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...picture is totally Mifune's but this is due more to Kurosawa's expertise than the actor's, since Mifune tends to rely upon a fairly predictable set of movements no matter what role he plays. He can always be expected to use a toothpick as a prop, to scratch upon occasion and to walk with the same gait. In the cutting room and on the set Kurosawa transformed these actions into a portrait of a pensive, slightly down-and-out, but still powerful samurai...
...best hacksaws we could find and had people try to cut the bars off the lock. They worked for half an hour and literally could not scratch the metal," Intravia said...
...days read like a bad Theodore Dreiser novel in their unequal mating of ambition to mediocrity. In high school he rated run of the mill as a student. The caption under his yearbook picture read: "An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow." Witcover reports: "Classmates still scratch their heads over what that might mean...
...remember to pump the brakes?" (This tests the condition of the master cylinder.) Wayne agrees to show us the Porsche, deep in a carefully padlocked garage. He unties a silk-soft dust cover and gently folds it up onto the top of the car, being careful not to scratch the paint-35 coats of the richest, most luminous black paint that the world's most industrialized nation can provide. Each coat has been applied personally and diligently over a three-month period by the area's master car painter, Junior himself, of Junior's House of Paints...
...admiral and one of the Navy's most brilliant captains went to bat for him - and eventually struck out. Until this happened, however, Arnheiter appeared to be some sort of martyr. He had tried, he said, to fight the war and bring the sloppy old Vance up to scratch, only to be sabotaged by a mollycoddle crew and a wardroom full of intellectuals and Vietniks. Arnheiter even dreamed up a word to describe what had happened to him: he had been "Vanced...