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...play here." But right on Falstaff's heels in Hotspur's ally, the Earl of Douglas. Seeing him, Falstaff drops to the ground and plays dead. Despite the ensuing fairly well-staged duel and despite the later blocking of Hal exactly between the now dead Hotspur and the fake--dead Falstaff, the scene remains unbalanced. Its impact comes and goes with the initial comic burst...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: The Kingdom and the Power | 12/15/1977 | See Source »

...girls need big diamonds," says Supermodel Margaux Hemingway, who boasts of being 5-ft. 12-in. tall. Nevertheless, a 105.54-carat diamond rocked her. "It was so big, it looked fake," she says. The brobdingnagian bauble called the soleil d'or (golden sun), owned by a private American collector, was shown to Margaux during the taping of a French talk show. As a ring of security guards looked on nervously, Margaux tossed the stone up in the air and caught it in her well-photographed white teeth. "I'm good at peanuts too," she said modestly. Are diamonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 5, 1977 | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...compressed air. 3) Talk them into moving elsewhere. (This one came from a man who claims that he knows how to converse with pigeons. He asked for no salary, just free room and board until he gets the job done.) 4) Frighten the birds away with rubber rattlesnakes, fake owls or a yowling mechanical cat-with a dead pigeon in its mouth for extra effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Reno Gets the Bird | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...problem now-besides plugging the leaks and protecting informers-is fiding the tape. After Gallina's murder, investigators drew a blank in looking for the probable hiding place: a safe-deposit box he had rented under a fake name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Victim No. 21 | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

...wait! The battle of machines is escalating. In Virginia, the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. is testing for 90 days a service named "Dial-a-Busy." A patron who wants no calls dials a number, which activates equipment that sounds a fake busy signal if someone phones. To have the buzz turned off, the subscriber dials the special number again. If the test works out, the service will probably be expanded, providing privacy seekers with an alternative to disconnecting their phones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: On the Phone War Front | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

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