Word: beaked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Internet has produced its first postmodern superhero in the form of MAHIR CAGRI, a 37-year-old man with a beak nose and, by his own admission, an interest in Ping-Pong, sex and playing the accordion. "I Kiss You!!!!!"--runs the greeting of the Mahir home page--a normal enough salutation in his native Turkey but a thrill to the hordes of fans who have sent e-mails recommending his site to friends. Cagri, who "invitates" any young women coming to his hometown of Izmir to stay in his home, has provoked Clinton-based parodies, flash animations...
Jonathan Weiner is the Pulitzer-prizewinning author of The Beak of the Finch. His most recent book is Time, Love, Memory
...gorgeous, he was very ugly. But somehow his physical apparatus was overwhelmingly tactile. When Theodore Roosevelt walked into a room and when Reagan walked into a room, you could see people luxuriating in their physical aura. A lot of Hitler's power had to do with his strange beak, the fat curved back, awkward gestures and that hyptonisingly strange face. Never underestimate the power of the body in politics...
...swans appear during the young man's turbulent dream. No tutus, no toe shoes, no hand flutters. These are robustly built men, clad in feathered trousers and wearing black makeup on their foreheads that suggests a swan's beak. As a signature move, the men use a wholly mesmerizing gesture coming from the torso up through the shoulders out into extended arms...
...carrion eaters, like outsize vultures, as researchers once proposed? Or were they--as Thomas Lehman, of Texas Tech University, and Wann Langston Jr., of the Texas Memorial Museum, convincingly argued last week--more like humongous storks, probing the lake bottoms for tasty tidbits and snaring them with their lancelike beak...