Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freed slaves in Liberia until the recent coup. Sierra Leone gained its independence from Britain in 1961; seven years later, Stevens took power after a revolt led by low-ranking soldiers. That power grab bore a certain resemblance to the army-led coup in Liberia, headed by Master Sergeant Samuel Doe, that ousted the long-entrenched Tolbert regime...
...Samuel Johnson, who mixed gratitude with friendship, defended a benefactor, Henry Hervey, a reprobate despised by everyone else, including Hervey's father. "If you call a dog Hervey," said Johnson to Boswell, "I shall love him." Boswell himself, though no monster, could get on Johnson's nerves, yet Johnson loved him too. His friendship for Boswell was probably based on the need for attentive company, as was Boswell's for him on the need for the approval of an elder. Such friendships between unequals are precarious, but so are all friendships. Passion cools, pleasure fades, pity...
...Directed and Written by Samuel Fuller...
That is the view of Samuel Fuller, 68, who built a cult reputation as the writer-director of a series of crude but vivid action films (The Steel Helmet, Pickup on South Street) in the 1950s and '60s, has not worked in movies for almost a decade and has long wanted to make a film based on his experiences as a World War II infantryman. The Big Red One, which was the nickname of Fuller's old outfit, the 1st Infantry Division, is that film. And it is fine, fully justifying Fuller's faith in himself...
...that way? Up, up! Higher!"? Or the virtuoso who appeared onstage with the Orchestre National de France and the Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique, the rosette of the Légion d'Honneur pinned in his lapel, and tossed off the feat of playing 15 major works, from Mozart to Samuel Barber, during a sequence of eight concerts...