Sturges
Americannoun
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Circling back to the 1960 Sturges movie, near the end of the flick a character remarks that the Magnificent Seven gunslingers were “like the wind, blowing over the land and passing on.”
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
“He doesn’t gamble, he doesn’t drink, he doesn’t smoke, he doesn’t do drugs, he doesn’t chase women,” Sturges said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024
Sturges adds that it allowed audiences to "really dwell on what that would be like and to create a space where statistics become people with complex characters and stories".
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2024
By the early 1970s he was organizing as many as 800 programs there each year, from Preston Sturges retrospectives to programs of Russian silent films, new German cinema and movies from Senegal.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2023
The king at once sent for Sturges Bourne and Goderich, as the most intimate adherents of Canning.
From The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) by George C. (George Charles) Brodrick
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