Word: beak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus President Nixon, in his April 30, 1970, television speech to the nation justifying the U.S. and South Vietnamese incursion into the Parrot's Beak of Cambodia, denied any previous American military action in the officially neutral kingdom of Prince Norodom Sihanouk. In fact, as a result of testimony by a former Air Force officer before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week, it was revealed that the President had for the previous 14 months personally authorized the secret bombing of Cambodia, a clandestine campaign by B-52s that poured over 100,000 tons of explosives...
...detail. If one can judge from this show, Ernst has recovered in old age the ebullience that can make him imagine an abstract sun setting over an abstract Arizona desert, re-create from memory a fine old image of Adam and Eve, or reduce a bird to one aggressive beak above a red colored square. He may not be getting better but it is clear that, even past 80, he is still inventing...
...head began to verge on geometrical abstraction. The domed skull had its remaining hair brushed flat, each strand meticulously parallel to its neighbor; the two neat creases on the pale forehead; the paired circles of his spectacle frames, and the thin mouth joined with utmost precision to his beak of a nose by two engraved lines. It was the face of no compromise-austere and possessed by a forbidding moral rectitude. No artist ever looked more like his own work...
When God buried Crow in the earth He made man ... When God said: "You win, Crow" He made the Redeemer. When God went off in despair Crow stropped his beak and started in on the two thieves...
...third of the way through Doris Lessing's new novel, a great white bird appears-4 ft. tall with a straight yellow beak. The light shines off its feathers "like sun off a snowfield." Its eyes are round, golden and steadily staring-in invitation, in challenge...