The production of the film was plagued by numerous problems, including typhoons, nervous breakdowns, the firing of Harvey Keitel, Martin Sheen's heart attack, extras from the Philippine military leaving in the middle of scenes to go fight rebels, and an unprepared Brando with a bloated appearance ( which Coppola attempted to hide by shooting him in the shadows ).

In the middle of the 19th century, medical writers attempted to establish ways to identify male homosexuality, which was considered a significant social problem in most Western societies.

The race serves as the middle leg of the Triple Crown, preceded by the 2, 000 Guineas and followed by the St Leger, although the feat of winning all three is now rarely attempted.

He attempted to alleviate the bad living conditions of poor people by exposing their traditionalism to middle class ridicule.

The House in the Middle was an American 1954 short documentary film produced by the Federal Civil Defense Administration and the National Clean Up-Paint Up-Fix Up Bureau, which attempted to show that a clean, freshly painted house ( the middle house ) is more likely to survive a nuclear attack than its poorly maintained counterparts ( the right and left houses ).

One accomplice in the Penn murder, Jacob (" Kuppy ") Migden, who provided the erroneous identification of Penn and who was also a fugitive for several years, pled guilty to attempted first-degree assault in the middle of his murder trial and was sentenced to a term of 5 – 10 years.

It seems likely he attempted Browne's assassination at the behest of Lord Euer, warden of the middle marches, and political stringpulling protected him.

The Lords attempted to rebut the arguments at a conference on 21 May, but were unsuccessful, and then proposed a joint conference of 23 members from each house to find some middle ground.

The Polish rabbis attempted to ban the " Sabbatean heresy " at the assembly at Lviv ( Lwów ) in 1722, but could not fully succeed, as it was widely popular among the nascent Jewish middle class.

He accepted neither the wholly intuitive ways described by some Sufi mystics nor the rationality of some the orthodox ulema ; rather, he attempted to achieve a middle path.

Following the leadership of Neil Kinnock and John Smith, the party under the New Labour brand attempted to widen its electoral appeal and, by the 1997 general election, had made significant gains in the upper and middle classes.

He then formed a group called the ' Derby Dilly ' and attempted to chart a middle course between what they saw as the increasingly radical Whiggery of Lord John Russell and the conservatism of the Tories, but Tory leader Sir Robert Peel's turn to the centre

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which attempted to overthrow the Qing Dynasty in the middle of the 19th century, was the first in Chinese history to admit women as exam candidates, although they abandoned the system later.

Wangdue Phodrang dzong, for instance, is set upon a spur overlooking the confluence of the Puna Chhu and Tang Chhu rivers thus blocking any attacks by southern invaders who attempted to use a river route to bypass the trackless slopes of the middle Himalayas in attacking central Bhutan.

Constans attempted to steer a middle line in the church dispute between Orthodoxy and Monothelitism, by refusing to persecute either and prohibiting further discussion of the natures of Jesus Christ by decree in 648.

The discussion regarding the best form of government which took place in those years around the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre ( 1572 ) gave the inspiration ; Bodin attempted to embark on a middle path.

Many developments in legal thought have drawn heavily from legal realism, including the writings of Herman Oliphant ( 1884-1939 ) and the development of the legal process school in the 1950s and 1960s, a theory that attempted to chart a middle way between the extremes of realism and formalism.

This caught some 1970s photographers by surprise when they attempted very long " B " exposures and found their camera batteries had died in the middle because of the era's power hungry electronics and ruined the exposure.

From the middle of the eighteenth century, even if staging Shakespeare's original play ( as opposed to Victor's rewrite ) it was common for directors to cut the lines in the final scene where Valentine seems to offer Silvia to Proteus, who has just attempted to rape her, as a sign of his forgiveness and friendship.

He readily accepted for himself the character of a " trimmer ," desiring, he said, to keep the boat steady, while others attempted to weigh it down perilously on one side or the other ; and he concluded his tract with these assertions: that our climate is a Trimmer between that part of the world where men are roasted and the other where they are frozen ; that our Church is a Trimmer between the frenzy of fanatic visions and the lethargic ignorance of Popish dreams ; that our laws are Trimmers between the excesses of unbounded power and the extravagance of liberty not enough restrained ; that true virtue hath ever been thought a Trimmer, and to have its dwelling in the middle between two extremes ; that even God Almighty Himself is divided between His two great attributes, His Mercy and His Justice.

When Miller attempted to shoot on him, Bruno immediately snapped on a front facelock until Miller bled from his nose and passed out in the middle of the ring.

The organization attempted to chart a middle course between electorally oriented revisionism on the one hand and bolshevism on the other.

In 1984 Solihull attempted to reintroduce grammar schools, but was stopped by middle class opposition.

Pandora, Adrian's love interest, and her parents are part of an intellectualised and left-wing middle class that attempted to embrace the working class.

The Young Hegelians, by contrast, took Hegel's thoughts on societies shaped by the forces of social conflict for a doctrine of progress, and attempted to chart a course that would manipulate these forces to lead to various improved outcomes.

He attempted to hide his misfortune under an ample turban or headdress, but his barber of course knew the secret, so was told not to mention it.

The creator of Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczynski, indicated that Paramount was aware of his concept as early as 1989, when he attempted to sell the show to the studio, and provided them with the series bible, pilot script, artwork, lengthy character background histories, and " synopses to about 22 or so planned episodes taken from the overall course of the planned series ".

Because Sweden's socialist leaders chose a moderate, reformist political course with broad-based public support in the early stages of Swedish industrialization and prior to the full-blown development of Swedish interclass politics, Sweden escaped the severe extremist challenges and political and class divisions that plagued many European countries that attempted to develop social democratic systems after 1911.

According to the Norman chronicler, William of Jumièges, Robert I, Duke of Normandy attempted an invasion of England to place Edward on the throne in about 1034, but it was blown off course to Jersey.

When he attempted to pack his course schedule with music, his guidance counselor forced him instead to take religion, ethics, physical education, and military training.

A total of eighty transports, carrying two legions, attempted to land on the British shore ( the eighteen accompanying cavalry transports had been blown off course on the way over ), only to be driven back by the many British warriors assembled along the shoreline.

Following the 2002 political crisis, the government attempted to set a new course and build confidence, in coordination with international financial institutions and donors.

Bacon first attempted working in marble in about 1763, and during the course of his early efforts in this art was led to improve the method of transferring the form of the model to the marble ( technically " getting out the points ") by the invention of a more perfect instrument for the purpose.

In 1835, Amherst attempted to create a course of study parallel to the classical liberal arts education.

The band attempted to reconcile with Tate over the course of the next several shows, before deciding to fire him as his behavior continued to degenerate.

To support the internal mythology, linguist Victoria Fromkin was even commissioned to create a special language for the Pakuni, which she based on the sounds of West African speech and attempted to build into the show in a gradual way that would allow viewers to learn the language over the course of many episodes.

The sailors attempted to sail towards Wellington, but with Te Kooti's expertise at sailing were caught and told they would be thrown overboard if they did not keep a course for the East Coast.

Through the course of the campaign, Layton attempted to cast himself as the sole remaining champion of universal health care.

He changed course to south-east and attempted to close upon the German ships while the sun remained high.

Of course, the powerful Miura clan, led by Miura Yoshimura, attempted to topple the Hōjō government of Regent Yasutoki, Masako, and Shogun Yoritsune, but Masako rushed to negotiate.

The failings in the Iraq War were cited as one of the main causes of the Republicans ' defeat, even though the Bush administration had attempted to distance itself from its earlier " stay the course " rhetoric.

Shortly after graduating he attempted to establish a course in " Hygiology ", but was unable to gain recognition from any educational institution for this project ( Diamond and Stone I: 68 ).

The MacDonnells of Antrim were a sept of the powerful Clan Donald of the royal Clann Somhairle, ( see Lords of the Isles ), that the English crown had attempted to cultivate since the early 14th century in its efforts to influence the course of politics in Scotland.

Much of the revolutionary activity was of a nationalist character: the empire, ruled from Vienna, included Austrian Germans, Hungarians, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Ruthenians ( Ukrainians ), Romanians, Croats, Italians, and Serbs, all of whom attempted in the course of the revolution to either achieve autonomy, independence, or even hegemony over other nationalities.

He saw the section of the road where the inhabitants attempted to pull it up for the sake of the materials, 20 yards wide, and one yard deep, filled up with stone cemented with coarse mortar ," and he says that " the course was discoverable by its barren track through uncultivated meadows.

The earliest European to record his visit to the Jubba area is the Jesuit Jerónimo Lobo, who, in 1624, attempted to follow the course of the Jubba into Ethiopia only to learn that he would need to pass through the lands of nine different peoples who " were continuously at war with one another and each one was scarcely secure in its own land than thus could not provide security for anyone who took a step outside of it ", and returned to Portuguese India to find another way there.