His first play, " Boots for the Footless, " attracted pickets outside a London theater from Irish groups protesting at its stereotypical portrayal of drunken, violent Irishmen, and contradictory, conniving Irish women.
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The family name, Apodidae, is derived from the Greek ???? ( " �pous " ), meaning " footless ", a reference to the small, weak legs of these most aerial of birds.
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In 2 1 / 2 months Sara Blakely, a 29-year-old sometimes stand-up comic, has sold that many Spanx, her own footless pantyhose, from the back room of her rented duplex in Atlanta.
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"It's important that optimism not be footless and unwarranted, " said Dr . Martin E . P . Seligman, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania who was a co-author of the study.
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Also, while many people consider built-in feet to be part of the definition of " sleeper ", garments otherwise meeting the definition but lacking feet are sometimes marketed as " footless blanket sleepers ".
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The first is a round-bottomed footless " krater " with side handles and a plate-like rim ( goatskin, and know at an early date over much of Sicily and Italy, but perhaps introduced by the Greeks.
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Two of his best-known roles were in " Time Bandits ", where he played Benson, a mentally disturbed follower of Evil, and in " Jabberwocky ", where he played a footless man known as Wat Dabney.
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In 1990 he also had his most successful theatrical run of'Boots for the Footless'and a 6-week sold out run at the Tricycle theatre, Kilburn a promised West End production failed to materialise however when the financier fell from a balcony.
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The drawing techniques in this rambling show vary, from deliberately hazy evocations that defy close reading to sharp, Stygian renderings like " Vater Morgana, " a headless, footless man in a black suit with what appears to be a tail running down between his legs.
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I'd liked to have seen something really mad, like a village of Footless, or a gang war between the Gopher God and Mr . Moose . " Adventures in the Mad Lands " boasts an exquisite premise, but it could use a bolder vision ."
