nor is there need to add that among them are some of the most highly individualized and most successful of his characters.

I make no attempt to measure the enduring satisfaction and material well-being of a man who went to work on graduation from high school and was highly successful in the business which he entered.

Over his long and successful career spanning over 50 years, he directed over 400 motion pictures, many of them highly acclaimed, such as the 1949 box office smash, Sands of Iwo Jima.

" Most ancient writers considered him a highly successful leader in guerrilla warfare, alert and quick, yet cautious — a man, moreover, whose personal bravery was rarely questioned in his own time.

Anna was highly successful in three important aspects of the revolt: she bought time for her sons to steal imperial horses from the stables and escape the city, she distracted the emperor and gave her sons time to gather and arm their troops and she gave a false sense of security to Botaneiates that there was no real treasonous coup against him.

Following the formation of baseball's first professional organization, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the National Association, the Association, or NA, in 1871, Spalding joined the Boston Red Stockings ( precursor club to the modern Atlanta Braves ) and was highly successful ; winning 206 games ( and losing only 53 ) as a pitcher and batting. 323 as a hitter.

The tank proved highly successful, and as technology improved the tank became a weapon that could cross large distances at much higher speeds than supporting infantry and artillery.

This proved highly successful, even without training, and the concept was widely used in the 21st Army Group.

The series spawned a total of six distinct models: The CPC464, CPC664, and CPC6128 were highly successful competitors in the European home computer market.

Otto Lilienthal, following the work of Sir George Cayley, was the first person to become highly successful with glider flights.

The highly successful metal pressure tube anemometer of William Henry Dines in 1892 utilized the same pressure difference between the open mouth of a straight tube facing the wind and a ring of small holes in a vertical tube which is closed at the upper end.

Conversely, an annual grown under extremely favorable conditions may have highly successful seed propagation, giving it the appearance of being biennial or perennial.

These websites were highly successful, even after some national series started charging for access to the video stream.

BRP was used ( through a special arrangement with Swedish Fredrik Malmberg ) as the base for the highly successful Swedish game Drakar och Demoner from Target Games.

Returning to television, he worked with Susan Blakely on Rich Man, Poor Man, a highly successful television miniseries in 1976.

Brabham pushed for further advances, and played a significant role in developing Cooper's highly successful 1960 T53 " lowline " car, with input from his friend Tauranac.

" It took four months to produce, eventually released in October 1918 at 45 minutes long, and was highly successful.

The British film industry produced a number of highly successful film series, however, including the Doctor series, the St. Trinian's films and the increasingly bawdy Carry On films.

Because of this policy, many former players were highly articulate and went on to have successful careers in commentary and broadcasting as well as the arts.

Most successful conciliators are highly skilled negotiators.

File: Girl. in. Mary Poppins. costume. 1964. jpg | Girl in Mary Poppins costume, an item in Walt Disney's highly successful merchandising campaign for the popular 1964 film.

After the capitulation of Axis forces in North Africa Eisenhower oversaw the highly successful invasion of Sicily.

But while Eisenhower argued with Roosevelt and Churchill, who both insisted on unconditional terms of surrender in exchange for helping the Italians, the Germans pursued an aggressive buildup of forces in the country – making the job more difficult, by adding 19 divisions and initially outnumbering the Allied forces 2 to 1, Nevertheless, the invasion of Italy was highly successful.

The program was initially highly successful, eliminating the disease in " Taiwan, much of the Caribbean, the Balkans, parts of northern Africa, the northern region of Australia, and a large swath of the South Pacific " and dramatically reducing mortality in Sri Lanka and India.

The tour was highly successful but mired in political controversy.

Its work encompasses all aspects of military intelligence requirements – from highly complex missile trajectory data to biographical information on foreign military leaders.

Woodward played the title role in the 1980 Australian biographical film drama Breaker Morant, which was highly acclaimed, and his presence brought the film worldwide attention.

Some sources describe him as a Muslim, leading some scholars to speculate that he was from Senegal, Mali, or Guinea, though this assertion is tenuous given the lack of biographical information from this era, and is highly contested.

* Cartier was a highly significant figure in the history and development of British television, specifically drama programming for the BBC, and therefore a noteworthy biographical subject.

This first biography was very highly regarded, and seems to have formed the basis of most of the entries in French biographical dictionaries published over the next century ; and also of the anonymous biography in Volume 2 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

Its form is highly reminiscent of Nabokov's Pale Fire in that it consists almost entirely of a set of endnotes for a larger ( non-existent ) biographical work.

Instead -- and not just to prove my objectivity -- I hasten to report that it's a highly amusing film which probably does a fairly accurate job of reporting on the Easter vacation shenanigans of collegians down in Fort Lauderdale, and that it seems to come to grips quite honestly with the moral problem that most commonly vexes youngsters in this age group -- that is to say, sex.

Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Kurosawa directed approximately a film a year, including a number of highly regarded films such as Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Yojimbo ( 1961 ).

This revival was due to the dramatic and highly fictionalized depiction of Salieri in Peter Shaffer's 1979 play Amadeus, which was given its greatest exposure in its 1984 film version, directed by Miloš Forman.

The film was a commercial success, but was highly controversial owing to its portrayal of African American men ( played by white actors in blackface ) as unintelligent and sexually aggressive towards white women, and the portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan ( whose original founding is dramatized ) as a heroic force.

* BBS Productions, highly influential film production company of early 1970s New Hollywood

An example may be Paul Verhoeven's big budgeted, highly sexualized Showgirls ( 1995 ), initially intended to be a drama film about the rise of a Las Vegas stripper, that flopped both critically and commercially when released theatrically ; afterward, it enjoyed success on the home video market, generating more than $ 100 million from video rentals.

Next, Lynch created his own television series with Mark Frost, the highly popular murder mystery Twin Peaks ( 1990 – 1991 ); he also created a cinematic prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ( 1992 ), a road movie, Wild at Heart ( 1990 ), and a family film, The Straight Story ( 1999 ) in the same period.

In the 1980s, dramatic film put emphasis on highly emotional themes.

She claimed she was offered two highly sought-after movie roles: the part of possessed child Regan MacNeil in the 1973 film, The Exorcist, and the starring role in Louis Malle's 1978 film, Pretty Baby.

The film was highly praised and won him three Academy Awards — for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture.

Jacques Tourneur had made over thirty Hollywood Bs ( a few now highly regarded, most completely forgotten ) before directing the A-level Out of the Past, described by scholar Robert Ottoson as " the ne plus ultra of forties film noir ".

All film stocks were manufactured on a nitrate film base, which is highly flammable.

Sinatra also forged a highly successful career as a film actor, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity, a nomination for Best Actor for The Man with the Golden Arm, and critical acclaim for his performance in The Manchurian Candidate.

In 1975 he also appeared in the highly regarded -- but little viewed -- film Night Moves, receiving a BAFTA nomination for lead actor.

Paid to Love is notable in Hawks's filmography as being the only time that he made a highly stylized, experimental film.

In some cases, complete amorphization of a target is preferable to a highly defective crystal: An amorphized film can be regrown at a lower temperature than required to anneal a highly damaged crystal.

So highly regarded was the film that France, which restricted the number of theatres in which undubbed American films could play, granted it a special waiver because of its " extraordinary artistic merit ".

The film tested very highly, and Paramount and Frankenheimer had high expectations for it.

He is best known in Europe for playing the pirate Sandokan in the highly popular TV mini series and for his role as the villainous Gobinda in the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy.