Word: steeds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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David Manber's scenario, an unstable amalgam of early Arthur Miller and late James M. Barrie, gives the frustrated boy soliloquies that would make Peter Pan queasy. He calls his dog "noble steed," plays mincing bullfighter to a pickup truck, decorates a barn with painted flowers-and finally floats off to war. But all is probably well. Presented with such a pixie, the Army could do nothing but shrug its shoulders and issue a medical discharge...
...listen, and listen tight. . . . " I can't tell you what a pleasure it was to open my mailbox this week and find John Wayne mounted on his faithful steed [Aug. 8] staring...
...AVENGERS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).*The last adventure for Mrs. Emma Peel (Diana Rigg), who discovers that her husband, long presumed dead, has been found in the Amazon region. In to replace her as John Steed's (Patrick McNee) partner: Tara King (Linda Thorson), who will take a more curvaceous approach to sleuthing than did Karate Expert Emma...
...AVENGERS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.)* Charging into the program lineup, those English invincibles, John (Patrick Macnee) Steed and Emma (Diana Rigg) Peel, meet the inventor of a shrinking machine and wind up "livin' dolls" during "Mission: Highly Improbable...
Noble has been leary of the steed's bloodlines since July 1961. It has taken six years of sleuthing, and a notable advance in technology, to confirm his nagging suspicions. The Met quietly retired the horse while its ancestry was being checked (though Brentano's book store was still selling a $75 replica when the news was released). What had initially caught Noble's eye while strolling by the horse was a thin line that runs from the top of the mane to the tip of the nose and, less evidently, circles the entire body. "I knew...