Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Movies of the kind Duke Wayne (the nickname was derived from a dog he once owned) liked to make were made by tightly knit, masculine groups off on their own in some ruggedly photogenic country. The experience of making them under the direction of men like John Ford (who rescued Wayne from poverty-row westerns with Stagecoach) or Howard Hawks (who gave him that first leader-patriarch role in Red River) or Henry Hathaway (who made True Grit) taught him much about craftsmanship and professionalism. Wayne revered them and shared credit for his achievements with them...
...romance or pugilism. The pivotal scenes all illustrate, in picture-book fashion, the hero's saintliness. We learn that Rocky loves animals: "I love animals," he announces early on, and then proceeds to devote a sizable amount of screen time to the care and feeding of his pet dog and turtles. His belief in prayer is second only to Billy Graham's, and his devotion to Adrian is absolutely firm. When the couple buy a new house, Rocky tells her, "The solid oak floors and the plumbing would mean nothing without you being here...
...Wayne's pronouncements had been beamed in from UFOs. When Wayne went to that big Chuck Wagon in the Sky, he went with a Congressional decoration tacked to his left pap honoring "the actor, the man, the American." The Duke, as he was known; a fine name for a dog, a big dog, a Labrador maybe, or the kind of dog they eat in places like Vietnam...
...huge jet reached an altitude of about 500 ft. But it began dropping. Captain Lux fought to get the craft under control. On Touhy Avenue, near Interstate 90, Chicago Patrol Officer Michael Delany was working with a dog at the police canine center. He turned to look up at the crippled airplane. "We could see all the fuel was spouting out the left side where the engine would be," he said. "And then as he got over our compound, the other engine shut off. So there was complete silence in the air. And then the plane turned, perpendicular...
...fast, accurate reporter, and when someone complimented him on a story he would say, "Aw, shucks," and shrug it off. When he did time on the rewrite desk, police reporters all tried to phone in their stories to him because he could turn two purse snatchings and a dog bite into a tone poem. By the time he was 27 in 1952, he took over as the Sun bureau chief in London...