Search & Seizure 
.... D. If Officer Shields finds the items from the robbery in the trash can in the alley behind
Riff's house, this is circumstantial evidence only. ....
(488
2
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"West Side Story" and 1950s America
.... and "against" each other, when they are in the same venues, such as at the dance hall where Maria and Tony meet; in the candy store when
Riff and fellow Jets ....
(2717
11
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Swing Rhythm
.... beat. The swing
riff from Count Basie's "Let's Jump" (www.2.kenyon.edu) demonstrates this non-metric subtlety at a moderate tempo. ....
(1051
4
)
West Side Story
.... The counter-killing of Mercutio by Tybalt and Tybalt by Romeo is mirrored in West Side Story, as
Riff is killed by Bernardo and Bernardo is killed by Tony. ....
(596
2
)
Film Versions of Romeo & Juliet
.... Tony is a former member of the Jets who now has a respectable job but who is called on by the current leader of the Jets,
Riff, to help them because he has ....
(1021
4
)
Chinese Poetry
.... These are important motifs in much of modern and postmodern literature, and we would like to understand Lee's particular
riff upon the question of whether or ....
(1055
4
)
Odyssey & Aeneid
.... Telemakos doubts the fidelity and wisdom of his mother, "…my mother is like that, perverse and for all her cleverness: she'd entertain some
riff-raff, and ....
(1359
5
)
Mrs. Warren's Profession v. The Good Woman of Setzuan
.... faith by the gods, she realizes that she will fail if she does not take a more "masculine" approach to running her business and controlling the
riff-raff that ....
(2946
12
)
High-Toned Old Christian Woman (Wallace Stevens)
.... In fact, the speaker launches into a music-like
riff about the joys and emotions and feelings that are the stuff of poetic fictions which, for him, are more ....
(716
3
)
William "Count" Basie
.... The basis on which Basie's band built this forum for great soloists was its use of the
riff "as its major rhetorical and structural device" (Schuller 225). ....
(995
4
)
Poet Wallace Stevens
.... The next four lines create a musical
riff through variations in length and rhythm: Lines 17 and 19 are the same length and make direct statements in a spondaic ....
(701
3
)
Charles Mingus & the Jazz World
.... intertwines stories in a series not unlike jazz music, with the different storytellers acting as musicians, each playing his or her particular
riff to produce ....
(1590
6
)
Two Films by Spike Lee
.... se, but his reflection's. Even as the
riff unfolds, one gets the sense that it is more an ode to New York. The diatribe is intercut ....
(1339
5
)
The 25th Hour & Do The Right Thing
.... se, but his reflection's. Even as the
riff unfolds, one gets the sense that it is more an ode to New York. The diatribe is intercut ....
(1339
5
)
Diego Rivera
.... apples? There is the question of whose silhouette is featured on the painting within the painting - is it a
riff of self-portraiture? ....
(1242
5
)
Travel and Literature
.... This description of life with the Houyhnhnms, whom a Wordsworthian Romantic would idealize - begins a long satiric
riff on the Romantic conventions of the ....
(1618
6
)
This paper chronicles the career of Floyd Gibbons
.... Reporting on the French war against the
Riff in Morocco, Gibbons decided to lead a camel caravan across the Sahara from Algeria to Timbuktu, to "obtain true ....
(1674
7
)
Joseph Conrad's Fiction
.... Walking on his nightly rounds, he spies his daughter Giselle in the darkness entwined in the embrace of a man he suspects is this
riff-raff Ramirez. ....
(5000
20
)
The Social Environment & Hamlet's Conflicts
.... 30). Hamlet, as an aristocrat, believes the superiority of his class should place him high above and far from the
riff-raff. In ....
(1696
7
)
Development of Jazz in the US
.... There was the hard driving swing of Benny Goodman, the relaxed swing of Jimmie Lunceford, the forceful Dixieland of Bob Crosby, the
riff filled swing of Count ....
(2444
10
)
The Godfather: Analysis of a Movie Classic
.... it is in some sense part of "the daily grind." Mich'l is informed that every several years, such an extreme act is necessary to clear out
riff-raff and ....
(4422
18
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Piracy and Bootlegging
.... This meant that the trial court had to determine whether the repetition of the bass
riff was excessive copying and whether the considerations for market ....
(9326
37
)
Piracy, Bootlegging, & the Entertainment Industry
.... This meant that the trial court had to determine whether the repetition of the bass
riff was excessive copying and whether the considerations for market ....
(9601
38
)
