Word: risks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than people, of the Hollywood horse operators who write a script a day. and of the Method cowboys? Who knows what agonies the hairy-chested prima donnas of horse opera suffer as they give birth to their roles? The riding, shooting, even walking lessons they must take; the continual risk of shooting off a sideburn? But the western story is not merely a tale that is told by television, full of sound and fury, signifying little. It traces back to a fantastically colorful period of U.S. history, the era when there was "no law west of Kansas City, and west...
...fact tied with strings. Though the Communists were now in control of Baghdad's streets, did they dare bid for full control of Iraq? If they did, could they avoid a new revolutionary situation, in which powerful Arabic emotions would be turned against them? Dare they risk the West's mistake of opposing Nasser in such a way as to strengthen...
...author of these desperate verses, a notorious California road agent known as Black Bart, removed "that Box" at the risk of life and limb from a westbound stagecoach on the afternoon of July 25, 1878-and found inside it a mere $600 in cash and kind. Poor old Bart. He was born a century too soon. In 1959 he would have found, in nearly every parlor in the land, a box from which any man with enough strength to pull a hair trigger and enough chin to hold a hat string can apparently remove as much as a million dollars...
...times in Kansas" were a thing of the past. Wild Bill Hickok had been tamed by Writer-Promoter Ned Buntline, and was playing in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show ("Fear not, fair maid, you are safe at last with Wild Bill, who is ever ready to risk his life, and die if need be, in defense of helpless womanhood"). But the legend of the two-gun terror lingered on, and in 1902, when Owen Wister published The Virginian, the legend "came from the woodshed into the parlor...
...Director-Producer Billy Wilder. It was made last fall, when Actress Monroe, believing herself pregnant, was reportedly more sulkily temperamental than usual, with Playwright-Husband Arthur Miller hovering solicitously on the edge of the set during much of the shooting. What's more, Wilder took the fairly daring risk of turning two of Hollywood's most popular leading men (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) into female impersonators...