Word: elwood
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Buffalo Soldiers could play as a cynic's version of the current U.S. occupation of Iraq, except that its tone echoes that of Sgt. Bilko and Catch-22. Ray Elwood (Joaquin Phoenix) is a wheeler-dealer stationed in Germany just before the sundering of the Berlin Wall. While his stoned fellow soldiers take a lethal joyride in a tankand the camp's defenestration rate is way too highElwood makes a pretty profit running guns, drugs and 1,000 cans of Mop & Glo to the locals. Then the plot kicks...
...Robert O'Connor's novel, plays like a mini-series compacted into 95 minutes. It develops a severe case of character sprawl: a clueless colonel (Ed Harris) and a hard-nosed top sergeant (Scott Glenn) and their respective women (Elizabeth McGovern, Anna Paquin)--both of whom cozy up to Elwood--plus lots of troublesome MPs and outsiders who stand in Elwood's way as he plans the big score. What's worth savoring is Phoenix's performance, cool and alert, confiding only in the camera. He elevates a crammed project into a sharp study of a character who doesn...
...staff is exaggerating the conservative bias of Ec 10. This year alone, guest lecturers included Ascherman Professor or Economics Richard S. Freeman, University President Lawrence H. Summers, David Elwood, and Michael R. Kremer—none of whom, certainly, are considered conservative economists...
...childhood justice. Left at a Manhattan foundling home by a mother “panic-stricken and ungovernable in her haste to have done” with her newborn baby, and a father seemingly incapacitated by love and alcohol, Paula eventually found her way into the care of Reverend Elwood Corning, a loving and heroic Congregationalist minister in upstate New York. At the age of six, Paula’s parents resurfaced, sending for her from Hollywood, where her father, Paul Fox, was a small-time screenwriter and big-time partier. After only a few days, Paula was again uprooted...
Appellate lawyer John Elwood, who clerked for Anthony Kennedy, called this "one of the most important Fourth Amendment cases in years" because of its relative breadth. Search-and-seizure cases are for the most part a motley, fact-specific bunch. The 1967 decision in Katz v. U.S. was seminal, establishing a standard - albeit squishy - of whether a citizen had a reasonable expectation of privacy when government intrusion occurred. That case involved a bookmaker's use of a public telephone, which was bugged - unconstitutional, said the Court. In another case the civil liberties crowd liked, the Court ruled in 1984 that...