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[ "Vivas" from crowd] I am sure that the day is not far off when apartheid will disappear.
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"Vivas" for France and Australia were exchanged and some of the members of the Battalion let go what they recollected of their schooldays 'French.
The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula Herbert Brayley Collett 1912
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The fierce "Vivas" of the mob, combined with the general's weight, proved too much for his charger, which plunged violently.
The Stowaway Girl Louis Tracy 1895
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He is believed to be wearing a white t-shirt with an orange 72 on the front and "Vivas" print on the back of the shirt.
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_ "The cannon thundered from the ramparts; the military bands played airs of triumph; and the troops, which were ranged in two files from the gate of the town to the church, presented arms, and joined their" Vivas "to those of the populace.
A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 Otto von Kotzebue 1816
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I might agree were the film not executed with perversely stunning perfection by filmmaker Miguel Ángel Vivas, whose gut-wrenchingly precise timing, effective but not manipulative use of emotional drama, and confident aesthetic risks (including some de Palma-esque split-screens), make for a memorable film that uses small-scale convention to explore a universal idea; man's capacity for both courage and evil.
Farihah Zaman: 2010 Fantastic Fest #3: All Creatures Great and Small; Zombies, Vampires, and Terrible Human Beings Farihah Zaman 2010
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Except that filmmaker Miguel Angel Vivas isn't as dispassionate and chilly as the coldly vicious Haneke.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Kidnapped Marshall Fine 2011
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Certainly Vivas knows his stuff: how to build suspense and then crank it up some more.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Kidnapped Marshall Fine 2011
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Perhaps his friend, critic Edward Hirsch, put it best a couple of years ago when he called Levine a poet of the night shift, a late ironic Whitman of our industrial heartland, a Romantic anarchist who repeatedly proclaims, 'Vivas for those who failed...'
Jan Herman: Philip Levine's Factory Stiffs, Society's Throw-Aways Jan Herman 2011
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Perhaps his friend, critic Edward Hirsch, put it best a couple of years ago when he called Levine a poet of the night shift, a late ironic Whitman of our industrial heartland, a Romantic anarchist who repeatedly proclaims, 'Vivas for those who failed...'
Jan Herman: Philip Levine's Factory Stiffs, Society's Throw-Aways Jan Herman 2011
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