Word: falconer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maltese Falcon, Bogart plays Sam Spade in the 1941 John Huston classic from the Dashiell Hammett novel...
...hard. Jonathan can't help himself. He keeps practicing highspeed dives but fails to pull out properly because of his long wings. Temporarily, he gives up: "I am a seagull. I am limited by my nature. If I were meant to fly at speed, I'd have a falcon's short wings." A falcon's short wings! Light bulb! Jonathan dives with partly folded wings, hits 214 m.p.h. ("terminal velocity") and pulls out safely...
MONDAY: Bogart. Bogey fans get a break. Cambridge's own Channel 56 begins a week-long Bogart festival tonight with To Have and have Not. Other features include Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, and Key Large...
Married. John Huston, 66, grizzled director of movie classics (The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen, The Treasure of Sierra Madre); and Celeste Shane, 31, his close and longtime friend; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Los Angeles...
Those who came late to Wilsonian autocracy are familiar only with the brooding mandarin, ominously reminiscent of Sydney Greenstreet contemplating the bust of the Maltese falcon. The persona was carefully cultivated by the master, whose "Do not disturb" sign was printed in his face and on his stationery ("Mr. Wilson regrets that it is impossible for him to .. write introductions ... make speeches ... judge literary contests ... give interviews ... autograph books for strangers ... donate copies of his books to libraries . . . contribute to symposiums of any kind ... supply personal information about himself"). Critic Alfred Kazin suggests that "anyone so extraordinarily gifted, and obsessed...