Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BLUE BIRD...
Expensive movies are sometimes made for strange reasons. Quality often has little to do with it. Great amounts of time and huge sums of money are lavished on what Hollywood likes to call "a project" just because a star is "available." The Blue Bird belongs to this category, although tangentially. It is probably the first movie in history made because a country was available...
...country is the Soviet Union. The Blue Bird, as the publicity puts it, "brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union together for the first cinematic coproduction, a distinction accorded to 20th Century-Fox on the American side." The picture is a cultural casualty. The lesson it preaches may have found its origin in the Maurice Maeterlinck play, first performed by the Moscow Art Theater in 1908. An American popular song of somewhat later vintage, however, says it all, and at least as well: "That bird with feathers of blue/ Is waiting for you/ Right in your own/ Backyard...
...Bird of Prey. The Concorde's arrival was amicable. Traveling light, with just 76 of its 100 passenger seats filled, the British Airways Concorde covered the distance from London to Washington in 3 hr. 52 min. and-after missing a light plane by a scant 400 ft.-slipped into Dulles at noon on Monday. Minutes after the British plane touched down, its drooping nose giving it the look of a giant bird of prey, the Air France Concorde, with 80 passengers aboard, touched down just as smoothly...
...work week, she jumps into her MGB and roars off to Devon, 225 miles away, where she and her husband, a local auto-parts dealer, have a cottage. Rippon, who has no children, spends her up-country time cooking, riding and bird watching. It is a long commute but, says Rippon, "I've worked all my life in a male-dominated society, and I couldn't pass up an opportunity like this." Nor does word about the salaries they are paying in the former colonies disturb her. Says she: "I'm delighted for Barbara Walters. But things...