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However, he focuses primarily on Kirby with Lee and Simon taking second-banana roles.
31 « July « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009
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However, he focuses primarily on Kirby with Lee and Simon taking second-banana roles.
The Kirby Files: From American Dream to American Dissolution, Part 2 2009
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However, he focuses primarily on Kirby with Lee and Simon taking second-banana roles.
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I suspect this oddness stems from Randy's second-banana status not just in Hollywood, but also inside his own family.
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I suspect this oddness stems from Randy's second-banana status not just in Hollywood, but also inside his own family.
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This is a season of intense pressure on New York's second-banana football franchise, most of it self-inflicted.
To Sign Revis, 2010
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Take a guy who, for all intense purposes, was locked into second-banana land, who in reality was a war hero, who attempted to ruralize the growing urban sprawl by promoting the old-time front yard garden and ended up being the father of Earth Day, who then became super popular for playing an uptight man thrown into the most ridiculous circumstances...
The First Accusations of Surrealism Jaime J. Weinman 2009
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While uptight and conventional on the surface, the leads in GA and BH, too were by and large leaps more interesting and funny than their so-called second-banana cut-ups like Mr Haney, Hank Kimball, Eb etc.
The First Accusations of Surrealism Jaime J. Weinman 2009
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That finally happened in the early 1970s, ensuring the Globe's dominance and dooming the Herald to second-banana status.
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(He did not ask the neocon cabal ringleader, Dick Cheney, to step down, perhaps in a spirit of second-banana solidarity.)
Times Public Editor Hammers Maureen Dowd's Coverage Of Hillary 2009
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