Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seizure Very Bad...
Even the modest projects of Japan's Akira Kurosawa are conceived and executed on a grand scale. Whether his subject is history (Seven Samurai), social commentary (The Bad Sleep Well), classic drama (The Lower Depths) or thriller (High and Low), Kurosawa invests each film with the breadth of an epic vision. Taken together, his films are like a single, vivid morality play, often heroic and sometimes cynical, celebrating the triumph of man over circumstance...
...silent, looming presence of the head of the clinic, who has been nicknamed Red Beard, prevents the irate young man from quitting altogether. "This place is terrible," a fellow intern tells the young man. "The patients are all slum people; they're full of fleas - they even smell bad. Being here makes you wonder why you ever wanted to be come a doctor." It is through Red Beard (Toshiro Mifune) that the young doctor learns not only why but what, in a full metaphorical sense, being a doctor of medicine really means...
...stricken freshman described the illness as "just feeling rotten all over, particularly in the gut." Another said "My stomach felt like it was having inner turmoil. My head was throbbing like a bell-tower. I felt bad...
...aide Eric Goldman felt the speech underscored Johnson's fundamental failure, which was to understand the modern city and the people--"the corporation executives from Scarsdale"--who live in it. Arthur Schlesinger didn't like the speech because it included no "analysis" of how the war had been bad for the Great Society programs, and more generally because the President did not convey enough of a sense of the mess that he was leaving the country...