Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shouted. "When the rain hits, it will flatten the sea... the weight of the rain water." Our boat sped into the wall of rain; the sea flattened, and a few minutes later we beached the boat on the white sands of a small, S-shaped island-Brando's bird sanctuary...
...returned from the bird sanctuary with the last rays of sunlight. The lagoon was a gentle green color set against the dramatic black silhouette of Tetiaroa. Brando pointed up to the first evening star visible in the dimming sky. A strange, almost mystical feeling pervaded, as if one could slip overboard and sink beneath the soft sea to become part of all that beauty. "Don't worry, you'd swim," Marlon laughed when I told him later about my strange impulse. "But I know exactly what you mean. It's happened to me many times...
...agreed to star in the Soviet-American film The Blue Bird, recalled Elizabeth Taylor, 44, because "I wanted to help build the relationship between Russia and the United States." Maybe, but when Liz went to Washington, D.C., for the movie's premiere last week, she seemed far more interested in improving her relationship with Iranian Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi, 48. Taylor, who first met the bachelor ambassador at one of his lavish capital parties last month, arrived this time as a guest in his sumptuous embassy residence. Hand in hand, the pair took a tour of dinner parties and luncheons...
...dying Casanova's final thoughts about the city of his youth. On signal from the director ("Go, Donald"), Casanova moves slowly across the ice, his black cloak fanned open by the night wind. He pauses, kneels down on the ice, his beaked nose like that of a bird of prey...
...cast is admirable. As a plumeless bird in a gilded turn-of-the-century cage, Alexander draws a poignant portrait of repressed freedom. As a dry rulebook tyrant, Kiley gives us a man whose only contact with the heart is through a stethoscope. Playgoers whose attention spans have been shortened by films and TV may get restless at Director George Keathley's pacing, which is meticulous and deliberate...