Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michael Cimino thought he was John Ford. Everbody told him he was. His movie was a hit, America, the critics said, was ready to grieve over its tarnished honor and indomitable spirit. Despite its relentlessly bland directorial style, its contrived, overdone script, its torturous three-hour length, The Deer Hunter moved audiences with its sheer emotional power. The movie got all its force from an amazing cast that included Robert DeNiro, Meryl Streep, and Christopher Walken, Cimino, though, was a talented, but unimaginative, amateur: it was obvious in every frame. Yet the movie "touched a chord." While the socially conscious...
About the only measure we can take of this delicate time in Reagan's battle stewardship comes from the after math of John Kennedy's death and the days following the attempts on the life of Gerald Ford. Lyndon Johnson, though not wounded in the Kennedy shooting, was made aware of his own vulnerability. Aides remember that he took precautions about his safety, but his sense of political urgency heightened. What time he had in the White House he wanted to use totally for his Great Society goals...
Much the same happened to Ford. His press secretary, Ron Nessen, recalled last week that Ford emerged from the attempts on his life determined to fulfill the presidential obligation to the fullest. He wore bulletproof vests and rain coats now and then, but they were always an irritation, and finally he put them aside. Ford made public appearances without a trace of fear...
...ominous signs of deterioration are still in use. More than half of Louisiana's 14,800 bridges do not meet federal and state standards. Some of the nation's worst bridges are also heavily traveled ones. In River Rouge, Mich., the Miller Road Bridge links a huge Ford Motor factory with Interstate 94. A city engineer describes it as "utterly dangerous and in bad need of repair...
Maxwell 4 2-3 10. Bird 14 5-5 33. Parish 8 1-4 17. Archibald 8 4-6 20. Ford 3 2-4 8. Carr 1 3-4 5. McHale 3 0-2 6. Robey 0 0-0 0. Henderson 2 1-2 5. Duerod 0 0-0 0. Totals...