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...splendid World War I documentary Men of Bronze), is obviously in love with his subject. Instead of an ordinary documentary, he has fashioned a kind of oral and visual history, with long interviews with those who remember (including one ancient man who recalls the famous buzzard of '88). Occasionally the interviews take their own good time-and the viewer's-as Miles lets his oldtimers wander too far down history's obscure bypaths...
...Sundance Kid purported to document conclusively that the two bank-robbing adventurers died during a fling in Bolivia, some Wild West buffs insist to this day that Butch beat it back to the U.S. around 1910 and lived quietly with relatives out West. Jesse James stirred such a spirited buzzard of legend and myth that, after he was shot dead, subsequent generations were persuaded by transparent impostors that the St. Joe desperado was, yessir, still alive. Questions about James (Was he a Robin Hood or mere hood?) will long stay alive...
...swallows come back to Capistrano to signal the arrival of spring. Hinckley, Ohio, has something that may not be better but certainly is different: the annual return of the buzzards. The great birds like to roost in trees in the parks just outside town, and since 1885 the local citizens have made the best of the situation. Buzzard Day is March 15. On the following Sunday, the Chamber of Commerce celebrates by holding a breakfast of sausages and pancakes. Boy Scouts hawk buzzard T shirts and everybody tells birdbrained jokes...
Last week, however, the citizenry was concerned. March 15th was fast approaching, and no buzzard had come to call. On the appointed day, 30 members of the Buzzard Club who had traveled from St. Louis to celebrate the event anxiously scanned the skies. They were well fortified against the cold and wore yellow cardboard beaks on their faces. Suddenly Park Ranger Bud Burger, peering through high-powered binoculars, spotted a distinctive shape soaring high over a snow-covered field. Moments later, a buzzard glided to a perch in a tall tree about a mile away. There was jubilation among...
...stood there aghast, a loudmouthed woman with a reporter's notebook shoved me out of the way, and buzzard-like, bore down on her prey. "what is the name of this group in Ireland? Are you working with them? How can they hope to change anything...