Word: falconer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Falconers are loners for the most part. It's just them and the bird." Timothy Hutton, 23, should know. He spent six months in Santa Cruz, Calif., last year learning the ancient art of falconry to gain insight into the character of Christopher Boyce, the devoted falconer and former altar boy who in 1977 was sentenced to 40 years for passing U.S. military secrets to the Soviet Union. Hutton, known for such films as Ordinary People and Iceman, likes portraying Boyce in The Falcon and the Snowman, due out at the end of the year, rather than again playing...
...Monterey County's Ventana Vineyards regularly vary their labels: Sanford features wild flowers of the area, while Ventana uses dramatic color photos taken by Co-Owner Shirley Meador. Napa Valley's Frog's Leap has a whimsical depiction of, yes, a frog leaping. Inevitably, the Falcon Crest television series, based on a fictional California wine-making family, has inspired a wine of the same name; made by Napa Valley's Spring Mountain Vineyards, it uses the familiar screen mansion on its labels. A few East Coast vintners have splashed their labels with color. Hargrave Vineyard...
...Badge of Courage in his place on 23rd Street. Nathanael West, author of The Day of the Locust worked as night manager in the Kenmore Hotel near by. He used to sneak pals of his into the hotel, including Dashiell Hammett, who was working on The Maltese Falcon at the time...
...movies are a machine that makes art. But what are we to make of films in which the machine is the main attraction? Burt Reynolds may be at the wheel of his Trans Am, Harrison Ford can maneuver his Millennium Falcon in hyperspace, Roy Scheider may occupy the cockpit of the Blue Thunder helicopter, but the hardware is the hero. It knows neither fear nor fatigue; it does the job it is programmed to do and never complains; if it is destroyed, a comradely clone can take its place. For a nation that has cause to doubt that nobody does...
...regarded as a monster ... I made my gaze as contemptuous as I could." It could have been the stuff of hard-boiled detective literature; instead it was the stuff of hard-boiled detective life: the life lived by Dashiell Hammett, creator of The Thin Man and The Maltese Falcon. A voracious reader of Henry James, before he switched to the school of hard knocks, Hammett wrote four novels in a single burst of creativity from 1927 to 1930. He found himself hailed by André Gide and André Malraux, and invited to work in Hollywood...