Word: aardvark
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...title "Hark, Hark, a Quark -Maybe" [May 2] was the mark of an aardvark who crawled in from a stark Ozark park and was really in the dark. As Professor Gell-Mann could tell you. Quark rhymes with torque, pork, stork, cork, fork and Sergeant O'Rourke of New York, New York...
...tactical aerial warfare. Its critics argue that considering the extraordinary cost of the F-111 ($15.1 million each) and the supposed sophistication of its defensive and safety devices, it has a strange propensity for disappearing during combat missions. The critics would seem to have a case. In 1968, the aardvark-nosed fighter-bombers were taken off combat missions and later shipped home from Viet Nam after three were lost in four weeks of combat flying. The F-111s are now back in action, but they have not proved to be the invulnerable war machines their designers promised. In the past...
...satire of such cultural balloons as The Sensuous Woman and Love Story. At its most petty it is a bitter parody of New York critic John Simon, who made the grievous error of disliking The Last Picture Show. (Simon has retaliated by calling Barbra Streisand "a cross between an aardvark and an albino rat surmounted by a horse...
OTHER THINGS AND THE AARDVARK by Eugene McCarthy. 81 pages. Doubleday...
Eugene McCarthy isn't running any more, and if he has promises to keep they are to himself. In this first collection of poems, the hawks finally lie down with the doves to make room for the aardvark and the heron. But in the process the ex-candidate's lines show off backward glances, once and future visions, and a loner's sigh of relief...