The occasions on which he played traditional romantic heroes - Shekhar Kapur's muddled version of The Four Feathers and Lasse Hallström's addled costume romp Casanova - were failures.
He played William Trench in the 1978 version of The Four Feathers, and frequent television productions included An Inspector Calls (1982) and The Corsican Brothers (1985).
Brave Not to Fight Shekhar Kapur's version of "The Four Feathers," the classic boys' novel of British imperialism triumphant over Muslim insurgents, represents at least the sixth time A. E. W. Mason's 1902 book has been filmed.
The two also created a print based on images taken of their own pheasant feather version of the artist Kate McGwire's feather sculptures.
In all the versions of "The Four Feathers," Faversham has not yet, in 100 years, found the wit or the historical perspective to stand up to the regiment and ask: "Why are we going there?" "What do we want there?" "Why not stay home?" The courage not to go may be as rare this year or next as it was in 1898 and 1914.
Another version of the anaplumb, along with several other of Feather's devices, were incorporated into the score of a recent performance by the Philadelphia dance troupe BalletX.
Though the juvenile version of the genus, Similicaudipteryx, sported ribbon-like wing and tail feathers, its adult counterpart featured feathers resembling quills, researchers report tomorrow in Nature.
Mass variation along the feather, or among parts of the feather, creates biases as concentrations become diluted as feather mass increases.
We performed transcriptome analyses of scale, dorsal feather and wing feather tissues during chicken development using a customized version of the chicken 44 K Agilent microarray [ 50].
The surface of the feather has a fish scale structure.
