Word: falconer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...image of Hollywood as generous provider is even less credible in the later sections of Some Time in the Sun. The talents of William Faulkner, which resulted in films like "The Maltese Falcon," "To Have and Have Not" and "The Big Sleep," go largely unappreciated by either the movie people or Dardis. Aldous Huxley, more successful in Dardis's terms because he made more money than Faulkner, spent his last years in Hollywood meditating on his own limitations. Nathanael West, forgotten in the basement of a second-rate studio where he slaved night and day to write cheap gangster flicks...
...lives well off the fruits of all this labor. He owns a house in St.-Moritz, rents others in St.-Tropez and Anif, near Salzburg. After his back surgery, he can again pilot a jet (a new Dassault Falcon 10). "The joy of flying has nothing to do with speed," he remarks. "You prepare and do well at the moment. There is enormous satisfaction in organization. That is why I don't play cards. I am afraid when you cannot foresee the outcome...
More Japanese women than ever are working in fields that range from physics to zoology. Yet most women still wield their power in the home, following the ancient saying: "A wise falcon hides its talons...
...Great God! This is an awful place. " So wrote the English explorer Robert Falcon Scott after he reached the South Pole in 1912. Scott, who was just beaten to the pole by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen, had good reason to complain. Temperatures regularly drop to -100º F. during the polar winter. Sudden storms bring gale-force winds, and visibility frequently drops to zero during a "whiteout," making it impossible to see perilous crevasses ahead. Yet in spite of its hostile environment, Antarctica is becoming the object of increasing worldwide interest. Its shrimplike krill and millions of seals make...
Heavy Acting. The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep got around these problems partly through strong writing and heavy acting power, but also because the genre was newer then. More recently, Chinatown combined a script of elegant complexity with the sort of terse romanticism that made the plot move with comparative ease. The Drowning Pool can boast only the formula without the chemistry-plus Paul Newman, reviving his Harper character of some ten years back...