Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impetus for Star Trek came from Gene Roddenberry-- also known as "The Great Bird of the Galaxy"-- who first proposed the show to execs from all three networks back in 1964. Two years, two pilots and many hassles later, he had his series. Others had tried to bring science fiction to the screen, with little success...
Cookie Monster, Big Bird, Ernie and Bert. "My little sister watches it..." So buy the album for her. Let her reap the joy from Sesame Street's own "The Twelve Days of Christmas." The first day: the cookie monster gets "one delicious Coooookie." The ninth day: Big Bird gets "nine pounds of bird seed." Ha-ha, but no--there's a lot of pathos here. Please God, Ernie wants six rubber duckies...
According to the testimony, Bird and Justice Mathew Tobriner, both liberals, frequently had note-taking aides sit in on their conversations with conservative Justice William Clark because they did not trust him. The antagonism between Bird and Clark reached the point where the chief justice refused to speak to either him or his clerks. More important, the testimony indicated that the court's procedures were slow, cumbersome, even archaic. That view was echoed by Robert Thompson, a former California appeals court justice, who told TIME Correspondent Edward J. Boyer that the court was taking on too many cases...
...answer, as shell-shocked defenders throughout the league can attest, was an emphatic yes. And if he is not as well known at the car-rental counter as OJ. Simpson, on the football field, bird-legged, black-bearded Dan Fouts (as in shouts) has become as potent an offensive weapon as the airport baggage hurdler was in his prime. In just 10 games, Fouts has passed for a league-leading 2,479 yds., and his 63.2% completion percentage puts him first among the N.F.L.'s 28 starting quarterbacks. On his strong arm, the Chargers climbed to a tie with...
...long chain of cathartic crises, is contrived. Still, Phil Daniels, as Jimmy, is both appealingly quirky and a good double for Who Guitarist Pete Townshend. Daniels also has two funny and touching sex scenes. When Jimmy masturbates solemnly at home and later makes inexperienced love to a prized "bird" (Leslie Ash), the film persuasively demonstrates that even the revolutions of the '60s did not overturn the crucial rituals of postadolescence. In those moments, Quadrophenia offers not only historical drama but also the kind of human drama that is timeless. -Frank Rich