mine-shaft

Overlaid with the story of Mary's search for love is a toothless, shopworn satire about media hype, with a subplot borrowed from Billy Wilder's "Ace in the Hole" — a tale of a mine-shaft disaster.

'Steve' Is All About Inanity 2009

Truly, Israel is the "canary in the mine-shaft" for all of us in the West.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

The state of Labour is that of the mine-shaft in Zola's Germinal, after the anarchist Souvarine has attacked it.

Archive 2004-01-25 Laban 2004

The state of Labour is that of the mine-shaft in Zola's Germinal, after the anarchist Souvarine has attacked it.

January 25, 2004 Laban 2004

But I'd never really paid it mind -- and so never really dropped a mental stone into the Patriarch mine-shaft to see how far it fell -- until World O'Crap broke out a big examination of movement bigwig Philip Lancaster's latest essay.

Home-Schooling Rogers 2005

In Virginia City, the only explosions were from mine-shaft dynamite: the boomtown was booming as never before.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

In Virginia City, the only explosions were from mine-shaft dynamite: the boomtown was booming as never before.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

But I'd never really paid it mind -- and so never really dropped a mental stone into the Patriarch mine-shaft to see how far it fell -- until World O'Crap broke out a big examination of movement bigwig Philip Lancaster's latest essay.

Archive 2005-08-14 Rogers 2005

The factory was inside a mine-shaft deep inside a mountain.

Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004

The factory was inside a mine-shaft deep inside a mountain.

Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004