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...LEFT FOOT Directed by Jim Sheridan; Screenplay by Jim Sheridan and Shane Connaughton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: TRUE Grit | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...authors of the book also seem to be a bit too trusting--if someone says they never made the statement, then obviously they did not make it. Philip Sheridan, for instance, is often credited with having said, "The only good Indian is a dead Indian." The quote stems from an account of the meeting between Sheridan and Commanche leader Toch-a-way. Sheridan denied having made the statement, but who would not--after the fact...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Bartlett's Book of Misquotations | 9/23/1989 | See Source »

Unfortunately, although the authors of They Never Said It explain these circumstances, they do not really suggest that Sheridan might be lying. They may be trying for objectivity, but given the book's title, the reader is sure to conclude that Sheridan's side is the one to pick. This lack of clarity is disturbing, considering that many of the book's statements have to do with politicians like Nixon, Stalin and Lenin--that is to say, people who should not be taken at their word...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Bartlett's Book of Misquotations | 9/23/1989 | See Source »

...single evening. In Henry IV, Part I, he was the stuttering, heroic Hotspur; in Part II, the cagey-senile Justice Shallow. The curtain would fall on his Oedipus, with its searing scream of self-revelation; after intermission he would mince on as Mr. Puff, the giddy paragraphist of Sheridan's The Critic. It was all part of a 70-year striptease in which this consummate quick-change artist always had one more veil to remove, and proof of what director Peter Glenville called Olivier's "greed for achievement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laurence Olivier: 1907-1989: Absolutely An Actor. Born to It | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

...Said Sheridan L. Haines, who lives near thelot, "It was inevitable, and all we can do isaccept...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Paid Over $3M For Church Parking Lot | 4/5/1989 | See Source »

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