(1) A famed beauty, she went on to have a string of high-profile lovers, including Arthur Koestler, Cyril Connolly, Kenneth Tynan and Cecil Day-Lewis, who was married to her best friend Jill Balcon at the time.
(2) Holt, who had worked for the patriarchal Balcon since 1953, once described Nowhere to Go as "the least Ealing film ever made".
(3) In fact, it was while working in the former capacity for Michael Balcon at Ealing Studios in 1958 that Tynan co-scripted Nowhere to Go with the movie's director, Seth Holt.
(4) balagne-corsica.com Troutiemcfish Grand Balcon Nord, Chamonix Get up close to Mont Blanc, Europe's highest mountain, on the spectacular yet easy 6.5km Grand Balcon Nord walk (about three hours).
(5) I'd love to see British audiences get excited about our own films in the way people did when Alexander Korda and Michael Balcon had their film production factories at Denham and Ealing in the 1930s and 40s.
(6) "It was Cavalcanti's close association with me," Balcon later wrote, "which provided the force from which emerged what are now thought of en bloc .
(7) The 54 densely packed archival boxes also contain letters from people to his wife, the actor Jill Balcon, papers regarding his appointment as poet laureate in 1968, working drafts of poems, essays and scripts and drafts of the later detective novels that Day-Lewis wrote under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake.
(8) David Whiting, the co-literary executor of the Day-Lewis and Balcon estate, said the papers encompassed not just the work of Day-Lewis as poet, "but as novelist, critic, academic and public servant".
(9) And among the Tynan projects turned down by Balcon were films based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth, Cecil Woodham-Smith's book about the charge of the light brigade and a Lindsay Anderson script about life in a casualty ward.
(10) The most English movies ever were made by producers such as Hungarian immigrant Alexander Korda or Michael Balcon, whose assimilated Jewish perspective surely had a beneficent effect on his ultra-English Ealing comedies.
(11) My mother [the actress Jill Balcon] loves the language.
(12) When war came, Cavalcanti was brought in to work on features by Michael Balcon, and between the two of them they gathered together the key members of the Ealing family.
Falcon
Definition:
(n.) One of a family (Falconidae) of raptorial birds, characterized by a short, hooked beak, strong claws, and powerful flight.
(n.) Any species of the genus Falco, distinguished by having a toothlike lobe on the upper mandible; especially, one of this genus trained to the pursuit of other birds, or game.
(n.) An ancient form of cannon.
Example Sentences:
(1) 8.51pm GMT Falcons 27 - Seahawks 21, 3:35 4th of quarter The smash mouth Falcons are back on first down, Turner has 12 more yards.
(2) But, as Falconer admits, the chance of this bill passing all its stages in the Lords and the Commons before the election are slender as it requires the government to give it time.
(3) Although private capital was gradually replaced by public investment, the latter was much less productive as criminal organisations distort and corrupt the public procurement process.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Italian anti-mafia prosecutor, Giovanni Falcone.
(4) These formulae apply for arbitrary phenotypic distributions, yet even with multivariate Gaussian distributions of phenotypic effects the formula for correlated selection includes a correction to the standard formula in Falconer (1989).
(5) Photograph: Associated Press According to the Italian judge Giovanni Falcone, who led the “Maxi Trial” against the Sicilian Mafia in 1987 and was assassinated by the organisation, “more than one-fifth of Mafia profits come from public investment”.
(6) Updated at 7.28pm GMT 7.26pm GMT Falcons 20 - Seahawks 0, 0:25 2nd quarter Golden Tate has it in the slot for four yards and a first down.
(7) Labour peer Lord Falconer proposed a bill stating that if someone has a prognosis of less than six months to live, they should be allowed to have an assisted death subject to a number of safeguards and checks.
(8) 6.46pm GMT Falcons 10 - Seahawks 0, 0:31 1st quarter On 3rd down, Wilson can't find Golden Tate on the far sideline and Seattle punt it down to the Atlanta 13.
(9) The former Atlanta Falcons quarterback is expected to be released from federal custody on 20 July but will be on probation for three years.
(10) On Friday, an unmanned SpaceX Falcon rocket is set to take off from Cape Canaveral for the International Space Station orbiting Earth.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully lands on ocean platform The busts Those accomplishments have not come without repeated failures, the most spectacular of which occurred during attempts to land their Falcon 9 rockets, named after Star Wars’ Millennium Falcon .
(12) An alternative model due to Falconer (1965) is also fitted.
(13) How did Hilary Benn, Maria Eagle, Charles Falconer and Paul Kenny choose Trident as the totem of revolt?
(14) Stereoscopic depth perception is demonstrated in the falcon, a non-mammalian with binocular vision.
(15) So where is the left-lurching that the Tories allege, with Charles Falconer, Tristram Hunt and Douglas Alexander all exalted?
(16) Grating acuity, the ability to resolve high-contrast square-wave gratings, was measured in a falcon and in humans under comparable conditions.
(17) On the Colville River in northwestern Alaska, the last young falcons will fledge in 1975 and the remaining adult population will disappear by 1980 unless the present rate of reproductive failure is drastically and quickly reversed.
(18) The flat acuity-luminance function of the falcon results from adaptations which increase the optical sensitivity of the eye compared with the globose eye of strongly diurnal falconiformes.
(19) Given, for example, that over half of them have identified as devout, it is hard to imagine what would have persuaded the 11 peers behind an anti-Falconer paper, An Analysis of the Assisted Dying Bill , to look kindly upon its provisions, but the document constructs an ostensibly faith-free, "clear-thinking" case against, which is nonetheless replete with routine frighteners and selective misrepresentation.
(20) I remember most vividly, as the prey was seized, how one lazuline wing fell outwards like a flag; the hobby's wings seemed to chop and paddle and there was this momentary drama-less inelegance to it, then the falcon swept the victim back into the peerless symmetry of its going, and all was done.