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...Bird of Prey. The Concorde's arrival was amicable. Traveling light, with just 76 of its 100 passenger seats filled, the British Airways Concorde covered the distance from London to Washington in 3 hr. 52 min. and-after missing a light plane by a scant 400 ft.-slipped into Dulles at noon on Monday. Minutes after the British plane touched down, its drooping nose giving it the look of a giant bird of prey, the Air France Concorde, with 80 passengers aboard, touched down just as smoothly...
...yellow-tinted snake, ranging from 4 ft. to 10 ft. in length, that once had the run of the Indian countryside. To the dismay of the Indian Parliament, these are hard times for the dhaman, as well as for the more than 20 other varieties of Indian herpetofauna that prey on, among other things, the domestic brown rat, known as Rattus rattus. Thanks in part to commerce, which values the hide of a snake more than that of a rat, the rodents have been winning the battle against their deadliest enemy. Two weeks ago, India's legislators decided...
Part of the admittedly partisan fun here is observing just how harsh a fictional portrait of his old boss Ehrlichman permits himself. Ehrlichman's Monckton is capable of deep concentration but prey to near collapse from sporadic bouts of depression and drink. He regularly invokes national security as a cover for dirty politics and runs on about "those fags at State." Once in office he sets the plumbers in motion...
...rats into the water. "Stop!" he shouted after noticing that half the rats were white: "Paint them brown." His hard-pressed casting staff is often given a sketch of a type of face he wants and ordered off to the back alleys of Rome in search of their prey. For Fellini, the right face is everything. "I chose Sutherland because he is completely alien to the conventional idea of Casanova-the dark-eyed Italian, magnetic, raven locks, dark skin, the classic Latin lover. He reflects my thinking about Casanova, of estrangement...
...Casanova's final thoughts about the city of his youth. On signal from the director ("Go, Donald"), Casanova moves slowly across the ice, his black cloak fanned open by the night wind. He pauses, kneels down on the ice, his beaked nose like that of a bird of prey...