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  • Now, Walter Chow see above is right that The Sandpiper is a pretty awful movie, made even more awful by its attempt to portray Liz as a "hippie" in total designer "hippie" clothing, while Richard Burton as a stuffy Episcopal priest is just ridiculous, plus - as Walter points up - WTF was the guy doing cheating on Eva Marie-Saint in the first place?

    October 2009 2009

  • After hearing about the project, a music publisher contacted my producer Ernie Altschuler with a new song by Johnny Mandel called “The Shadow of Your Smile,” from a film called The Sandpiper.

    The Good Life Tony Bennett 1998

  • After hearing about the project, a music publisher contacted my producer Ernie Altschuler with a new song by Johnny Mandel called “The Shadow of Your Smile,” from a film called The Sandpiper.

    The Good Life Tony Bennett 1998

  • After hearing about the project, a music publisher contacted my producer Ernie Altschuler with a new song by Johnny Mandel called “The Shadow of Your Smile,” from a film called The Sandpiper.

    The Good Life Tony Bennett 1998

  • It's a Bishop-like gambit — take "Sandpiper," portraying the bird as oblivious to the larger forces surrounding it, but also, by focusing our attention on the bird, leaving us just a little oblivious to the theme of the poem.

    Magna Carter (5): Role modeling Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • It's a Bishop-like gambit — take "Sandpiper," portraying the bird as oblivious to the larger forces surrounding it, but also, by focusing our attention on the bird, leaving us just a little oblivious to the theme of the poem.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • "Sandpiper" how the bird's activities take on anthromorphic qualities.

    Strange Affinities: A Partial Return to Wordsworthian Poetics After Modernism 2003

  • "Sandpiper," which recalls Bryant's "Water-Fowl" in its successful rendering of the spirit and atmosphere of the scene, and the distinctness with which the lone bird, flitting along the beach, is brought before the mind.

    Birds and Poets : with Other Papers John Burroughs 1879

  • Heather Templeton, a junior at the 1,200-student college, worked as one of two staffers on the "Sandpiper" in 2008, the year it was discontinued.

    Fore, right! ZINIE CHEN SAMPSON 2010

  • Heather Templeton, a junior at the 1,200-student college, worked as one of two staffers on the "Sandpiper" in 2008, the year it was discontinued.

    Fore, right! ZINIE CHEN SAMPSON 2010

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