Word: stagecoach
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...often the case, the elements that make John Ford's "My Darling Clementine" a brilliant piece of film making also restrain the film from being on par with his greatest westerns, "Stagecoach" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence." Nevertheless, it would be foolish for any film lover to miss the screenings of "My Darling Clementine" at the Harvard Film Archive...
...disillusioned young man is speaking in metaphor, that he means his father's evil lives on in the rapacious city all around them. After Martin drops out of sight, McIlvaine begins to investigate and comes to believe the vision could have been true, that a white Municipal Transport stagecoach might actually have carried old Pemberton and other presumed-deceased rich men through the teeming, oblivious streets of Manhattan. McIlvaine imagines Martin's impression of the passengers: "Their heads nodded in unison as the vehicle stopped and started and stopped again in the impacted traffic...
...learned to drive a six-horse stagecoach for the film...
...nodding off as we were taxiing to get into takeoff position." As the workplace becomes ever more technologically sophisticated, the price of disaster is higher. "So many more people can be hurt when a train engineer or a nuclear technician falls asleep in 1990 than when a stagecoach driver fell asleep in 1890," notes psychologist Merrill Mitler, director of sleep research at the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, Calif...
Deregulation coupled with federal insurance set Silverado loose like a runaway stagecoach. "Silverado began to take advantange of that $100,000 insurance fast," says Hemming. Wise opened an office that did nothing more than generate new deposits by telephone solicitation. He advertised market- breaking high interest rates called the Silverado Prime. But paying those rates meant Silverado had to get a higher return on loans. To do this, Wise and Metz gradually moved Silverado out of the home-loan market, abandoning small local builders and buyers in favor of big depositors and even bigger developers...