Word: wood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victims, 28 were hit in the side or back, including the three dead students. This story was corroborated by a newspaperman, a fireman, and a highway patrolman who did not shoot. No cops were injured by gunfire; only one was hurt, by a flying piece of wood. Indeed, it seemed improbable that a crowd of college students, even if armed, would attack a fully armed group of policemen who also had about 45 National Guardsmen in the area to back them...
Married. Natalie Wood, 30, one of Hollywood's more familiar faces, thrice nominated (1955, '61, '63) for an Academy Award; and Richard Gregson, 39, British film producer (The Downhill Racers, soon to be released); both for the second time; in Hollywood...
...unaccustomed ripeness in the wood; move but an inch and moldy splinters
Once loud and fresh, now aged to weathered wood...
...Singing scenes, like fight and dance scenes, in Ford show group activity in which each person's behavior is laid down by tradition. A fight scene in The Searchers (1956), for example, gives participants and spectators secure roles. The tension generated when one man picks up a stick of wood turns into warmth and humor when he sets it as a boundary marker. No such security comes from the sequence in How Green: Ford cuts from one face to another, showing his characters straining to create song as if for the first time. All the film's shots of masses...