For the 19th-century baseball player, see Bill Allison (baseball)
William "Bill" Allison is a former casino owner and actor. Allison has appeared in many cameo roles, such as Ocean's Eleven as an old guard, but his acting experience started when he was hired as a consultant for the production of Martin Scorsese's 1995 film, Casino, due to his casino experiences. In Casino, Allison played the Latter-day Saint (Mormon) Bagman, John Nance, who was based on Jay Vandermark.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Пу́тин; IPA: [vɫɐˈdʲimʲɪr vɫɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ ˈputʲɪn] ( listen); born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician who has been the President of Russia since 7 May 2012. Putin previously served as President from 2000 to 2008 and as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000, and again from 2008 to 2012. Putin also serves as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. He became acting President on 31 December 1999, when president Boris Yeltsin resigned in a surprising move. Putin won the 2000 presidential election; in 2004 he was re-elected for a second term lasting until 7 May 2008.
Because of constitutionally mandated term limits, Putin was ineligible to run for a third consecutive presidential term. After his successor Dmitry Medvedev won the 2008 presidential election, Putin was nominated by Medvedev to be Russia's Prime Minister; Putin took office on 8 May 2008 and a period of so-called "tandemocracy" followed. In September 2011, Putin and Medvedev agreed he should seek a third, non-consecutive term in the 2012 presidential election, which he won in the first round on 4 March 2012.
Newton Leroy "Newt" Gingrich ( /ˈnjuːt ˈɡɪŋɡrɪtʃ/; born Newton Leroy McPherson; June 17, 1943) is an American politician, author, and political consultant. He represented Georgia's 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1979 until his resignation in 1999, and served as the 58th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. Gingrich was a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination.
In the 1970s, Gingrich taught history and geography at the University of West Georgia. During this period he ran twice (1974 and 1976) for the United States House of Representatives before winning in November 1978. He served as House Minority Whip from 1989 to 1995.
A co-author and architect of the "Contract with America", Gingrich was a major leader in the Republican victory in the 1994 congressional election. In 1995, Time named him "Man of the Year" for "his role in ending the four-decades-long Democratic majority in the House". While he was House speaker, the House enacted welfare reform, passed a capital gains tax cut in 1997, and in 1998 passed the first balanced budget since 1969. The poor showing by Republicans in the 1998 Congressional election and pressure from Republican colleagues caused Gingrich's resignation from the speakership on November 5, 1998, and then the House on January 3, 1999.
Parked on the edge of another cool moment
listening to the different frequencies shift… shift…
I place my head in your hands as an act of atonement
for the things I did to your perfect posture…
Flesh
Body of a boy, mind of a monster
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever,
Flesh
The will to resist her has turned to water
I am the october man,
I dream of many things,
this is my desire…
This melancholia,
this lure of golden wings,
isolation…
I am the october man,
I live for no-one,
this is my damnation…
I dream of many things,
the rape of angels,
transformation…
This odour of desire,
these fumes of funeral fire,
this is my celebration.
I am the october man,
I dream of many things,
Kisses on wings or the lure of destiny,
love over sex over lust over ecstasy,
tender or brittle, take your chance,
come to your senses, enter the trance…
Hope for the heartbeat…
Hope for the heartbeat…
Here is a rumour I have heard,
you believe in your past like a weeping bird,
well, here we stand on the naked edge,
the view from here really takes my breath away…
Hope for the heartbeat…
Hope for the heartbeat…
Girl with the mouth of microphone,
you kiss my lips and I kiss your chrome,
sleep is the key to another world,
the things I dream nearly blow my mind away…
Hope for the heartbeat…
He and sleep were brothers in a tomb of my design,
clinging to each other through each moment of their crime,
young boys, would-be-angels hanging naked from the sky,
time delays reaction, captured falling, do or die…
In the realms of flesh and bone beyond the spiral city,
people dance on broken glass to rhythms of self-pity,
time reveals as shape on film each act of heroism,
death defies the camera eye and steals the gift of vision
He and sleep were brothers in a tomb of their invention
driving cars that shift no gears across the maps of heaven,
colours cut and clash and flare and come into collision,
Flaming desire, flaming desire,
open your heart to my flaming desire,
love turns to lust, ice into fire,
open your heart to my flaming desire…
How quickly, how quickly desire returns,
I open your hand and the weapon still burns,
hold me and turn me in circles again,
dance in the space between pleasure and pain.
Flaming desire, flaming desire,
open your heart to my flaming desire,
love turns to lust, ice into fire,
open your heart to my flaming desire…
Sea creature/sex creature, woman in love,
a slip of the tongue or the hand in the glove,
kiss me and wound me again and again,
faster than beauty our beast is unchained…
Flaming desire, flaming desire,
open your heart to my flaming desire.
Love turns to lust, ice into fire,
Curtains are closing
over my windows,
waiting for someone
who knows where the time goes…
This time it's working,
bodies uncover…
Every moment
belongs to another…
Here without warning,
the end of my tether…
I watch from the doorway,
some things take forever…
Curtains are closing
over my windows,
waiting for someone
who knows where the time goes…
This time it's working,
bodies uncover…
Every moment
belongs to another…
Fools desire the things forbidden us…
of this rule we are all prisoners
in the empire of the senses…
in the empire of the senses…
Is there life beyond the curtain?
All these things are so uncertain…
in the empire of the senses,
in the empire of the senses…
Break the rule of outside stimulus…
Storm the gates and free the prisoner…
from the empire of the senses,
I've been walking in the rain,
I've been swimming through the air again,
I've been floating in the blue,
I've been coming to my own rescue…
I take another brief dip
in the indifference of fools,
I see a whole new me,
I see a whole new you…
I've been glowing in the dark…
I've been fooling with a naked flame…
I've been quoting this and that,
I've been talking in my sleep again…
Is this the nature of the beast?
Am I the creature you pursue?
Is this the general release
or just a private view…?
I've been spinning like a top,
I've been changing my tune,
I've been skating on thin ice,
I've been making heaven's rendezvous…
I've been thinking about me and you…
I've been thinking about me,
I've been thinking about me and you…
I take another brief dip
in the indifference of fools…
I see a whole new me,
I see a whole new you…
Is this the nature of the beast?
Am I the creature you pursue?
Is this the general release