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...Academy Award for Darling, has written a script that makes up in salt what it lacks in plot, although his dialogue, as Don Marquis once put it, sometimes merely strokes a platitude until it purrs like an epigram ("The only thing that fits into a pigeonhole is a pigeon"). Flashing back and forth through twelve years of togetherness and apartheid, Director Donen makes sure that this particular Road never quite reaches a dead end. In the final moments, Hepburn and Finney, reconciled, look lovingly at each other in the car. He sighs, "Bitch." She snaps, "Bastard...
...found the bodies of two gangland rub-out victims. Last week, Judge Gellinoff finally sentenced him, not to 174 years but to 30 to 44. He still faces trial on twelve counts of contempt of court as a result of his trial performance. But it may be that Stool Pigeon Konigsberg has finally found a kind of talking that makes a difference...
Sweet & Pungent. Any less stringent reform, O'Brien argued, could only be "painful and difficult" because of the "restrictive jungle of legislation and custom that has grown up around the Post Office Department." If the telephone system were run as the mails are, he said, "the carrier pigeon business would still have a great future." In view of the postal service's snowballing problems (TIME, Dec. 30), the idea of a quasiindependent agency similar to the Tennessee Valley Authority offers some compelling advantages...
Whoopdedoo. Today, the company is bristling with energy. The Women's. Board, for example, raises about $50,000 a year from its social events, while other committees stage such a fund-raising whoopdedoo as the Fiestas al Tiros, pigeon shoots for the ladies run by a trio of wealthy socialites known as "the pigeon girls." What Kelly is shooting for is a new opera house. Because of the cramped backstage conditions of the music hall, he has to store his scenery in a tent pitched outside the auditorium, holds rehearsals in churches, hotel ballrooms and warehouses scattered all over...
...time of Viet Nam, the Red Guards, LSD and a bear market, it may come as some surprise to learn that somebody out there is worried about the whooping crane. Well, somebody has to worry. Nobody cared enough about the great auk and the passenger pigeon, and look what happened to them...