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...sequel was made, however-The BNBs Fire Billy Martin, or some such -and now there is a sequel to the sequel. It is not accurate to say that it is without merit. There is one short scene in which Dick Button, playing a TV color babbler, describes the moves of a Japanese wrestler in terms of figure skating, the only sport his character knows anything about. This is an accurate satire of TV sports reporting, but nothing else in the film has any spark whatsoever. - John Skow
Ceylon, which is famed for such exotic birds as the grey-headed babbler, red-faced malkoha and Legge's flowerpecker, also boasts two even rarer aves: the world's only female Prime Minister and the only female U.S. ambassador currently on duty...
...most successful politician is the man who got himself unanimously elected mayor of Dellwood, Minn., where a total of seven votes was cast." But in another field, the class of '36 has proved more enterprising. Among the books it has written: Search for the Spiny Babbler, A Pattern of Politics, Collective Bargaining and Market Control in the New York Coat and Suit Industry, Alkylaminoalkyl Esters of Aminonaphthoic Acids as Local Anesthetics-and The Wall...
...worshipers knew him, Fuseli was "a little white-headed lion-faced man in an old flannel dressing gown tied round his waist with a piece of rope." Brought up to be a Lutheran pastor, he left Zurich soon after his first sermon, on the text: "What will this babbler say?" The babbler had decided that there was a better future in painting. "I do not wish to build a cottage," he wrote in a friend's album, "but to erect a pyramid...
...quite motionless. Presently I saw her put her head down and her shoulders heave, as if she were being sick, and then immediately fly to a spot in the hedge a little farther on. Following her up I saw she had got to a nest of the Jungle Babbler and was sitting on the edge of it, but she flew away directly she saw me. In the nest I found three eggs of the Babbler and one of the Cuckoo. I never doubted for a moment but that the Cuckoo had carried her egg to the nest in her bill...