As he stepped outside for his first taste of freedom, he remembers walking up to a lamp post and touching it.
Like drunken sailors reaching to a lamp post for support, Sarkozy and Merkel have reached out to yet another tax as a method of propping up the eurozone system.
The clip, which showed the pop star stealing a car, blowing up a petrol station and crashing into a lamp post, broke sales records when it was released on DVD.
What's more, the sensors are apparently also able to detect the proximity of the object and adjust the resistance of the door accordingly -- for instance, slowing the door down if you're about to slam it into a lamp post.
On 11 April, during one student protest, a 74-year-old woman, Monica Araya, took matters into her own hands, marched up to a group of masked youths and remonstrated with them as they tried to rip a lamp post out of the ground.
However, even a lamp-post would attract more enthusiasm than the current party chief, Sitaram Kesri.
Given the oligarchs' unpopularity, it was politically expedient for Mr Putin to swing one from a lamp-post.
Witnesses say rocks and bottles were thrown, a lamp-post was knocked over and a news van overturned.
But some residents reportedly missed a 19th Century lamp-post, long a romantic meeting spot, which stood at the spot before.
The artwork, by US sculptor Charles Ray, will be replaced by a lamp-post at the tip of the Punta della Dogana.
One clip starts by showing the car smashed into a lamp-post: then the camera pans round to show that this is no ordinary traffic accident.
In its place will be a reproduction of the original lamp-post.
An elegant mid-tempo ballad, the song conjures images of a lamp-post-lined avenue, with Gene Kelly performing a soft-shoe at one end and Bogart and Bacall making out at the other.
Above the central portrait, each stamp featured a picture of a lamp that the U.S. Post Office Department identified as the "Lamp of Knowledge" but that I thought of as Aladdin's lamp because of the boy in the Arabian Nights with the magic lamp and the ring and the two genies who give him whatever he asks for.
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