Word: beak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White collection includes a superb variety of masks, from cumbrous affairs that need an athlete to lift them to a wooden Ogoni mask from Nigeria, with its curving protrusion of lips like a bird's beak, too small to fit a human head. Thompson has included films showing how these personifications of spirit and moral forces are used in communal dances: Gaa Wree-Wre, for instance, the Dan personification of "ideal justice," with its white-rimmed eyes, worn in a dance characterized by ponderous walking and sitting...
With his sparrow eyes and landmark beak, Leonard Lyons was a more recognizable fixture at Manhattan's expensive restaurants than any six headwaiters. He came not to dine but to gather crumbs of gossip, morsels of color-occasionally some meaty news-about any celebrity he could buttonhole in his non stop table-hopping. Was Joe DiMaggio flying to New York "for some dates at El Morocco"? Lyons heard it there and so reported. What did Artur Rubinstein's wife cook for dinner the night before? The pianist gave Lyons the answer (Polish chicken...
...fact that the wise elder in Shangri-La and the wise bird here are both called Chiang. Surely it is no mere coincidence. A homage, perhaps. Or maybe a moment of mystic communion, a stroke of magic enlightenment of the sort that Jonathan is always shoving his beak into...
...sheen and transparency. The subjects of his earlier paintings seem to have been chosen to show what happens to light on every sort of surface-the hammered gold of a chalice, the sleek moist interior of an oyster or the pock-marked ivory of a hornbill's beak. Raffael undertook an inspection of their varied skins on the level, if not of the cell, at least on that of the pore. Each point where light hit the tiniest break of texture or color was set down in a curious, tightly circling calligraphy that resembled beads, or agglomerations of frog...
Although a few friendly congressional leaders, Senator Barry Goldwater for one, were apprised of the secret bomb runs, the Senate Armed Services Committee was repeatedly told that no bombs were dropped on Cambodia before the April 29 invasion into the Parrot's Beak. An official declassified Pentagon list of all American attacks in the area, provided Democratic Senator Harold E. Hughes this spring, showed "zero" bombing in Cambodia before the 1970 incursion. Last week Hughes called the false reporting system "official deception" and demanded the resignations of the responsible officials...