Word: falcon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...victory of sarcasm or love or something else. But director of this play as an unbridled assault of headstrong machismo against virtuous female independence, and tries "to image a Katherina who is truly made submissive, who really relinquishes her will, who is just as broken as nay hunting falcon or busted bronce...
...Glitter, which was taken off the air after just three episodes-have been struggling in the ratings. But Collins and her sisters in silk and satin are clearly setting the dominant style of high-gloss femininity, and their ranks are growing. Gina Lollobrigida has joined the cast of Falcon Crest, and Ali MacGraw will appear on Dynasty later this season. Yvette Mimieux will star in a midseason show on NBC called Berrenger's, about a posh New York City department store similar to Bloomingdale's. And Angie Dickinson and Candice Bergen head the cast of Hollywood Wives...
...outdone, archrival Lorimar-the producer of Dallas, Falcon Crest and Knots Landing-has hired Bill Travilla (once Marilyn Monroe's designer) to gussy up its shows. The company also plans to merchandise a line of women's clothes and beauty products tied in with Dallas. Paper Dolls has hired Designer Marc Bouwer, whose creations are sold in tony department stores like Saks, to drape Fairchild and her young models (Terry Farrell, Nicolette Sheridan) in lush attire. Each episode of Cover Up spotlights the fashions of a name designer (including Perry Ellis and Christian Dior) in exchange...
Soon after Jeffrey Peters heard two years ago that some hunters had trapped a rare Merlin falcon, he went to Utah to pick it up. Peters, a Columbia, Mo., high school biology teacher and Cub Scout leader, is an internationally respected researcher whose specialty is birds of prey. But he did not obtain a permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to transport the rare bird over state lines. As a result, he was snared in an undercover sting operation aimed at poachers who illegally supply falconers in the Middle East, where the ancient sport of hunting with trained...
Peters arrived at the federal prison camp in Leavenworth, Kans., last Monday to begin serving an 18-month sentence. Had he killed a falcon, rather than pursued his studies on how best to preserve the birds, he would have faced lesser penalties. Peters, who is filing for a reduced sentence, says he will study the work of other raptor experts while confined in Leavenworth, which happens to be where the famous Birdman of Alcatraz, Robert Stroud, first began assembling his aviary in 1920 and wrote his digest on the diseases of birds...