Word: gate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This luminous little legend, so much like the Western Cinderella story and yet so much more, has been made into a slow (perhaps too slow) and stately motion picture by the same Japanese company that produced Rashomon, Ugetsu and Gate of Hell. The film has the quality of endless resonance that distinguishes the true myth. Like a gong, it is small in itself, but the sound of it carries a very long way. The reverberations of the culminating symbol: the tree of life that bears the fruit of death, a death whose other name is love. For Western movie goers...
...Gate. The durable refugee from Canadian coal mines has been a long time on the road to success, and he was slow getting out of the starting gate. Born in England, he was brought to northwestern Canada by his parents when he was a youngster. He went to work as a "grease pig," leading the slow-moving donkeys hauling their loads of coal. Any job under the sun would have been better, and young Johnny made a long reach for light and air. At 15, he began to pick up small change riding "Roman" style at the "bull rings" around...
...took his share of spills. Over the years, in one way or another, he broke both legs, smashed a shoulder, fractured his spine, suffered a brain concussion and broke a foot. Somehow he also managed to develop a superb sense of timing. He learned how to break from the gate a stride on top, how to rate his horse when he was running in front. If he looked awkward in the saddle his knowing hands could still wring that extra effort out of his mount, that marginal shading of speed that wins horse races...
Prodigal. In San Quentin, Calif., worn out and hungry, Jailbreaker Leland Rogers showed up at the state prison's main gate two weeks after his escape, begged to be let back in, was obliged...
WHEN Correspondent John L. I Steele flew home from San Francisco and checked through the West Executive Avenue gate of the White House one day last week, he brought with him a new assignment to add to his already considerable duties. For the next nine weeks he will not only be covering the President of the U.S., already the busiest man in the world, but also the Republican candidate for the presidency in the election campaign. The pace was already accelerated: Steele found himself finishing up one story at 1 a.m., hustling back to the White House for ceremonies...