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Brooklands College

Wendy Smith-Sly, athlete who competed mainly in the 3,000 metres.


Agi Mishol

In his New York Times book review of Look There (2006), Joel Brouwer wrote: "Mishol... takes up political subjects with a sly delicacy reminiscent of the Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska’s best work".

Bassett Road machine gun murders

Involved on the periphery of these issues at the time were two New Zealand National Party politicians, Rob Muldoon (a future New Zealand Prime Minister) and John Banks, whose father Archibald was involved in the beerhouse/sly grog milieu and sent his then-teenage son out to provide cleaning services for his father's clients.

Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now

A game character "Silvester Stallion" was named for Sylvester Stallone, and a powerup in the game, "Oil slicks from your arse" is one that Sly's character can be seen using in the movie.

Charles Nove

Nove is the subject of Half Man Half Biscuit's "Nove on the Sly", a track from their 2000 album Trouble Over Bridgwater.

Codex Writers Group

Tobias S. Buckell, author of Crystal Rain, Ragamuffin, and Sly Mongoose

Garnett Silk

Having signed an international distribution deal with Atlantic Records, Silk now entered Tuff Gong studios with producer Errol Brown and the cream of Jamaica's sessionmen (including Aston Barrett, Sly & Robbie, Tyrone Downie, Earl "Chinna" Smith, and Uziah "Sticky" Thompson), to begin work on his second album.

Georges Bordonove

His biographies, such as those of the kings of France, are characterised by short, dense chapters packed with detail including a potentially bewildering array of names and the citation of recorded conversations, sometimes in Old French with translations, but showing an evident sympathy for the subject, a desire to make a complete picture of his life and thought, and some sly humour.

Hold the Line

"'Hold the Line' was a perfect example of what people will describe as your heavy metal chord guitar licks, your great triplet A-notes on the piano, your 'Sly'-hot-fun-in-the-summertime groove, all mishmashed together with a boy from New Orleans singing... and it really crossed over a lot of lines.".

Juan Pons

In the 97-98 season he was highly acclaimed in a production of Sly by Wolf-Ferrari alongside José Carreras, as well as in Giordano's La Cena delle Beffe, both productions presented at the Zurich Opera.

Lawson J. Deming

While billed as a kids' show, Deming's sly sense of humor often flew over the heads of children, which might explain why a TV2 ratings poll in 1971 showed that about one-third of his audience were adults.

Mercedes Llopart

In 1924, at the invitation of maestro Arturo Toscanini, she made her debut at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, as Sieglinde in Walkure, and went on singing there as Alice Ford in Falstaff, the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier, the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro, and created the role of Dolly at the world premiere of Wolf-Ferrari's opera Sly in 1927, with the great Italian tenor Aureliano Pertile.

My Name Is Modesty

Juan Morales of The New York Times called the film one of the "vivid examples of Mr. Spiegel’s sly, visual directing style".

Ornithine translocase deficiency

Charles Scriver, Beaudet, A.L., Valle, D., Sly, W.S., Vogelstein, B., Childs, B., Kinzler, K.W. (Accessed 2007).

Rebels and Redcoats

And a little like Michael Moore's polemical films, the documentary delivers its most striking indictments not in the facts but in the sly visual juxtapositions.

Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves

The gang travels to Kinderdijk, Holland, Netherlands, where they enter Sly in the flying competition.

Stand!

The band’s A&R director and photographer Stephen Paley recalled how "together" Sly Stone was while working on Stand!, down to his constant referencing of Orchestration, a how-to book on orchestral arrangement by Walter Piston.

The Pious Bird of Good Omen

Its use as an album title as well as the album art is a sly wink to the featuring of the band's number 1 UK hit "Albatross."

Theodor Larsson

Sven Svenssons Sven — later recorded by the Swedish-American singers Olle i Skratthult and Charles G. Widdén — brought up the subject of temperance while De rysliga bolshevikerna (The terrible bolsheviks) was a sly piece of political satire.

Tony Sly

On September 8, 2012, when the surviving members of No Use for a Name played a show in Quebec City, Quebec in honor of Sly, bassist Matt Riddle confirmed that the band were splitting up.

Tun Fatimah

According to Malaysian historians it was a sly foreign Datuk of Malacca who gave out the secrets to them to conquer the city, and thus had eventually made the Malays lost their control of it.

Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue

Following from where Ty the Tasmanian Tiger left off, Ty the Tasmanian Tiger defeats the cassowary Boss Cass by using the Doomerang given by his brother Sly in the previous game.

William Sly

Sly is included in the troupe's surviving cast lists for the next few years, for Every Man in His Humour (1598), Every Man Out of His Humour (1599), and Sejanus (1603) — all three by Ben Jonson.

WOZN-FM

The full WTDY schedule was simulcast on WTDY-FM, including local shows Sly in the Morning and Forward with Kurt Baron; full-hour local newscasts at 12PM and 5PM; national shows including Michael Smerconish and America's Radio News; and weekend broadcasts of NFL and college sports from Compass Media Networks and Sports USA.


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