, very low calories, 15 colon cleanses by a professional, heavy metal cleanses, a fistfull of supplements, and a ton of extras, including equipment.
Gary Taubes responds | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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He reached out and grabbed a fistfull, and his palm erupted in fiery pain.
In Darkness » Blog Archive » From the Archives: Welcome to Hell 2007
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It's amazing how a fistfull of little blue babies can lift your spirits, Mary.
Hullabaloo 2004
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It's amazing how a fistfull of little blue babies can lift your spirits, Mary.
Hullabaloo 2004
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