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...reason for the taxonomic purge is that birds tend on occasion to be indiscreet in their mating habits. The Cape Sable sparrow and the dusky seaside sparrow, for example, have interbred; Harlan's hawks have mated with red-tailed hawks. These unions have produced hybrids that do not fit the A.O.U.'s official definition of a distinct species. As a result, the A.O.U. has punished the offending species by dropping them from birddom's social register...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Busted Birds | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

ORSON WELLES I--African Queen 4 p.m., 7:45, 11:20; Indiscreet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge | 2/14/1974 | See Source »

...Indiscreet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge | 2/7/1974 | See Source »

...Senator Was Indiscreet. 19 William Powell plays a Throttlebott politician in this canny political sat CH.5...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 12/20/1973 | See Source »

Murmur of the Heart. Louis Malle's ripe, witty sketch of indiscreet bourgeois charm in 50's France is far more deeply thought out than other period pieces on adolescence. Lea Massari plays complex voluntary of a mother. As other French directors stagnate and repeat themselves, Malle may yet emerge as the most original and least gimmicky of the bunch. Be wary: the film plays alongside Heat, the latest by Paul Morrissey (Flesh, Trash). His second stand as surrogate Andy Warhol is full of grotesque actors and grotesque sex which boil down not to the grotesque but to the merely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 1/11/1973 | See Source »

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