Word: falcone
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...dolls I played with were all superhero dolls. I did not actually have a dollhouse. I was pretty much playing with Spider-Man and the Falcon. And I wasn't putting Spider-Man on top of Falcon. No matter what you've heard...
...everyone took the event very seriously. One especially snarky USA Today columnist called the X Games the "Look Ma, No Hands Olympics," adding, "Apparently - and it's possible I'm misinterpreting a cultural trend here - if you strap your best friend to the hood of a '72 Ford Falcon, drive it over a cliff, juggle three babies and a chain saw on the way down and land safely while performing a handstand, they'll tape it, show it and call it a new sport...
...family. Intimations of mortality clouded the clear sky of fantasy. He had never painted his father. Three years after N.C.'s death, Wyeth painted Karl, a stern portrait of his neighbor Karl Kuerner, shown in his attic room. Above Karl's head are two meat hooks, like falcon's claws, thrust down from the ceiling. Says Wyeth: "It was really a portrait of my father, of course...
...past decade, zillionaires have entered the mega-yacht race, one-upping one another in size and cost. Yachts longer than 150 ft. (45 m) go for $20 million to $50 million. Venture capitalist Tom Perkins has beaten them all with the Maltese Falcon. The 289-footer (88 m) cost more than $100 million and is one of the world's largest, fastest sailing yachts. At up to $700,000 a week, it is also one of the most expensive charters--and you're too late. It's booked until...
BABY BOOMERS KNOW HER AS the icy matriarch on TV's hit prime-time soap Falcon Crest, as Ronald Reagan's first wife and as mother of Maureen and Michael Reagan. Yet in the 1950s, the unpretentious Jane Wyman was one of Hollywood's most respected stars. She broke out of B movies in Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend and went on to vibrant performances in such films as 1948's Johnny Belinda (her portrayal of a deaf and mute rape victim won her an Oscar) and Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright. She broke her long silence on Reagan...