Rhea (bird) many people. The gaucho people traditionally hunt rheas on horseback, throwing "bolas" or "boleadoras" — a throwing device consisting of three balls joined by rope — at their legs, which immobilises the bird. The rhea is pictured on Argentina's 1 Centavo coin minted in 1987, and on the Uruguayan 5 peso coin. Rhea (bird) The rheas () are large ratites (flightless birds without a keel on their sternum bone) in the order Rheiformes, native to South America, distantly related to the ostrich and emu. Most taxonomic authorities recognize two extant species: the greater or American rhea ("Rhea americana") and the
Work Is a Four-Letter Word were members of the Royal Shakespeare Company (Waller, Howard, Church "et al.") or stalwarts of British realist drama (Gladwin). The film was shot on location at Belvedere Power Station (now demolished) which was located on the south side of the Thames near Erith, England. Interiors were completed at Shepperton Studios near London. At the time "Variety" magazine compared the film thematically with Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times" but was critical of its "irritating air of improvisation" and described the storyline as "thin", albeit praising some of the off-beat situations as "very funny". Leslie Halliwell, in his "Film Guide", was even more