Word: falconer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says, sending a swift shot to the rake's midriff and pulling his coat down from his shoulders, thus locking the charlatan's hands in his pockets. Instead of disarming the sap as Bogart does at a moment just like this in The Maltese Falcon, Henry sends the bum sprawling into the gutter with an efficient trip. He flips up Higginbottom's coattails and, performing a maneuver familiar to most 11-year-olds as a "wedgle," pulls the elastic of his victim's underwear far into the pitiless...
Arts organizations in the U.S., which have looked to cable to help replace federal funds cut by the Reagan Administration, were saddened by the announcement but not surprised. Marc Nathanson, president of the 100,000-subscriber Falcon Communications in California, noted, "We take frequent surveys, and I was always shocked to see that CBS Cable attracted only 2% of our viewers on a weekly basis." CBS Cable may simply have been the first casualty of an underlying industry-wide problem: total advertising revenue for all of cable last year was $100 million, an anemic .16% of total U.S. advertising. None...
...flame. This brushfire production, imported to Broadway from Washington's Kennedy Center, dampens the spirit of the text and absolutely extinguishes its immediacy. Burnt down to basic melodrama, Ghosts creaks like a mediocre television serial. Its terrible symmetry has here all the impact of a bad night at Falcon Crest...
...support for battlefield troops comes from a top general of the Tactical Air Command. Why, then, is there $357 million in the Pentagon's fiscal 1983 budget for 20 more of the aircraft, each of which is $1.6 million costlier than the more sophisticated F-16 Fighting Falcon? The answer, insists the general: "We are buying them only because of political pressure...
...Senate, however, different political factors were at play. The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee is Republican John Tower of Texas; the F-16 Fighting Falcon is made in Fort Worth by General Dynamics Corp. Tower's committee cut all funds for the rival A10. The Pentagon, which still insists it does not need more A-10s, last week readily accepted the Senate cut. But Addabbo predicts that some of the planes will be restored when the House and Senate work out a final version. Says he: "In conference, I expect a compromise will be made...