Word: finches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Atticus Finch in the 1963 movie To Kill a Mockingbird, Gregory Peck captured well the kindly, yet determined sensibilities of a rural Southern lawyer. The actor has moved north to Gettysburg, Pa., for his next role, in The Blue and the Gray, an eight-hour CBS TV mini-series to be aired next March. Queuing up in a distinguished line that includes Walter Huston, Henry Fonda, Raymond Massey and Hal Holbrook, Peck, 65, is taking up stovepipe and chin whiskers to portray Abraham Lincoln. "I'm in seven scenes," says Greg, "but I only get to speak in five...
Lumet has often been able to elicit electrifying performances from his lead actors, and here Treat Williams joins the likes of Al Pacino in Serpico and Peter Finch in Network. But Lumet is just as skilled at finding, among little-known or even unprofessional actors, those faces that taken together compose a vision-grotesque, but never inhuman-of the urban landscape...
Brown head coach, Cliff Stevenson, the only coach in Brown lacrosse history, decided he'd seen just about enough of starting goalkeeper Colin Finch and called time out for the substitution and a little pep talk. Whether it was the presence of Meister in the nets or Stevenson's words, from then on all systems were go for the Brown middies and attackmen...
...just as Falstaff grew into his big belly. His most eloquent speech comes not from his mouth, but from his eyes, when Hal, now king, repudiates both him and his own past misdeeds: "I know thee not, old man . . . Presume not that I am the thing I was." Jon Finch is also good as Henry IV, who has won a crown but lost his peace of mind. The greatest honors must go to David Giles. It is probably no accident that he directed all three of these superb productions, as well as the equally fine Richard...
...large hydroelectric-power potential." About a million people inhabit its 9304 square miles; only six states are smaller. The state motto, which by a Supreme Court decision may be taped over on license plates by citizens who object, is "Live Free or Die." State flower: purple lilac; bird: purple finch; tree: white birch. Populated by Indians before the Europeans arrived in the 1600s, New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1788 and the one that made that document legal. A fifth of the state consists of public parklands, which, along with 17 miles of coastline...