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The late filmmaker Chris Marker gave his monumental documentary on the New Left movement of 1967–1977, Le fond de l'air est rouge (1977), the English title Grin without a Cat. Like the original, it signifies that revolution was in the air, but failed to take root. In the film, it is also stated: a spearhead without a spear, a grin without a cat.
"Me and the Farmer" is a single by British Indie rock band The Housemartins from the album The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death. It reached #15 in the UK singles chart the week of 12 September 1987. [2] The song had been written some 18 months previously, on 22 January 1986 (the same day as Happy Hour). [3]
The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death is the second and final studio album by The Housemartins. It was released in 1987, and produced three singles - " Five Get Over Excited " (#11 UK), " Me and the Farmer " (#15) and " Build " (#15 UK).
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The Housemartins were an English indie rock group formed in Hull who were active in the 1980s [2] and charted three top-ten albums and six top-twenty singles in the UK. [3] Many of their lyrics conveyed a mixture of socialist politics and Christianity, reflecting the beliefs of the band [4] (the back cover of their debut album, London 0 Hull 4, contained the message, "Take Jesus – Take Marx ...
Five Get Over Excited is a song by The Housemartins released as a single from their album The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death.. The follow-up to their #1 UK hit "Caravan of Love" (although it was preceded by the USA-only release of "Flag Day"), it peaked at #11 on the UK Singles Chart in June 1987.
The governor said she isn’t opposed to tariffs outright, but they shouldn’t be used to punish the country’s closest trading partners. “Doing so hurts all of us, damaging supply chains ...
Million-dollar wound" (American English) or "Blighty wound" (British English) is military slang for a type of wound received in combat which is serious enough to get the soldier sent away from the fighting, but neither fatal nor permanently crippling.