Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...margin among the Big Four. Goodrich was obviously vulnerable to takeover because its ownership was widely scattered and the price-earnings ratio of its shares was relatively modest. It was not long before Goodrich began to draw the attention of a number of acquisitive companies, including Northwest. Goodrich Chairman Ward Keener, a onetime economics professor, began mapping defensive strategies as early as last June...
When we finally got him into the emergency ward of Touro Infirmary, the doctor treated him very routinely, as if he didn't know just who it was he was saving (although he claimed...
...panic-stricken soldiers, who are shown to us initially in rapid montage of richly lit terrified faces (a characteristic Ford device seen in Four Men and a Prayer, The Fugitive, The Sun Shines Bright and other films, and an example of Eisensteinian Classicism). Next he airs out the sick ward as a windstorm accompanied by lightning flashes begins (expressionism). He takes sick himself and tries to sleep. The master shot of his bedroom stresses angles directed toward the background, Mudd's walk to the bed, then, goes against the dynamics of the frame and emphasizes his physical struggle. This shot...
...really happened. Wagonmaster (1950) is rarely seen and one of Ford's most personal Westerns. One of the purest joys in all film. The Quiet Man (1952) is a ravishing color film shot in Ireland with the staples of the Ford "stock company": Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victory McLaglen, Ward Bond, Barry Fitzgerald. The Sun Shines Bright, Ford's deserved favorite of his films, is complex and unfashionable, and one of Ford's four unqualified masterpieces (How Green Was My Valley, The Searchers, Liberty Valance). The Searchers (1956) is the great epic of American film, and The Man Who Shot...
...think it's that way. It ain't that way at all. I mean, this is just people fighting among themselves, you know? They get into arguments and all that foolishness. See, they got these little gangs, they always fighting one another. The guys from the ninth ward got their gang and they always splitting' skulls with the cats in this housin' project here, you know? Now, prob'ly the dude that did all the shootin' was from the projects and seen one of these ninth ward cats who'd just beat him to a pulp last week, something like...