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Word: falconer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the quotes in this book cannot be accurate, and this is probably true." The problem is not one of accuracy but of familiarity. Benchley's frail chronicle offers the standard stories of Hollywood's old rebel, who pursued independence the way Sam Spade sought the Maltese falcon. Defining the difference between himself and most everybody else, Bogart used to claim that the world was about two drinks behind. Benchley, with his arch collage of pictures and incidents, is a lot farther back than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Show and Tell | 6/16/1975 | See Source »

Topper Returns, 4, 6:45, 9:25 p.m., and The Falcon Takes Over, 5:35, 8:15, 11 p.m. tonight. The Lady from Shaghal, 4, 6:40, 9:25 p.m. and Meet Boston Blackie, 5:35, 8:15, 11 p.m. until Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge | 3/20/1975 | See Source »

...Cambridge in the last few years. It will last two entire months and include 36 feature length films. As with any selection, one can argue with what has been chosen. The management itself, in a small note at the end of its program, regrew that four films--The Maltese Falcon. The Big Sleep, Chinatown and The Conversation--are unavailable. But the group, is so inclusive as it is that the only possible complaint is not what it excludes but what it includes. The recent films--Sleuth, The Long Goodbye , Klute. Harper and The Last of Sheila-- leave you wondering what...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: What The Butler Saw | 2/6/1975 | See Source »

...more than whodunits, move swiftly along from mystery to discovery, and further on to the last mystery; that even when you add up all the facts you don't know what happened in human terms. At the center of the best mysteries there is always a fake Maltese Falcon, but the true detective gamely takes the next train to Constantinople anyway, to get on the trail of the "real...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: What The Butler Saw | 2/6/1975 | See Source »

...some, the sympathetic conversations with others, the words "fuckin' hippie" that were spat at me more than once that day. I remember shuttling leaflets and leafletters back and forth from Muhlenberg College to outposts, and the traffic accident I caused on one run. The woman in the old Falcon with the "War is not healthy for children and other living things" bumper sticker found out what I was doing and decided to ignore it; I never told my parents...

Author: By Rich MEISLIN President, | Title: A Parting Shot | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

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