Word: falconer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spade, got their hands dirty but kept their minds alert. They often found that those who had hired them were criminal or corrupt; they prowled, lonely paladins of justice, through stark landscapes of betrayal and greed. Hammett's stories paid the rent. His novels, especially The Maltese Falcon (1930) and The Glass Key (1931), brought him an international reputation...
...lungs revival of The Front Page, that cynical fairy tale of newsmen with contempt for the truth who nonetheless embrace newspapering with a passion that crushes all other loves. Next week the theater will present Ted Tally's 1977 Terra Nova, a poetic, emotional drama about Robert Falcon Scott's second-place finish in the race to reach the South Pole-and his team's anguished way back, with the last of them dying only a few miles from base camp. While those productions continue in rotation, Michael York will open on July 27 in the lead...
...with her slim body and her sudden silences, she might, indeed, have seemed one of the dark and mournful shadows that haunted the house, one of its presages of doom ..." The Sitwell mystique centered on her extraordinary physical presence. Six feet tall, with the beaky, piercing look of a falcon, Edith would have appeared a freak if she had tried to resemble ordinary human beings. Instead she turned herself into something marvelously Gothic. She wore cowled headpieces, gold brocade robes, huge jet and ivory rings, and stared the world down with Byzantine eyes...
...between for ivory smugglers in an unnamed Latin American country under revolutionary siege. It's classic stuff. He spends a lot of time hanging around in picturesque cafes drinking Superiors waiting for the next rendezvous. He's cool and lonely and death-fixated. He daydreams of The Maltese Falcon and Captain Blood. He picks up a couple of girls. Then, in an inexplicable error, he makes off with a suitcase of cash he was supposed to deliver to his associates and is on the lam. Gifford is a terrific storyteller, and his taut tale grips with all the intensity...
...innards were those of a utilitarian Ford Falcon, but its shell was sleek and jaunty enough to make it the only auto ever to win a design award from Tiffany & Co. Not even Lee lacocca, the Mustang's chief progenitor and now chairman of Chrysler Corp., expected it to be the most popular new car of the decade. The first weekend the Mustang went on sale, 4 million people visited Ford showrooms. Over the next two years, the company built 1.28 million Mustangs. Young people snapped them up because they looked racy, yet cost as little...