Word: bird
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Researchers Mary Cronin and Catherine Rafferty completed the reporting, which included visits with Mia's mother and several of Dustin's close friends. The resulting picture of the two stars (or anti-stars) was a tantalizing study in contrasts. To sum up the contrasts, says Peter Bird Martin who edited the story, he and the Cinema staff started a kind of game of far-out comparisons-for example, Titania and Bottom. Other, even more ambitious efforts were worked into the story...
...posture," observed Jake Jacobsen, a former aide. In a two-hour press conference at the ranch, Johnson was by turns shy and brave, moody and fitful, wistful and uncertain. He said he was convinced that he had done the right thing in renouncing reelection last March. Only Lady Bird seemed altogether certain that she would rather be in Blanco County, Texas, than Washington. Her main problem was that all the closets seemed to have shrunk...
...Bunting, who had been attached to a number of far-out political causes before teaming up with Paisley a year ago. Bunting's Boys soon began laying in wait for protest marchers, first to block their path and later to knock heads. Over New Year's, they bird-dogged a line of student demonstrators on a four-day, 75-mile protest walk from Belfast to Londonderry. On the final day, they ambushed the students, who reached their goal with 81 injured. That night, Londonderry's police-many of them Paisley sympathizers-staged a raid on Bogside...
...first character onstage is a bird -The Cock, magnificently plumed and wattled by Costume Designer Nancy Potts, and played by Barry Bostwick with impudent elegance. The Cock, said O'Casey, represents "the joyful, active spirit of life as it weaves a way through the Irish scene," and it spreads terror among the crabbed codgers and priest-ridden puritans of the countryside. They quail from its presence and blast at it with guns. Still, The Cock bewitches a high silk hat and a bottle of John Jameson, and rips to shreds the vestments of a priest who tries to exorcise...
...Hate. However, the women of the play-a farmer's wife, his daughter and his maid-are delighted with this "saucy bird." O'Casey saw the repressed and persecuted Irish female as the repository of all that was open and joyous and life-loving in his native land. The conflict between them and the naysaying, money-hungry men is the essential drama of Cock-A-Doodle Dandy -with Protestant O'Casey's pet hate, the Roman Catholic Church, as archvillain. In the end, the women are roughed up and driven away to find "a place where...