Word: fording
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...famous 1957 essay, "Underground Films," Manny argued that "the true masters of the male action film - such soldier-cowboy-gangster directors as Raoul Walsh, Howard Hawks, William Wellman, William Keighley, the early, pre-Stagecoach John Ford, Anthony Mann" - deserved a higher place in the cinema canon than the big-theme directors who won Oscars and the praise of mainstream reviewers. He praised Hawks especially "because he shows a maximum speed, inner life, and view, with the least amount of flat foot." Manny's celebration of action directors took a while to kick in - it had to be doubled or seconded...
Every convention has its rogue narrative: Would Lyndon Johnson reach out to Bobby Kennedy in 1964? Would Reagan offer Ford a co-presidency in 1980? Could George Herbert Walker Bush tame Pat Buchanan's rebel band in 1992? The more freeze-dried the official proceedings, the hungrier reporters get for raw meat, real conflict, which has Democratic veterans like former party chairman Don Fowler looking a little drawn. He was a die-hard South Carolina Hillary Clinton champion - "but you win, you lose, you move on." A loyal cadre of Clinton bitter-enders, Fowler says, "introduces so much uncertainty into...
...spitting in a rival's food - animals marking their turf. Each driver is given a navigator, a babe on loan from a nearby women's prison, and Ames's is Case (Natalie Martinez), who has pneumatic skills of her own. Sitting next to him in their two-seater Ford Mustang GT with the mini-gun .308 and MG-42 8mm. weapons attached to the front, she may be Ames's doom or his salvation. Or she may be there just for her looks: an eye-catching hood ornament, moved inside for safety...
...beat up opponents. At the debate with Coleman on Aug. 5 at Farmfest in Redwood County, he seemed to win all the arguments but lose the audience with his aggressive style. Even for a potential Senator, he is relentlessly competitive. When we're riding in the back of his Ford Escape hybrid, I make the mistake of mentioning that when I interviewed Ted Nugent, he didn't know the Ten Commandments. For the next five minutes, Franken doesn't talk about anything except trying to name all the commandments. (He succeeds.) Then I make an even stupider comment about...
Edison had his lightbulb, Ford had his Model T, and Jan Vinzenz Krause has his spray-on condom. Inspired by the mechanics of a drive-through car wash, the German sexual-health educator designed a custom-fitting male contraceptive using liquid latex and some materials from a hardware store. "I felt a little like MacGyver," he says of building the contraption...