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Roger Ebert agrees, arguing that Ran "may be as much about Kurosawa's life as Shakespeare's play". [16] Ran was the final film of Kurosawa's "third period" (1965–1985), a time where he had difficulty securing support for his pictures, and was frequently forced to seek foreign financial backing. While he had directed over twenty films in the ...
Cut and run or cut-and-run is an idiomatic verb phrase meaning to "make off promptly" or to "hurry off". The phrase was in use by the 1700s to describe an act allowing a ship to make sail quickly in an urgent situation, by cutting free an anchor.
Riding the rail (also called being "run out of town on a rail") was a punishment most prevalent in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries in which an offender was made to straddle a fence rail held on the shoulders of two or more bearers. The subject was then paraded around town or taken to the city limits and dumped by the roadside.
The word in English was originally spelled gantelope or gantlope, [7] but soon its pronunciation was influenced by the unrelated word gauntlet, meaning an armored glove, derived from the French: gantelet. [1] The spelling changed with the pronunciation. Both senses of gauntlet had the variant spelling gantlet. [1]
Run, a mathematical term for an x-axis span, compared to rise (a y-axis span); the equation rise over run calculates the slope of a line Bank run , a mass withdrawal by many people of money from a bank
The Old Norse common noun rán means 'plundering' or 'theft, robbery'. [1] In turn, scholars view the theonym Rán as meaning, for example, 'theft, robbery'. [2] On the etymology of the theonym, scholar Rudolf Simek says, "although the meaning of the name has not been fully clarified, Rán was probably understood as being 'robber' ... and has nothing to do with [Old Norse] ráða 'rule'.
"Run, Nigger, Run" (Roud 3660) is a folk song first documented in 1851. It is known from numerous versions. It is known from numerous versions. Responding to the rise of slave patrols in the slave-owning southern United States, the song is about an unnamed black man who attempts to run from a slave patrol and avoid capture.
Run (referred to on-screen as Run.) is a 2020 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Aneesh Chaganty, and written by Chaganty and Sev Ohanian.The film stars Kiera Allen as disabled teenager Chloe Sherman, who begins to suspect that her mother, Diane (Sarah Paulson), has been keeping a dark secret about her upbringing.