Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dayton had taken no chances. Hawk contains no sex, no profanity beyond "damn" and "hell," no bloodshed and only a suggestion of lawlessness (a band of vigilantes reacts to a crime wave that the audience never sees). Burl Ives, who teaches the boy (Lee Montgomery) how to train his bird, helps the movie get over some of its saccharinity with a sensitive performance. But Clint Walker as the father is saddled with lines like, "You gotta learn to control your own life...
CHARLES CHRISTOPHER PARKER JR.: BIRD (Savoy, 2 LPs). Now's the Time, Ko Ko, Billie's Bounce-plus 27 more master takes make up the best of the fabled alto-saxophonist's Savoy recordings...
Other TIME Washington bureau members have been bird-dogging the transition story as well. John Stacks, who kept track of the Carter and Mondale staff operations during the campaign, was first to disclose a rift between key advisers on Carter's postelection team. Sometimes a crumb of information is dropped between the soup and nuts at a Georgetown dinner party. At one such soirée, Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter learned that former L B J Staffer Joseph Califano had been asked to go secretly to Plains to talk with the President-elect. The tipoff: Califano was tracked...
After 34 years of perking up Washington as a White House reporter and later as press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson, Auntie Mameish Liz Carpenter is heading home to Austin, Texas, "to think more, to write more and to raise a little hell." At a farewell party at Ford's Theater, Old Friends Pearl Bailey and Carol Charming sang a duet, and Nancy Dickerson and Gloria Steinem helped narrate Carpenter's life story. But stealing the show, as usual, was Liz herself. "I stand here as the only Democrat leaving town," she told the 650 guests. Reminiscing...
...make himself its instrument and servant." The point is symbolized by an early photograph in the catalogue of Callahan at work, pointing a bellows camera at the reedy edge of Lake Huron 36 years ago. His head is hidden under the cloth; he looks like a camera-headed wading bird, patiently dabbling for nourishment. The man and the machine are one hybrid...